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Ok, now where did I leave that Fallout 3 xbox360 game? A-ha, found it! Crap, Bioshock disc inside. Ok, locate the Bioshock box, open it… damnit, Bayonetta! Look for the Bayonetta box, open it, find Gears of War 2…
It took me 7 tries to finally find Fallout 3 squashed under 2 Halo 3 discs in the Halo ODST box. One day I’ll really have to get this mess sorted.
This is nothing short of amazing. Make sure you watch it full screen! Took me quite some time before I realized that it was all CGI. Check the second clip for some examples on how they did the compositing.
The last couple days I’ve rediscovered something that, back around the end of the 80s and almost all throughout the 90s, ate up quite a huge chunk of my free time: the Amiga. I think we got our first Amiga 500 somewhere around 1988. Later on, in the beginning of the 90s we bought an A600, which immediately marked the end of me and my sister fighting over who could hog the machine for the next couple of hours.
So, 1988 give or take and our Commodore 64 with its old cassette system instantly got shoved into a corner to start gathering dust. Hi and welcome to floppy disk land, we bring you double density, 880K goodness (eat that 720K IBM PC floppies)! 512K RAM which was later extended with another 512K of slow RAM through the trapdoor at the bottom of the device. A 32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU running at 7MHz, 16-bit data bus and 4 channel 8-bit audio. The A600 came with 1MB of RAM out of the box and, except for being a lot smaller, was technically pretty much identical to the original 500.
I still feel bad (and sad) about giving both systems away when I moved. Out of all the computers I’ve used in my life the Amiga ranks up there at the top of the list (even beating Apple, yes). Maybe it’s just nostalgia speaking, I don’t know, but it was and in my opinion still is an amazing system. So the past two days I finally took the time to mess around with E-UAE and the Amiga Forever Plus edition. E-UAE definitely isn’t as elegant, full featured and stable as its Windows counterpart (WinUAE), but it gets the job done. I’ve currently got 4 systems set up:
The last one’s a custom machine set up to boot Workbench 3.9 from a hard disk image instead of floppies and comes with a TCP/IP stack and a set of networking tools ready to go. Not exactly the A500 I used to own, but it’s fun to see what became of the platform after I was stupid enough to get rid of my hardware. Really makes me want to whip out the VISA card and order myself a nice little 1200 with 100Gig HD, AGA scandoubler, network card and AmigaOS 3.9. Instead I’ll just save myself some cash and mess around with the emulator for now. I really don’t want to go and throw away my sole new year’s resolution of cutting down on impulse buying two days into 2010.
Anyway, I’ve been stuck here the last two days playing Speedball 2, Cannon Fodder (anyone remember sucky sucky and supah doopah missile boostah?), Dune 2, Syndicate, Rick Dangerous, Hired Guns, Desert Strike and Alien Breed, which has actually been rereleased for Xbox360 by Team17 (more on that in a later post). I also need to mess around with ARexx again and check out some old demos and see if I can find a copy of the Ultimate Soundtracker, oh and I do hope there’s going to be a good old fashioned Guru Meditation error in there somewhere! Oh yeah, the memories are definitely starting to come back :)
24 October 2009. That’s two full frickin’ months since the last post (and that one wasn’t exactly worthy of the name ‘blog post’ either). Sigh, it used to be multiple posts a day on here once, so what the hell happened?
Having multiple blogs, a Facebook, Flickr & Twitter account isn’t easy. Especially the multiple blogs part. I love writing, but it doesn’t come all that fluently for me. So keeping myself motivated to maintain more than one blog has become a pretty big burden. And ultimately the solution is easy, just ditch all but one. Done deal. Yay! Easy! Let’s get on with it!
During 2009 I kinda got sidetracked with photography and even started blogging. Ultimately I got bored with that though. It happens with a lot of the stuff I do really. New and shiny things tend to grab my attention and make me lose interest in all the other stuff. But now that photography isn’t taking up the majority of my free time anymore and with 2010 around the bend I decided to kick things into gear again around here. You know, New Year’s resolutions and all :)
So what’s the plan? I don’t want to simply start posting again. The site’s in need of a bit of an overhaul and I’ve been meaning to play around with Winston (a UI Library with a lot of potential) for quite some time now. So, a redesign then? Yes, very much so. Besides, I’ve never been very good with graphics heavy design work. A minimal design based on the Winston defaults sounds like a good idea. Even if it’s only to make sure I don’t give up on the project halfway through.
So except for the temporary case of online apathy, is there anything else worthwhile happening in my life? Let’s see. Noah’s growing up damn fast. He’s almost two years old now. God knows where that time went, flew right by. Joke’s as awesome as ever (but still hasn’t started blogging). As for me, I’m still collecting Shirow artwork, still addicted to gadgets and I’m still the same procrastinator as always. Same old same old to be honest, which I don’t mind too much.
Well, I guess this is as good a time as any to get cracking. Let’s start with updating WordPress and just take it from there…
