Monday, February 28, 2005
Super Street Fighter 2(The Story)
Greetings,
I slept very early last night, yet I felt tired. Not sure why, but this morning I manage to wake up soo early yet I got late 1 minute at work! I hate that traffic bull-hog!!! Anyway, I'm back again.
Well, It's been 3 days since my last blog. Well This week I expect to take a leave, again on the 3rd day of March to deal with my license, my yearly physical check-up and the release of my NSO permit.
I was so busy having a great time with my self. I manage to play Super Street Fighter 2(Amiga Version). I know it's pretty old game, but it was my favorite. At first I was looking for my .ADF files of it since I've already stored them as .ADF's and so much hassel came before playing them. First, I was looking for some decent floppies to store them temporarily to it by extracting them from .ADF. I had about 4 floppies to contend with since I disposed other 4 with bad blocks and scratch surfaces! Yes, lots of scratch surfaces. So I manage to extract them after 4 hours of testing them, that Friday morning. By afternoon, I've installed them into hard drive via installer script. It went well. Its the playing part that had me bugger out! A first game.
Round 1: I selected Ken(My all time favorite). Just as it was up, I manage to throw the first punch! Whak! It stops! It hanged!!
Round 2: I reset my amiga and gone into Shell-mode(yes, ala windows XP)activated my Opus and ed. Copied all those degrader programs into the boot disk... Edited startup-sequence.. added those degraders before calling the game. I tried just about 4 of them. From tude, runit, stepdown000, and MemDoubler. No luck! It hangs still! I loose!
Round 3: Been all day without any progress with the software side. I manage to try my luck with hardware. Removed my accelerator and boot from disk, but my IDE-Fix still intact. >POW< It won't load! The main program won't load!
Round 4: The next day, Saturday afternoon, I tried to play it from floppy. At the early startup - I disabled all Hard drive partitions! It ran! The game ran without hanging! I don't want to spoil the fun but It's really tough to play on floppies with all that swapping!!(7 floppies) So I still loose!!!
Round 5: The next day, Sunday afternoon. I was thinking: It ran normally with only the floppy, why not try it on Hard drive! Turned on my Amiga, Shell-mode and created on the fifth partition an S: sub-dir, activate ed and created a startup-sequence, Typed in the the game in hard drive mode, Reboot, went to early start-up settings, Disabled all floppies, first to fourth and sixth partition. Left the fifth partition to boot from it. Started the game. No hanging! I win!
Round 6: I selected Ken, tried it at defult level, I beat everyone and see the CONGRATULATIONS screen and finished the game without any sort of problems! The only Problem is that I don't have my accelerator in my Amiga and My wife needed to do some word processing that evening and she need the internet. I loose!
Lesson learned. It's not always a winning game when you play the Street Fighter 2 - The Story! Bah humbug!!
Regards,
GiZz72
I slept very early last night, yet I felt tired. Not sure why, but this morning I manage to wake up soo early yet I got late 1 minute at work! I hate that traffic bull-hog!!! Anyway, I'm back again.
Well, It's been 3 days since my last blog. Well This week I expect to take a leave, again on the 3rd day of March to deal with my license, my yearly physical check-up and the release of my NSO permit.
I was so busy having a great time with my self. I manage to play Super Street Fighter 2(Amiga Version). I know it's pretty old game, but it was my favorite. At first I was looking for my .ADF files of it since I've already stored them as .ADF's and so much hassel came before playing them. First, I was looking for some decent floppies to store them temporarily to it by extracting them from .ADF. I had about 4 floppies to contend with since I disposed other 4 with bad blocks and scratch surfaces! Yes, lots of scratch surfaces. So I manage to extract them after 4 hours of testing them, that Friday morning. By afternoon, I've installed them into hard drive via installer script. It went well. Its the playing part that had me bugger out! A first game.
Round 1: I selected Ken(My all time favorite). Just as it was up, I manage to throw the first punch! Whak! It stops! It hanged!!
Round 2: I reset my amiga and gone into Shell-mode(yes, ala windows XP)activated my Opus and ed. Copied all those degrader programs into the boot disk... Edited startup-sequence.. added those degraders before calling the game. I tried just about 4 of them. From tude, runit, stepdown000, and MemDoubler. No luck! It hangs still! I loose!
Round 3: Been all day without any progress with the software side. I manage to try my luck with hardware. Removed my accelerator and boot from disk, but my IDE-Fix still intact. >POW< It won't load! The main program won't load!
Round 4: The next day, Saturday afternoon, I tried to play it from floppy. At the early startup - I disabled all Hard drive partitions! It ran! The game ran without hanging! I don't want to spoil the fun but It's really tough to play on floppies with all that swapping!!(7 floppies) So I still loose!!!
Round 5: The next day, Sunday afternoon. I was thinking: It ran normally with only the floppy, why not try it on Hard drive! Turned on my Amiga, Shell-mode and created on the fifth partition an S: sub-dir, activate ed and created a startup-sequence, Typed in the the game in hard drive mode, Reboot, went to early start-up settings, Disabled all floppies, first to fourth and sixth partition. Left the fifth partition to boot from it. Started the game. No hanging! I win!
Round 6: I selected Ken, tried it at defult level, I beat everyone and see the CONGRATULATIONS screen and finished the game without any sort of problems! The only Problem is that I don't have my accelerator in my Amiga and My wife needed to do some word processing that evening and she need the internet. I loose!
Lesson learned. It's not always a winning game when you play the Street Fighter 2 - The Story! Bah humbug!!
Regards,
GiZz72
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Torn!
Greetings,
It may come as a surprise, but my mommy decide to give me a brand new, fully loaded, P.C. A probable specification maybe P4 2GHz. My craving for something new kicks-in like a tiger on its prey! Even my wife thinks it likewise. My wife is also considering to get a cheaper PC for their family. Now I'm thinking, maybe giving-up my A500 would be nice, since all they have to do is only word processor. I have pro-write and final writer 2(installed in my A1200). I also have an old Epson LX800 printer which it badly needs a new ribbon. ATM the A500 is not with me right now, cause I pawned it to my good friend, Edwin. Now I was thinking to pay it soon as they need it. However, the disk drive needs a lot of maintenance. When you insert the disk, the switch that detects the presence of a floppy disk is not entirely 'clean'. Sometimes you have to re-insert it in order for it to be detected. That's the only problem. Now, getting a replacement is another problem. That's where my friend Ross steps in to replace it. I don't mind a Double density drive. Anyone who needs to begin learning Amiga should start here. Since the people my wife's brother would have it.
Besides, Giving my Amiga500 would be a good start. I just hope they take good care of my baby. They'll just need a new T.V. monitor for it. This could really get expensive. I don't have a monitor for it and I'm not ready to go out and invest into one. Now a multi-system T.V. is affordable. . The other problem is my A1200. I still need the baby. At least in programming and audio editing, that's all, but with a new PC, it can be a video editing monster, much powerful than my measly A1200. 10 folds even. My plans of getting a new A1 or micro A1 system is torn between an X86 machine which can do more than my present system right now. That's what's been hapenning in the Amiga community right now. Torn between a new system and a classic one. The only hope is that KMOS would do some marketing scheme to, at least, promote a new Amiga. I doubt it for now. Even if they do right now, it would be too expensive. Maybe as expensive to an IMac. The IMac can do a lot than a PC I could think of. In terms of functionality or tyhe works, in general.
I'm just torn personally on what to do with my Amiga and it's not pretty good. I can't maintain this much longer. Although, I can still use it. I just don't want to use the PC much than it. I have winuae, I can run it there too. Just that, It's not the real mccoy! The Amiga feel is what I will miss. It's rather different when you're using a PC or Amiga or Emulated Amiga on a PC. Emulation relies on the hardware too. But I like a real pure breed Amiga. Getting torn here is not my ideal PC based amiga in mind. This is ggetting too sad for me to continue on. So I'll just stop for now.
On the other hand, I've been on my site lately, and boy, I tried everything to get people to visit it. I'm still wondering how deal with getting more hits and getting more members registered. It's just plain tough after all. I'd rather moderate the site than playing the waiting game. I envy the other forum sites that had hundreds of members. I wish I have it too., Well life has to go on I guess.
Till next blog!
Regards,
GiZz72
It may come as a surprise, but my mommy decide to give me a brand new, fully loaded, P.C.
A probable specification maybe P4 2GHz. My craving for something new kicks-in like a tiger on its prey! Even my wife thinks it likewise. My wife is also considering to get a cheaper PC for their family. Now I'm thinking, maybe giving-up my A500 would be nice, since all they have to do is only word processor. I have pro-write and final writer 2(installed in my A1200). I also have an old Epson LX800 printer which it badly needs a new ribbon. ATM the A500 is not with me right now, cause I pawned it to my good friend, Edwin. Now I was thinking to pay it soon as they need it. However, the disk drive needs a lot of maintenance. When you insert the disk, the switch that detects the presence of a floppy disk is not entirely 'clean'. Sometimes you have to re-insert it in order for it to be detected. That's the only problem. Now, getting a replacement is another problem. That's where my friend Ross steps in to replace it. I don't mind a Double density drive. Anyone who needs to begin learning Amiga should start here. Since the people my wife's brother would have it.Besides, Giving my Amiga500 would be a good start. I just hope they take good care of my baby.
They'll just need a new T.V. monitor for it. This could really get expensive. I don't have a monitor for it and I'm not ready to go out and invest into one. Now a multi-system T.V. is affordable. . The other problem is my A1200. I still need the baby. At least in programming and audio editing, that's all, but with a new PC, it can be a video editing monster, much powerful than my measly A1200. 10 folds even. My plans of getting a new A1 or micro A1 system is torn between an X86 machine which can do more than my present system right now. That's what's been hapenning in the Amiga community right now. Torn between a new system and a classic one. The only hope is that KMOS would do some marketing scheme to, at least, promote a new Amiga. I doubt it for now. Even if they do right now, it would be too expensive. Maybe as expensive to an IMac. The IMac can do a lot than a PC I could think of. In terms of functionality or tyhe works, in general.I'm just torn personally on what to do with my Amiga and it's not pretty good. I can't maintain this much longer. Although, I can still use it. I just don't want to use the PC much than it. I have winuae, I can run it there too. Just that, It's not the real mccoy! The Amiga feel is what I will miss. It's rather different when you're using a PC or Amiga or Emulated Amiga on a PC. Emulation relies on the hardware too. But I like a real pure breed Amiga. Getting torn here is not my ideal PC based amiga in mind.
This is ggetting too sad for me to continue on. So I'll just stop for now.On the other hand, I've been on my site lately, and boy, I tried everything to get people to visit it. I'm still wondering how deal with getting more hits and getting more members registered. It's just plain tough after all. I'd rather moderate the site than playing the waiting game. I envy the other forum sites that had hundreds of members. I wish I have it too.
, Well life has to go on I guess. Till next blog!
Regards,
GiZz72
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Finally finished work. Up and coming Holiday
Greetings,
I finally finished the inventory of Books and CD. The boss made me in-charge of it all last week to organize all of them and retrieve some that were not returned. Man, I hate it when others would not return what they borrowed a year or two ago, and tell you "I don't have it." Anyway, I'm now getting things into perspective of the library. Might as well do it and do it well.
In some other concerns, had a new member. Welcome to the boards ! I'm still thinking ways to promote the site. I hope Mdavis could help me out here. Need it badly.. Maybe I might be able to find a way to use the blogger.com to do that. I just wonder, If I start posting into every comments I run across Blogspot, they'd probably ignore it. Maybe that's the last thing I'll do. I hope there are other places. I've tried even at friendsters , no one still goes and register. Maybe I need more time for this. Boo hoo!!
Well, speaking of Fridays. It's our local holiday this coming Friday and I hope all is well and be online then. That would be fun!Well, at least for me.
Regards,
GiZz72
I finally finished the inventory of Books and CD. The boss made me in-charge of it all last week to organize all of them and retrieve some that were not returned. Man, I hate it when others would not return what they borrowed a year or two ago, and tell you "I don't have it." Anyway, I'm now getting things into perspective of the library. Might as well do it and do it well.
In some other concerns, had a new member. Welcome to the boards ! I'm still thinking ways to promote the site. I hope Mdavis could help me out here. Need it badly.
. Maybe I might be able to find a way to use the blogger.com to do that. I just wonder, If I start posting into every comments I run across Blogspot, they'd probably ignore it. Maybe that's the last thing I'll do. I hope there are other places. I've tried even at friendsters , no one still goes and register. Maybe I need more time for this. Boo hoo!!Well, speaking of Fridays. It's our local holiday this coming Friday and I hope all is well and be online then. That would be fun!Well, at least for me.
Regards,
GiZz72
Monday, February 21, 2005
A busy week for the Amigan!
Greetings,
Well, Since I got back, I finally was able to write my blog again after weeks of absence. Reason is I was busy doing a little library work. As in lots of books I had to code into database so I can easily find most of the reference.
Now that's over, I had a little bad experience with my ever faithful Amiga1200 at home during those days. The problem was its keybaord. the Backspace does not work, no matter how hard I try to press it. Nothing happens. Also other keys like letters 'Z' to '/'. Pretty weird. So I get all my cleaning stuff, like a cotton rag, a canister of Contact cleaner and some alchohol, Yes, rubbing alchohol. I disassembled the top over and carefully remove the cable where it's fasten to the board. Soon As I loosen it, I also removed the plastic lock that holds the thin cable at the socket. As it was removed, there were several metal exposed. So I clean those metal and also wipe with a rag drentched with a little rubbing alchohol to dapen it a bit. As soon as it's clean, finally put it back and tested the keyboard to see if what I think it is, is just dirt problems. As soon as the Amiga was up. I tested the keyboard on the shell window to see all the said keys would work again. To my relief, it works again!
Well see you later again!
Regards,
GiZz72
Well, Since I got back, I finally was able to write my blog again after weeks of absence. Reason is I was busy doing a little library work. As in lots of books I had to code into database so I can easily find most of the reference.
Now that's over, I had a little bad experience with my ever faithful Amiga1200 at home during those days. The problem was its keybaord. the Backspace does not work, no matter how hard I try to press it. Nothing happens. Also other keys like letters 'Z' to '/'. Pretty weird. So I get all my cleaning stuff, like a cotton rag, a canister of Contact cleaner and some alchohol, Yes, rubbing alchohol. I disassembled the top over and carefully remove the cable where it's fasten to the board. Soon As I loosen it, I also removed the plastic lock that holds the thin cable at the socket. As it was removed, there were several metal exposed. So I clean those metal and also wipe with a rag drentched with a little rubbing alchohol to dapen it a bit. As soon as it's clean, finally put it back and tested the keyboard to see if what I think it is, is just dirt problems. As soon as the Amiga was up. I tested the keyboard on the shell window to see all the said keys would work again. To my relief, it works again!
Well see you later again!
Regards,
GiZz72
Monday, February 14, 2005
My Double Celebration Day!
Greetings,
Last February 8, 2005, was my birthday at the same time my wedding day. Here are the pictures that was taken from Antipolo city hall where it was held.
ENJOY and Happy Valentine's Day too!!!
My mother, Mai, My wife's mother, and Alex and reading the papers is my wife's father.
Me and my wife before the start of our wedding.
The Honorable judge.
Hmmm I opened my mouth. I was expecting a fly to come in.
Well that's it. That's all the pictures I recently uploaded. Thanks for all the support. I'm sure it's a memorable experience. To my wife Annalyn: I love you very much!
Regards,
GiZz72
Last February 8, 2005, was my birthday at the same time my wedding day. Here are the pictures that was taken from Antipolo city hall where it was held.
ENJOY and Happy Valentine's Day too
!!!My mother, Mai, My wife's mother, and Alex and reading the papers is my wife's father.
Me and my wife before the start of our wedding.
The Honorable judge.
Hmmm I opened my mouth. I was expecting a fly to come in.
Well that's it. That's all the pictures I recently uploaded. Thanks for all the support. I'm sure it's a memorable experience. To my wife Annalyn: I love you very much!
Regards,
GiZz72
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Happy Birthday to me
Greetings,
Well, It's my birthday today for the first time in my blog site. Thanks for all of your support. Wish you also the best for this year as well. :-) My wish for my birthday is to support my forum site. Thanks again!
Regards,
GiZz72
Well, It's my birthday today for the first time in my blog site. Thanks for all of your support. Wish you also the best for this year as well. :-) My wish for my birthday is to support my forum site. Thanks again!
Regards,
GiZz72
Monday, February 07, 2005
Last day to be single
Greetings,
It's final, I'll wed my fiancee tomorrow. I can't beleive the day is almost finally here. This marks my last day being a single guy. What would this concern my Amiga? This would affect my computing life tremendously. I'm not going to leave my interest in amiga, but will rekindle and probably pass on my knowledge to my, soon to be, family. I hope it will be a lasting one. Good cheers to all!!! To the people concerned, thanks for the support!! To all other people visiting here: Please visit my forums as well and regster. Greet me there!
Regards,
GiZz72
It's final, I'll wed my fiancee tomorrow. I can't beleive the day is almost finally here. This marks my last day being a single guy. What would this concern my Amiga? This would affect my computing life tremendously. I'm not going to leave my interest in amiga, but will rekindle and probably pass on my knowledge to my, soon to be, family. I hope it will be a lasting one. Good cheers to all!!! To the people concerned, thanks for the support!! To all other people visiting here: Please visit my forums as well and regster. Greet me there!
Regards,
GiZz72
Friday, February 04, 2005
Last week to be single. ;-)
Greetings,
Yes, the time is at hand. I'll be having my Birthday and Civil Wedding on the 8th this month. I hope things would go well. I'm just not sure what to do once it's over. I'm still not feel certain, I hope our relationship will least a lifetime fingers crossed. ATM moment not much so say further. If you want to leave me greetings, you may want to TAG me or Visit me at FORUM FOR BLOGGERS. One of my newest creation. Bye for now, I might still blog at home given the chance.
Regards,
GiZz72
Yes, the time is at hand. I'll be having my Birthday and Civil Wedding on the 8th this month.
I hope things would go well. I'm just not sure what to do once it's over. I'm still not feel certain, I hope our relationship will least a lifetime fingers crossed. ATM moment not much so say further. If you want to leave me greetings, you may want to TAG me or Visit me at FORUM FOR BLOGGERS. One of my newest creation. Bye for now, I might still blog at home given the chance.
Regards,
GiZz72
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Finally got a story for the site
Greetings,
I finally have a story for the site. It about a guy, who's faith is torn between his personal God and his love. All the events happen in Alpha City in the year 2005 A.A. (After Adman). I know things are a bit different here, but I sure most of you would love it. So please visit me at my forum site and see the story. I urge everyone to register and tell me what you think of my story. I would like to thank Marilyn0918 to be one of my moderators and contributors at my site. Mdavis to be a fan and a lover of jokes skits and all. :-)
Please pay us a visit! Just click on the title above. It links directly to my Forums. See you there and thanks!
Regards,
GiZz72
I finally have a story for the site. It about a guy, who's faith is torn between his personal God and his love. All the events happen in Alpha City in the year 2005 A.A. (After Adman). I know things are a bit different here, but I sure most of you would love it. So please visit me at my forum site and see the story. I urge everyone to register and tell me what you think of my story. I would like to thank Marilyn0918 to be one of my moderators and contributors at my site. Mdavis to be a fan and a lover of jokes skits and all. :-)
Please pay us a visit! Just click on the title above. It links directly to my Forums. See you there and thanks!
Regards,
GiZz72
