Posted by Angus Manwaring on 05/02/07 20:23

On 01-May-07 21:41:52, Colin Wilson said
>> Sorry, didn't see this till now.

>No worries :-)

>> Basically, this is one of the many things I know next to nothing about. I
>> don't really use PCs except at work. Although I have been running the
>> original Mechwarrior on my Amiga under pc emulation. :)

>LOL the pinnacle of PC gaming (almost, Natural Selection tops it for
>me ;-) )

>> I gather there was a version of Siamese with RTG, or it was planned at
>> least.
>> http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~pnolan/siamese.html

>This *is* (or at least *was*) configured with a Siamese - I suspect
>the screenmodeprefs (?) are set up as VGA, but as ISA slots are now
>like hens' teeth, i'm curious as to whether I could ever get it going
>again. In all fairness, i've never even powered this particular mig up
>since acquiring it from a good mate for next to sod-all (my missus was
>really not impressed, having finally got me to sell my own rig to a
>mate despite fierce resistance about 2 weeks prior :-p )

Don't mess with a man and his miggy. :)

Are you just looking at using the Amiga for productivity stuff, where you
can retarget the graphics or will games also be a requirement?

If not, why not?!!!! :)



>> But as for getting an 030 Amiga to display on pc monitors a lot of people
>> use scandoubler/flickerfixers which work quite well... I'd personally go
>> for an external version, but they are pretty rare.

>Might need to do that, because if they're rare now, they'll be made of
>pure unobtainium in the near future :-/

I think Amigakit.com had some in but the prices were a bit frightening.



>> I think these days a lot of people find LCD monitors that accept SCART,
>> but apparently some are a bit picky.

>Interesting - I forgot the mig could output via scart ;-) - but i'd
>probably need to get some assistance trying to figure out how and what
>I needed to set the screenmode prefs to in the first place :-}

Well have a look round Amiga org/world. Its probably been discussed quite
a bit but its worth starting a new thread to see if you can pick up the
latest experiences. Its not something I've done, unfortunately.

>> >Where abouts are you based btw ?
>> In the South West.

>Shame, i've probably got close to a thousand disks here still (mainly
>PD) - too far for me to hand 'em over in person, and probably too
>awkward to post :-}

That's very kind, but not a problem. My Mrs has never managed to make me
sell the miggy, even for 2 weeks, but we are at bursting point with bits
and pieces that Angus thought might come in handy for it one day. :)

>Have you ever figured a way to read miggy disks on a PC ? - I believe
>someone managed a work-around by daisy-chaining two floppies and using
>some software they wrote, which i've got here somewhere - just in case
>it might be of interest / use to you :-)

Well, pd stuff should be easy enough to back up on 720k pc disks or CD,
zips or whatever. ADF or dms might be the way to go. And obviously a
networked Amiga makes life simpler still. If you mean commercial games
then WHDLoad is your friend.



All the best,
Angus Manwaring. (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)

I need your memories for the Amiga Games Database: A collection of Amiga
Game reviews by Amiga players http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk/AGDB/AGDB.html

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