Forum: Amiga scene
29 August 2015, 18:47
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Forum: support.Games
29 August 2015, 14:17
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Replies: 44
Views: 7,286
Is this the 1st person "dungeon crawler" (in...
Is this the 1st person "dungeon crawler" (in quotes because its often outside) RPG game?
While not a big fan of the genre at the time (not to say I disliked the genre either) I did get into this...
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Forum: Amiga scene
29 August 2015, 07:53
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Replies: 725
Views: 131,037
Not to get drawn into any "I've been doing this...
Not to get drawn into any "I've been doing this for x amount of time" argument, but I'm pretty well versed in the theory. I started programming in 1980 on a Tandy coco1 and have used many languages...
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Forum: Amiga scene
29 August 2015, 03:32
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Replies: 725
Views: 131,037
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Forum: Amiga scene
26 August 2015, 16:24
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Replies: 725
Views: 131,037
Ah, yes, Gamesmith.
Seems to be a package that...
Ah, yes, Gamesmith.
Seems to be a package that people overlook and/or forget about, myself included :)
Quite a few times I've rediscovered/remembered it, only to forget again shortly after, and...
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Forum: Amiga scene
26 August 2015, 11:46
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Replies: 725
Views: 131,037
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Forum: Amiga scene
26 August 2015, 09:31
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,260
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Forum: support.OtherUAE
26 August 2015, 09:19
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Replies: 572
Views: 249,289
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
26 August 2015, 09:12
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Replies: 23
Views: 3,902
Ah, of course. I actually knew that, but it...
Ah, of course. I actually knew that, but it receded to the back of my brain :)
Perhaps a little ironically they also run well at low voltages (albeit at <2.5ghz or thereabouts) vs sandy bridge an...
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Forum: Amiga scene
26 August 2015, 04:41
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Replies: 725
Views: 131,037
Ah, cool.
The Dragon and Coco seem pretty...
Ah, cool.
The Dragon and Coco seem pretty under appreciated in most places it seems.
I've never used a Dragon myself, but my understanding is Dragon 32/64 and coco 1 and 2 are pretty much the same...
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Forum: Amiga scene
25 August 2015, 22:13
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Replies: 725
Views: 131,037
Bit of a sidebar, but for me that's one of the...
Bit of a sidebar, but for me that's one of the things I like about AMOS.
While I wouldn't use it for a serious project I really enjoy round hole/square peg type programming. The bigger the mismatch...
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Forum: Amiga scene
25 August 2015, 20:54
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Replies: 725
Views: 131,037
I don't really understand your last post, and...
I don't really understand your last post, and this is over-simplifying things a little because thus far it seems you don't understand, but where do you think commands come from? :)
They come from...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
25 August 2015, 20:25
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Replies: 23
Views: 3,902
Never had any issues with overclocking with a...
Never had any issues with overclocking with a stock Intel cooler.
Might lose a few % in potential and gain a few degrees, but these days there's a lot less headroom anyway.
Even so, I've never...
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Forum: Amiga scene
25 August 2015, 20:01
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Replies: 725
Views: 131,037
Even c and asm use existing libraries.
This is...
Even c and asm use existing libraries.
This is more inline with Samurai_crows project. Its not really much different than SDL, opengl, etc. (Only I suspect less of a fully fledged api).
Different...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
25 August 2015, 15:22
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Replies: 61
Views: 6,223
@ReadOnlyCat
Ah, sorry, I got stuck on the...
@ReadOnlyCat
Ah, sorry, I got stuck on the suggestion that a theoretical AmigaMobilePhone might behave much like an iPhone.
In terms of "feel" I don't disagree. It probably is closer than a...
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Forum: Amiga scene
25 August 2015, 14:32
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Replies: 725
Views: 131,037
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
25 August 2015, 14:20
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Replies: 61
Views: 6,223
Much easier to justify replacing a phone that...
Much easier to justify replacing a phone that cost %10 or less though.
My android phone cost me $49 three years ago and is still kicking along fine.
About 12 months ago I also bought an android...
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Forum: project.Green Amiga Alien GUIDES
25 August 2015, 13:53
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Replies: 1,804
Views: 690,437
I'm dubious at best.
There's more to hardware...
I'm dubious at best.
There's more to hardware initialization than just warp3d.
Still need the actual drivers. And they won't work if the system is expecting a mediator.
There might be some...
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Forum: support.Other
25 August 2015, 06:06
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,730
Nope, not true.
To insert disks in df0 through...
Nope, not true.
To insert disks in df0 through df3 just press Ctrl+alt+f1 through f4.
No need for muirexx at all.
No idea why you're having problem, works without issue for me.
When I get home...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
25 August 2015, 04:23
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Replies: 61
Views: 6,223
For phones I couldn't care less. If I can make...
For phones I couldn't care less. If I can make and receive calls and text msgs and use it for mp3s (portable music player more specifically) I'm happy.
That wasn't the question though.
Couldn't...
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Forum: Amiga scene
24 August 2015, 02:29
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Replies: 34
Views: 7,321
I guess those 2 titles are a matter of...
I guess those 2 titles are a matter of perspective.
Once you've played them on more reasonable hardware its hard to go back.
Same is true for a lot of point 'n click adventures.
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
24 August 2015, 02:23
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Replies: 61
Views: 6,223
Of the 2 I favor Android, not because I'm...
Of the 2 I favor Android, not because I'm particularly a fan, but because I find it the lesser of 2 evils. The devices are also available at much more reasonable prices, and don't impose the same...
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Forum: Amiga scene
23 August 2015, 14:51
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Replies: 236
Views: 27,468
Yeah, absolutely.
Windows is much more...
Yeah, absolutely.
Windows is much more predictable and less annoying when you remove the bloat and/or tune it to the nth degree.
Once you do that its a heck of a lot more snappy and does less...
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Forum: Amiga scene
23 August 2015, 09:32
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Replies: 236
Views: 27,468
OS overheads, layers of abstraction for APIs,...
OS overheads, layers of abstraction for APIs, etc, etc.
There's no mystery or magic. Its just that once upon a time people programmed the hardware more directly, which results in getting more from...
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Forum: Amiga scene
23 August 2015, 01:13
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Replies: 34
Views: 7,321
Always the happy camper aren't you?
Also,...
Always the happy camper aren't you?
Also, very wrong, which I suspect you even know, which makes the above all the more bizarre.
Ever try ab3d on a cd32? How about f.e.a.r? Frontier?...
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Forum: Amiga scene
22 August 2015, 14:05
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Replies: 34
Views: 7,321
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Forum: Amiga scene
22 August 2015, 11:28
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,541
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Forum: Amiga scene
22 August 2015, 10:24
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Replies: 34
Views: 7,321
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Forum: Amiga scene
22 August 2015, 04:50
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Replies: 725
Views: 131,037
Yaaaawn.
Once again, semantics.
Same...
Yaaaawn.
Once again, semantics.
Same could be said for c and derivatives.
Things evolve.
Ironic that despite the above even you refer to "modern basics" in some posts ;-)
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Forum: Amiga scene
21 August 2015, 12:04
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Replies: 34
Views: 7,321
Why would you want os4 compatibily and ppc?
So...
Why would you want os4 compatibily and ppc?
So you can lose compatibily with the cd32 software? (Ie. OS4 doesn't run custom hardware hitting software without an emulator, even on aga hardware)....
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Forum: support.Hardware
21 August 2015, 08:55
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,758
Haha.
Couldn't be more vague :)
Resolution?...
Haha.
Couldn't be more vague :)
Resolution? SIMD extensions? Audio quality? Video quality? Quicksynch? Cache sizes? Blk? Codec? Container? Etc, etc.
Also, to disable the enhancements the...
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Forum: Amiga scene
21 August 2015, 05:08
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Replies: 23
Views: 3,706
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Forum: Amiga scene
21 August 2015, 04:03
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Replies: 23
Views: 3,706
I'm happy enough with AROS.
It exists, it *is*...
I'm happy enough with AROS.
It exists, it *is* open source. Its written by friendly people. It already has enhancements vs 3.x. People can actually have a say rather than dreaming about having a...
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Forum: Amiga scene
21 August 2015, 03:50
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Replies: 725
Views: 131,037
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Forum: Amiga scene
20 August 2015, 13:28
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Replies: 725
Views: 131,037
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Forum: AMR contributions
20 August 2015, 08:28
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Replies: 3
Views: 7,119
Quite an old site that people are aware of...
Quite an old site that people are aware of already.
I'm not sure how amr decides its content, but there's oodles of known scans that they don't use.
Archive.org is a great site though. Its not...
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Forum: Amiga scene
20 August 2015, 03:14
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Replies: 725
Views: 131,037
He he, this thread has actually ended up...
He he, this thread has actually ended up answering the very question it asked.
Not via specific responses, but rather the outcome as a whole....
Too much talk, too many people trying to "out...
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Forum: support.Apps
19 August 2015, 09:38
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,836
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Forum: Amiga scene
19 August 2015, 04:39
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Replies: 37
Views: 5,246
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
19 August 2015, 03:06
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Replies: 133
Views: 35,054
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