WELCOME Fellow Amigans

Greetings,

I was busy last Dec30th cause my girlfriend did not go to work and she
had to stayed home to help mommy out on our new year feast. :-D Happy
New Year to all visitors.

Anyway, Marlon has SMS me for a request the other day that he wanted to
know how to run WinUAE under WindowsME and what's the procedure. Well,
you're in luck. So, here's a few things you should do in order to start
using WinUAE. I assume you've already covered all the aspect of the Amiga
Hardware and Opearating Systems. If not, Don't continue and go back
to www.AmigaU.com for a more thorugh review on each machines, ROMS and the
like. Else, you may want to proceed or you won't have any idea what I'm
talking about.

First, the easy part:
1. You should purchase an orignal Product CD from Software Hut Inc. or
other/similar sites like AmigaKit.com, or Versalia that sells
AmigaForever CD version From Clanto for $59(price at the time of my
purchase). All you need to start WinUAE is in that package. From ROM
images of early Amigas A1000 to A4000Desktops. to Workbech 1.0 to 3.x.

Or... do the hard part:
1. You would like to visit Amiga Forever website at URL:
http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/6-102.html
to further enhace yor knowledge on how to use Emulation of Amiga on
your PC.
2. Download the my version at URL:http://www.winuae.net/frames/download.html
the official website for downloading the latest version of UAE for
Windows. I'm using version 0.8.22 beta 1 the R1. You may want to download the
latest if you want, but I want you to be familiar to what I use ATM so
I can easily pointout to which is better or this or that tab.
3. After downloading it. Set it up to automatically install. Run the Check
mark Icon when you see it.
4. Configure first the video and chipset you want to use. Load the recommended
ROM kickstart image you want to enable your emulation with:
amiga-boot-a1000.rom amiga-ext-130-cdtv.rom
amiga-ext-310-cd32.rom amiga-os-100.rom
amiga-os-110.rom amiga-os-120.rom
amiga-os-130.rom amiga-os-204.rom
amiga-os-300.rom amiga-os-310-cd32.rom
amiga-os-310.rom
the extension are designation of what type of OS rom image after that
correspont with the number or version of OS. Like 110 means KickStart
Version 1.10. as 'amiga-os-110.rom' and 'amigaos-110.adf'.
Note: These are copyrighted files. You just can't get these things just
by downloading them.
5. After selecting your KickStart ROM file. You can now select the WorkBench
version which correspond with the ROM image. Except for cdtv and cd32 which
are the Console version and it only needs an orginal boot CDROM in order to run
CDTV or CD32. The floppy version of these files are in .ADF or Amiga Disk
Format. It is a virtual floppy for the PC to be able to load it in a virtual
Floppy Drive, which can be called while the emulation is running just by
pressing 'F12' key and selecting the Floppy tab you'll 'put' or 'Insert' the
Floppy disk(.ADF file). Here are the Workbench files in .ADF

af-boot.adf amigaos-100-wb.adf
amigaos-110-wb.adf amigaos-120-wb.adf
amigaos-130-wb.adf amigaos-200-wb.adf
amigaos-204-wb.adf amigaos-210-wb.adf
amigaos-300-wb.adf amigaos-310-wb.adf


The ROM Image correspond to Workbench versions as well. It is also capable to
be backward compatible. Like, your Kickstart version is 'amiga-os-310.rom' and
'amigaos-100.adf'

NOTE: Although .ROM files are seldomly found on the internet, you can download
most .adf files. Speciall early floppy based games found in site(legally)
at URL: http://www.back2roots.org
Find the ADF section to run all floppy based games.

Well, that's it for now. If you need *more help just post any questions on the
comments section so I could further clarify all your queries. On the later blogs,
I show you some tips on how to install AMOSPro and compiler under WinUAE if you're
interested to program.

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

Back from vacation at least for the next day. I was not able to blog yesterday. I have to do some late Christmas shopping with my girlfriend, just had a day off yesterday. Didn't spent much, what I'm worried about is the expense I'm going to cash out by the 30th. Quite enough to repair a kitchen that is. :-( That's quite a sum of money. I'll be force to use my other resting Credit card for cash advance. with a monthly 3% interest. Quite heavy for me. I just hope I'll be able to get enough cash to pay it all off. That includes 2 other credit cards and a mobil bill. AAAAAAAAAAAarrrrgh!!! This really BITES!!!!! I wish I could pay them all soon! It's choking me to *DEATH* aaaaaaaaarrrrgh!!!!!!!!

Anyway, I'm here at the office doing video editing from my mobile and transferring all to VCD format so I can Archive it forever. :-) Hope to finish it all in one whole day or 2 since there's not much clients and presentations to prepair for now. :-)
Then I'll be able to continue my program which I failed to followup on since last Christmas was busy. It shows on my mobile video. Too bad I can't post it here or even a few pictures yet.
Till next blogging.

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

This would mark my first Blog Christmas. I would like to greet visitors and Fellow Amigans a warm and safe Christmas to all. May the Amiga Spirit continue to brighten each and everyone users/non-users. May the community would continue to mend all differences and start working together to bring this wonderful platform(AMIGA) places we've dreamt from the beginning and still build the future that awaits us.

May all have a peaceful new year and a Merry Christmas. :-)

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

Yahooooo! It's just 24 more hours left till I get to have my vacation. I got up very late today. Well, I don't mind as long as I get here in the office safely. I just hope I can have a few things done. Last night I taught my girlfriend's brother how to use a work processor FinalWriter2 on the Amiga. Just to have an idea how to use one. It's just plain suck these future generations has to be taught computer basics on a PC. I wouldn't mind to teach it, but It's against my principles specially that I'm an Amigan. :-( *Sigh.
Now MicroAmigaOne(�A1) is all being talked about in the latest forums lately at Amiga.org,(BTW it's back since yesterday). I was considering getting one *if I get the chance for a large sum of money. Which I need it for my fiance's repair job of their home back in the province. Alas! I'll never have the chance to get one �A1 or at least Pegasus2 system. I'm also trying to check out, soon as it's completed, what AROS is all about.

Anyhow, I dont't want to spoil the nice spirit of fun this season. Let's just enjoy the holidays like the last year or the year before.

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

Yup, the day I'm waiting for. The Christmas weekend! :-D Though It's going to be busy, I'll make sure to make the most out of it until next week. Hope I woon't have any more of those Vacation hang-overs like any other vacations does to you. I intend to stay into diet. Don't know if I can make any progress in my present program, I'll make it somehow. Last Tuesday, my girlfriend's brother and sister will come and visit our place. That's nice. I'd teach Alvin a few things Computer Basics. Another 'Padawan' learner. I'm just not a good teacher I should be. I'm not sure if I still have the edge. Been a while. :-(

Anyway, Marlon, if you intend to have a nice peaceful holiday, *DO your favorite hobby for a change. Or better yet, come and join me in my quest for the ultimate Amiga adventures. Soon you'll thank me for this. I'm enjoying every bit of this. :-)

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

Hark! Both my hard drive free space is comming down to a minimum. less than a gigabytes. I just bought 10 blank CD to do the job. Finally, I'll be able to write it on CD after a long time. Unfortunately, That would take all day to sip through all my wanted and unwanted files. I won't be able to activate my Amiga for now to speed things up. :-)

Hmmm, I tried to visit my hang-out site. Amiga.org, it seems to be down ATM. Another server problem no doubt. Hope they fix it soon.
I just realized it's the only site I visit for forums. Maybe I could try out some other site. But, I'll probably lurk.

Amiga.org is different from other sites. I just hope It's only a minor technicallities.

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

It's Monday again, looking forward to a nice and restful Chirstmas Vacation until next year. Check my Email and boy! Lots and lots of SPAM!! Perfect for Christmas! So I remembered to downlaod all pictures from my memory and DOH!!!! I left my mobile at home leaving me a bit quite like I'm naked without it. :-( It's only a mobile, yet I felt an attachment to it. But that does not make a good excuse me forget it. DOH!! Well anyway, Last saturday, I forgot to mention the guy who just gave me his 32MB MMCard for *free! Hmmm, I was quite happy about it. I've always wanted a extra memory. Although It had the same capacity of my Existing MMC, I was hoping for something a wee bit larger capacity. Anyway, It's Christmas! What do you expect. This is one miracle! [background music playing 'Aleluya']

Hoping I'd introduce him to Amiga, but I'm still doubtful about his intentions. Still want to make him a close Amigan Ally sooner. :-) [music stops]

I've copied my updated program 'Examiner' to my office back-up so I coould further enhace it. Speaking of which, I already updated the program since yesterday. As always, I was late cause I had to rest and sleep till 6:30 pm yesterday. I was hoping I could have come to Edwin's place but I didn't. I've already created the back files for his music convesion I did the other day. Ready and waiting. Sorry Edwin yet another delay on my part! :-( Hopefully I could deliver the goods before Christmas. I have no office on the 24th. Yikes! I remember, I'm not sure If he's still be here(Manila) on that day! I was thinking of giving him a gift. A box of Floppy Disks! A bit expensive but, that what a true classic Amigan use. :-)

Till next blog!

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

I found a problem in the editmode of my program 'EXAMINER'. It seems the editing of cursor location(for example) 3,5 is displayed at location 1,5. I could not debug the problem yet. There was a black-out with-in the subdivision. Making me decide to pick-up mom and my girlfriend early.

Hopefully, today I'll be able to track the problem.

Hmmm if I recall I used a 'CLW' command before. since I skip that part it seems that I should return it. Maybe, just a hunch. I also decided to extend the length of the Question 'Form' in order to fit the whole sample question.

Till next blog.

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

I got my trusty mobile and clicked and clicked all pitures and friend's get together. I won the Christmas raffle, but I can't take the prize. 'Don Pedro'. So in honor of my drinking officemates, I gave it to them.
I also handed all gifts already and I intend to buy 2 more gifts so I could give it this Monday. Well I promise myself to keep away from food with HIGH Cholesterol. The food was good, but since I felt bad the other day, might as well be at the last line so I can have the salads all to myself, which is the only thing that was not much eaten. Some spaghetti was also in the line. Just enough. Felt great. AT least I got all gifts given away to my 'inaanaks'. 2 of them were my officemates'.

Anyway, I'm back home now. Alone BTW. The helper went home to her home town and promised to come back Right now, but No word yet from her. So I'm home alone. I'll continue the program now. Till next blog.

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

Feels like I ate something yesterday that poses a high cholesterol risk to my liver. I ate 'congee' after office when I felt hungry and weak. After that by 9 pm I felt my heart rate went to 4Ghz. My feet and hands are cold. I'm hyper-ventilating. :-(

I was doing my program when I felt it. I was unable to pick-up mommy and my girlfriend last night. I felt better after 30 mins. Man, I'm not going to eat those things again. I never knew they are very high in cholesterol level. Kids keep away from them!! Now, I feel much better and just finished a new presentation I was doing and hope it will be enough to be approve. My boss is in a meeting with clients in the conference room along with the vice president and, will follow, our beloved president. Mr burns(heh kidding) Dr Tong. :-D

I hope I'll be able to finish the program taday without anymore deleay cause I intend to go home early and pick-up my girlfriend. I hope my liver doesn't act up again like last night. I hate that experience. ):-O

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

I'm still doing a few modification on my program 'EXAMINER'. All is going to plan and I'm already finishing the Question and Answer entry for it. Maybe by today, after doing finishing some errand, I'll be able to finish it.
It's a simple database thing, actually, where I create a category, choose it and add, delete, maybe edit the contents of the question, options and the answer. After It's all selected then it's saved to disk. Simple, but it took me a while to recall.

I'll post the procedures here as soon it's finished. The graphics are just Border$ commands. Hmmm, I have not practiced editing text yet. I'll need to re-enable the cursor keys once it's finished. But, for now I'll just have to settle with add and delete for now. At least it's working now. :-)

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

The Philippine Cinema's Legend, FPJ has pass away. I mourn for his passing. He died Mindnight pass 5 after suffering from a stroke that cause a clog vain to his brain. Making go in a state of coma last Saturday Evening during a Christmas Party. He was rushed to the hospital when he felt a headache. Very many people love him for his Avenging Hero kind of role.

His suffering reminds me of dad. He too suffered from stroke after he ate. Blocked vain is also the culprit. Like they all say, this heart attacks are really a traitor. It comes like a theif, unsuspecting.

[In honor of 'Da King']

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

Well, just this morning I have to drop-off my sweetheard at work today. She in early and after that I have to take mommy to 'Medical City' for a 2d Echo Dopler Examination.
Later, I help myself for some SubWay tuna sandwhich for lunch. EEEp! P135 for a slice! How expensive! Regular Price is at P110. Anyway, Good lunch. My mommy and my girlfriend's sister had a delicious chicken roll with chopsuey and Rice.

So I back home after Lunch and just remembered to give Edwin's CD conversion again in Mono. I hope I'll be able to meet with him by next week or so. I need also a copy of 'Super Space Invaders' cause mine just went bye-bye from disk corruption.
A little too late to save. :-(

I also intend to get a serial number for my CamCorder for my mobile. It just expired! Arrgh! It's just a demo!

After that I'll continue with my programming for the rest of the day. Anymore Errands would follow after. :-) Hope everything goes in plan. What a perfect Sunday! Nice and quiet. :-D

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

Alone at home again. After Dropping both mom and my girlfriend to thier respective workplaces, I'm home alone at last. Alone with my Amiga1200. :-) Total Bliss!!

I'd probably do is take a bath and start thinking what to do to that program 'EXAMINER'. Doh! I remember, I left the updated copy back in the office. Well, no matter. I'll just reconmstruct my solution to my problem again. Later after Blogging, I'll visit A.org for a while then go on. :-) What bliss!!!

Regards,

Gizz72

# posted by Callcenter idiot! @ 12/11/2004 01:30:00 PM 0 comments

Greetings,

It looks like the party was cancelled. Everyone
are gone to their respective assignments. Looks
like We'll be celebrating My girlfriend's sister's
birthday alone with mommy.

I've already found a bug in my program that causes
the mini-editor to have a strange backspacing
problem.

On the WinUAE, under windows98, I have to create
a new partition where I can only Display the
AGA Chipset on workbench. So the configuration
named was 'MyA1200' while the 16-bit displayed
Workbench's configuration is 'MyA1200++' where
the chipset is at ECS Full and Graphics RAM is
at 4 MB, Fast RQM is at 16MB and Chip RAM at
2mb settings. However, the blue screen keeps
popping up using 'MyA1200++' configuration.

Under WinXP, both configurations are perfectly
running fine. Well, I have a free Saturday. I
intend to continue the program and of course,
BLOG! :-D

Till tomorrow, hopefully. Cheers.

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

Some my office mates are planning for a visit
at our house today. They're going to spend the
night until the next day. I'm expecting a little
busy today this weekend.

Just today, under windows98, whenI tried to run
Winuae. Blue screen greeted me when I keep loading
my configuration titled 'My A1200'. Mostly, CPU
set at '040, Chip RAM at 2mb, fast at 8 and Video
ram at 8 mb. Everything was well last week but
it keeps making this blue screen. However, I tried
to run it under WindowsXP. To my surprise, no
problem came. Just plain weird if you ask me.
:-?

Anyway, I'm hopeing I could update the program
I'm doing the other day. Yup, the 'EXAMINER.AMOS'
cause I'd been having some display problems, but
easily mended. Just need a bit more time.

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

I finally got all the presentations finished and
now I back for more blogging. :-)
Last Monday Evening I was able to Re-Burn to
CDRW all of my Existing Hard Disk Partitions
and then today I was able to recopy without any
problems all the files needed to update my back
-up here in the office. I was surprised now that
The display grahics has improved. The speed is
way cool to use under winuae. Browsing is a
like walking on water. Before The old configu-
ration is only 8-bit display. Dull. Just like
at home. At least now I can display 16-bit color
video now. Cool to the eyes. A big relief.

I have not started working on my previous program
lately. I hope today I will after I do a little
of the usual blogging. Feels nice actually.
Specuially when most work is done.

I was able to contact my buddy Edwin to check him
out. So far he's fine. I still owe him some audio
conversions. 4 songs acually. I better remind myself
to work on it tonight. Hmmm, another delay for the
program I'm finishing. Till next blog!

Regards,

Gizz72

Greetings,

I'm now going to step asside from my Amiga
rants and give way to our family's special
occation. My dad's 1st year death
anniversary. A year ago, That was a Friday,
and dad was finishing and cleaning our base-
ment. The Floor tiles were newly built and
was finally finished after a long weeks work.
My dad was very happy and rejoicing. Actually,
he was dancing while playing a VCD videoke of
the tune of Britney Spears, Hit me baby one
more time(more like one last time:-( ). Anyway,
I just got home from work early and I decide to
sleep over my parent's room after a bowl of
warm 'Ariscaldo'. I slept from 5pm till 9pm. I
was fast alseep, when I woke up at 9 to pick-up
mommy from work, I notice It was quiet at the
basement. When I decide to check my mobile phone
I came across dad sitting on the sofa. Lifeless..
I had to carry him to the hospital only to find
out he was dead for an hour already. I did not
told mommy what really happened. I just wanted
her to come to the morgue for herself. It breaks
my heart when I saw her cried so hard.

His favorite games on the Amiga to pass out the
time was 'CIVILIZATION', 'The Patrician', 'Dune2'
and old time favorite 'PIRATES!' on the C64 and
Amiga version.

He also knwe Mr.Ross. I'm sure he remembered him
when I camme by to his former place back in Bulacan
to help me fix-up and convert my PC power supply
to my Amiga socket.

I cried again later when I got hold on a copy of
'The settlers'. I was promising dad I'd show this
game. But he's no longer here. :-(

I love you dad! May you rest in peace. This Blog
is for you.

Regards,

Gilbert

Greetings,

Last Monday, while I was out fixing the car. It was raining sooo hard all day until I went to bed, later. Last night I watch the local news only to find out the extent of the damage that cause by the heavy rains. Landslides at nearby provinces and close to ours, lower portion near the river banks, the overflowing river cause alot of death and destruction in it's wake. :-(

The aftermat was a horrible picture of destruction. Partly to blame to illigal loggers, as some politician and local environmentalists point out. I say, It's been happening for a long time now. It's just ticking time bomb they just set.

This blog is dedicated to those people who lost their lives and loved once in the wake of the storm.

[silence in prayers]

Regards,

Gizz72