Like Lara says in Tomb Raider. I have
been searching for a certain artefact
A gold key no less
So I'm deep in plastic tubs and find
Starray for the Amiga plus an assortment
of flight sims. My thoughts reflect on
something Jay Miner said about flight
simulators. He just couldn't wait to get
one working on the Amiga... For me I now
just wanted to play Starray
I decided it was time to set up a flat
screen on a 500 so I could climb into
the cockpit of my flying machine...
But what machine and what set-up?
I dragged out some old GVPs and 590s
from the elephants graveyard to see
if I could boot them into service
These flight sims although quite complex
were designed for the old Amiga so I need
a computer running 1.3 I guess
Amazing quality to these games
Not really games at all in truth
And the boxes are always so heavy
So large
Well.. not all of them thankfully
Hmmm.. First distraction of the day
More my kinda thing and I was tempted
to see how this played out
More like a combat strategy game
Amazing depth per MB ratio with Amiga games
OK.. first detour of the day... As ever
And I'm hooked
And so it goes
What was I doing ?
Great 3D terrain builder in this game
STOP IT.. OK Time for some Starray
Well at least I'm flying
Sort of
Duh !! Nuther go.. Nuther go.. As you do
This cutie fell on my head as I was
searching games boxes so thought I
would finally have a play with Holli
That ain't no flight sim
Now that definitely aint no
flight sim... Camera shake.. Sorry
Kinda cool but as a platform quite boring
OK what I am running is a GVP with 8MB
memory but a busted hard drive. Just refuses
to boot but the memory works
I also have the two roms in this 500
but there isn't an external switch
that I can find
Standard read out on SysInfo
Nice fist full of memory to play with
But still just the floppy
OK deeper we go and now I have hooked
up a 590 to see what was wrong with it
I see
OK lets disable the DH0 and get in
on the tools disk and take a look around
Picking up the 2.04 - 37.175
Definitely a problem with the DH0
Lets open up the HDToolbox
OK still has the settings for the hard drive
Time to verify the sucker
If it lets me save the changes
then we will be in business
There you go.. We are in. Cool
XT.device
Reflects that this is going to cause
more trouble than its worth
Strange that the OS is higher
than the ROM. Probably works OK
OK I am probably not going to use
the 590. It really is time to see
how this ROM is working and whether
there are some details on the expansion
card plus I need to check the battery
damage. No point using this computer
if its going to cause problems....
I've run out of paper.
Continued
