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Reward of Scoopex R.I.P

Read this on a Facebook group and couldn’t believe it, hit me quite hard even though I never had any communication of any kind at all with the man.

Hard to put in context the impression he made on me, but suffice to say that Mental Hangover was draw dropping on first view. Not just because of the tracked loading changed the way demos were written, but the visuals were stunning, and Sami Vanhatalo (a.k.a Reward) was responsible for them.

From the golden eagle loading screen, to the blue chromish font to the stunning Mental Hangover logo.

By absolute coincidence, I was working on an updated version of that font for a production I was working on, but lost the will to carry on with it after reading the news of his passing.

Absolutely tragic, and a sad loss.

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I got an Amiga 1200. Again.

This is my third or fourth Amiga 1200 that I’ve bought, but working from home is so fucking boring, I thought I’d splash out on something for myself. The fact the wife is 200 miles away and can’t see or stop it is a bonus.

Rough and ready setup

So I’ve got an Amiga 1200, 8mb memory expansion, 68882 FPU and a nice flash card at the back instead of an IDE hard disk, GoTek drive and Kickstart 3.1.4.

16gb partition? Thank you.

At least now I can play my Amiga music properly, unlike VLC or XMPlayer bollocks.

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Working from home

Day one of working from home.

Couple hours in and already clock watching, never thought I’d say it but I’m missing my colleagues.

Thankfully I have Amiga demos running on my Mac to keep ears occupied at least.

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Looking for a new job… Perfect!

Combine two hobbies into a career.

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Project management

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Programmer’s shock and amazing

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Programmer’s flowchart

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How to spot HTML5

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SQL Carol

The geek likes this.

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When the front end dev is away, shit happens

My greatest fear when returning from holiday in work 🙂

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