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AmiBrowser brings 21st century web to 20th century Amigas

Many Amiga games did run natively from the hard disk but it usually depended on the kind of game, the developer, the game's original platform if converted and number of floppies. RPGs, adventures, simulations, wargames and strategy games had a good chance of running from the hard disk but more action-based games such as shoot-'em-ups, platformers, beat-'em-ups and arcade racers were less likely.

Hard disk installable games usually came with either custom install programs or scripts that ran through the Amiga's own installer application.

Arcade-style Amiga games often hit the hardware directly without going through the Amiga's operating system and had their own file system and format, so the the files can't be viewed in Workbench and appear as NDOS (non DOS) disks. WHDLoad came later and solved this problem by using disk images and accessing the custom files through the disk image file as well as providing a common system.

Therefore you could have installed The Secret of Monkey Island 2 (11 floppies), Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis (11 floppies), Formula One Grand Prix, Civilization, Colonization and Ultima VI: The False Prophet on your Amiga's hard disk using their own installers although they were also brought into the WHDLoad system as well for extra features such as the quit-to-Workbench key.

JavaScript survey: Most use React but satisfaction low

Try looking at it a different way. According to government figures around 3/4 of teachers are women. Would it be fair to say that "Finding yourself the only man in your school is likely to be a discouraging situation to many."?

If someone is discouraged by studying or working with members of the opposite sex then I'm not sure how committed they really are! Learning to program does take some self-motivation and interest in the subject.

I'd like to see a lot more women studying and working in tech but it's better to encourage it at a young age. However, if the outcome isn't as desired and there is still a disparity then there may be a difference that can't be "solved".

"Sadly, the vast majority (93.2 per cent) of those who answered the gender question listed themselves as male, up on last year's 91.1 per cent." It's sadder that, according to government statistics (hse.gov.uk) in the UK: "In 2020/21, 138 (97%) of all worker fatalities were to males, a similar proportion to earlier years".

It may just be that men are generally more interested in programming than women. To spell it out, the programming disparity is being casually presented as a problem when it may not be.

84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement

Damn, I'm going to have to get rid of that Tiger tank in my basement.

Western Approaches Museum: WRENs, wargames, and victory in the Atlantic

"The Fighting Captain: Frederic John Walker RN and the Battle of the Atlantic" by Alan Burn is a very good book if you want to find out more about Frederic Walker.

OK brainiacs, we've got an IT cold case for you: Fatal disk errors on an Amiga 4000 with 600MB external SCSI unless the clock app is... just so

I've upgraded my Amiga 1200 with an 68030 50MHz accelerator, 32Mb of RAM, a 4Gb flash card hard drive, a wireless network card, USB and a DVI-I video output. It's amazing how you can still run old Amiga technology like this.

Plus it has games like SWIV, Moonstone, Super Cars II, SWOS, Speedball II, The Chaos Engine, Alien Breed, Turrican II, Lemmings, Gods, Flashback, Another World, Cannon Fodder, Walker, Monkey Island, The Settlers, Worms, The First Samurai, F1GP, Stunt Car Racer, Mega Lo Mania, Pinball Dreams, Frontier, Syndicate, Eye of the Beholder, Dungeon Master, Lotus Turbo Challenge II, Robocop 3, Dune II, Lionheart, Leander, Fire & Ice, Stardust, Sim City, Civilization, Banshee, F/A-18 Interceptor, Knights of the Sky, Populous, Xenon II, Hired Guns, Damocles, Wings, Qwak, No Second Prize, Arcade Pool, Exile, Gloom, Alien Breed 3D, Switchblade, Switchblade II, North & South, Carrier Command, R-Type, Bubble Bobble, Desert Strike, Jetstrike, Rod-Land and Zeewolf.