Friend's Book

[GiZz72]

Greetings,

I've created this portion to keep track of what I'm doing currently on my Amigas in general, plans, issue and workarounds to certain problems I will encounter.

Regards,

GiZz
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[GiZz72]

Greetings,

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Okey now I need to name my Amigas in their proper order.
NAME TECH/SPECS
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MIRANDA - A2000 with '030 turbo card and SCSI HDD+8MB and Flicker Fixer installed. KS ROM 2.0'
MARIA - A2000 with SCSI HDD+8MB KS ROM 2.0
PEDRO - A4000 with ADRIAN, 16MB, KS ROM 3.0, ZII Buddah IDE
FERNANDO - A3000 (non-fuctional)
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PABLO - A500 KSROM1.3 0.5KB CHIP 0.5 FAST with Clock,Def kb.
PABLITO - A600 (stock) DataFlyer
MANNY - A1200(NTSC) KS 3.1 '030 + 32 MB IDE-FIX/DataFlyer. (At the moment my friend Edwin borrowed it)
JOSE - A1200(PAL) KS3.0 '030 GVP turbo + 16MB / DataFlyer (blind/instorage)
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This morning, as I scan thorugh the gallery picutures from Scuzz's Amiga Collection, I found out that some of his A4000D set-up has old SCSI controllers would work on it. Soon as I got home, I've manage to try it out.

Presently, I'm having 2 HDD issues since my Caviar 815MB and Maxtor 20gig HDD had similar intermittent issues, I set them aside to try out the idea.

First, I took my GVP SCSI controller with 8MB of memory(jumper settings was set at 8M BTW) and installed it in PEDRO. I booted it up and to my surprise. Workbench reported 22MB other mem! Looks like Pedro was happy then. Sysinfo reveals 16MB Fast mem and 'others' 24-bit 8MB fast mem. Not bad, but I doubted Padro's memory causes the system to fail which there were 4 x 256k installed.
I did a memtest from one of my 040 GVP-turbo installers, but I need to sleep for the day, I skip that part and proceeded on installing the Kickstart ROM 3.1 for MANNY.
Earlier the week, I've installed KS ROM 3.1 in PEDRO, but had memory issues, PEDRO can't 'see' the rest of the fast mem installed, just 2MB chip despite the jumper swapping i did, it had no effect.
Going back, I booted PEDRO and just as I predicted, PEDRO's memory was 2MB chip and 8mb(7.778MB) fast mem.
Suddenly things started to go wrong, now, I can't boot Workbench normally, so I had to boot Pedro at shell prompt. I had a bad feeling it had to do with the modules, I'm not sure if these memory modules still work or not, but manage them on MARIA and MIRANDA, eventually took the memory from MARIA.
At the moment, I left both MARIA and PEDRO in the dark and call it the day. I'll continue to work on them again maybe after shift tomorrow morning or I might revert PEDRO back to Kickstart ROM3.0 with very little issues. Maybe it's meant to be this way. Then again, I could purchase one for PEDRO.

Regards,

GiZz72
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Good day to all and welcome!
Thought of blogging here while I set-up my new site.
I'd stick to my Amiga for a quick fix!

[GiZz72]

Greetings,

I found at AMOS Factory about a discussion that struck a chord in me to revive one of my early games I've developed during my college days.

Forum > AMOS Discussion > AMOS Professional Forum > Yie Ar Kung Fu

I would need to go over this tweak some flaws I see. Also if I deciding to change back the Original Title or create a new. I can't write it here yet. In time I might reveal. Too bad the original HDD i used to create it from died a long time ago, and got rid of if only my a1200(unanmed) original Motherboard hadn't died. It was totally my fault when the old power supply died and changed it to a new one. I exchanged the 5v with the 12v wire, then boom! My A1200 was smoke. That's when I got JOSE later that year.

NOTE TO SELF: Sent an email regarding Buddah flash update, Generals for DOS and tid bits from Amos user guide.

Regards,

GiZz72

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Good day to all and welcome!
Thought of blogging here while I set-up my new site.
I'd stick to my Amiga for a quick fix!

[GiZz72]

Greetings,

Whew! Just got in the nick of time. 8:00pm on the dot.

As soon as I got home, I decided to return the original Kickstart ROM 3.0 due to the issue of not booting up to the Workbench level. Soon as I pop the KS start in PEDRO, he fires up. Again with other mem at 23MB and 2MB chip.

I resume my HDD testing, starting with the Caviar 815MB drive with no success. I will attempt to revive this with a PC and see if it can be detected. My PC does more damage than good these days.

Regards,

GiZz72
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Good day to all and welcome!
Thought of blogging here while I set-up my new site.
I'd stick to my Amiga for a quick fix!

[GiZz72]

Greetings,

After I've set-up PEDRO properly, like Placed PEDRO in the middle part of the table for normal use, not on top of the computer table, where I usually work on an Amiga like changing/installing HDD, chips and all those hardware stuff. Now, that's all in place, I can begin looking at those Amos file's I've stored over the years.

Under Amospro, I manage to organize all of my previous college days project. I used to work on a fighting style game and manage to find my old LF programs. The last version I was able to save was v5.27b. The only complete and latest version in .AMOS is v5.27b and below.

The only thing I found was the compiled version 5.35 in WB. At this point, I wish I could reverse engineer/decompile the program back as source code. The versions follwing v5.27b to 5.35 was lost. I believe it was on my original A1200(not MANNY)and that HDD was already disposed. Gave it away to a recycling plant(I needed the money to raise to purchase MANNY). I regret doing that, but I was desparate!

There were alot of other programs/projects I have not finished developing it since 1997 till 2005. The more I develope the more I tend to stop.

I don't know where to start. I was planning to upgrade LF at the moment, probably this Wed and thurs during my off and start from there. Tweak some improvements of the look and feel of the game since v1.00 was first developed on a 2mb A500 with dual floppies till I got MANNY. I'll start from there.

Regards,

GiZz72
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Thought of blogging here while I set-up my new site.
I'd stick to my Amiga for a quick fix!

[GiZz72]

Greetings,

On the 22nd, July I spend my time with PEDRO to do some Amos programming. As soon as I loaded Amos up, Started typing codes, I've discovered some of the keys were not working! All cursor keys, 'Help' key, and the '+' near numeric keys. The keyboard I'm using PEDRO with was a black CDTV keyboard.
I can live without the '+' since there's two of them or 'Help' key since I can still use the right mouse button to select help. The only thing I got pissed is the cursor keys! The worst part is ALL of them does not work! It's a chore when it comes to editing texts around! So, I took my screw driver and tape, and started checking what the F*** is wrong with it. I've checked the contacts and there seems to be no smudge or dirt, but still no go. Checked some of the other old keyboard I have.
In my box I have: (I would apologize, since, at the moment, have no pictures to upload yet, I will do my best to describe this in words as much as I can, which is hard! Please bare with me.)
1 A500 keyboard(missing Left Amiga Key, '-')
1 A4000 keyboard(no longer works with any keys)
2 A1200 keyboard.(have not check them)
1 CDTV keyboard.(currently using with some defective keys)
All keyboards(exept CDTV keyboard) has a green plastic key contact circuit etch in green on them, in between the steel frame and the keys itself. I first tried to replace the A4000 with the orginal A500 plastic key contact(need to research for the name of the part). I noticed that both the A500 plastic and the original A4000 has the same part number. After assembling the A4000 keyboard with the A500 plasic contacts, I ran a special program that lets you test each key on screen. The test yields only 6 or 7 keys failed to work(can't remember which).
Next tried one of the A1200 keyboard. Test yield 4 keys failed. Finally, the last A1200 belonged to JOSE. At first, the test yields 3 keys failed. I cleaned the plastic contact, LO! and behold! Test yields 0 keys failed! One small problem. A4000/A500 plastic key contacts are similar and was designed for external purposes, where as the A1200's keyboard were designed for internal purposes. I solved the problem by putting the keyboard circuits protruding outside the keybaord. As soon as I can get the picture uploaded, It will be all clear! In other words, I've solved my keyboard issue for PEDRO, MARIA and MIRANDA. It still does not change my mind of buying a keyboard and mouse adapter to PS/2. I have until Saturday to purchase it.
With that I was able to sleep very late and hardly work on them for awhile.
What I've done is checking and compiling some helpful procedures and implement them on my future programs. Some of the works are Score and Life meter, Type-in without using Input.

Okay, I've looked for any pictures, illustrations or descriptions of the internal parts of an Amiga keyboard, but onlythis site came just a wee close to my problem, but work arounds was my idea.

Regards,

GiZz72
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Good day to all and welcome!
Thought of blogging here while I set-up my new site.
I'd stick to my Amiga for a quick fix!

[GiZz72]

Greetings,

As I write this today, I made another purchase at softhut:

Description Options Price After Options Quantity Subtotal
Lyra Keyboard Adapter for A2000/3000/4000 42.95 US $ 1 42.95 US $

Pre-shipping Grand Total = 42.95 US $



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Your Order Has Been Sent!

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I just wonder why the coupon code did not affect it? Well, I was deciding to buy the mouse converter as well(Mr Mysza), but since I still got a working mouse, I decided not to purchase it or it will double my purchase plus the surface mail. More power to softhut and thanks, Joe!

Regards,

GiZz72
_________________
Good day to all and welcome!
Thought of blogging here while I set-up my new site.
I'd stick to my Amiga for a quick fix!

[GiZz72]

Greetings,

This early morning, I rush home to organize some of my own procedures in one directory so whenever I create a new program, I don't have to redo again the same procedure. So far I have 4, where 2 of them I'm still working on. Start out simple and short. As the result, I'd had a hard time sleeping the whole day.
As far as PEDRO is going, PEDRO is running like a well tuned machine. I'm still looking for a way to speed it up so I can make it run a little faster than MANNY. Sysinfo says Anyway, at least this will be another right weekend.

Regards,

GiZz72
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Good day to all and welcome!
Thought of blogging here while I set-up my new site.
I'd stick to my Amiga for a quick fix!

[GiZz72]

Greetings,

No update as of the moment. I'm just checking some of the yie ar kung fu characters I've found HERE and HERE.

I was thinking of doing a Remix version for AmosPro. Which is why I'm updating some old and new procedures. (other reference from Wiki)

Alright, so far I've already got the characters names and ability
The background scene. Near a waterfalls. and bunch of mountains.

Oolong - Main character inspired from Bruce Lee with different styles and moves for attack.

Buchu - a big sumo wrestler who uses a leaping motion to land on Oolong with his body(more like flying across). Buchu may be big, but he's also slow. Buchu does not use weapons to fight. He is the first opponent in the first gauntlet and when gets hit in the crotch.

Star - The first female opponent Oolong faces. Star is a young ninja girl in a pink outfit who uses shuriken to slow Oolong down along with fast punches and kicks.

Nuncha - On the c64 version, he does the Bruce Lee nuncha moves(in-circles) and attacks fiercly if you left Oolong undefended.

Pole - Pole is a short man who carries a large bo and uses it on Oolong. Pole also uses it to pole vault for extra momentum for his moves. Pole can also attack in mid-air, when Oolong is vunerable at this point.

Chain - Chain awaits Oolong at the start of the second gauntlet. (At the end of the first one in the Commodore 64 version.) He's a large man which swings a giant chain and can do a 2 combo hit when Oolong is very close or mid-air.

At this point the background changes to a colorful temple(C64 version) where it signifies the Grand Master stage.

Club - swings a giant spiked club (bonbori) and bears a shield on his right arm to block most of Oolong's attacks.

Fan - Fan is another female warrior who wears a cheongsam and is more feminine than Star. Fan throws steel fans at Oolong like shuriken and seldom attacks. The fans fall in a feather-like pattern or in circular motion.

Sword - a dangerous warrior who comes ready to pounce on Oolong with a Dao and impressive aerial moves.

Tonfun - the final opponent Oolong must face before meeting his ultimate challenger, Blues. Tonfun attacks with two tonfa and fast-paced martial arts. Oolong has to time his attacks and hope that Tonfun makes a mistake to survive.

Blues - almost a mirror image of Oolong in a blue shirt and can match him move for move. Oolong has to find some weakness on Blues to win. Since the c64 version his clothes are all blue, his name maybe another Bruce Lee reference, based on his first name's pronunciation when said by a Japanese speaker. When Blues is defeated, Oolong is the winner and the game begins again with Buchu.

My plan is to recreate the whole scenario with some simple moves, since the C64 is only simple. If all goes well, I'll do some addition, like street fighter style special moves, wierd characters or hidden characters like Mortal Kombat.

Regards,

GiZz72
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Good day to all and welcome!
Thought of blogging here while I set-up my new site.
I'd stick to my Amiga for a quick fix!

[GiZz72]

Greetings,

I got home from work today, and thought of changing the keyboard to the original A4000 keys, It's still beige white and clean compared to faded yellow of the A1200 keys. However, my keytest reveals the Left Shift and Enter key(not the numberical enter) does not respond. I'm back to square one! I have no choice but get the old A1200 key back, but I need to whiten it. Exfoliate it as much as possible to whiten keys again without defacing the keys. Some say soap and water will do the job. Maybe I might reconsider, but in a leter date.

Later I woke up in the middle of the day and checked my MAME collections and I was surprise to find Arcade version of Yie Ar Kung-Fu! I enjoyed playing it. It has 2 buttons, one is punch, and kick. The game play is not too fast like the C64 version I used to have. Feeble is not even there and Chain is not part of the Grand Masters. I've enjoyed playing the authentic arcade version and worth doing this on AMOSPro.

Finally got the money for me to purchase the 20gig IDE Harddisk, hope Joe will bring it tonight.

Regards,

GiZz72
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Good day to all and welcome!
Thought of blogging here while I set-up my new site.
I'd stick to my Amiga for a quick fix!

[GiZz72]

Greetings,

I was anticipating Joe brining the HDD he told me he'd sell it to me, but as expected, he didn't bring it. To be sure, I already gave the payment so he will bring it for sure. A new 20gig hard disk, for PEDRO. I might consider it to be a slave, got a lot of disk to back on it in the coming days and new projects in mind.

Regards,

GiZz72
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Good day to all and welcome!
Thought of blogging here while I set-up my new site.
I'd stick to my Amiga for a quick fix!

[GiZz72]

Greetings,

Tuesday evening 07-28, I finally recieve from Joe, The HDD-USB enclosure with a 20gig WesternDigital HD. Very fast and relieable! Sleek looking and made of plastic enclosure. When I got home, I remove the WD Hdd from the enclosure and Replace the 815Mb slave HDD of the same brand with the 20gig and Fire PEDRO up! HDTools was able to detect it without any problems! Defined the device and gave it 5 Partitions with 4GB space. The process took almost 30 mins to prepare, the tough part is formatting takes almost an hour per partitions. I don't mind, since I got something else to do while formatting the drives.

While that was set aside, I took the Maxtor 20gigs and installed in the HDD enclosure. The same behaviour happens only much quicker. From a cold start, the drive takes 5 minutes until the PC can detect its presence. Pretty slow and goes too hot for an ordinary IDE, but still reliable. I've manage to use Norton's Partition magic to setit up instead of the Window's side. I've set it as a FAT device instead of NTFS so I won't have any problems of backward compatibility or detection. Once it's all set up, I tested it, backed up all my personal and amiga files from AmigaHP(no name because it's a PC, no feelings involved but anger)and it filled up the drive! all 19+ gigs of data from my previous Amiga preserved. So that data if put on a DVD disc would yield 5 DVD's. While it was copying, I've manage to format the rest of the partitions of PEDRO, to save time I only did Quick Format to the last 2 partitions since I won't be using it for awhile.

After everything is set and ready, all I need is enough time to back up the rest of the Amiga Disks to HDD in ADF/ZIP format. Initially, I've did back-up all my GVP-Install disks, DataFlyer, DSS, Budda Installers as ADF/ZIP. Later included All of the Workbench installers from my oiginal disks from Workbench v1.3.2 till v.3.1.

The only problem I've encountered so far, when I tried to use the 815MB HD in the Enclosure, It still does not work. I've not thoroughly check it yet. I will give it another try on a later date.

Things are looking good for all the operations as far backup. No update on my AmosPro projects at the moment.

Regards,

GiZz72
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Good day to all and welcome!
Thought of blogging here while I set-up my new site.
I'd stick to my Amiga for a quick fix!

[GiZz72]

Greetings,

I have no updates or any progress on my projects. It appears that my discreet purchases of the parts for PEDRO were discovered sooner or later. Fine! I will pay up soon as I get my salary! As if I spent a million pesos worth of equipment when I got them for free.

For now no updates! Just got upset!

Regards,

GiZz72
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Good day to all and welcome!
Thought of blogging here while I set-up my new site.
I'd stick to my Amiga for a quick fix!

[GiZz72]

Greetings,

It appears my site http://classicamigac64.x10hosting.com was suspended. for in activity. Only 30 days. Afterthat they remove it. It seems xhosting is not my ideal host for free site. unlike forumer, been using this since 2003 and haven't changed. Might as well find another host who is willing..

Regards,

GiZz72
_________________
Good day to all and welcome!
Thought of blogging here while I set-up my new site.
I'd stick to my Amiga for a quick fix!