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In the Early 1990's I used to own an Amiga, it was one of my favourite Computers.
A few Weeks ago this (http://amr.abime.net/) Website was created.
The Site contains over 20,000 Page Scans from various Amiga Magazines. :o
It's worth taking a look at because a few of the Magazines contain some Programming Articles.
Michael Hartlef
19-03-2007, 22:38
Nice, but so far I only found cover pages and index pages.
Petr Schreiber
19-03-2007, 22:40
Very nice site,
although I haven't Amiga, I will go through it.
Seems very interesting !
My eldest "PC" is ZX-Spectrum, still working ! :D
Bye,
Petr
P.S. Mike here is article on Alien Breed (http://amr.abime.net/review_1773)
Nice, but so far I only found cover pages and index pages.
Hey Mike, just click on a Magazine Name, Select an Issue and Click the 'Pages Tab'.
@Psch - ZX Spectrum 48k was the first Computer I ever owned. ;D
One day when I have a house or an apartment with enough space, I hope to start collecting all of these old computers again. They were really neat designs and could really do alot with what they had.
I am so glad there are web pages out there full of neat info like this. Of course another thing would be to make a machine that is nothing but an emulator of all these old systems. That might be the way to go actually with nice posters of all the computers on the walls.
Anyways always enjoy these nostalgia links and posts. Thanks!!
^^
I don't know if you've already got an Amiga Emulator but if you haven't, you should check out WinUAE (http://www.winuae.net/).
Thanks Mathew for the link to the emulator.
Michael Hartlef
20-03-2007, 17:36
^^
I don't know if you've already got an Amiga Emulator but if you haven't, you should check out WinUAE (http://www.winuae.net/).
Do you need the kickstart rom for it or will it run right away? I still have AMOS laying around, would be fun using it again.
Great another AMOS User. ;D
On my Amiga Emulator I've currently got running AMOS, AMOS Pro and AMOS 3D.
If you hold on a minute, I'll send you a PM containing Links to where you can get the ROM's and Files from.
Edit...
The PM's been sent...
Michael Hartlef
20-03-2007, 17:53
Thanks Matthew :)
darkmaster
11-07-2007, 23:18
I know this thread of a few months old, but I have to share my love for the Amiga, sadly I gave mine away for a few years back which I now regret :(
oh well... the Amiga was a very cool machine, and I was always an AMOS user ;) lol
those were the days!
Michael Clease
11-07-2007, 23:26
Ive got 2 A1200's :P
I know this thread of a few months old, but I have to share my love for the Amiga, sadly I gave mine away for a few years back which I now regret :(
oh well... the Amiga was a very cool machine, and I was always an AMOS user ;) lol
those were the days!
Ive got 2 A1200's :P
I didn't know you Two were fellow Amiga Users, lol. :D
If you haven't already, you should check out EAB (http://eab.abime.net/), it's an Amiga Forum that I regulary visit.
As I've already said before in this Thread, you should also check out Amr (http://amr.abime.net/), as they've uploaded most of the pages from Amiga Format and CU Amiga.
Michael Clease
11-07-2007, 23:44
I never used any of the lame ass game writing kits i stuck to pure 68000 asssembler direct access to the copper and blitter.
^^
If you're interested, in 1992 the Game Developers 'Bullfrog' wrote a Five part Tutorial to teach people 68k Assembly, it was printed in Amiga Format.
You can get the Magazine Scans here (http://www.angelfire.com/planet/redbladenz/bullfrog/bullfrog.html). :)
Michael Clease
12-07-2007, 01:56
i was into making games run off harddisk not floppy and demo writing. once wrote a huffman cruncher for the amiga but never released it.
about all i can remember now is that $dff180 is the background colour.
Do you ever visit flashtro (http://www.flashtro.com/index.php)?
Michael Clease
12-07-2007, 13:34
No but quite interesting.
heres a few bitmap fonts
http://cgi.algonet.se/htbin/cgiwrap?user=guld1&script=fonts.pl
darkmaster
12-07-2007, 23:22
Hey Matt!
Thanks for the link :) I will read and 'TRY' and learn some LOL, no seriously this stuff is cool, I truely believe all programmers should start with this sort of coding as it teaches alot.
Everything comes back full circle! including those days of the bedroom programmer creating games on a budget!
@Abraxas - Nice Fonts, they'll come in useful. :)
@darkmaster - If you're serious about learning about Assembly, you should get the following...
Fasm (http://flatassembler.net/), I've used it for some time now and it's really good.
You should also download the following (http://perso.orange.fr/franck.charlet/Ogl_Asm.zip) OpenGL Examples.
There's another good Fasm OpenGL Tutorial here (http://wasm.ru/docs/9/OpenGLbyTylerDurden.zip), sadly the Man who wrote it was Russian but the Code isn't that difficult to understand.
darkmaster
14-07-2007, 00:12
ah, cool!
thanks for the link :)
Michael Clease
21-08-2007, 14:07
I found some old noisetracker modules i wrote back in the early 90's :-[
I have started transfering my amiga stuff to my pc which should be good.
Heres one with protracker for anyone interested.
Nice Track, I've got the MODPlug (http://www.modplug.com/) Tracker on my PC so I was able to listen to it.
On the Amiga I used OctaMED and PROTracker for making Music.
Sometimes I wish I'd have kept some of my Music Tracks. :'(
Michael Clease
23-08-2007, 12:36
I've now got some great pixel art for platform games from my amiga. will show a preview of some of them soon.
Also found my gfx editor i created. ;D only problem is the images are in bitmap format so cant read them on the pc.
any ideas how to get and equivelant to the halfbright for OpenGL, i supose its to use lights.
Petr Schreiber
23-08-2007, 13:02
Abraxas,
you could assign color 127,127,127 to sprite poly, then it will look darker.
Which is the format of your amiga "bitmap", should be similar to BMP ?
Bye,
Petr
Michael Clease
23-08-2007, 15:28
I was driving back to work after lunch and i thought setting the colour value to half would do it. Thanks
The gfx are raw bitmap planes.
Petr Schreiber
23-08-2007, 15:31
Hi,
so just series of bytes with no header ?
Petr
Michael Clease
23-08-2007, 15:33
you got it. i save the colour map to a seperate file.
Michael Clease
30-08-2007, 23:57
heres one of first raw images ive converted.
3 parallax layers.
Michael Hartlef
31-08-2007, 05:40
That looks great!!!
Petr Schreiber
31-08-2007, 08:20
That looks awesome,
it reminds me of the classic DOS platformers like Jazz Jackrabbit, Hocus Pocus ... very professional !
Bye,
Petr