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New User Introductions / Re: Hi, I think my mid life crisis has started
« Last post by moley147 on May 08, 2026, 10:07:37 PM »@moley147
Do you know about the various user group meeting within a reasonable distance of Cumbria?
I haven’t a clue mate. If you could point me in the right direction then I’d appreciate it. At the moment I am still trying to get my amiga setup up tweaked correctly. My 40MB HD GVP for my 500 sounds like it’s chewing rocks so I bought ZuluSCSI to replace it before it completely fails. Plus I still want to back it up in just in case my backups aren’t fully up to date.
I also found some old amiga disks which I backed up to PC and some old PC HD’s with some of my Amiga stuff on it.
I also found some old PC source code that I was messing around with in the 90s doing hardware scrolling in asm (pre win95) by addressing the VGA hardware directly. I did have a nice 1 byte per pixel 320x256 in 256 colours (not 320x200) hardware scroll. Modern PC’s wont touch it so I googled and just found out about DOSBOX but I have never used it but it might allow me to run it. Plus I also found my original source code to the menu system for the VooDoo compilation games and apps CDs that I wrote in the early 90s when I was asked if I could write a reusable menu. I can’t remember how many VooDoo CDs use my menu but a few certainly do because I remember the graphics while I was writing and tweaking the menu system. I was never really part of the scene BITD, I just knew a few people that knew some other people that were into that scene. I think I wrote parts of it in quick basic and other bits in assembler. All I really remember is that it used pkunzip. I’d have to look at the code to see how I did it. 30+ years and my memory isn’t what it used to be.
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