Black Racer and the Magic World

A lot of changes have been made since the last blog i wrote. As seen here, i have now picked myself a brand new screenshot! Latest Chevrolet Camaro in pure BLACK, matching the black color of the latest version of Jack, and now with a picture transparent AmiDock in true MacOS X style! Looking truly beautiful, doesn't it?

The latest version of Jack is now fully working, especially now that the whole AmigaOS 4.1.5 is using English language only, and the same for Jack as well.
It now uses about 7 seconds of delay during startup, so now even the weather display is not messed up anymore! Jack works exactly as it should! I'm so happy!

Along with a new wallpaper and a MacOS X styled AmiDock, a brand new theme has also been picked. The theme is the SilverBlue instead of SilverGreen, totally matching the overall color of the GUI! All i had to do was to alter two settings in the config file for SilverBlue to use both the BeOS/Zeta style and round titlebar, saved the modified config, and just brought the address of the SilverBlue Bitmap into the Style section of GUI, where SilverGreen had its' place, without further changes, saved it and then VOILA! A beautiful, true SilverBlue theme as a modern GUI! Made a backup!

For the ScummVM emulator, i managed to find even more games on the net. All 6 King Quest games, Simon The Sorcerer 1 and 2 and Day Of The Tentacles. So you see, there are quite a large number of adventure games to run in ScummVM, keeping you excited!

The first King Quest game here is the SCI Remake DOS version which works perfectly on my setup. Graphic and audio are both beautiful and clear!

Second game of King Quest is the native Amiga version using native Amiga graphic and audio. Lovely nostalgic!

The third King Quest is also the native Amiga version like the second game, being even more exciting and nostalgic, giving you hours of excitement of gameplay!

The fourth King Quest is also the Amiga version, but i happen to lack the manual providing me access to the game. Despite that the game works.

The fifth King Quest is also the Amiga version, being nicely painted and animated. Sound and music are also quite good, using the native Amiga audio. The game is in true SCI style!

The sixth and the last King Quest game is the DOS VGA version in true 256 color, being nicer and better than the Amiga version. This is probably the nicest game of all King Quest games, which also completes the serie.

Playing so many of these fine games in ScummVM never have me bored, but excited for many hours, and many times! They also bring lovely nostalgy, reminding you about the good old days were the Amiga for the first time proved that computing should be fun! Now the Amiga is proving that again! Computing SHOULD be funny to use!

Other games i found along with the King Quest serie are Simon The Sorcerer 1 and 2 and Day Of The Tentacles. The first Simon The Sorcerer game is the AGA Amiga version! Yes, that's correct! The 256 color AGA version with lovely graphic and audio!

The second Simon The Sorcerer is the CD DOS VGA version with speech and text, making the game really enjoyable to play for hours!

Last but not least we have Day Of The Tentacles. This one is the CD DOS VGA version with lovely speech, text, graphic, audio and music! Lovely cartoon graphic and true fun to play!

My overall conclusion is that i am really happy with my system! It runs and works as a charm! It's beautiful and truly enjoyable! All the games i have in ScummVM will keep me excited for hours! This is expecially great when there are boring days!

Well, this completes the blog for now, so stay tuned for another blog in a forseable future! Thank you for reading, and you can leave a nice comment to this blog if you liked what you were reading, and if you enjoyed the pictures.

See you in another blog soon ;) Must the FORCE guide you into the right path ;)


Written by

Helge Kvalheim, Norway