Our Amiga Office (Photos)

[Retro_71]

O and that Backdrop looks Awesome!!!! i want one for my miggy's!!!!

[yssing]

If I lived close by, I would hang around all day.
I miss the time where I was a member of a local Amiga club. We didnt have alot of puters, but we had enough

[Karlos]

Karlos, yep I'm running in HD720 mode through the Indivision now, which is 1280x720. I took a screenshot and put it in the gallery to show how it looks, it's nice having the extra horizontal space to use up. Check out my Shell.

I forgot just how good low-colour workbench screens could look, especially with the right dithering. Many moons ago, I ran a 16-colour high-res laced workbench with a tool called "MagicTV" which allocated extra bit planes and did some palette trickery with them to reduce flicker. In combination with the natural softening you get from an old CRT, it was hard to tell that it was only 16 colours. I used to lock the whole palette down and pre-dither images in PPaint for use as backgrounds. Happy days...

And yes, that console configuration does look a trifle familiar

[slaapliedje]

Thanks for the extra encouragement everyone.

Digiman, yep, that is pretty much the plan when it comes to distribution. I'm sure we can find contacts in other continents willing to help publish or stock our games for quicker delivery.

Karlos, yep I'm running in HD720 mode through the Indivision now, which is 1280x720. I took a screenshot and put it in the gallery to show how it looks, it's nice having the extra horizontal space to use up. Check out my Shell.

Any ETA on the distribution?  I recall seeing forum posts about it quite a while back, and it looks way better and lighter than any of the other ones I've seen (AmigaSYS is one of my favorites, but WAY too heavy on the resources.)  Currently I'm using ClassicWB with OS3.9, plus boing bag 3&4 (which by the way adds a lot of speed!)

I too have an Indivision card, though the RTG (Radeon 9250 through a Mediator) is seriously faster than AGA at 256 colors.  I probably should drop that to 16 colors when in AGA.

Looking forward to the distribution and any new games!

slaapliedje

[Cammy]

Any ETA on the distribution?

Two more weeks!

[danwood]

Time for the AmiPad!

http://icontainprotects.com/

[slaapliedje]

Two more weeks!

:roflmao:

Was that this forum that everyone used to say two more weeks?  I seem to recall the Matrox User Forums back in the day, "Drivers are coming out!"  "When?"  "Two more weeks!"

They even started using the TM symbol.  Maybe I'm remembering that wrong though!

slaapliedje

[slaapliedje]

http://icontainprotects.com/

You know, it's a shame that they are crap Android tablets.

Now mind you I'm not a big fan of Apple products (in fact I hate them more than Android) but Android is not Amiga and it's not even a proper GNU/Linux distribution.  It's basically JavaVM/Linux, and that makes me sad.

icontain should use MeeGo and AmiWM  That would seriously be cool!

http://umlautllama.com/projects/amiwm/

slaapliedje

[magnetic]

"two more weeks" is actually a quote from a Bplan representative and was frequently used in the Morphos crowd as a joke. It seems that a lot of other amiga users have adopted it as a joke.

[Cammy]

I'm a MorphOS user also. I have my Efika, Aros PC and A1200 all hooked up to the same monitor. Speaking of which, here's another photo of it:

[danwood]

I'm a MorphOS user also. I have my Efika, Aros PC and A1200 all hooked up to the same monitor. Speaking of which, here's another photo of it:

Wow, is that on AGA?!!  Or do you have a graphics card shoe-horned in there?

[Cammy]

Yep, it's AGA, but using the IndivisionAGA as a scandoubler/flickerfixer to get a rock solid 1280x720 display out of it. And it's very usable and responsive.

[jorkany]

You know, it's a shame that they are crap Android tablets.

Now mind you I'm not a big fan of Apple products (in fact I hate them more than Android) but Android is not Amiga and it's not even a proper GNU/Linux distribution.  It's basically JavaVM/Linux, and that makes me sad.

icontain should use MeeGo and AmiWM  That would seriously be cool!

http://umlautllama.com/projects/amiwm/

slaapliedje

OT, but I've read that an upcoming version of Android is planned to use C++ instead of Java. I'm not sure how they will fit this into their current model of having separate VMs.

[commodorejohn]

Presumably they'll just develop  a C++ compiler for Dalvik?

[nicholas]

OT, but I've read that an upcoming version of Android is planned to use C++ instead of Java. I'm not sure how they will fit this into their current model of having separate VMs.

You already can write Android apps in C/C++.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/overview.html

There is also a port of the Qt C++ API for Android.

http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/28/necessitas/

[magnetic]

Guys please dont degenerate the thread talking about Android. Lets stay focused on the Topic plzzzzz