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12th April 2022
A bit more Amiga Framework, today, methinks.

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There's currently no nice swoopiness to the Amiga Framework. It's "THIS IS MENU" and "THIS IS GAME".
Getting the text to swoop into the menu will be tricky, given what functionality I have available on the Amiga, but I usually at least have a nice swooping door effect at the end of games.
I *think* that should be doable.
Maybe..
Who knows.

I also need to work out how to mix music and sounds properly.
Last time I tried that it hard-crashed the Amiga, good and proper, so .. um.. not like that!
Can it even be done in Blitz? I'm trying to think back to what Blitz-based Amiga games I had, and .. I seem to recall a lot of either-or, and not both at once.
Hmmm..

Meanwhile...


The drawer full of disks hasn't been attempted, yet.
I think that's probably something I should tackle. Whittle it down to important disks, clear out the drawer a little, and after that, more or less retire the Amiga's floppy drive to just being a boot disk loader.

I also need to ensure I've got just the right tool for the job, converting what disks I have over to ADF format.
The one that came with the PCMCIA Compact Flash reader seems to crap out what it comes across a single error on the disk.
In a perfect world, I'd like something more like the old Amiga favourite, XCopy that carries on reading track by track and makes a direct copy, disk readability be damned..

I'll have to hunt for just the right tool, I think.

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Right then, busy day ahead!
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