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Expanded A500...now what?
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I have my A500 from back in the day, that I have lovingly restored to full working condition. I have also expanded my miggy with an ACA500+ and a clean WB3.1 installation. I love this piece of hardware and, apart from the obvious WHDLOAD goodness, it has breathed new life in the machine and this, in turn, has whetted my appetite for using my A500 for some light productivity, always within the limits of this nice accelerator. So, what can I do? 1) Using tracker software seems like the obvious choice, since I am a musician and working with actual hardware will improve my skills on ProTracker and Octamed. Suggestions for .wav to .iff converters? 2) I would like a word processor, ideally using it to write the scripts for my retro YT channel. Exporting to PC would be great, even in ASCII (Excellence!?), as well as supporting greek fonts. An excel type kind of program would be cool as well. 3) Any emulators that might work well in the 42mhz mode? 4) Can I mount and run CDTV images? 5) Any suggestions for improving the WB experience, without bloating it? For example; mouse wheel support. 6) Apps for file exploration, like Directory Opus? Ideally they would allow for .lha management. 7) PDF readers? 8) Other suggestions? Thank you in advance! |
18 August 2020, 15:14 | #2 |
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Wordworth is very nice and can save in RTF or ASCII.
Have you seen BetterWB? This adds a lot of extras on Workbench 3.1. |
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Thanks, mate, I will definitely check it out.
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Looks nice and without any bloat. But it needs a new WB installation, right? |
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I have the same rigg.
...and, other then usual WHDLoad stuff, I started Real 3D, and rendered few images, then Lightwave (though, on my old crt TV, resolution is way to high, and it flickers a lot). Other then that, I converted some small clip, and managed to make it play on my A500. [ Show youtube player ] Long term goal will be converting entire movie (probably some classic like Back to the future, or Terminator 2, Jurrasic Park, Braveheart), and watch it completelly on my A500 |
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It truly breathes new life into this hardware! I wish you the best in your conversion movie project, mate, cheers! |
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