Forum: Amiga scene
30 March 2024, 21:13
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Replies: 6
Views: 446
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
22 March 2024, 22:45
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Replies: 62
Views: 16,356
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Forum: Coders. General
30 December 2023, 07:38
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Replies: 49
Views: 7,257
How much software bangs original content into...
How much software bangs original content into narrator.device? A *lot* of it used translator.device. You could probably write a translator.device equivalent that spits out phonemes that are...
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Forum: Amiga scene
12 December 2023, 11:15
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,472
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Forum: Amiga scene
12 December 2023, 11:07
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Replies: 3,785
Views: 506,239
The extra chip ram would have been a godsend if...
The extra chip ram would have been a godsend if they'd improved the blitter in Alice with the faster access modes that Lisa got, but they didn't, probably because such modifications would have put...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
27 November 2023, 09:48
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Replies: 249
Views: 40,403
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Forum: support.Games
27 November 2023, 09:04
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Replies: 42
Views: 5,424
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Forum: support.Hardware
12 November 2023, 05:41
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Replies: 1
Views: 204
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Forum: support.Hardware
01 September 2023, 10:19
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Replies: 6
Views: 741
1) You must have fast RAM on your A2091 as it...
1) You must have fast RAM on your A2091 as it will either use CHIP for DMA or it will go to PIO mode. It cannot use the 32-bit fast memory.
2) You may need to set the MASK variable on your...
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Forum: support.Hardware
30 August 2023, 23:25
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,473
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Forum: support.Hardware
30 August 2023, 15:33
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,138
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Forum: support.Hardware
30 August 2023, 15:27
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,473
Dumb question, but do you have a hard drive...
Dumb question, but do you have a hard drive properly jumpered and installed on the IDE port? The A4000 will blackscreen for an entire minute if the IDE port is left empty. Some people made IDE...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
30 August 2023, 15:24
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Replies: 8
Views: 894
Not really a sim, but Armour Geddon was pretty...
Not really a sim, but Armour Geddon was pretty darn fast for what was onscreen. But yeah F29 Retaliator would have to be the fastest (also not really a sim). Starglider II would also fall into this...
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Forum: Amiga scene
25 August 2023, 19:50
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Replies: 104
Views: 15,388
The amount of effort in doing an X68k -> Amiga...
The amount of effort in doing an X68k -> Amiga port would be insane since games at the time usually had game logic tie deeply into the audiovisual code to avoid abstraction overhead.
But maybe...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
21 August 2023, 23:48
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Replies: 57
Views: 4,213
The main problem was it's not really a standard...
The main problem was it's not really a standard unless a controller of that type ships with every system, or the controller port is made incompatible with previous ones and all purchaseable ones at...
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Forum: Amiga scene
21 August 2023, 03:00
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,182
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Forum: support.Games
19 August 2023, 15:35
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Replies: 5
Views: 519
I always admired that they released the CD...
I always admired that they released the CD version with the full cutscenes. Game is undercooked and has a lot of problems (and the branching paths are kind of weird IIRC like you have to do some...
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Forum: Amiga scene
18 August 2023, 02:01
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Replies: 1,270
Views: 255,160
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
17 August 2023, 04:11
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Replies: 1,335
Views: 156,867
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
17 August 2023, 03:59
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,512
Freeware (as opposed to "free software")...
Freeware (as opposed to "free software") generally means all rights are reserved but a license to copy freely has been granted. Public Domain means just that -- nobody owns it, it belongs to...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
17 August 2023, 03:45
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,922
Back then Windows systems generally weren't...
Back then Windows systems generally weren't locked down with password access since even Windows 3.1 isn't a multiuser system, and if you did see it in a library or school or something it was usually...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
15 August 2023, 20:24
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,922
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Forum: Games images which need to be WHDified
15 August 2023, 00:22
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Replies: 38
Views: 7,061
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Forum: Amiga scene
14 August 2023, 19:33
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Replies: 27
Views: 5,655
I keep hoping Galahad will come through with...
I keep hoping Galahad will come through with this. I hope his plans bear fruit someday. It's definitely a challenge, from all the descriptions -- you'd have to have some sort of TOS/GEM ABI shim in...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
14 August 2023, 19:19
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,922
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Forum: Hardware mods
12 August 2023, 13:39
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Replies: 41
Views: 5,244
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
12 August 2023, 13:25
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,512
I don't know if "PD" is really what it's called...
I don't know if "PD" is really what it's called these days. The term sort of came out of a misunderstanding about what the public domain was -- in many countries it's more or less impossible to make...
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Forum: Hardware mods
10 August 2023, 05:59
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Replies: 41
Views: 5,244
Check out Powercache and FutureDriveAccelerator...
Check out Powercache and FutureDriveAccelerator -- these are third-party modern dynamic read/write caches like the ones built into modern operating systems. Neither is perfect and both have bugs, but...
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Forum: Hardware mods
07 August 2023, 13:10
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Replies: 41
Views: 5,244
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Forum: Amiga scene
07 August 2023, 12:34
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Replies: 246
Views: 23,134
While the controls for Capital Punishment were...
While the controls for Capital Punishment were awful, I actually really enjoyed the brutal sudden-death nature of the game. It intentionally tried to be cruel rather than sporting. I wish more games...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
07 August 2023, 12:19
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,352
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Forum: Amiga scene
12 June 2023, 17:10
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Replies: 27
Views: 5,655
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
12 June 2023, 16:51
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Replies: 54
Views: 4,057
That's not really accurate. The Megadrive is a...
That's not really accurate. The Megadrive is a tile and sprite beast, which provides the hardware acceleration. Porting to the Amiga requires a different paradigm as the Amiga has a much inferior...
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Forum: Hardware mods
07 October 2022, 10:58
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Replies: 106
Views: 23,096
Yes, I know that. It's not something that's...
Yes, I know that. It's not something that's possible with a simple scandoubler. In a Denise replacement though you're actually rendering the sprites, so nothing would stop you from having a cache...
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Forum: Hardware mods
06 October 2022, 19:06
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Replies: 106
Views: 23,096
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Forum: Amiga scene
24 September 2022, 12:04
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Replies: 117
Views: 21,422
It's not possible for it to be register...
It's not possible for it to be register compatible because there are no registers to address. Graffiti isn't even accessible by the Amiga's bus. It's one of a class of devices that use the Amiga's...
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Forum: Hardware mods
04 September 2022, 06:24
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Replies: 320
Views: 66,431
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
27 August 2022, 07:46
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Replies: 22
Views: 5,174
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
23 August 2022, 21:57
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Replies: 22
Views: 5,174
Nitpicking, but 2.0 actually had the best TTS...
Nitpicking, but 2.0 actually had the best TTS engine in AmigaOS, improved over the 1.x one. It wasn't removed until 2.04. It was removed because it was actually a third-party product and continuing...
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
23 August 2022, 21:24
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Replies: 126
Views: 31,400
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