04 April 2022, 19:20 | #1 |
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Starting an Amiga blog
Ive been meaning to do more writing and especially do writing that isn't work, so why not the Amiga?
The first intro post and a second post giving a quick overview of the system I use is up, along with some plans for what I intend to cover. Swing by, drop a follow or however it works (I am testing out Medium for the first time) and all that good stuff. The plan is to do a blog from the perspective of someone who isn't much of a hardware hacker, can't solder for shit and doesn't have 12 A4000s in a dedicated mansion In other words, as the title says, an every day user (who is kind of dumb). https://medium.com/every-day-amiga-user |
05 April 2022, 09:15 | #2 |
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Had a quick read. Looking forward to more.
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11 April 2022, 03:36 | #3 |
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I have a site as well and bring up the Amiga reasonably often, but set aside a page dedicated to my Amiga history https://www.xpd.co.nz/my-amiga-history/
Its actually fun reminiscing about the "old" days via a blog/forum Will pop by occasionally for updates |
11 April 2022, 10:56 | #4 |
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Hi, please consider having a gemini version of your amiga blogs so we could read them from even a low speccy amiga.
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11 April 2022, 18:37 | #5 |
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Thank you very much and thanks for linking your page as well. I'll check it out!
I'll have to figure out what I can do to make it retro friendly, good call. The first gaming post is up: A slight overview and retrospective of the Amiga Battle Isle games https://medium.com/every-day-amiga-u...e-699da88f6312 |
11 April 2022, 22:48 | #6 |
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Hmm... dunno if I can setup anything to have a "simple" version of my blog. Will do some poking around
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14 April 2022, 16:36 | #7 |
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Blog updated to talk about accelerator cards and today should see a post about the A500 from the modern collectors perspective.
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25 April 2022, 01:09 | #8 |
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https://medium.com/every-day-amiga-user
A few updates touching on brief topics like cover disks, a run down of the gotek drive and more. |
02 May 2022, 19:31 | #9 |
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Todays post talks about the Amiga version of the Gravis Gamepad.
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05 May 2022, 19:47 | #10 |
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Todays post talks about some tips and trivia for the excellent Space Crusade
https://medium.com/every-day-amiga-u...e-947f5e59bbf0 |
06 May 2022, 12:08 | #11 |
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"Don’t get too frustrated. The game is very random and even the best laid plans can get foiled by the mixture of the dice and cards"
Thats putting it mildly, IMO. The RNG in the game is essentially Russian Roulette. I don't enjoy the game very much because of it. I mean take this video: [ Show youtube player ] At minute 4 an enemy just comes waltzing out of a blind corner, rolls a 22 and it's game over for one character, literally right out of the gates. Punished for doing the only thing possible, thanks RNGesus. |
14 June 2022, 02:04 | #12 |
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https://everydayamiga.posthaven.com/archive
I transferred my blog over to Posthaven. All of the posts so far are available now and I look forward to continuing. Sorry for the difficulties! |
18 June 2022, 18:18 | #13 |
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https://everydayamiga.posthaven.com/...n-breed-series
Todays post discusses the Alien Breed games, again with an eye towards folks who have heard of them but aren't sure where to start. Recent posts include my thoughts on picking out joystick and mice. |
24 June 2022, 00:56 | #14 |
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https://everydayamiga.posthaven.com/...amiga-500-plus
A "todays" look at the A500 plus as a system for collectors and users. |
28 June 2022, 17:59 | #15 |
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https://everydayamiga.posthaven.com/...he-middle-lane
Today some musings on exactly what you CAn do online with a mid-range A1200 (by modern standards). Not an indepth post but I wanted to just talk about experiences a bit. |
04 July 2022, 02:19 | #16 |
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Thank you to folks who left a blog comment,
https://everydayamiga.posthaven.com/amiga-pal-vs-ntsc Todays post is more for beginners but is a brief description of the PAL / NTSC problem and sketching out some of the solutions. |
08 July 2022, 18:58 | #17 |
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A quick post today since we are tidying up the house: Autofire
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13 July 2022, 17:38 | #18 |
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A brief game retrospective on Eye of the Beholder with some beginner tips and advice
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23 July 2022, 17:37 | #19 |
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The next history article, discussing the humble 600 and going to bat for the little girl.
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