I dug up my old Mindwalker disk, plopped in my Peg's floppy (I've got a catweasel). I loaded it up to see how far it would go.

Funnily enough it started to load up, opened up a new screen, and then backed out stating that it couldn't allocate the sound channels.

Would have been interesting to see how far I would have gotten if it decided to continue on without sound.

We need Paula wrapper.. desperately.

Yes!! And chip-ram emulation ! :)

No !!

We need users not infested with the "Don-Cox-flu".

:eek:

(all descent smilies are blocked with those stupid orange carrots).

Well my original post wasn't meant to spur this "need Paula emulation" discussion. I just thought it was interesting to see how far MindWalker (that's the old Amiga branded videogame and not the renamed Voyager) worked on a Peg.

If I wanted to play it, I would have just used UAE. :)

ComicSetter almost ran on my Peg too, but I needed to use "degrader" to put it in NTSC mode. But it started freaking out after a little bit. (Couldn't import graphics that were too large, etc.) It workes great on UAE, but it doesn't work from a harddrive install, just a floppy one.

Kronos:

We'll go back to the regular smilies tomorrow No more pumpkins until next year!

I remember wanting comic-setter incredibly bad when I was a teen

Comicsetter ?

/me wonders if there would be a market for something like that today .....

;)

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I actually started to look at doing something like it in JAVA last year. :)

It's really a fun program, but generally it's a primitive DTP program that most mordern ones could imitate. However there are a few bits of funcationality that I think most (all) modern DTP programs lack:
-> speech/thought bubbles
-> ability to import a graphic by cutting off irregular shapes from an original and pasting the result in.
-> ability to make multiple panes on a page. Only the items within a pane (or parts) in a pane would be visible.

^^ can PageStream do all of this stuff? I haven't delved in it too much. Would be interesting to see if we can make plugins or soemthing for Pagestream to do this. :P

Apart from that, the only other stuff that ComicSetter provided was a bunch of clipart of people in various positions (along with body parts), props and text bubbles like "wooooosh", "bang".

Believe it or not, there is a "comic publisher" plugin for the CMS that MorphZone uses. I haven't tried it, but I can't say that I haven't been tempted

Quote:but i LIKE the pumpkins!

how about splitting the difference? We can keep the pumpkins until thanksgiving? Is that fair?