from the vaults

[egypturnash]

When protocat visited a few weeks ago, at one point the conversation turned to programming. He was very surprised when I mentioned that I used to do assembly on the c64 and Amiga. It's just not something people expect of who I am now, I guess.

So I pulled out the Amiga and went digging. Unfortunately I couldn't find an executable of the 'Space Taxi' clone I was working on, and couldn't connect the machine to the net. But I pulled up a bunch of the art. Which I can't get out of the Amiga. Argh.

Today I remembered that and went looking. You'll have to get an Amiga emulator up and running if you want to see this, something I've never actually bothered to do myself - or if you have a way to bring files between your net connection and your crusty old Amiga, that will work, too. it's a single level, all coded in assembly, and actually system-friendly. The documentation is very much a teenager being Clever, with more jokey footnotes than there is actual text, and a refusal to capitalize "I" unless it's at the beginning of a sentence . All the art was drawn with a mouse in Deluxe Paint. It's... interesting.

According to my nodes at the front of the docs, it has some issues on AGA mahines; just run it on an emulated A2000 or something.

36k LHA file

Comments

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Hey, I think I still have Fanta-Animation for C-64 on 5.25" floppy disk somewhere. IIRC it also still has some of my old housemate's animation about TS stuff on it, I think.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

160x200 trans issues animations. Whoah.

If I wantged to be really scarily geeky I'd try and see if I could find a copy of the one c64 game I cracked, "Project Firestart". If you find the FRED III crack of it, that's mine... I played it all the way through to make sure it worked, and I ended up manually putting my intro into unused sectors normally reserved for the directory, because the disc was too full otherwise!

conversion...

[doctorpinkerton.livejournal.com]

Peg, remember if you ever need to get a bunch of that stuff out of your 'miggy onto (Romeo format) CD-R, just bring that external SCSI drive with you next time you visit the old stomping grounds! We'll hook it to the C.O.G.'s A3000 and burn up an archive of your old badness.

Re: conversion...

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I really should. Which format is "Romeo"?

It doesn't help that my Amiga's HD is a little wonky, so first things'd probably need to be copied to another drive for staging. Having the data flow stutter mid-burn is never a Good Thing.

Re: conversion...

[doctorpinkerton.livejournal.com]

Romeo format's a nicely compatible 9660 variant that is readable on everything and features file names of up to 128 characters (the only downside is that it capitalizes everything.) I have used it to make Amiga backups that are directly readable on Amiga, Mac, and PC.

Yeah, the idea would be to copy the drive's contents up through a cross-mounted Mac directory and burn the image to disc using Mac Toast. Very easy.