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Here we go,....
« on: March 07, 2009, 03:36:10 PM »
Maybe I should have posted HERE first :)

Hi all! A little background on myself:

Been into Commodore machines since the early 80's with the Vic-20. Moved over to the C64 and *lived* in that scene for many years (I went by Dice/NTT in those days..."Entity" demo group). I purchased my Amiga 500 while still actively in the C64 scene, and for a brief period fiddled with both machines until finally migration completely over to the Amiga 500. I was a member for a short time of a demo group here as well (Dice/Awesome) but mostly played around with BBS'ing and of course the gaming aspect of the machine.

That is the extremely short and sweet version of my history, but the one thing that is for sure is that the Amiga (500 in particular) is a machine that I hold very dearly to my heart. Many great memories. After not owning an Amiga since probably about 1994, I recently re-purchased my trusty A500. I quickly discovered all of the advancements that have been made in the ways of emulation, adf file transfer, HD loading via WHDLoad...simply amazing. I did modify the machine slightly, such as replacing the kick 1.3 with 3.1...something I did not do back then. I also repaired an expansion card's clock battery to display correct time. No big mods by any means, but I feel a small sense of accomplishment :)

Well, just saying hello to everyone out there in Amiga land!
 

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Re: Here we go,....
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2009, 03:35:23 AM »
Well, to tell you the truth, I did not do much programming at all in those days. I did some scroll texts and some graphic work, but my main function was distribution of the demos through the WHQ at that time "The Wrong Number"..which of course was mine. Running on a Lt Kernal 20MB, a few 1541 and 1581's, and running a custom modified Ivory BBS. I do recall one of the last modifications I did to the software was a joystick controlled interface. So, the caller(s) would be able to navigate the BBS menus with a joystick :)

I would have to hand the primary coding trophy to the head of our group, XynamaX. Great guy, and one hell of a programming genius.

*Some* of the Entity demos are here, although there are some more (I believe two more if I recall) that are not here but can be found on the net if you look around. I also was VERY breifly a member of another demo group called "Gore", and I think one demo is somewhere there as well:

ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/software/cbm/funet/cbm/c64/demos/ntsc/Entity/index.html

I remember one of the demos has a 12 scrolltext screen (or more, can't recall) and there is one scrolltext that is just the lyrics to "Go To Hell" by Megadeth. I popped that one in because I had nothing to say at the time :)