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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: runequester on January 09, 2011, 04:04:48 PM
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Weekend being Friday night, Saturday and today for these purposes.
I messed around a bit with deluxe paint, installed a few games (Trapped and Heimdall 2), played a few games (Alien Breed 3D with headphones on and sound cranked up, continuing an older game of UFO)
Also listened to a bunch of cool mods. Look in the mod section of aminet under "neurodancer" if you like techno stuff. Pretty rad.
Have to work today, but tonight, I am likely going to give it another go at Dpaint.
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Compiling, debugging and profiling. Same as last weekend :D
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I haven't switched an Amiga on this weekend, but I have been planning to convert one of my spare rooms into a retro gaming/music room with my arcade cabinet, a desk for my A1200, and my laptop and keyboards :afro:
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moto
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I did some short (2 second - 30 frame) animations in Disney's Animation studio and in DPaint in order to better understand the programs. Then I ran them through filters in ImageFX. My goal was to see if I can take animations done in 320x240, scale them to 640x480 with antialiasing turned on, and then run a few filters to remove jaggies.
That way I could do animations in lo-res Amiga resolutions and convert them for better display on a television or Youtube, or burning to DVD.
It actually sort of works with animations because they are line drawings. Some of the filters thicken up the lines and make it look like it was drawn with felt-tip marker.
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Well, yesterday I picked up an Amiga game featuring my favourite car of all of time at a charity shop for 50p :)
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/XJ220Box.jpg)
So I went to www.whdload.de (http://www.whdload.de) and got the hard drive installer for it to install the game into an A4000 and get a lovely icon :)
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/XJ220.jpg)
I decided to search YouTube for some footage of this awesome 217mph car in action and was pleasantly surprised to find this:-
[YOUTUBE]AQ2MDzgEC_E[/YOUTUBE]
I'm currenty checking over an A1200 Tower and will be installing the game into that as well :)
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/checkingA1200Tower.jpg)
:pint:
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I went to a disco wearing a indigo T-shirt with a big rainbow amiga ticker on it - does that count?
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I bought it. :)
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Played Lotus 2 on friday and saturday on A1200.
Rest of the time using AmIRC, AMPlifier, IBrowse, Magellan, AmTelnet and other Amiga software under MorphOS. As well as watching couple of movies with mplayer on the same system.
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I bought it. :)
You got that 1200 you were after?
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I bought it. :)
Best answer!
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I`d been playing several whdload games with my daughter on my A1200. Some old retro games like Rainbow Islands, Rick Dangerous, Rodland and others!! Been also catching up on my c64 coding using an emulator!!
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Played 18 holes of PGA Tour Golf and 10 frames on King Pin Bowling on the A1200. The background sounds on KPB are great. Suprising how many games run on an accelerated A1200. Still trying to find a working copy Batman The Movie too.
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Setup some door games for the BBS under-construction on my newly accelerated Amiga 600. Ordered some CF adapters and a few NICs for my 1200s so I can get them on the LAN and retire their old hard drives.
Some of the 3D videos running around here have somewhat inspired me to test out 3D stuff on my 4000T/060 (never bothered before) and maybe see what 3D stuff I can push out of the A600.
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You got that 1200 you were after?
I did indeed but it's a tower, so I'm probably going to flog it off in parts and buy a wedge with the profit.
Instant free miggy! :)
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If it's working OK, why bother? Admittedly, a wedge is nice to have, but as long as it's not a complete Frankenstein's monster, can't you just use it as is? After all, if you did have a wedge, there'd come a time when you manage to score some more kit for it and you'd be towering it again. Don't deny it, you know it's true ;)
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If it's working OK, why bother? Admittedly, a wedge is nice to have, but as long as it's not a complete Frankenstein's monster, can't you just use it as is? After all, if you did have a wedge, there'd come a time when you manage to score some more kit for it and you'd be towering it again. Don't deny it, you know it's true ;)
That particular itch will be scratched by the A3000 bro. :D
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You scored an A3000?
Result!
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You scored an A3000?
Result!
Insh'Allah.
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Yesterday I changed a little my Amikit in my real Amiga changing resolution to finish my idea:
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_wonnfxMR4bI/TSi-WlCD0fI/AAAAAAAAADU/DRoA1yy6UWc/s640/Screen.jpg)
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_wonnfxMR4bI/TSi-Ynb653I/AAAAAAAAADY/z_IjVbamnhg/s640/Screen2.jpg)
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_wonnfxMR4bI/TSi-ayCwqCI/AAAAAAAAADc/_9bsu4MdzOM/s640/Screen3.jpg)
Yes, the calendar is out of date, but I was looking more for color, sizes and so than small details like hour, month or year...:)
I was inspired by this spot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEjOxjEqrFs&NR=1
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Tried several Amiga mouses on my A-1200 and still could not get it to work.....Soo...after 20 some years, looks like my A-1200 is going belly up...time to look for another A1200. I guess...
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Yesterday my daughter and i played some Arkanoid, Mousetrap and Garfield on my Minimig. I have not played Arkanoid for a while, and i have forgot how addicted you can get to this game :)
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Yesterday my daughter and i played some Arkanoid, Mousetrap and Garfield on my Minimig. I have not played Arkanoid for a while, and i have forgot how addicted you can get to this game :)
Nice. How old is she? And her name (if you don't mind)?
Edit: Mine is 3'5 months old, named Anabel. I think I still have to wait a little to start playing...:)
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Nice. How old is she? And her name (if you don't mind)?
Wilma is 4.5 years old and her favorite game is Garfield :) but she has been with me doing Amiga stuff since her birth :)
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I mostly IRC ... need to play some more games and whatnot on it.
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Played Defender of the Crown II on my old CDTV with my 4 years old son. Wanted to show him jousting as he saw that in an picture book.
After some 20 trys the CDTV finally booted up and didn´t crash so for my surprise I could conquer whole England but then I wondered that the game still didn´t end??? How ever - first time succeded in jousting also - didn´t thought thats possible ;-)
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browsed the net for a family avcation in April, played some BOH and Deluxe Galaga AGA :-)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCFlvsPTAFo
Worked on some modifications to this DPaint animation, since one of the train engines that he originally sent me was traded out recently.
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... I could conquer whole England ...;-)
So...Sir, now you're the King of England or something? :laughing:
What does Charles say?
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Installing more music software.
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Today I got a CD32, it came with a nice collection of games and also a Scan Doubler for my CV64/3D :afro:
Spent a good few hours trying out all the games!!!
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm105/fitzsteve/IMG_0681.jpg)
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm105/fitzsteve/IMG_0682.jpg)
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm105/fitzsteve/IMG_0683.jpg)
And the CV64/3D SD All installed and working great :)
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm105/fitzsteve/IMG_0684.jpg)
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm105/fitzsteve/IMG_0686.jpg)
And I made a little Vid for my Youtube page:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkIUIgyS8Bw
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Testing of my new ZIP Fast Ram Memory - Static Column (16MB) for my A3000D.
Testing of my new A2091 + a wire is desoldered :-(
Testing my new GVP A2000-HC Series (SCSI card) + project to replace the old SCSI chip by AM33C93A on socket.
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I went to a disco wearing a indigo T-shirt with a big rainbow amiga ticker on it - does that count?
Disco? You must have a time machine... Can I use it to go back to 1990 and fix Commodore?
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Basically the same thing that I've always done with my Amigas - fiddle and fuss with them. I cleared off a spot in my junk room and hooked them back up. And installed WinUAE on my new WinTel Core I7 950 box.
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I played a few levels of The Chaos Engine with my 11 year old, showed him Agony and Donkey Kong. It was really cool to hear him say "Wow, this has really good graphics!"
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I played a few levels of The Chaos Engine with my 11 year old, showed him Agony and Donkey Kong. It was really cool to hear him say "Wow, this has really good graphics!"
Chaos Engine rocks, and Agony is pretty much my goto for showing off. I always open it with "this runs on a computer from 1985"
The music blows their mind, then the graphics kill them :)
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I worked on several graphics with DPaint, and also worked with cinemorph.
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Two "Projects"
Tested an external PC EGA to VGA adapter on my 4000T.. actually works great for $30, will post more details shortly.
Started playing Monkey Island 2 again on my 2000
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Nothing :(
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Programming in AmigaE, beta testing and bug reporting, surfing the web, pixelling in Personal Paint, chatting on IRC and MSN, image processing in Image Studio (which I wrote a quick tutorial on batch processing) and played some DOOM on the A1200, played some games on the A600 and noted the unworking WHDLoad games so I can report the bugs, customised my Workbench a little more, tested out the awesome new native video drivers for Aros on my netbook and laptop and played with the newly implemented 2D accelerated screen dragging, customised Zune and Wanderer with some textures I edited in Luna Paint, and watched as my A600 stopped booting anymore... I guess it's time to send her off for repairs to AmigaManiac.
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I played two of my all-time favourite games:- the original Lemmings (love the music) and Benefactor (great platformer)
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Set up an Envoy server.
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Played some Dune2 and some AB3d. Found out that there is a patch on aminet that should make it playable with mouse and keyboard at the same time, but haven’t tested it yet.
Found out that if you make a folder in the winuae mapp, named Overlays and put a png picture of a monitor with the screen removed( so its transparent). You could then choose this in the ”filter tab (first overlay then the pic name) and have winuae appear on the monitor in the png picture. You could make some fun things with this.
I also made something like this in another way, instead took a big amiga picture (see pic below) made it the desktop background, then I let the winuae window cover the monitor. I then went into “Miscellaenous and changed “Windowed style from standard to borderless, also giving the impression that you sit in front of the real deal.(I think nullfilter also have to be chosen in the filter tab for the resizing to work.)
Here are some links if someone feel the urge.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Amiga500_system1.jpg
http://img413.imageshack.us/i/1084bezel16101920x1200.png/
Here is a screen grab of the desktop test. It's a functioning winuae on the monitor.(actually did this test the 5 but continued with it over weekend).
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_WjqvOjl2vlQ/TSTPiWHzdMI/AAAAAAAAAHg/RCFAHh_YlOQ/s720/winuae%20on%20desktopbackround.jpg)
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Disco? You must have a time machine... Can I use it to go back to 1990 and fix Commodore?
Ow! This weekend I just made some progress with my AMOS text-adventure. Player can't fix the Big C, but time-travels back to the late 80's-early 90's (exact date still to be decided) when dinosaurs ruled the earth and you could spot an Amiga in every corner. 8-)
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Found out that if you make a folder in the winuae mapp, named Overlay and put a png picture of a monitor with the screen removed( so its transparent). You could then choose this in the ”filter tab (first overlay then the pic name) and have winuae appear on the monitor in the png picture. You could make some fun things with this.
That's really cool! I use WinUAE quite heavily and never knew about this feature. So how do you make sure the WinUAE emulation is scaled properly to fit inside the transparent "hole" in the monitor screen.
I wonder also if there is some way to use this feature so that when running a 4:3 aspect Amiga screen on a 16:9 monitor, you could have an image of your choice fill the black "pillarboxed" sides.
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@Ral-clan
I also used winuae forever but started to yank the controls and suddenly.....
I think the winuae follow the windows size then nullfilter is chosen in the filter tab. This is when resizing a windowed winuae. For the desktop test above I had to go back and fourth a couple of times between standard and borderless to find the right fit. (It cant be resized when borderless is chosen. Nothing to grab onto.)
The other thing with fullscreen, filling the empty sides can probably be done with this Overlays.
Make a folder inside the winuae folder and call it "Overlays".
Put a suitable png pic inside and it will show up when you choose Overlays in the filter tab and then to the right of that choose the pic.
(I had to make a new config from the start for the Overlay to be present.
Then all controls underneath in the filter tab is to make the size and position to fit in the ”Overlayed” pic.
Here is a pic on settings I use for the Overlay with fullscreen on the second pic link above.
Hope this helps. It would be nice if a winuae expert could put together some guides.
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_WjqvOjl2vlQ/TSsLS4ZQYgI/AAAAAAAAAH0/XLhyFZ3Ihmg/s800/overlay.JPG)
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@Ral-clan
I also used winuae forever but started to yank the controls and suddenly.....
Thanks for that....yes it would be nice if the WinUAE documentation was updated.
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Found out that if you make a folder in the winuae mapp, named Overlays and put a png picture of a monitor with the screen removed( so its transparent). You could then choose this in the ”filter tab
Hmmm....I made an "overlays" folder in my UAE folder and put the PNG in it, but when UAE starts it still says "No Overlays Available" in the Filter settings tab.
I also made something like this in another way, instead took a big amiga picture (see pic below) made it the desktop background, then I let the winuae window cover the monitor. I then went into “Miscellaenous and changed “Windowed style from standard to borderless...
Well, I don't have this "Windowed Style" setting in my miscellaneous folder. That is strange. See my screeshot. I am using WinUAE 2.2.0 (click to enlarge):
(http://s4.postimage.org/1r9u2zxlw/Clipboard01.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/1r9u2zxlw/)
....[edit] Ah....I think this borderless windowed mode and overlay support is only in 2.3.0 (Since I am using Amiga Forever I cannot yet use 2.3.0).
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@Ral-clan
Yes its winuae 2.3.0, should have written that.
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“Hmmm....I made an "overlays" folder in my UAE folder and put the PNG in it, but when UAE starts it still says "No Overlays Available" in the Filter settings tab. “
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It happen to me also when I loaded one of my old configs. The overlays/masks was greyed out and non selectable.
But overlays was “enabled” and “selectable” when I first start winuae 2.3.0, before I loaded an old config.
So I made a new config, setting it up with Hds and all the other things, plus the overlay which is then editable an working and then saved.
I'm not certain that I use this overlays as it was meant. Since there is Overlays and Masks, they are probably meant to be used in conjunction.
Perhaps it was too early writing about this. But it was fun discovering this. It will probably be explained when the guides is written on how to use overlays/masks properly.
Anyway, very useful features.