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21 March 2018, 14:10 | #1802 |
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21 March 2018, 15:01 | #1803 |
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21 March 2018, 15:55 | #1804 | |
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Super Cars II was performing poorly on original Amiga? (I wouldn't be suprised if It Came From The Desert did, because it does look like a 'heavy' game for A500) |
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21 March 2018, 15:56 | #1805 |
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Super Cars II can be played very well on a bog standard A500.
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21 March 2018, 15:57 | #1806 |
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It's amazing the shit we used to deal with and thought was normal/smooth.
In my case, I can't believe I used for so long an 8 color Workbench setup on an unaccelerated A600. To me, back then, the memory, is that it was just fine. NOt the case nowadays! |
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Have you watched YouTube videos of each yet to compare with your experiences? |
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22 March 2018, 07:14 | #1808 |
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I've got a doozy of a question: Why is the Kickstart 1.3 Hand/Disk image so poor and amateurishly drawn? They could've drawn the hand better, or even digitised it from a real hand. And when I showed this to a relative back in the day on my A500, they asked "Why is it upside-down?"
I think Commodore too acknowledged how poor (even if iconic) the image was, which is why they replaced it with the helpful animation and rainbow tick on later Kickstarts. I'm still not sure about the purple background, however. |
22 March 2018, 07:33 | #1809 |
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Hardly a 'doozy'.
Well you don't want a fancy bit of graphics and the means of displaying it taking up a heap of room in the rom do you. The picture is perfectly adequate for its task. As for it being upside down, I just showed my grandson and even to him it was obvious it was an instructional representation of picking up a disc and putting it in the drive. |
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Considered the limitations I think it is a good piece of art and works pretty well for what it was intended: show the user that a disk needs to be inserted. |
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22 March 2018, 08:11 | #1811 |
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@Foebane
The image was drawn by Sheryl Knowles, I suppose you could try to contact her and ask: http://retrodata.se/the-story-of-the...ckstart-image/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170724....com/~knowles/ |
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I am wondering how your relatives put their hands and hold a floppy-disk when they want to insert it in a A1000 (drive in front of you and not on the right side as on the A500)... I bet she is left-handed (as on the picture) |
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22 March 2018, 09:07 | #1813 |
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22 March 2018, 10:40 | #1814 | |
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22 March 2018, 11:18 | #1815 |
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22 March 2018, 11:38 | #1816 | ||
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Holding the floppy-disk with the left hand while drawing it with the right hand. (like in "guess the screenshot" : you're next ) Quote:
It's a representation of what is the most common situation. Take any of your own disk and look at the result . |
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22 March 2018, 12:36 | #1817 |
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Don't misunderstand me, I used to label disks the same way so that when put into the storage box, the label was at the top and the shutter at the bottom. All I'm saying is that maybe my relative was simply pointing out that, due to the only feasible way that Sheryl could've drawn the picture in the timescale given to her, that the label was upside down and that couldn't be avoided. It is in no way a criticism of her talent with such limited tools, but just an observation.
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22 March 2018, 15:01 | #1818 |
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I'm going to make all my systems hard files rather than dirs:
Which is the best format to use VHD or HDF Cheers |
22 March 2018, 15:05 | #1819 |
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I've tried both, and whilst HDFs are the size of their capacity (will never change), the problem with VHDs is that whilst they start off small and grow with the data, they do NOT shrink when files in them are deleted, so they just grow and grow, so ultimately, I think you may as well stick with an HDF.
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