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In September 2006, I purchased a Samsung 204B SyncMaster monitor for $320+tax. It was a 4:3 monitor, and for certain tasks like my Logic Analyzer Cart, it’s perfect.

It failed in July 2024, and would no longer power on. There was a VERY faint blue flashing happening on the blue power led on the right-hand side of the unit. I figured it was a power-related problem.

There was a HDD backup utility for the Commodore Amiga called Quarterback, part of a suite of tools called Quarterback Tools. This utility allowed you to backup existing files on your HDD, compress and/or encrypt them, and split them across multiple floppy disks.

This backup tool stores a catalog, which contains a number of directory entries at the beginning of the backup file, and then contains file markers for either compressed (CFM + 0x90) or uncompressed (FMRK) files.

Where time allows this year, I have been doing PC build projects for Compaq LTE Elite laptop (486), IBM Aptiva (AMD-K6 500), Compaq DeskPro (P3-1Ghz), Core i7 PC I built back in 2011, and Pentium 200MMX setup on IBM PC300GL with OS/2, plus adding a parallel ZIP, HP iPAQ, Sony Clie Palm into the mix.

Whew.

An Amiga 500 was spotted in 1989 splatter-comic movie "Robot Ninja" - both on screen, and behind the scenes.

"Breathless" is an album of electro/techno music created on an Amiga computer over the latter half
of the 1990s. All tracks were composed with OctaMED SoundStudio, using Amiga samples and MIDI sound devices.

California Games was simply outstanding, making it all the more astonishing how the sequel, California Games II, managed to mess everything up.

There isn't a single likable aspect in the sequel, which perfectly exemplifies how the developer completely missed what made the original so great.

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 First of all, very sorry for the long gap between posts.

Before I dive into my latest purchase, the amazing Analogue Pocket handheld, I should cover what has been happening lately to take me away from blogging and computers in general.

Can an Amiga computer run milestone first person shooter "Crysis"?

Well. "Yes it can." But you need some - just a little! - suspension of disbelief. Here's a prototype created by author lifeschool, that uses a slightly different approach to bringing the amazing graphics engine of "Crysis" to the Amiga. System requirements are comparably moderate:

• PAL Amiga 
• Kickstart 3.0 or higher
• 1MB Chip and 4MB fast memory
• 500MB free disk space

68030 or better CPU is recommended, though.

Spectacular Amiga 500 OCS 7Mhz first person shooter "Grind" is boldly going serial-link multiplayer.

"Grind" has come a long way from the early "Dread" demos. It's becoming a super polished game, with tons of atmosphere, thanks to the fine tuned visuals, and sounds, and of course the stunningly fast Doom-like 3D graphics engine. And it's got what way too few Amiga games, and especially first-person-shooter games have: it's multiplayer!

AmigaOS 4 News – June 2024 Hello, Thank you for visiting the Old School Game Blog and for being interested in checking out this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup. Both May and June proved to be a bit hectic for me, so I have not been as active as I normally am. Still, a new […]

 I didn't expect to have any time to write a blog post in June (same as May and April), but as it turned out I did, so here I am!