Hi everyone,
I rediscovered my A500 with 40MB GVP HD and my A1200 while tidying out my loft a couple of weeks ago.
A500 was bought around 1990 and the A1200 bought in the early 2000s.
I was programming an AticAtac conversion before moving from Prestwich to Cumbria in 1995. The graphics were ripped using Action Replay 3 from an amiga Spectrum emulator of AticAtac and the SFX were digitized from the spectrum too. The music was a mod version of 2Unlimited ‘Get Ready for this’ but I did not write the mod player code that was dropped into my source code. The original graphics were created Andy Palmer of Arcade Club (Bury, Leeds and Blackpool) fame who also tweaked the AticAtac speccy graphics. We wanted the graphics to look the same but with more colours and no attribute clash.
It was about 90%+ complete. If you want a laugh then here are some videos that I found on an old PC HD that I uploaded to youtube 7 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKc7Sfa_ULgmzI1K6BjlR3vQCi-h0vi1VI was also working on a full screen scroller of Sabre Wulf but that is nowhere near completion. I was going to use the same scroller routine to convert Starquake and Underwurlde.
Anyway, since rediscovering my Amigas I thought I work see if they work. Both do although there is an HD error on my GVP when booting workbench. I did backup my GVP HD by Parallel (I think) cable to PC before storing them in the attic. So all of my source code is okay (I hope).
I installed a 240MB HD in the A1200 when I bought but it only has WB 3.0 installed on it and a few games that were from the pack that came with it. It did not run most games so I never really used it before it was stored.
I just bought a Greaseweasel 4.1 and that works fine and a 23 pin RGB out to HDMI adaptor. That also works okay.
I did buy a PCMCIA CF adaptor along with a CF to SD card adaptor plus SD card but it does not work in the 1200. It just has a clock waiting icon whenever it is inserted and locks the 1200 up and when it is removed then an error pops up in German (even though locale is set to english) and the Amiga unlocks and starts responding again. Fat95 etc etc seems to be in the right place and the install floppy seemed to install everything okay. It was mentioned that maybe upgrading the kickstart roms to 3.1 might be needed to get it to work. So I have ordered 3.1.4 roms.
Today I found my old Catweasel MK4 PCI card but I cannot test it due to my oldest PC being Windows 7 and it wont recognise the drivers. PC recognises the card but It needs drivers. If I can get it working then I will sell it because my Greaseweasel does the same job.
I am very interested in the Larazrustorm, PiStorm setup after watching a video last night.
Thats about it
Thanks
Ian
