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Miggybyte
''Miggybyte'' was a free disk-based magazine for the Amiga range of computers, published by Pickled Fish Software and edited by Ben Gaunt. From 1995 to 1997 twelve issues were published all being on a single floppy disk only. The magazine was inspired by ''Grapevine'', the scene-based disk magazine also for the Amiga range of computers, but ''Miggybyte'' was not a scene publication. The publication focused on news about the Amiga, software, games and entertainment. The entertainment section proved to be a main stay of the publication and consisting of jokes and stories from readers. There was even a small classified section and BBS section where many Sysops from around the UK (thought there were a few from the USA too) would publicise their boards. The interface consisted of two sections, the top part containing the text and in latter version graphics, the bottom the control interface (GUI). The engine behind the publication was called MultiMedia Magazine Creator (MMMC) and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miggybyte
''Miggybyte'' was a free disk-based magazine for the Amiga range of computers, published by Pickled Fish Software and edited by Ben Gaunt. From 1995 to 1997 twelve issues were published all being on a single floppy disk only. The magazine was inspired by ''Grapevine'', the scene-based disk magazine also for the Amiga range of computers, but ''Miggybyte'' was not a scene publication. The publication focused on news about the Amiga, software, games and entertainment. The entertainment section proved to be a main stay of the publication and consisting of jokes and stories from readers. There was even a small classified section and BBS section where many Sysops from around the UK (thought there were a few from the USA too) would publicise their boards. The interface consisted of two sections, the top part containing the text and in latter version graphics, the bottom the control interface (GUI). The engine behind the publication was called MultiMedia Magazine Creator (MMMC) and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AMOS (programming Language)
AMOS BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language for the Amiga computer. Following on from the successful STOS BASIC for the Atari ST, AMOS BASIC was written for the Amiga by François Lionet with Constantin Sotiropoulos and published by Europress Software in 1990. History AMOS competed on the Amiga platform with Acid Software's Blitz BASIC. Both BASICs differed from other dialects on different platforms, in that they allowed the easy creation of fairly demanding multimedia software, with full structured code and many high-level functions to load images, animations, sounds and display them in various ways. The original AMOS was a BASIC interpreter which, whilst working fine, suffered the same disadvantages of any language being run interpretively. By all accounts, AMOS was extremely fast among interpreted languages, being speedy enough that an extension called AMOS 3D could produce playable 3D games even on plain 7 MHz 68000 Amigas. Later, an AMOS compiler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Disk Magazines
This article contains a list of magazines distributed on cassette, floppy disk, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM — collectively referred to as '' disk magazines'' (or ''diskmags''). Alphabetical list A * ''Adventurer'' (ZX Spectrum, 1995–2004, Russian/English 14-#15 issues *'' El Afghano'' ( IBM PC) * ''Alive'' ( Atari ST/Atari Falcon) * ''Amber'' ( IBM PC, 1998–1999) * '' Amazine'' ( Atari ST, 1992-1993) * '' AMnews'' ( Amiga, 1988–1989) * '' AnotherMag'' ( IBM PC) * '' Apple Talk'' (Apple) * '' Autark'' ( IBM PC, 1996, English/German) B * '' Bad News'' ( IBM PC, 1994–1996, English/Polish) * '' Bain'' ( IBM PC) * ''Batsch'' ( IBM PC, 1999, German) * '' Beam'' ( IBM PC, 1998–1999) * '' Becanne'' ( IBM PC) * '' Belgian Scene Report'' ( IBM PC) * ''Big Blue Disk'' was a disk magazine published by Softdisk for IBM PC from 1986. * '' Blackmail'' ( IBM PC, 1993–1996, German) * '' Budyn'' ( IBM PC, 1996–2001, Polish/English) C * ''CD Gold'' (Commodore CD32/CDTV, 1993 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore International, Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphics and audio compared to previous 8-bit systems. This includes the Atari ST—released earlier the same year—as well as the Macintosh and Acorn Archimedes. Based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, the Amiga differs from its contemporaries through the inclusion of custom hardware to accelerate graphics and sound, including sprite (computer graphics), sprites and a blitter, and a pre-emptive multitasking operating system called AmigaOS. The Amiga 1000 was released in July 1985, but production problems kept it from becoming widely available until early 1986. The best-selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 along with the more expandable Amiga 2000. The Amiga 3000 was introduced in 1990, followed by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grapevine (disk Magazine)
''Grapevine'' was a disk magazine for the Commodore Amiga published by the demo scene The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations. The purpose of a demo is to show off programming, visual ... group LSD. The magazine was published from 1991 and 1995. The first eight issues came on a single floppy disk, but as the magazine became more popular and more articles were submitted by its readers, it required two to three disks per issue after that point. The editor of Grapevine was known as Parasite, later PaZZa/LSD. Several co-editors helped with the magazine under PaZZa's guidance, Scud/lsd, Torch/lsd and KenD/lsd. The magazine was originally coded by Monty Python, and then re-coded with a mouse-driven interface later in the series by Shagratt, Fish/lsd, watchman/lsd and other artists regularly made custom art covers for the magazines' tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maze Madness (F1 Licenceware)
A maze is a path or collection of paths, typically from an entrance to a goal. The word is used to refer both to branching tour puzzles through which the solver must find a route, and to simpler non-branching ("unicursal") patterns that lead unambiguously through a convoluted layout to a goal. The term "labyrinth" is generally synonymous with "maze", but can also connote specifically a unicursal pattern. The pathways and walls in a maze are typically fixed, but puzzles in which the walls and paths can change during the game are also categorised as mazes or tour puzzles. Construction Mazes have been built with walls and rooms, with hedges, turf, corn stalks, straw bales, books, paving stones of contrasting colors or designs, and brick, or in fields of crops such as corn or, indeed, maize. Maize mazes can be very large; they are usually only kept for one growing season, so they can be different every year, and are promoted as seasonal tourist attractions. Indoors, mirror m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aminet
Aminet is the world's largest archive of Amiga-related software and files. Aminet was originally hosted by several universities' FTP sites, and is now available on CD-ROM and on the web. According to Aminet, as of 3 September 2022, it has 83930 packages online. History In January 1992, Swiss student Urban Müller took over a software archive that had been started by other members of a computer science students' club. Soon the archive became mirrored worldwide and in 1995 started being distributed on monthly CD-ROMs. By using a single master site (then wuarchive.wustl.edu) for creating ftp scripts for each slave site, Aminet reduced to a bare minimum the effort to set up new mirror sites. Aminet also illustrates practical use of metadata schema by software repositories. Reports of daily additions to this software archive were posted automatically to Usenet (de.comp.sys.amiga.archive), or could be requested as an email newsletter. Most of the programs on Aminet were public domain or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LHA (file Format)
LHA or LZH is a freeware compression utility and associated file format. It was created in 1988 by , a doctor and originally named LHarc. A complete rewrite of LHarc, tentatively named ''LHx'', was eventually released as ''LH''. It was then renamed to ''LHA'' to avoid conflicting with the then-new MS-DOS 5.0 ("load high") command. The original LHA and its Windows port, LHA32, are no longer in development because Yoshizaki is busy at work. Although no longer much used in the west, LHA remained popular in Japan until the 2000s. It was used by id Software to compress installation files for their earlier games, including ''Doom'' and '' Quake''. Because some versions of LHA have been distributed with source code under the permissive license, LHA has been ported to many operating systems and is still the main archiving format used on the Amiga computer, although it competed with LZX in the mid 1990s. This was due to Aminet, the world's largest archive of Amiga-related software and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiga, Inc
Amiga, Inc. is a company that used to hold some trademarks and other assets associated with the Amiga personal computer (originally developed by Amiga Corporation). Early years In the early 1980s Jay Miner, along with other Atari, Inc. staffers, set up another chip-set project under a new company in Santa Clara, called Hi-Toro (later renamed to Amiga Corporation), where they could have some creative freedom. Atari, Inc. went into contract with Amiga for licensed use of the chipset in a new high end game console and then later for use in a computer system. $500,000 was advanced to Amiga to continue development of the chipset. Amiga negotiated with Commodore International two weeks prior to the contract deadline of 30 June 1984. In August 1984, Atari Corporation, under Jack Tramiel, sued Amiga for breach of contract. The case was settled in 1987 in a closed settlement. (See "Amiga Corporation".) In 1994, Commodore filed for bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disk Masher System
The Disk Masher System (.dms) is an often used method on the Amiga, to create a compressed image of a disk (usually floppy). The disk is read block-by-block, and thus its data structure is maintained. DMS won approval particularly in the demo scene and the Warez scene, since with this tool, disk images could generally be transferred easily with telecommunication modems to mailbox networks like FidoNet for efficient distribution. The DiskMasher format is copyright-protected and has problems storing particular bit sequences due to bugs in the compression algorithm, but was widely used in the pirate and demo scenes. To avoid these issues, a number of other disk compressors were developed that used alternative disk reading and compression methods, for instance, xDM or XAD (software) The XAD system is an open-source client-based unarchiving system for the Amiga. This means there is a master library called ''xadmaster.library'' which provides an interface between the client and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disk Magazine
A disk magazine, colloquially known as a diskmag or diskzine, is a magazine that is distributed in electronic form to be read using computers. These had some popularity in the 1980s and 1990s as periodicals distributed on floppy disk, hence their name. The rise of the Internet in the late 1990s caused them to be superseded almost entirely by online publications, which are sometimes still called "diskmags" despite the lack of physical disks. Defining characteristics A unique and defining characteristic about a diskmag in contrast to a typical ASCII "zine" or "t-file" (or even "g-file") is that a diskmag usually comes housed as an executable program file that will only run on a specific hardware platform. A diskmag tends to have an aesthetically appealing and custom graphical user interface (or even interfaces), background music and other features that take advantage of the hardware platform the diskmag was coded for. Diskmags have been written for many platforms, ranging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
