It has to go up. Always.
(for me 
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1,985 Sep 24, 2010 2:53 pm
Re: Thematic Variation (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
1,986 Sep 24, 2010 2:52 pm
Re: 8BITS (37 replies, posted in General Discussion)
celsius wrote:
KeFF wrote:25 inch and fullscreen is too small?
Yeah... pretty much. I get the feeling this was meant for a cinema screening.
Even with a gigantic screen, everything is smeared together. The rendering should change for those scenes so objects could stand out better against the background. I think it's more than a size issue, the main character is really unreadable in those 2.5D parts.
1,987 Sep 24, 2010 2:49 pm
Re: AHX Trouble (22 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
He did try a demo. I am pretty sure his caps are dying or dead already.
Also, capacitor faults are intermitent at some points, so don't trust the Amiga sudedenly working.
The most important thing to do is to replace caps as soon as one fails because they leak acid and can potentially damage the motherboard very badly.
I repeat: I am a soldering mongoloid and surface mounted components are scary. I took my motherboard to a professional electronics dude. My choice was a TV repair shop. Dude said he could do the job so I trusted the motherboard to him. In the end he did a sloppy job but the Amiga at least powers up and works now. I would have only destroyed it if I tried to remove one capacitor.
Even if you can solder OK, surface mount is a whole new planet.
1,988 Sep 24, 2010 12:05 pm
Re: [removed] (17 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Sycamore Drive wrote:
"Someone needs to teach people the true meaning of the word "cool"."
I thought "fuck" (and all its variants) was the true meaning of the word cool.
1,989 Sep 24, 2010 11:54 am
Re: AHX Trouble (22 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Awol wrote:
So is it just desoldering capacitors and putting new ones in? I think I can do that myself. Is there a guide somewhere?
Yeah but there's a catch: these are all surface mounted components. It's not such an easy task.
I don't know about any guides, what you have to do is replace all surface mount caps for regular ones that are equivalent. When you do this people recommend you to just change them all, because they are gonna die at some point anyway. Be careful with not mistaking cap values though, the people I took my A600 to, changed some video caps with the wrong value and now I get wobbly video.
I am SO pissed off at the guy who sold this to me right now. I already thought I paid too much, and now this.
I didn't have a way to test sound until now.
There's a lesson to learn, my friend. you always have to test EVERYTHING.
No memory expansion. I'm done troubleshooting this funky old thing; I'll just wait till my IDE/CF adapter gets here so I can put ClassicWB on it.
ClassicWB is not always the best solution but I guess to get you started it's OK until you learn how to make your own custom install of Workbench. I wouldn't recommend it on a stock 2MB Chip RAM system, though, because it has a load of unnecessary garbage.
1,990 Sep 24, 2010 2:11 am
Re: AHX Trouble (22 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Sorry I kept editing that, I should think things 3 times before hitting "reply"
1,991 Sep 24, 2010 2:07 am
Re: AHX Trouble (22 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
If your sound chip was dead so would be part of your I/O since Paula is not only in charge of audio but also other things. The Amiga is not that simple to fix or diagnose when it misbehaves.
Maybe your audio capacitors are dead, capacitor death is a common problem with Amigas that haven't been used for a while. From the sound of your problem, you possibly have this issue. You will need to get it repaired.
If after a wile you get a software error, that's another issue. Do you have any sort of memory expansion? If yes, remove it and try again. But it could be some outdated library you have, like ASL or anything. You will need SnoopDOS to diagnose that.
1,992 Sep 23, 2010 6:56 pm
Re: A1200 + CF cards? (30 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Awol wrote:
I have 3.0, but I don't have the OS disks. I seem to have a floppy working on both PC and Amiga now though. Just had to click PC0 instead of DF0.
That's because you have CrossDOS running and mounted. Good job! It's painful to transfer stuff by floppy but in the meantime it will do.
1,993 Sep 23, 2010 6:55 pm
Re: Piggy Tracker Thread (798 replies, posted in LittleGPTracker)
Someone give me a PSP to replace what I lost in Tokyo so my LGPT side-project can continue
1,995 Sep 23, 2010 6:52 pm
Re: 8BITS (37 replies, posted in General Discussion)
KeFF wrote:
akira^8GB wrote:The CGI is ugly, specially character-wise (the render looks OK but I think nowadays it's relatively easy to achieve such a rendering)
I only like how it switches to 2.5D and it keeps the charm of the old games pretty intact. Other than that, mmm.Also in the 2D parts, it's really hard to understand what is happening. I'm not sure if this is cool or not.
True.
1,996 Sep 23, 2010 2:28 pm
Re: 8BITS (37 replies, posted in General Discussion)
The CGI is ugly, specially character-wise (the render looks OK but I think nowadays it's relatively easy to achieve such a rendering)
I only like how it switches to 2.5D and it keeps the charm of the old games pretty intact. Other than that, mmm.
1,997 Sep 23, 2010 11:24 am
Re: A1200 + CF cards? (30 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Yeah, man,. because Atari uses the DOS format and Amiga doesn't. That's why the disk doesn't work.
boomlinde wrote:
If you format a DD floppy on a PC to 720k, you can read it on Amiga using CrossDOS (which should be included on the OS disks if you have those). Usage details are here.
Not if he has WB3.1. Only 3.0 has CrossDOS
You should check this option.
Also: HivelyTracker does NOT run on anything but an 060@100mHZ or PowerPC, so forget about it, use AHX, or wait for the massively expensive upgrade.
1,998 Sep 23, 2010 11:21 am
Re: Dingoo A330 LGPT (11 replies, posted in LittleGPTracker)
Ugh, PSP-like shape.
1,999 Sep 20, 2010 9:58 pm
Re: George & Jonathan. THE BEST MUSIC. 9/7 (70 replies, posted in Releases)
Hm that fucking comment didn't make this justice.
This is fucking good.
It's like the sort of european funky Amiga demoscene music I like, kind of like the dutch producer Bas Bron.
Are you sure you are from USA?
2,000 Sep 20, 2010 9:56 pm
Re: George & Jonathan. THE BEST MUSIC. 9/7 (70 replies, posted in Releases)
Pretty good.