Sebastian Bergmann recollects his journey into the wonderful world of Amiga retrocomputing.
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I finally have a Competition Pro joystick again. My original one broke way back in the mid 1990s.
After coming across this video of a workshop on ProTracker at the Revision 2014 party I wanted to install ProTracker again. Of course, I just had to use “Guitar Slinger” by Jogeir Liljedahl, one of the best mods of all time, to try out ProTracker. I also recorded a short video of ProTracker in action.
I have fond memories of sampling vocals from 2Unlimited and Culture Beat songs in the early 1990s and then attempting to make remixes with ProTracker. However, I was never as good as my friend Bernd at this and soon solely focussed on coding instead of music.
Bert Jahn, the author of WHDLoad, has sent me my license key for his excellent tool. Now I do not have to wait anymore when starting a game installed using WHDLoad.
I installed an PCMCIA CompactFlash adapter so that I can easily transfer data to/from the Amiga 1200.
I installed AmigaOS 3.9. The default configuration of this operating system release is a desaster, if you ask me. The standard wallpaper, for instance, consumes about 1.5 MB (out of a total of 2 MB) chip memory. I also never liked AmiDock which, too, is enabled by default.
The first order of business was to get rid off the wallpaper and remove AmiDock. Then I installed Executive, MagicCX, KingCON, and NewIcons. Thank god I still have the disks with the keyfiles that Petri Nordlund, the author of Executive, and Kai Iske, the author of MagicCX, sent me all these years ago:
Now I have a clean Workbench 3.9 running at 1280x1200 pixels.