#4153262 - 08/03/15 03:23 AM
My Amiga 1200 Workbench
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JohnnyChemo
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Before I sent my trusty Amiga off to its final resting place, I backed up the HD's to CDR and copied the ROM to a file as well. There was a program called UAE which could almost, but not quite, emulate an Amiga on PC hardware. I figured at some point it might be functional enough to use, so I may as well save everything just in case. Every so often I get the itch to see if I can make it work, but I never really got anywhere with it. A few days ago I was just bored enough to try again. First up, choose the CPU/FPU emulation. I went with the -020/882 CPU/FPU. I found a guide that said to use JIT with a 6mb cache. Chipset emulation is next. OCS is "Original Chipset," ECS is "Enhanced Chipset". Agnus, Denise, and Paula were the names of the graphic chips that gave the Amiga its unique (for the time) graphic capabilities. There were a few variations of these chips. "AGA" is the "Advanced Graphic Architecture" chipset of the Amiga 1200/4000. This enhanced graphic chipset allowed the Amiga to use 256 colors (8 bit) or up to 262,144 in HAM-8 mode. Check out this memory - this was a LOT of mem for 1997! I partitioned the hell out of my Amiga HD (a whopping 120MB drive, IIRC) Each of these are directories in my Windows install with my Amiga files in them. This was the key here. This took a lot of trial and error to get right, but I was eventually able to get my Amiga Workbench to a comfortable 1440x900 (as opposed to 656x480) using the RTG card emulation. I had to download the Amiga drivers, copy them to an Amiga directory, and use the emulated Amiga to install. I had some really funky screen resolutions in my trial and error, some of which were completely unreadable on this modern monitor. I had to guess where things were to click on! The end result - Hello there, haven't seen this since 1998!!
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.” -Robert Heinlein
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#4153263 - 08/03/15 03:32 AM
Re: My Amiga 1200 Workbench
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JohnnyChemo
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So what good is this old system? Apparently iBrowse, one of the better web browsers from back in the day, was developed until around 2006. Not Chrome or Firefox, but hey I can surf SimHQ on it! Check out the date on this old email. Thor was a pretty kickass email/newsreader back in the Usenet days. Better jot down that new Earthlink dialup number just in case! So I taugh myself C programming and actually wrote and released this game. It played pretty well, I got some nice feedback on it. Plays Euchre like I do, and pisses me off in the process. I released the source code to it a long time ago, I played a Euchre game on my iPhone that I swear used my AI routine. Loved this game, it's one of the reasons I tried to get this going again. Still plays well, I may do an AAR on a game in the future with it. Yeah this one I don't remember, but it has a Corsair on it, so it must be ok. Was hoping I still had Falcon on when I copied the drives. Pity it wasn't. This one was a lot of fun back in the day too!
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.” -Robert Heinlein
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#4153324 - 08/03/15 12:35 PM
Re: My Amiga 1200 Workbench
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JohnnyChemo
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OctaMed-yeah, forgot about that one! Cool demo, those were really big back in the day. If Commodore had been run by folks with a clue, Amiga could be sitting at least where the Mac sits today.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.” -Robert Heinlein
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#4153346 - 08/03/15 01:19 PM
Re: My Amiga 1200 Workbench
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I want to know more about the nude nuns...
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The anteater is wearing the bagel because he's a reindeer princess. -- my 4 yr old daughter
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#4153431 - 08/03/15 03:48 PM
Re: My Amiga 1200 Workbench
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Here you go....
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.” -Robert Heinlein
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#4153502 - 08/03/15 07:52 PM
Re: My Amiga 1200 Workbench
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Davemetalhead
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Still have my Amiga 1200, although it's been sitting in it's box on top of a book case since 1995!
Ah, the days of Gunship 2000, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Flight of the Intruder, F-16 Combat Pilot. Still have them all, most of them in their original boxes.
They just don't make games like 'em anymore.
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#4153570 - 08/04/15 02:31 AM
Re: My Amiga 1200 Workbench
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coasty
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I had a couple of Commodores but never the Amiga, jumped ship to Atari and still have an STE and Falcon. Have not tried booting them up in years.
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#4153690 - 08/04/15 12:42 PM
Re: My Amiga 1200 Workbench
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Still have my Amiga 1200, although it's been sitting in it's box on top of a book case since 1995!
Ah, the days of Gunship 2000, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Flight of the Intruder, F-16 Combat Pilot. Still have them all, most of them in their original boxes.
They just don't make games like 'em anymore. I had most of those on the PC, played them in EGA on a 8088 and later VGA on a 386. The Jedi Master
The anteater is wearing the bagel because he's a reindeer princess. -- my 4 yr old daughter
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