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- Ahoy Mateys! I'm back..... A bit more tan than when I started. Now off to see if the legal case has been finally resolved. LOL!!!
- Side note... If you ever get the chance to take a cruise... DO IT!!! Trust me you won't regret it!
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- No new ships on the horizon Captain....
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- WHDLoad Support Page: Welcome to the Home Page of WHDLoad, the AmigaOS friendly Harddisk-Install package. WHDLoad makes it possible to install quite a lot demos and games, which were originally designed to run only from floppy disks, to your harddisk.
- Amiga 5000: Block diagram of the proposed #Amiga 5000 system created by Dave Haynie in 1991. This document was generously contributed by Randell Jesup.
- What exactly was the Amiga Ranger?": {Thread @ stackexchange covering the never released Ranger line}
- What are the Ultra-Highres registers in ECS and AGA for?": {Thread @ stachexchange discussing the registers in ECS and AGA}
- A guide to Guru Meditation Error Codes {ARCHIVED 15 Mar 2017}: A guide to Guru Meditation Error Codes
- BFG9060: The BFG9060 is an advanced processor card for the Amiga 3000 and 4000, both tower and desktop models. It's been developed by Matthias 'Matze' Heinrichs, and he has made all source and production files available in his gitlab repository. Thank you for this great card, Matze!! DISCLAIMER THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL REPOSITORY OF THE BFG9060. IT IS NEITHER ENDORSED NOR AFFILIATED WITH MATTHIAS 'MATZE' HEINRICHS. INSTEAD, THIS IS AN ATTEMPT OF A USER/BUILDER OF THE CARD TO DOCUMENT ITS MANY FEATURES AND THE QUIRKS THAT MAY EXIST.
- Multifix-AGA: This is a ECS and AGA-combo scandoubler and flicker fixer for big box Amigas. A scandoubler doubles the horizontal frequency of the Amiga output from ~15.6kHz to ~31.5kHz to let a VGA monitor think it has the double number of lines. But in real every scanline is just doubbled ;). In interlace two suceeding lines are transmitted via half frames @25Hz. A flicker fixer stores one frame in a field mem and uses it to complete the second frame @ 50 Hz. It removes the nasty interlace flicker.
- Amiga BigBox Picasso Flicker Fixed graphic board V0.9: Here is a Picasso 4MB Flicker Fixed for Amiga 2000, 3000 and 4000. The Picasso graphic board is made of two PCBs. The main one includes the designs of the Picasso and of the Flicker Fixer. The second one is a little male slot connector PCB which must be connected into the video slot of the Amiga. It's used for the Flicked fixer. In an Amiga 4000, this little PCB is onto the same axis as the Zorro edge slot. In the Amiga 2000, it must be connected into the video slot which located between its PSU and its cover case. Two ribbon cables as used to connect this PCB to the Flicker Fixer part of the board.
- Basics for Setting up Firebird (Prometheus) A4000 3000 Daughterboard ": {Thread @ amiga.org providing a basic guide to setting one up}
- Basic Guide on Setting up a Prometheus (Firebird) Daughterboard on A3000 and A4000 now here on Amibay ": {Thread @ Amibay discussing the Prometheus (Firebird) daughterboard}
- Retrozen komponenty Elektroniczne: We mainly engage in SMD machine assembly commissioned by external companies, and we are also an importer of electronics from China. {A VERY impressive selection of BLANK Amiga related PCB boards, assembled boards, adapters, some chips and more. Definitely worth your time to take a look around!}
- Firebird PCI Daughterboards: {Thread @ Amibay discussing the finalization of the board.} Finally I had some time to finish the first revision of this project. Firebird PCI Daughterboards Firebird is a PCI daughterboard series for the Amiga 3000, Amiga 4000 and AA3000+ motherboards. The PCI bridge is based on the Prometheus by Grzegorz Kraszewski / Matay.
- Mediator PCI Software: Information about the latest versions of Mediator System Files and the latest driver versions for the supported PCI cards. For the latest information on the PCI cards, drivers to which are available for the Mediator PCI busboards, see the Mediator Driver Guide.
- QEmu - Amiga PPC Emulation: {Download links and install guides to get QEmu for the Sam460ex, Pegasos II & AmigaOne}
- QEMU Binaries for Windows and QEMU Documentation: Get QEMU related binaries for Microsoft Windows and QEMU documentation.
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- Ahoy Mateys! Quick update. I'm going to be away from the computer for the next week so can everyone PLEASE play nice and to the ones in charge could you, PRETTY PLEASE with sugar on top, F-N wrap up the legal cluster F!!! Thanks in advance! ;-)
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- New event: On 1 Dec 24 the World of Commodore 2024, will be held in lovely Mississauga, Canada. This looks like it will be a GREAT time!
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- Not a whole lotta shaking going on...
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- Commodore_Strategic_Plan_1985-1987 {ARCHIVED unknown date}: Attached is the memorandum on Commodore's strategic options and priorities over the next two years.
- Amiga Technologies Announces RISC Processor Decision: {An email from Harv Laser discussing his time at the 2nd annual Video Toaster User Expo where he tells of Petro Tyschtschenko's announcement of newly produced Amiga Technologies A1200 and A4000 tower, sales figures and that the next generation Amigas will use Motorola's PowerPC CPU and will be dubbed the Power Amiga.}
- Petro Tyschtschenko, General Manager, Amiga Technologies GmbH: {ESCOM press release of the new General Manager of Amiga Technologies GmbH on 30 May 1995} Ladies and gentlemen, As the General manager of Amiga Technologies GmbH, I would like to welcome you to the first press conference of our new company and also tell you how much we appreciate your presence here. At a spectacular auction five weeks ago in New York, ESCOM AG acquired the rights to the intellectual property of the former Commodore company for 10 million dollars, including all trademarks, logos, products and licenses.
- Manfred Schmitt, Chairman of the Executive Board, Escom AG: {ESCOM press release from the Chairman of the Executive Board, Escom AG from 30 May 1995} Ladies and gentlemen, Since we won the auction for the intellectual property of Commodore and Amiga, the ESCOM AG is flooded with congratulation messages. Amiga clubs and Amiga users write to ask us to revive and continue to develop and improve the Amiga. Many of them actually sent us their wishes for future hardware architectures and operating systems improvements. However, it is still unclear for many users how a PC manufacturer and retailer will use the Amiga technology. Here is our answer:
- Don Gilbreath, Chief Technical officer for VisCorp: {ESCOM press release from the Chief Technical officer for VisCorp from 30 May 1995} Hello, my name Is Don Gilbreath I have 12 years' association with Commodore I have worked in various capacities from engineering to technical sales and marketing. As a Director of Product and Market Development, I designed and managed among other products the team that brought CDTV to market. I am happy to be here today for the re-birth of Amiga. After spending some quality time with ESCOM management, I am convinced they possess the marketing finesse and strength to make Amiga successful into the 21st century.
- Ed Goff, Escom Attorney: {ESCOM press release from their lead Attorney from 30 May 1995} My name is Ed Goff I'm a Philadelphia lawyer working with ESCOM and Amiga technologies GmbH, on a wide variety issues related to the relaunch of Amigas. In particular, I will talk today on issues of Licensing. Our strategy will be somewhat different than the strategy that you saw from Commodore in the past. It is our intention to have strategic program for Amigas that with be as open at possible, and which will therefore drive the Amiga technology into as wide a range of products and applications as is possible.
- Wolf Dietrich, Phase 5 Digital Products: {ESCOM press release from Phase 5 Digital Products from 30 May 1995} Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, My name is Wolf Dietrich from phase 5 digital products a Frankfurt based manufacturer of AMIGA peripherals. I am happy to present to you at this re-introduction of the AMIGA series of computers the latest generation of the 68k series of processors the superscalar 68060 CPU. phase 5 digital products has developed the first fully operational implementation of this processor for the AMIGA marketed as the Cyberstorm 060 accelerator which is available now and shipping.
- Jon Bohmer, Founder of Scala, Vice President, New Business Development: {ESCOM press release from the founder of Scala from 30 May 1995} Scala is in the business of computer televison: that is, using a computer to produce and distribute television-type programming. The company is one of the world's leading developers of computer-based television information solutions and the undisputed leader in multimedia software for the Amiga platform. Available in eleven languages, Scala's multimedia tools are distributed in more than 40 countries. Scala was founded in Norway in 1987. Today we are headquartered outside Washington DC, with international headquarters in Oslo and offices in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. Scala's team of software engineers includes most of the people who originally developed the Amiga operating system for Commodore.
- Jeff Frank, Engineering and Manufacturing Amiga, Amiga Technologies GmbH: {ESCOM press release from Amiga Technologies Engineering and Manufacturing from 30 May 1995} Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Jeff Frank and I have been retained by Amiga Technologies GmbH to provide technical assistance with respect to Engineering and Manufacturing Amiga related products. Previously, I have been with Commodore International Ltd. for nearly nine years, primarily as Director of Engineering. I am sure you are all as happy as I to hear that the "Amiga" is indeed alive and well!
- Jeff Frank, Engineering and Manufacturing Amiga, Amiga Technologies GmbH: {ESCOM press release from Amiga Technologies Engineering and Manufacturing from 30 May 1995} Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Jeff Frank and I have been retained by Amiga Technologies GmbH to provide technical assistance with respect to Engineering and Manufacturing Amiga related products. Previously, I have been with Commodore International Ltd. for nearly nine years, primarily as Director of Engineering. I am sure you are all as happy as I to hear that the "Amiga" is indeed alive and well!
- Dr. Peter Kittel, Head of the Product Planning Group, Amiga Technologies GmbH: {ESCOM press release from the Head of Product Planning Group from 30 May 1995} Ladies and Gentlemen, As Head of the Product Planning Group of the new Amiga Technologies GmbH, I would like to give you an overview about the past and the technical future in our view. {...} Under the wing of ESCOM AG, Amiga Technologies GmbH will concentrate exclusively on the Amiga, to restart its production and develop it further.
- Dr. Peter Kittel, Head of the Product Planning Group, Amiga Technologies GmbH: {ESCOM press release from the Head of Product Planning Group from 30 May 1995} Ladies and Gentlemen, As Head of the Product Planning Group of the new Amiga Technologies GmbH, I would like to give you an overview about the past and the technical future in our view. {...} Under the wing of ESCOM AG, Amiga Technologies GmbH will concentrate exclusively on the Amiga, to restart its production and develop it further.
- Dr. Hartmut Esslinger, Founder and president of frogdesign: {ESCOM press release from the founder and president of frondesign from 30 May 1995} Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, {...} We all know what Commodore and Amiga meant as high-tech brands: Commodore was an affordable way to get into personal computing, the first Amiga machine actually was created just one mile off my house in Los Gatos - and personally I know some people who created the machine very well. But for some not so trivial reasons, the brands were managed out of the market. {...} We have set you three goals: Our new products will emerge from what Richard Wurman calls TEDology, or what Nicholas Negroponte calls the new domaine of "creative digital life"
- Bernard van Tienen, Head of Distribution, Commodore and Amiga Products: {ESCOM press release from the Head of Distribution, Commodore and Amiga Products from 30 May 1995} Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I'm delighted by today's announcement and confident of the significant benefits that it brings to customers of Commodore, to our employees and, of course, to our new larger company. I'd like to talk to you about how we are going to distribute Commodore products, and by that I mean both the Commodore Intel Pentium and the Amiga Motorola based computers. Distribution will be centralised in the Netherlands, where Commodore is based. Commodore products will be distributed in Europe, whereas Amiga will be worldwide distributed. However, we are already in the process of recruiting distributors for the Amiga range, and I'm sure we'll be able to give you more details on this at a later date.
- RVF Honda, great racing game - but impossible serial link?": {Thread @ reddit where the figure out the Datalink cable needed to allow multi player game play}
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Another computer pioneer passed away this week. Thomas E. Kurtz the co-creator of the BASIC programming language has passed away at the age of 96. For many of us our first interaction with a computer came from using BASIC. What a glorious time it was. I find it so hard to describe to kids today the feeling of turning on your Commodore 64 and just start creating. Everything was so NEW and the sky was the limit. I just wish the kids today could experience that thrill.
Thomas went on to co-create True BASIC with John G. Kemeny and there was even an Amiga version. I know this because I still have my manual and disks but to my surprise I can't find a copy of either on the web. I will have see what I can to to get this back out there for us Amiga users to enjoy.
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- New event: On 30 Nov Alkmaar Amiga Meetup will be held in Alkmaar Netherlands. From the website "It is an Amiga meeting with the theme Amiga Next-Gen, think of AmigaOne (OS4), MorphOS, Amithlon, Vampire, PiStorm, Aros and emulation. Of course, it is encouraged to bring such systems and demonstrate them, of course all Amigas are welcome." Sounds like a good time!
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- Even lower than zero...
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- New Amiga A1100 is Out: Amiga A1100 by Miguel Fides is out. It was found on the Spanish retrowiki.es Forum site. Here the new Amiga A1100 was presented. In the news on Amiganews.de they reveal about the YouTube video too! On the Wikiretro blog, the official presentation of the original Commodore Amiga 1000 housing motherboard was announced on the 9th of February 2021. The idea of the post that was made is to test the interest of making the new Amiga 1000 clone. It is an replacement for a motherboard that is damaged or that only have the casing, because the plate has died etc.
- Prototype : AmigaMCC : From Amiga Inc website in 1999. “The Amiga Multimedia Convergence Computer (Amiga MCC) - a hardware/software platform specifically designed to meld outstanding multimedia performance, a new level of ease of use, transparent access to the Internet and, through home networking, access to a growing family of Amiga-compatible devices around the home.
- Hardware : A600GS : Amigakit a UK long-established Amiga store have developed their own custom Amiga compatible emulation system, similar to the A500 Mini but designed to be a much more complete and advance system. The system is powered by Orange Pi Zero 3, which is another Arm CPU based system, very similar to Raspberry Pi boards. {...} The board feature a easter egg name "Good Stuff" an Amiga tradition to take a Song name from The B52 music band, something almost all classic Amiga had. The GS part of the name A600GS can however both mean Good Stuff and Gaming System according to AmigaKit.
- Legadon: A simple ePub reader (Text only + Cover Art)
- Amiga Boing Blog: Where the world bounces around backwards.. – Building the largest Public Domain / Shareware / Freeware Amiga Collection Ever! – Come join me on this Epic Journey
- Someone just bought the Amiga MCC prototype for $3500US.... So which one of you was it? ;)": {Thread @ reddit discussing the sale of the infamous Amiga MMC prototype}
- Amiga User Interface Style Guide: Glossary: Revision 1.5 (April 5, 2023) Original Copyright © 1991 by Commodore Electronics Limited. Expanded and maintained by Gregory S. Donner
- TRIPOS sources: These are the sources for TRIPOS, an operating developed between 1976 and 1982, headed by Dr Martin Richards and others between the University of Cambridge and later University Bath (origin of the MC68000 port, used as the foundation of AmigaDOS). You can find more out about the history of this operating system on its Wikipedia entry.
- VOODOO-AMIGA.COM {ARCHIVED 4 July 2007}: Welcome to VooDoo Amiga News {Bosnian Amiga news site}
- The Text Editor "Vim" as we know it was born on the Amiga (V1.14 shown here): {Thread @ reddit w/pic of the original VIM}
- VIM: Quite a long time ago, Vim development started on the Amiga. Although it's a really old system now, it might still work. However, this has not been tested recently. You may have to use an older version for which Amiga binaries are available. For Vim 5.x and Vim 6 look in the amiga directory (ftp). Vim 7 files can be found at os4depot.net. This is for AmigaOS 4. Made by Peter Bengtsson.
- pointdesign {ARCHIVED 15 Feb 2003}: {translated} As an Austrian provider of Amiga software and hardware, we look forward to your visit.
- Amiga: It's Alive, Alive!: Hola, Amiga! The seminal computer company's assets were sold off by Gateway late last year, and the new company is about to announce a new OS partner. Reports of the Amiga computer's long-awaited revival apparently are not exaggerated in the least.
- The Cost Of Owning A MiSTer FPGA Is About To Come Down Dramatically: MiSTer FPGA is a remarkable platform for retro gaming. {...} However, the high cost of owning one of these devices has always been a prime consideration to potential buyers, and recent parts shortages have pushed the price up even more. It's welcome news, then, to hear that a $99 MiSTer mainboard is on its way, which massively reduces the barrier of entry for anyone interested in taking the plunge.tion
- COMMODORE CDTV-CR: Over the years there have been a number of rumours that Commodore developed a follow-up to the CDTV. Many believed it was a CDTV with a DCTV built-in, others said it was an expanded machine with AmigaOS2, more memory, keyboard and disk drive. These rumours were confirmed in March 2000 when two machines appeared on eBay. The first was sold for $199, the second for $1000. A third prototype was owned by National Amiga, who sold it to Oliver Hannaford-Day, the CDTV.org administrator for $250.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Can you believe it was 29 years ago that Petro Tyschtschenko made the announcement that the next generation of Amiga will use the Motorola's PowerPC CPU and will be dubbed the Power Amiga?
At the time, to some, it seemed like logical next step. Heck Apple did it so why not the Amiga? Well we all know how that turned out. Unfortunately ESCOM WAS NOT Apple...
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- As always Amiga-News.de has done a wonderful job of consolidating a list of all the videos from Amiwest 20204. Thanks amiga-news!
- New Diskmag: Just added this to the list. Amiga Rulez is a German Diskmag now on issue #3 done in the style of the old-school diskmags in the .adf format.
- From the 'Don't know how I missed this page' department: Amigans.net has a VERY informative page on the A1222. Covers the history, specs, a BUNCH of support links and more. It's SO GOOD I added it to the A1222/TABOR side menu. Check it out!!!
- New issue: Komoda & Amiga Plus #26 has been published
- New event: The 39th annual edition of the retro computer meeting is being held in Schwentinental, Germany. Interface XXXIX looks to be a good time for all.
Amiga Legal News Update
- Well it's been over a week and it's nothing but crickets. Can't say I expected much but the news was big enough that I thought there would be more rumors and speculation to be discussed. As always I guess we need to wait two more weeks for the 'real' news.. lol ...
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- Hardware : A1222 Plus: Introduction. Since A-Cube stop producing the Sam motherboards and the high price points of the X1000 & X5000 there were calls for a low-cost entry to the AmigaONE market. In 2015 A-eon announced the A1222, designed to be a low-cost system based on the P1022 1.2Ghz CPU in a Mini ITX design.
- Amiga Rulez: AMIGA RULEZ is a regularly published magazine on diskette (Disk-Mag, .adf) The magazine is free and is filled with our own and guest contributions. The aim of the magazine is a relaxed sharing of information and opinions in the style of a disk mag of the 90s. The first issue was actually available on diskette on October 7, 2023 at Amiga38 (www.amiga-event.de). The idea for the magazine came about in April in the Facebook group "Amiga Rulez". Most of the contributors to the magazine hang out there. Why not take a look?
- HARDWARE MANUFACTURER ID REGISTRY 12 March 2003 {ARCHIVED 13 Feb 2005}: {list of hardware manufacturer ID registry}
- Your Manufacturer Number {ARCHIVED 15 Feb 2005}: Attention hardware manufacturers. If you are developing a hardware expansion product for the Amiga then you will need to obtain a special manufacturer ID number from Amigan Software to identify your product. This manufacturer number is used by the Amiga to link your hardware with its driver software at boot time. Your manufacturer number is part of the special protocol that the Amiga uses to automatically configure all expansion devices on the bus without the user having to cut jumpers or adjust dip switches. This is called auto-config.
- DIY Chris Lets Make Stuff: As a company, DIY Chris specializes in retro computing, more specifically in all things Commodore related. We started out by designing a C64 cartridge several years ago and just grew from there. We now spend a lot of time reverse engineering vintage electronics. We create schematics using modern tools while creating a faithful replica of the original... As our love for all things vintage and some current electronics, we don’t just design and reverse engineer but also repair and restore vintage systems for others. Our repair service includes but is not limited to computers and gaming consoles both vintage and current.
- How to Burn a Kickstart ROM for an Amiga 500: I found myself needing to update my Amiga 500 to Kickstart 3.1 to support my IDE device, which is a combo IDE / 8MB Fast RAM and uses an SD to 2.5 inch IDE adapter to utilize a 2GB micro SD card {...} As with all things that I try to do, I find bits and pieces of information that I tend to compile into a fully working solution.
- MMULib OpenPCI for all bridge boards: In short: "PCI is for PC what Zorro is for Amiga". {...} It is therefore not unsurprising that several vendors started to offer through which an Amiga system can be equipped with a PCI bus, and through which components designed for PC systems can be plugged into an Amiga. {..} The version in this archive is a complete re-implementation of openpci and based on a different design philosophy: Instead of depending on proprietary drivers, it interfaces directly to third party hardware, entirely replacing vendor specific drivers. At the same time, it provides a super-set of services the original openpci.library offered, addressing some of its shortcomings. {Written by Thomas 'Thor' Richter}
- Demystifying WHDLoad: If you’ve not heard of it before, WHDLoad is a fantastic piece of software which streamlines the loading of games from an Amiga equipped with a hard drive. {...} In fact many Amiga games used a non-DOS disk format to perhaps squeeze a few extra bytes on, or provide copy protection, and if you pop one of these in to your Workbench environment all you’ll see is DF0:NDOS and no way to launch the game
- WHDLoad: The Amiga’s Secret Weapon: WHDLoad is an entirely software-based system designed to allow users to quickly and easy launch floppy-based games and demos and have them accurately run on the entire range of Amiga hardware. It was originally released in 1996 to address the issue of games running improperly or not at all on more recent Amiga systems featuring more powerful MC680x0 CPUs, the more advanced ECS and AGA custom chipsets, and newer versions of AmigaDOS.
- PiSTORM 2K - RPi 3A+ 3B 3B+ ADAPTER FOR COMMODORE AMIGA 2000: PiStorm is an adapter which uses a Raspberry Pi to provide a CPU accelerator for the Amiga 2000. It also provides a file-based SCSI device, RTG graphics and several other optional enhancements.
- AMIhelper: Amiga computing solutions - networking, graphics, file conversion, system setup, development, ... If you have suggestions, corrections, additions please leave a comment - thanks!
- How to prepare a CompactFlash card for Amiga PCMCIA using Linux: An example how to prepare a CompactFlash card for Amiga compactflash.device (cfd) / FAT95 using Linux Fedora Core 33. The idea is to wipe the CompactFlash card, and create one big partition for Amiga PCMCIA slot use. The procedure should basically be the same on all Linux distributions. Make sure your "mkfs" command has "vfat" support (which it probably has).
- How to set up NFS and mount on Amiga: Here's one way to set up an nfs server under Linux, and mount an nfs share on your Amiga.
- Docs: TerribleFire accelerators : Information about Stephen Leary's TerribleFire line of accelerators for the Amiga computer. Due to some people blatantly copying and disregarding Mr. Leary's work, he shut down all his Amiga-related projects in September 2020 for some time, but since has found new motivation and is giving occasional updates here and there. *** This page is work-in-progress - please add your experience, know-how, corrections, contributions, etc. by leaving a comment, so we can make this a comprehensive documentation. Thanks! ***
- How do you convert lha to ADF? : You can do so for example by inserting some ADF (preferably a copy, or an empty one!) to your Amiga emulator. Make sure your emulator settings allow for writing to ADF files. Format the disk (ADF) if required, then extract lha to that disk.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Well another year another AmiWest. While there was no earth shattering news, I will let the WONDERFUL Amiga-News.de give you the all the juicy details.
- This week I received my copy of the Amiga OS 3.2 Reference Manual and it better than I expected!! Now if you haven't ordered your copy what in the world are you waiting for???
- And a Vampire, Blippi and AmigaMan hopes everyone had a scary and frighteningly good Halloween!
Happy Halloween!!
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Amiga Legal News Update
- WOW... A day after a quiet Amiwest we finally have some REAL news. As always the WONDERFUL Amiga-News.de has a well written summary "Hyperion continues to be managed by court-appointed administrator. So Ben Hermans is finally out at Hyperion, his https://github.com/istedman/ATX_adaptorscompany Ben Hermanas BV is bankrupt and a new Hyperion director will need to be appointed. So what is next for Hyperion, OS 3/4.x and who will be next in charge? As always only time will tell.
Please note this is an evolving story and, I'm sure in classic Amiga form, this too will take another 30+ years to sort out. But... I did read a post on Amigans' Discord general chat when asked if Trevor could confirm this news and he chimed in "Trevor's here, and still is tight lipped {winked eye emoji}" Now I would like to read into this and think not only DID he know about this he has EVERYTHING READY to finally consolidate this circus dumpster fire and take charge.
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- JST: JOTD startup - a program to start amiga games from hard drive.
- One Ancient Commodore Amiga Runs the Heat and AC for 19 Public Schools: Somewhere in Grand Rapids, Michigan, there is an ancient Commodore Amiga that is hard at work. For over a quarter century it has been controlling the heat and air conditioning at 19 different schools and running nonstop. It's still kicking, for now anyway.
- June Bug Junior V1.3.1. BOM: All parts are 1206 size, except where defined otherwise. {Amiga 600 Junior PCB board}
- Interview With the Creator of Distant Suns – Mike Smithwick: The process of researching the last article: “Stepping Into Other Worlds”, the history and products of Virtual Reality Laboratories, Inc. – produced more questions than it answered. One particular title: Distant Suns, has a particularly rich history. It’s author, Mr. Mike Smithwick has graciously agreed to provide us with deeper insight into his title. 30 years on, Distant Suns is still giving star gazers their own planetariums.
- The AGA Chipset (Amiga 1200/4000): **** WARNING **** AGA Registers are temporary. They will change. Do not rely on this documentation. No programs written with this information can be officially endorsed or supported by Commodore. If this bothers you then stop reading now. Future Amigas will *NOT* support *ANY* of the new AGA registers. If you want your product to work on the next generation of Amigas then either:
- CXA2075M: Lately I have been seeing many Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200 with bad Band Pass Filter (Z221) and Delay Line (Z222). This generally causing bad picture quality on composite and the RF-modulator. {...} The modification is rather simple if you have some SMD soldering experience and you only need to components. So, why wait!
- Push-Over (Ocean, 1992) : Retro games reviewed and compared as unbiased as possible by a Finnish guy, and occasionally helped by his friends. {A comarison of the Amiga, Atari ST, IBM-PC & Super Nintendo versions}
- Amiga Game Scripting Languages: I was directed recently to a utility that laid bare the maps, items and other structures of the classic Bitmap Brothers' game Cadaver on Amiga. It was fascinating to be able to dig into how the game was put together, not least because I'm working on something very similar with my as-yet-unnamed Amiga isometric game.
- new art: An oldschool Amiga demo for Deadline 2024 where it won the anaglyph 3D competition. “Anaglyph” meaning that you need a pair of red/cyan glasses to properly enjoy the effect – it’s an oldschool production in oldschool 3D! {Lots of detail of how the demo was made}
- DEMOZOO Amiga OCS/ECS: {Demos for the Amiga OCS/ECS}
- DEMOZOO Amiga AGA: {Demos for the Amiga AGA}
- Commodore Employee Fireside Chat at VCF East 2022!: Do you recognize this guy? That’s Bil Herd co-inventor of the Commodore 128 microcomputer. How about this one? That’s Dave Haynie co-inventor of several Commodore Amiga microcomputers. How about this one? That’s Andy Finkel. Software engineer on several Commodore Amiga microcomputers. All of these people list above worked for a company called Commodore which made some of the best selling, innovative microcomputers of all time! Would you like to meet these people? Well you are in luck! We are excited to announce the biggest Commodore employee reunion in years! Where can you find them? At VCF East 2022!
- "The Commodore Story" Documentary Premieres Today: What is it about a computer that was introduced 36 years ago by a company that would be defunct 12 years later that engenders such passion that people still collect it to this day? We’re talking about the Commodore 64, of course, the iconic 8-bit wonder that along with the other offerings from Commodore International served as the first real computer to millions of us. There’s more to the passion that Commodore aficionados exhibit than just plain nostalgia, though, and a new documentary film, The Commodore Story, seeks to explore both the meteoric rise and fall of Commodore International. Judging from the official trailer below, this is a film anyone with the slightest interest in Commodore is not going to want to miss.
- EmuTOS: EmuTOS is a Free operating system for Atari ST computers, and more.
- The Computer Chronicles - Amiga 3000 (1990): {The Computer Chronicles covering the Amiga 3000, Amiga user Groups, the Video Toaster, Amiga Vision, Disney Animator and more}
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! While we just turned 23, Grind just turned 2 and who is further along? LOL Happy Birthday Grind!!
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- If you are a glutton for punishment and want to relive some early days of Unix you couldn't do much worse than installing Amix on your copy of WinUAE. Now for those not to familiar with Amix it was Commodore's port of AT&T System V Release 4 Unix to the Amiga in 1990. You've been warned and HAVE FUN!!! ;-)
- New issue: Amiga Addict #33 has been published
- New issue: Boing #9 has been published
Amiga Legal News Update
- WhoooOOOOOOooooOOOOOooOOOOOOoooooossssssssHHHHHhhhh...
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- Amiga Unix & BBS software...
New Links (15) YTD (530)
- blog.append(Brian.thoughts.getRandom()): {Blog posts from Brian trying to get Amix running a real A3000 and issues he encountered and other random thoughts}
- Threads in Forum : support.Amix: {The English Amiga Board official Amix support forum}
- Who used AMIX?": {Thread @ Amiga.org discussing who used Amix and some interesting history tidbits}
- Amix Box {picture} {ARCHIVED 4 Apr 2014}: {If you ever wondered what the box Amix came in looked like}
- Amix Box Contents {picture} {ARCHIVED 4 Apr 2014}: {If you ever wondered what was inside the box Amix came in}
- TekMagic 4060T aka Ultrasound accelerator: There are plenty of accelerators for big-box Amigas, some fits fine to all Amiga models such as Cyberstorm MK2 and 3, some are especially designed for A3000 (G-Force 040), another ones only for A4000 (Cyberstorm MK1) and some only for A4000T (QuikPak 4060). Amiga 4000T is big and spacious so ideal for any kind of cpu accelerator. I thought QuikPak is the only one accelerator designated for A4000T only. Until now!
- Building an Amiga 600 Junior I bought an Amiga 600 on eBay that was in very nice external physical condition, but it wouldn’t boot. Replacing the reset circuit capacitor didn’t fix it either. Inspecting the board, I could see a lot of corrosion around many of the surface-mount capacitors. The board was beyond repair, at least with my skills. I searched online for replacement motherboards, and I found out about the Amiga 600 Junior.
- Amiga 600 Junior PCB board with Autoplaced Passive Parts: Arrived to idoregesz.hu the next genereation of the Amiga 600 mainboard’s! (Rev 1.3.1) With autoplaced passive parts (SMD1206 ant SOT23), pcb color: Glossy Piano-Black!
- Building the Junior600 (A600 Clone): Next in my series of building Amiga clones.. the Junior 600. What is the Junior 600? it is a A600 clone made by Róbert Tihanyi.
- List of Amiga BBS Software: {A direct link to the Amiga BBS software download section archived at bbsdocumentary.com}
- Amiexpress BBS: Welcome. The old amiexpress.co.uk site disappeared because the domain name expired. I am not sure if the original owner lost interest or forgot, but at the same time I was renewing my own in retro computing. Out of love for the great BBS and the old scene days, I started the task of building a website in support of the old bbs. This is a labor of love and in hopes of bring back some old-schoolers and sparking interest in the new generation. A big thank you to the original creator, developers , sysops and door programmers of Amiexpress. AmiExpress was originally written by Michael Thomas of Synthetic Technologies and later sold to Joseph Hodge of Lightspeed Technologies.
- The Amiga BBS Blog: Here you will find a repository of information and resources for running and/or using Amiga Bulletin Board Systems (all Amiga OS variants, AROS, MorphOS).
- THE BBS DOCUMENTARY: Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer... there was a brave and pioneering band of computer users who spent their time, money and sanity setting up their home computers and phone lines to welcome anyone who called. By using a modem, anyone else who knew the phone number of these computers could connect to them, leave messages, send and recieve files.... and millions did. They called these places "Bulletin Board Systems", or BBSes. And their collections of messages, rants, thoughts and dreams became the way that an entire generation learned about being online. When the Internet grew in popularity in the early 1990s, the world of the BBS faded, changed, and became a part of the present networked world.. but it wasn't the same. In the Summer of 2001, Jason Scott, a computer historian (and proprietor of the textfiles.com history site) wondered if anyone had made a film about these BBSes. They hadn't, so he decided he would.
- Fred Fish Disk Contents: {From disk 1 - 1120. Name, Description, Author and file location path}
- 64-bit Odyssey 2.0 and JavaScript story: In this short article I’m going to show you different ways that upcoming 64-bit version Odyssey 2.0 can execute JavaScript code and performance implications of these choices. Some of the results are quite interesting, coming very close to modern-day (October 2024) Firefox performance. This is especially important taking into account that Odyssey 2.0 WebKit engine has been released in February 2019.
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- Like I stated in the previous post "I've been busy" and to that point I missed another birthday. So with no further ado... Happy 23rd Birthday AmigaSource!!
Good things are coming!!
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Busy week... At least for me ;-)
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Amiga Legal News Update
- This is EXACTLY what it's like watching paint dry!!!
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- Retro Wi-Fi On A Dime: Amiga’s Slow Lane Connection: In a recent video, [Chris Edwards] delves into the past, showing how he turned a Commodore Amiga 3000T into a wireless-capable machine. But forget modern Wi-Fi dongles—this hack involves an old-school D-Link DWL-G810 wireless Ethernet bridge. You can see the Amiga in action in the video below. [Chris] has a quirky approach to retrofitting. He connects an Ethernet adapter to his Amiga, bridges it to the D-Link, and sets up an open Wi-Fi network—complete with a retro 11 Mbps speed. Then again, the old wired connection was usually 10 Mbps in the old days.
- Herr Doktor Diskettenlaufwerk (Amiga-HDDLW): Adapts a regular PC floppy drive for high density operation on an Amiga computer.
- Amiga "Unofficial" DiskMaster2 5RC10 Beginner's Tutorial : Disk Master is an application manager and file utility for the Amiga OS which is fast, configurable and very sparing of system resources. The program was originally written by Greg Cunningham and originally released by Progressive Peripherals and Software, Inc as a commercial product. Greg turned the source code over to Rudolph Riedel who currently maintains the program, which is now freeware.
- Janeway Amiga Scene Demo Search Engine: {Kestra Bitworld searchable Demo Scene database. LOTS of stuff here!!}
- DiskMaster2: DiskMaster2 is a file-manager for AmigaOS that I received the sources for in 1997 from Greg Cunningham. Over the course of more than ten years I moved it forward removing all assembly parts, porting it to GCC putting endless hours into it and countless lines of code and then adapting it for OS4 and using GUI classes when I was at first part of the AmigaOS4 Beta-Testing and later the Development Team. Around end of 2008 I gradually moved on and away from AmigaOS without realizing it at first.
- VNCFOX – Better way of browsing modern web on vintage machines: TL;DR Firefox with TightVNC server in a Docker container. I often work on vintage Unix Workstations and other obsolete systems. I have a need to browse modern web on old computers somehow. Enter VNCFOX – a Firefox browser with TightVNC server packaged as a Docker container. It’s small, lean, easy to run and there is no boot time and lengthy updates.
- amiga-sculpt3d-big-render: A demonstration of Sculpt 3D's 24-bit renders, and a program to combine them.
- name": {Thread @ reddit discussing different Gotek models. Artery AT32F415 / AT32F435 }
- Prototype : Concept Amiga : Prototypes, Rebuilds, and other new Amiga projects that just dont quite fit anywhere else on the web site will end up in here. if you know of any Amiga project that should be covered let me know. Amiga Fantasy, AmigaCD64, Natami & Amiga A1000 Laptop
- Converting a PC Floppy Drive to Amiga: I recently purchased an external floppy drive the for the Amiga which was sold as “untested”. Unfortunately “untested” in this case meant “doesn’t work and someone did a bad attempt at repairing it”. There were parts of the drive physically broken and it was beyond repair. I lucked out because unlike the Rotec drive I repaired in the past, this one uses a standard floppy connector inside. So, instead I decided to convert a PC floppy drive to work in the case.
- Z3660 Accelerator First Boot A4000TX: What is this? Its an WIP accelerator based on the 3660 design Chuck (John Hertel) did with a catch. Below is taken from the GitHub page. For more information visit this Discord and the Github links below. So far its running absolutely amazing.
- Wrangler Amiga Review of the new Z3660 Accelerator": {Thread @ AMiBay discussing the new Z3660 all-in-one accelerator for the big box A3/4000 accelerator by Double H Tech.}
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqiEQtzGk-Q: sHaNsHe (Double H Tech) has created a new all-in-one accelerator for the A3000 and A4000 Amigas, which has some neat tricks up its sleeve. I set up my card and benchmark it against other accelerators. {Review done by Wrangler Amiga. Normally I tend to stay away from youtube videos but this one is seriously worth it!}
- Wrangler Amiga: {Normally i tend to stay away from youtube links but his page covers VERY relevant and interesting topics and reviews such as the Z3660 board, Prelude sound card reamke, BFG9060 and lots more!
- CPLDICY: Commodore Amiga 2000/3000/4000 I2C controller as Zorro-II card. This controller is software compatible to M. Boehmer's ICY board. The main difference between the original ICY card and this design is that the PCF8584 I2C controller chip is mapped indirectly to the Amiga bus here. This way, occasional mis-configuration of the PCF8584 bus protocol and timing issues can be worked around. While the main purpose of this board is to provide an I2C controller, there are some optional on-board extras.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Well it happened again. Somehow I was NOT tracking these two projects, which are already on their THIRD reorder batches. Ordyne over at AmiBay has two main threads covering a Amiga A4000 Reproduction Case Pre-Order and a A4000T Replica case.
WOW. Now with all the redesigned PBC boards, keyboards & cases all we need is someone, with REALLY DEEP POCKETS, to do a LARGE production run of all the custom chips, throw in a few CPU's too sweeten the deal, and we could be back in business again!! Long live 1994!!!! LOL!!!
- And this week we hit 500 new links mark. Yae me... < grin >
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- The legal train just keeps chuggin' along.... Or does it????
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- adflib: A Rust library and command-line tool for managing ADF (Amiga Disk File) files. While working on cross-development for the Amiga, I needed a way to manage ADF files. Existing libraries weren't written in Rust, which was my preferred language for tool development. Thus, I decided to create a Rust-based library for managing ADF files. The library is still in its early stages and is not yet feature-complete or extensively tested.
- APEO (AMOS Professional Executable Optimizer): APEO (AMOS Professional Executable Optimizer) is a tool for AMOS Professional applications developers and users. It patches the executables produced by the AMOSPro Compiler V2.00 (and possibly squashed by the AMOSPro Compiler Shell V2.00) to make them faster.
- AQA (Amiga Quality Audio): AQA (Amiga Quality Audio) is (mainly) a collection of CPU-based audio playback tools for classic Amigas that stream stereo audio samples from mass storage devices through the Paula chip also at frequencies way beyond the canonical 28 kHz of the Amiga or the 44.1 kHz of CDs (e.g. 96 kHz), and with a resolution of 8 or 14 bits. AQA is therefore suitable for listening to high-quality music even on the good old classic Amigas.
- TestCode: TestCode is a tool for developers (especially assembly ones). It takes a blob, i.e. a relocatable file made of a given number of sections (hunks), executes the code sections, prints a detailed report and, if the blob requests it, creates a dump file. In particular, TestCode executes the core section with AmigaOS and the hardware in "off" state (but the section can modify the hardware state almost without limits) and measures the duration of the execution with color clock precision.
- JOTD startup: JST is a program which understands JST/whdload slaves and loads its data from hard drive. It's been around since 1996 but was revived a few years ago, with 1.3 compat. & better whdload compatibility. Now focuses on - whdload compatibility, - low spec machines {&} - keyboardless machines (using CD32 joypad redirection to keys) So it's ideal for: - CD32 machines with HD & fastmem, - Emulated hard disk files, - Kickstart 1.3 machines with HD & fastmem {&} - CDTV stock machines
- M68K Mode for Emacs: Motorola 68k Assembly environment for Emacs. Focusing on Amiga in the beginning with lsp-server and debugger. Might extend to support other platforms based upon interest Includes setup for lsp-mode, and experimental dap-mode.
- Interview: Matthew Leaman (Amiga Kit, A-EON) about the A600GS: {amiga-new.de conducted interview with Matthew Leaman (Amiga Kit, A-EON) about the A600GS
- AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted!: How a modern AVX instruction shares a similar design with a 1985 blitter chip, by Arnaud Carré. This post is for any enthusiastic SIMD CPU programmer curious about weird AVX instructions. But also for any veteran Amiga programmer who never quite figured out how to calculate that cursed “minterm” blitter value!
- Licensing is a complicated business!: We spoke with Simon Turner at Plaion about their range of replica consoles, such as TheA500. Plaion is the distributor of modern replica consoles such as TheC64, ThA500 and the forthcoming The Spectrum. We had the opportunity to ask Simon Turner, who is UK marketing director and responsible for global marketing of the retro division at Plaion a few questions. We discussed the inspiration behind these consoles, about getting the rights to old games, and their plans for any future releases.
- rePlayer (another multi-formats music player): With this piece of software, you can play a lot of oldschool music format from the old times, such as the Amiga (which was the original purpose of this player), Atari, C64, Nintendo, Sega... As a maniac collector, it started to get very annoyed to keep up to date with newer songs from an artist, check for songs duplicates, and also some missing playback functionalities. So I started to write my own player, first to play default modules from the amiga using ImGui (for the interface), OpenMPT (to play amiga modules) and libcurl (to handle the downloads from the websites).
- TooIzzi: Hi, my name is Rodrigo Cesar Vertulo, but many call me just Vertulo. I am an Electronic Engineer and Computer Scientist of Italian origin born in Brazil. I am passionate about developing technologies, both at the hardware and software levels, but I especially spend a lot of my time developing games, especially for old computers like those in the Commodore Amiga line.
- name": {Thread @ eab.abime.net Listing of Amiga games with attract mode}
- The Obligatory Amiga Blitter Video: It’s time…time for a video on the Commodore Amiga Blitter! Topaz walks through the memory copy capabilities of this feature in the context of a small demo written to exercise the blitter, copper, and sprites.
- Escom Amiga 4000T Door: This is a replacement for an Escom Amiga 4000T door that I modeled directly off of a real one.
- Demoscene the Amiga renaissance. Volumne 3 1997-2023: {Third book in the series this time covering the demoscene after the downfall of Commodore}
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! This has been a pretty good week in AmigaLand! Tomas Richter has released a new manual for the dos.library in the spirit of the original Commodore Reference Manuals. Now on the one hand this is a GREAT effort and HIGHLY needed and but on the other hand I'm upset that this type of documentation isn't coming from those in charge.
Hey... Note to those in charge...
DO YOU THINK YOU COULD STOP THIS CRAP AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO RESOLVE THE DAMN LEGAL MESS ALREADY!!
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- New issue: REV'n'GE #162 has been published
Amiga Legal News Update
- Nothing new on the radar....
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- ASMotor: ASMotor is a portable and generic assembler engine and development system written in ANSI C99 and licensed under the GNU Public License v3. The package consists of the assembler, the librarian and the linker. It can be used as either a cross or native development system. The assembler can output ASMotor's own object format, Amiga hunk format (link and executable) and ELF. The assembler should slot right in to another toolchain without any trouble, if that is preferred.
- 4champ: An app that provides a mobile interface to Amiga Music Preservation database on iOS devices.
- Amiga "Pregnant" Mouse (Two & Three Button Variants): This design is the two and three button versions of the Amiga "pregnant" mouse. I didn't model the cord, but did do the plug. I made it only from pictures I found online, which required a lot of guesswork, so I'd be most grateful if someone who owns one would be willing to give me some measurements. I may eventually 3D print one and put some modern mouse guts into it (have to think about how a mouse wheel would best be integrated...).
- Amiga Pregnant Laser Mouse: An optical mouse replacement pcb for the Amiga pregnant mouse.
- Amiga "Pregnant" Mouse - 3 button version: You can print a new shell for your existing 3-button Amiga mouse, or make use of the project by Board Folk (chris-jh) to create a new one from scratch!
- Q&A: PC pioneer Chowaniec looks back at the Amiga: Adam Chowaniec, who is now chairman of supercomputer maker Liquid Computing Corp., was one of those computer industry pioneers. Chowaniec joined Commodore Computer just a year after the popular Commodore 64 was launched 25 years ago this week. His task was to build the successor to the C64, then the most popular machine on the market with more than 20 million units sold. Chowaniec, as vice president of technology at Commodore, was responsible for creating the Amiga PC.
- everything2.com: {Interesting search results for the word AMIGA}
- Topaz NG: This font is a vector interpretation of the venerable "Topaz" font, used on Amiga's workbench.
- In the beginning was CAOS: The very first issue of Amiga Transactor - spun off from the original Transactor - featured an article by Andy Finkel, then the Software Manager at Commodore-Amiga. Fortunately, the article survived, although Amiga Transactor didn't. It's interesting to contrast the state of AmigaDOS then and now, especially in comparison to the CAOS specs. Thanks to Andy - and an intrepid Amiga owner who typed in the text and sent it to Andy - ViewPort is able to reprint that article in its entirety. So set the WayBack machine for 1988, and read on...
- TOSEC: The Old School Emulation Center (TOSEC) is a retrocomputing initiative dedicated to the cataloging and preservation of software, firmware and resources for arcade machines, microcomputers, minicomputers and video game consoles. The main goal of the project is to catalog and audit various kinds of software and firmware images for these systems. As of release 2014-10-31, TOSEC catalogs over 280 unique computing platforms and continues to grow. As of this time the project had identified and cataloged 781,347 different software images/sets, consisting of over 4.97TB of software, firmware and resources.
- Amiga Networking FAQ: Answers to both generic and Amiga specific networking questions. It covers both hardware and software questions. It should be read by anyone that has a network related question before posting it to comp.sys.amiga.datacomm or comp.sys.amiga.hardware news groups. This FAQ about Amiga Networking was compiled and written by Richard Norman with numerous contributions by others.
- Fresh Workbench Installation: As I go further down the Amiga memory lane rabbit hole, I ended buying a few actual real Amigas. The 600 and the 1200 both have an internal hard drive which allow the latest Workbench to be installed and booted from. Of course part of the fun in being able to do this from scratch. Turns out I’d forgotten a lot about the process, and on top of that a lot of new things have emerged since the last version of Workbench I used back in the days. For example, here I’ll be using Workbench 3.2 here so I’m not limited to any disk or partition size. I’m also installing the OS on a SD card plugged in to my TF1260 card’s IDE port so some steps below are specific to that.
- Book List Amiga Books Reference: {A very comprehensive list of books published about the Amiga with links to some of them}
- HRTmon: Amiga lowlevel monitor. Have you ever wanted to get an Action Replay on your A1200, A3000 or A4000 ? If the answer is yes, then you should have a look at HRTmon. HRTmon is a monitor for your Amiga, which doesn't use the libraries. You can invoke the monitor at any point. Even if a game or a demo switched off the interrupts. Once in HRTmon you can watch all the memory, disassemble, edit, save, etc... and continue, as if nothing happend. You don't have to care about any picture address. ALL the CHIP-memory can be edited transparently.br>
- Building a custom A600 Kickstart with HRTmon: It’s not fair that Amiga 1000s and 500s gets to have all the fun with the Action Replay. But wait... There is a way to get the same functionality on an Amiga 600 or 1200. It’s called HRTmon. In order for this to work the same way as an Action Replay cartridge, HRTmon needs to be resident in ROM as part of the Kickstart. Here is how to do it on macOS…
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! WOW check out this event. On 12 Oct the South West Amiga Amiga Group (SWAG) will be holding their last event of the year Workbench 2024. They will have everything from troubleshooting (bring you hardware along), free recapping, a raffle, buy and sell area, a games tournament and a few special guests will be there too. Come meet AmigaKit, Rob Smith, Nick Veitch and Amiga Addict! Sounds like a GREAT time!
- If you haven't been following recently Hans de Ruiter has launched Kea Campus, a "place for serious and aspiring developers & creators, and their supporters..." and for a limited time he is offering 20-40% off ZitaFTP Server, a secure and easy-to-use FTP(S) server that works on both AmigaOS and Windows. If you haven't gotten you copy now's your time!
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- Games that passed you by but still hold up well ": {Thread @ eab. Check out Lionagony's input about him playing every Amiga game every and rating his top 300+}
- BattleCraft: If Forgotten Forever can be described as a Command & Conquer clone, this little beauty can surely be described as a Warcraft-II clone. The Dutch programmer 'Peter De Boer' has been working on this one for quite some time now, and his main goal is to make it the best amiga (ECS/AGA) strategic action game that is available. As you can see from the image to the left Peter de Boer is working on a total and complete conversion of the PC Warcraft-II game. He is converting all the original graphics in an Amiga 32-color version so that ECS-AMiga's wont be left out. And looking at the screenshot of the level-Editor he hasn't done a bad job!
- Retroleum - The Retro Spares Shop: Retroleum sells various new, old stock and salvaged components mainly for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 (but also a few items for the VIC20, C16, Plus4, C128, ZX81 etc). {Note: they do have some Amiga items too}
- RetroKit: RetroKit started with an simple idea to become a one-stop shop for retro computer and game console kit. Starting with Commodore and Amiga brands, long-term we will stock other vendors.
- First demo to...": {Thread @ eab discussing the various 'firts' in the history of the Amiga demo scene}
- Microsoft Sunsets Amiga’s Killer App: Internet Explorer:It’s been nearly 27 years but, as life teaches us, all good things must come to an end. On June 15th, Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer on all desktop systems, including its launch platform, the Commodore Amiga. Microsoft tweeted the news yesterday from its official @MicrosoftEdge account. In the poignant tweet, the Redmond software giant bade farewell to its venerable web browser, stating with some sadness, “Now, it’s time to surf the big web in the sky,” while marking the woeful moment with an animated image of IE’s orbited-“e” logo, centered on a glowing blue screen which fades out to darkness on an Amiga 1000 computer.
- 3D Object Converter: This page is the official homepage of 3D Object Converter for Windows / AmigaOS, a powerful 3D polygon model translation and interactive viewing shareware tool that allows arbitrary 3D model data to be imported from external sources, exported to various industry standard 3D file formats with great accuracy and quality. The program supports 885 file formats. It is available for Windows95/98/Me/NT x86, 2K/XP x86|x64, Vista x86|x64, Windows 7 x86|x64, Windows 8.x x86|x64, Windows 10 x86|x64, Windows 11 x64 and Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2 x64, 2016 x64, 2019 x64 and AmigaOS 3.x / 4.x.
- Untangle: Amiga port of a popular logic game. The Game. Untangle is a logic puzzle, where the player faces a set of dots connected by lines. Usually the set is untidy, many lines cross another ones. The game goal is to untangle lines by moving dots, so finally no line cross another.
- morsconv: Modular converter of text to various forms of Morse code. Shell command, no GUI. AmigaOS 3.x, M68000.
- squirt: squirtd is a small server (the executable is less than 5kb) that lets you remotely manage your Amiga over TCP/IP using set of command lines tools running on a modern system. This project has two main purposes for me. I want to be able to quickly transfer, install and automatically test games that I am developing on various Amigas from Makefiles; and incrementally back those Amigas up into git repos.
- Recreating Dune II for the Amiga: We’ve spoken with ex-Westwood developer Bob Koon, who is working on a new Amiga version of Dune II. Bob Koon was part of the original Westwood team that created the groundbreaking real-time strategy game Dune II, which is considered the first «modern» game in the genre. His main task was converting the game to the Amiga. While the Amiga version was met with a very positive reception and is still fondly remembered today, Koon never felt completely satisfied with how it turned out. So now he’s set out to recreate it from scratch, and make the definitive version of Dune II in the process. We got in touch to ask him about the project.
- South West Amiga Group: The South West Amiga Group (SWAG) originally formed in December 1997. They met once a month in Bristol to discuss their favourite computer. The group continued in various forms until 2005 when the group finally disbanded.
- Amiga Developer Conference Denver 1990 {ARCHIVED 17 Jun 22}: Documentation from the Amiga Developer Conference 1990.
- Amiga Developer Conference Denver 1991 {ARCHIVED 17 Jun 22}: Documentation from the Amiga Developer Conference 1991.
- DevCon93: {a 27 page PDF of the last Amiga Developers Conference. What a informative read!}
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Sorry but this will be a quick weekly update. Glad nothing interesting has happened... LOL!
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- New Big Shops and Vendors added to the list. Check out Retrokit. Selling Amiga & Commodore items plus various other retro items. Located in Perth Australia.
- New event: {from eab} "Finnish Amiga Users Group is happy to announce the return of the Saku events! Started in 1997, Saku is the longest running Amiga show in Finland. We will hold our Saku 2024 event in Oulu, Finland on Sunday, September 22nd. The event will feature many classic Amiga computers from A500 to A4000, FPGA setups, and next generation systems. Visitors can use all setups freely for gaming and other activities. There will be several game competitions with prizes and demos are shown on a big screen. The latest Amiga Future magazines are available for reading, as well as other magazines from all decades."
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- Is this thing plugged in??
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- Retrokit: {Australian retro computer shop located in Perth. Selling various items for the the Amiga & Commodore, books, various accessories and much more.}
- CGA to VGA scaling with GBS-8220 board: Connecting an old PC machine with a CGA video output to a modern VGA monitor requires changing the horizontal display frequency from 15kHz to 30kHz. Professional video scalers are very expensive devices, but fortunately there are popular Chinese alternatives, which cost only around 20$. The problem with them is that they rarely work out of the box. I will describe here how I forced GBS-8220 video scaler to display my Schneider Euro PC CGA screen on a Sony VGA monitor.
- Amiga M1438S Monitor: {Information and detailed pictures of the internal pcb boards and other components along with capacitor list}
- Amiga 4000: {Information and detailed pictures of the internal pcb boards and other components}
- Amiga 1000: {Information and detailed pictures of the internal pcb boards and other components along with capacitor list}
- Commodore 1084S-D2: {Information and detailed pictures of the internal pcb boards and other components along with capacitor list}
- Amiga 2000: {detailed breakdown of an Amiga 2000 with various board and upgrades with lots of pictures. (keyboard, motherboard, A2630, A2052, A2320, A2091, SCSI2SD , Gotek, Samsung SyncMaster 755DFX and more}
- Amiga CDTV: {detailed pictures of motherboard, power supply, video i/o board, CD-Rom, front panel, power switch & headphones module, MIDI port, expoansion card module, remote control, keyboard, mouse, external floppy drive, schematics, service manual & more}
- Marketed Commodore monitors: {Virtually EVERY commodore monitor with virtually EVERY bit of tech information about it. WOW!!!}
- CRT DATABASE: Choose a brand below to see a list of all available CRTs in the database. Alternatively, narrow down your perfect CRT by feature using the CRT Discovery Tool. The Database is still being populated and more CRTs will be added every day. The goal is to have a comprehensive list of all worthwhile professional and consumer CRTs ever produced.
- Legends of the games industry: Jim Sachs: We spoke with pixel artist and programmer Jim Sachs about everything from Defender of the Crown to virtual aquariums. American Jim Sachs is one of the true greats in the area of classic pixel art. He is particularly known for his work on the Amiga, where he was responsible for the graphics in one of the platform’s most important system sellers, Defender of the Crown, as well as Ports of Call, which was a favourite here in Norway. However, his career didn’t end there, and if you were impressed by virtual aquariums around the turn of the millennium, it was probably his fish you were looking at.
- Crypto Ancienne 2.2: now supported on AmigaOS and classic MacOS/MPW: As threatened we're up to the next checkpoint with Crypto Ancienne, the TLS 1.2/1.3 library we maintain for pre-C99 vintage compilers and architectures, so here's version 2.2, or "Crypto Ancienne Meets the Hooded Fang"
- Preserving Floppy Disks: Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on things like tape, floppy disks, and hard disk drives, and after several decades data may not be recoverable anymore
- Copy Protection In The 80s, Showcased By Classic Game Dungeon Master: Making a copy of a purchased game used to be as simple as copying a disk. As the game industry grew, so did fear of revenue loss which drove investment in countermeasures. These mainly consisted of preventing the easy duplication of magnetic diskettes, or having users jump through tiresome hoops like entering specific words from the printed manual.
- Amiga Keeper List: {From a post by Lionagony over at eab.abime.net. "Last year I tried a few minutes of every game on the Amiga, SNES, MD, PC Engine and PS1 and came to the conclusion that the Amiga has the most games that I want to come back to. My main criteria were for action games that were fun and had good graphics. My final numbers were Amiga 316, PS1 232, SNES 202, MD 198 and PC Engine 69. Here's the Amiga list, could probably update it with a few more games now including Roguecraft"}
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Another quiet week here in Amiga Land but if you're the kind of person who likes PI accelerated Amiga's the latest posting from Michael Schulz looks FANTASTIC!!
Interesting... Keep an eye on
Amiga Legal News Update
- Just another manic Monday... Wish it was Sunday... Cause that's my funday.... Just another manic Monday...
Today's Theme
- Random links...
New Links (15) YTD (440)
- aiostreams: All In One streams is a pack of Python scripts for streaming video from various platforms, like Twitch.tv, YouTube and Vimeo.com. The target Operating Systems are AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and AROS, but they work on other systems just fine.
- West Midlands Amiga Group: A new Amiga user group for the centre of the UK
- Topic: If An OS Was An Airline.....": {Thread @ Amiga.org}
- Starting on the Amiga 2500: {9 part series about ruilding a A2500. Covering battery removal, booting, gotek and flashfloppy installation, keyboard refurb, hard card, FickerFixer, the 5.25" bay and more}
- Commodore A501 memory expansion battery removal: When I first got my Amiga 500, it wouldn’t boot. Suspecting something was wrong with the A501 512K memory expansion, I pulled the card, at which point it did boot. It didn’t take me long to realize that battery corrosion had killed it.
- Bluer than velvet were her SCSIs: If you need a SCSI hard drive for your old computer, there are a lot of great options becoming available for a solid-state substitute. A great one of those options is the BlueSCSI, and I’m not just saying that because I won a free one. It’s because I won a free kit, so I got to put it together myself.
- Go Back to GBS: here are a lot of people buying fancy upscalers these days. And who can blame them? Old videogames are great, but new monitors are lazy and inept. What, the signal is too slow for you?
- Flat Panels Aren't MultiSync 3D: While I adore my NEC PC-TV151, there is one monitor that NEC shipped to our shores that may be the ultimate CRT. This one was cheap, and this one is also very, very sick. Can I cure it so that I can enjoy CGA the way it was meant to be?
- Vanilla Conquer Red Alert - Amiga port: Vanilla Conquer is a fully portable version of the first generation C&C engine and is capable of running both Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert on multiple platforms. This port is targeted for Amigas equipped with PiStorm/Emu68, Apollo/Vampire V4 accelerators and Warp1260.
- Back to the Amiga 500 Batman Pack 30 years later: Target Acquired: Batman Pack! November 1989. I have no idea how many magazine adverts I’d read but I knew all the prices out there, and the packs available and emerging. It had to be the Amiga 500 Batman pack. Batman looked amazing, and it came with the must have “F/A 18 Interceptor”. My first flight sim. New Zealand Story I have to confess, had no draw for me at all.
- Amiga Quarterback ADF file extractor: This python script is designed to accept the Central Coast Software's Quarterback backup disks as .ADF files, identify the file markers within the file, and perform the LZW decompression algorithm on raw datastream, and write those decompressed files back into a qb_dump subdirectory of the current directory. The current file markers supported are CFM for compressed files, and FMRK for uncompressed files.
- Classic Amiga "Kickstart" ROM Versions: Classic Amiga "Kickstart" ROM Versions
- Babylon 5 ships in Imagine format: For Amiga users, some models of a few Babylon 5 ships in Imagine format, along with sample renderings in JPEG, have been uploaded to the ftp server.
- The Lurker's Guide to Babylon5: {The universe, episodes, making of the show and LOTS more}
- Latest Builds for Netsurf on AOS 3.x: {Latest Builds for Netsurf on AOS 3.x}
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Well another Kickstarter is over and the book Retro Gaming Library: The Games That Made the Commodore Amiga a Popular Cult Classic was funded on the 4th. I always look forward to adding another book to the Amiga shelf.
Interesting... Keep an eye on
Amiga Legal News Update
- Pissing or getting off the pot... Anyone taking bets on which will happen first?
Today's Theme
- Random links...
New Links (15) YTD (425)
- Amiga Micropython: Amiga Micropython is a fork of the MicroPython project for the Amiga classic computers (running Amiga OS 3.1).
- rjd324's AmigaOne Daily Driver Blog: The first blog entry will encompass my current usage of various applications and/or tools and my reasons for using them. In subsequent blogs, newly found applications, tools or hints and any updates to those will be shared.
- J o c o s e H a v e n: Problems and fixes {ARCHIVED 14 Feb 2005}: Ok folks, I'm compiling a list of what has caused flaky operation of the Amiga computers. This is a very unpopular subject with Amiga worshippers, but it should be one to pay particular attention since it can harm any product faster than obsolescence and DOES cause untold user-hours of frustrations. Flakiness affects everyone and everything from product development to end-users and especially service.
- What do those various colors mean as the Amiga boots up? {ARCHIVED 23 Sep 2018}: When the Amiga boots, the screen changes color to indicate the progress of several internal tests. Here is what happens:
- Guru Meditation Errors - How to Read Them: {Thread @ AmigaLove discussing Guru Meditation Errors - How to Read Them: Transcribed from an old document. Author and year unknown. Stamped by "Megadisc", a small Australian magazine-on-a-disc. It's not always obvious why your Amiga guru's. With the codes below, you can break the meaning down to its basic components and get to the bottom of things.}
- FACTS BEHIND THE FLASHES (The Amiga Startup Messages): It is not unusual for a computer to try to communicate with its owner during the start-up routines. Remember the flashing of the lights on the 4040 and 8050 disk drives?
- Amiga Error Codes": {Thread @ AmiBay discussing "...some error codes I found from the November 1993 edition of CU Amiga. Perhaps some might find them useful"}
- pixeltune: {Over 500k MIDI & chiptunes. This is a direct link to the Amifa files}
- Metin Seven: Dutch visualizer, pixel artist, illustrator, 3D designer ─ metinseven.nl. Former Blender Foundation Technical Artist, Blender Nation reporter, news cartoonist, comic creator, TV show animator, computer magazine editor and 16-bit game developer. {Dutch game development group Team Hoi}
- Trackers: The Rise, Bloom and Later Developments of a Paradigm: description
- name: Trackers are music software whose history spans over three decades. They are tightly linked to the history of home computers, and they made previously unreachable digital composition tools available to enthusiasts in the 1980s. Over the years, trackers have been used both for commercial and non-commercial purposes, for example games and demos, and they have given rise to lively hobbyist communities. In this article, I go through the history of trackers, their characteristics and typical uses.
- AmigaOS Manual: Early Startup: This appendix describes the following special boot options in the Amiga Early Startup Control system: Disabling devices and processor caches for software compatibility, Choosing display options for running games {&} Diagnosing expansion board failures
- AmiModRadio: Did you know that, as of 2015/06/02, there are more than 20,000 packages in the mods directory on Aminet? Yes! That's more than 20,000 modules to play and enjoy! There are also thousands of modules on AMP, Haxor.fi, Modland, Modules.pl . So, why not have a program that could automatically download one module at-a-time, extract it, and play it using your favorite player? This is the purpose of AmiModRadio! It can download, unarchive, and send modules to your favorite players: AmigaAMP, DeliTracker, EaglePlayer, HippoPlayer, MultiPlayer, or TuneNet (see this comparison).
- rkrm-dos: An RKRM-style reference of AmigaDOS/dos.library. This project is a documentation of the AmigaDOS subsystem of AmigaOs, the dos.library, its handlers, file-systems and structures. It is available under the THOR-Software License v3.
- Rogue: Reassembled Amiga Rogue, fixed bugs and optimised it
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! By my count, if you will overlook the 'occasional' double listing of a link or two, we have hit 400+ link mark for the year. Yae me!
- Now on to more exciting news. Back in March we all saw a new Amiga OS 3.2 Reference Manual being published but it was in German. Then they announced a limited run of an English version. Well this week I received the advanced PDF copy of the book and all I can say is I am TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY!!!.
481 pages of glorious page turning goodness! This is the manual that should come with EVERY copy of AmigaOS. PERIOD!!! They cover virtually EVERYTHING from the installation of the ROMS into every Amiga model, installing the OS, Workbench basics, Prefs, various OS programs, the Shell, Power User tips, ARexx, connection to the internet, info on various HW (memory, accel boards, scan doublers, graphics/network/sound cards) and much more!
I promise you I'm counting the days until the book arrives!
What are you waiting for?
Order your copy NOW!!!
Interesting... Keep an eye on
Amiga Legal News Update
- HELLO ... HELLOOOOO... HELLooooo... HEllooooooo... helloooooo...
Today's Theme
- A bunch from RetroTechLabs. A VERY nice website! More links coming!
New Links (15) YTD (410)
- How Many Commodore Amiga Were Sold? A Look at the Sales Figures: One of the most common questions about the Amiga is how many units were sold during its lifetime. According to various sources, the Amiga line sold an estimated 4 to 5 million machines worldwide. However, exact figures are difficult to come by, and there is some disagreement among experts about the actual number of units sold.
- What is the Best Upscaler for Retro Consoles in 2024?: Retro gaming is all the rage these days, with many gamers returning to classic consoles to relive the glory days of gaming. However, with modern TVs and monitors, the image quality of these classic consoles can be lacking. This is where an HD upscaler comes in – a device that takes the low-resolution output of retro consoles and upscales it to high definition.
- How to ReCap an Amiga 1200 – The Ultimate Guide to Capacitor Replacement 2023 Update: The Amiga 1200 was a popular home computer released by Commodore in 1992. After 30 years, it’s common for the electrolytic capacitors on the motherboard to start leaking or fail. Recapping involves replacing all aged capacitors to restore functionality and prevent further damage. This guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough of the recapping process for the A1200.
- How Did the Amiga Handle Multitasking?: This guide will examine how the Amiga’s operating system architecture and custom chips allowed remarkable multitasking abilities for the era. We’ll look under the hood at concepts like preemptive multitasking, prioritized processes, and fast context switching that enabled the Amiga’s celebrated multitasking prowess.
- Getting Started with Amiga Workbench: This beginner’s guide will provide an overview of core aspects of the Workbench experience. We’ll look at Workbench basics from visual interface elements to mouse operation, launching apps, finding files, multitasking abilities and popular accessories. These fundamentals will help new retro computing enthusiasts get the most from their Amiga workflows.
- Connecting Amiga 500 to Modern TV: In this guide, I’ll go over the step-by-step process for connecting an Amiga 500 to a modern high-definition or 4K TV. We’ll look at the different cable options, adapters, and settings needed to get the best picture quality. By the end, your Amiga 500 should be running nicely on your flat screen TV!
- Amiga VGA Buffered vs Unbuffered: This article will examine the differences between buffered and unbuffered VGA on the Amiga, the pros and cons of each method, and help you determine which solution is best for your needs.
- The Untold Story Behind The Andy Warhol Deborah Harry Amiga Portrait-Commodore Engineer Jeff : {youtube} Andy Warhol pained a portrait of Blonde's Deborah Harry at the launch of the Commodore Amiga on July 23, 1985. However, almost 40 years later we learn that there is much more to the story than was ever told. AmigaBill talks with Jeff Bruette, the Commodore Engineer who worked with Andy Warhol in the weeks leading up to this momentous moment , and saved some very important pieces of art that are now up for sale for $26 million dollars.
- Quick Guide: Cross-compiling to AmigaOS 4.x+ the easy way: The video above shows you how to get a cross-compiler for AmigaOS 4 up and running on your machine quickly. Here's a short summary of how it's done... {with written instructions on the webpage too}
- New Z3660 Accelerator for Amiga3000/4000 !!!": {Thread @ AmigaLove briefly discussing the Z3660 board}
- Color photos on the first PCs: When did photography first begin to be handled on the PC? Which of these systems have made history and which have remained virtually unknown? The following review is an attempt to answer these and related questions with technical details. Of course, it's about the Amiga, but not only.
- -- Amiga Error Colours, Blinks and Guru Codes --": {Thread @ lemonamiga covering: Amiga Hardware Boot Sequence, Disk Boot Sequence, Amiga Boot Colours, Amiga Boot Blinks on the Power LED, Amiga Boot Blinks on the Keyboard Caps-Lock LED, Guru Meditation Error Codes & AmigaDos Error Codes Displayed in CLI or Shell}
- Amiga Boot-up Screen Colors and System Error Checklist": {Thread @ AmigaLove covering Boot-up & Failure mode screen colors}
- AMIGA TROUBLESHOOTER - PART 1: A500 QUICK CHECK {ARCHIVED 23 Apr 2008}: A simple-to-use symptomatic guide for diagnosing faulty IC components on Amiga computers (includes all version of the A500/1500/2000/2500)
- AMIGA TROUBLESHOOTER - PART 2: A500/A2000 {ARCHIVED 30 Apr 2008}: A simple-to-use symptomatic guide for diagnosing faulty IC components on Amiga computers (includes all version of the A500/2000)
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! I'm glad not to many visit the site right now (LOL) because this week I just stumbled a screw-up pertaining to duplicate new link entries going back to 27 Jul. DOH!!! So with a bit of 'cut and paste' magic I have purged and replaced them with new links. So if you feel like going back over the past 4 weeks and look for some new links then enjoy! Fingers crossed there are no more duplicates!
- Well now that that issue has been resolved onto this weeks links! I LOVE when stuff like this turns up. A posting by the Commodore International Historical Society reveals the Introducing the AMIGA 300 manual. For those who weren't tracking this model the WONDERFULamiga-news.de has a bit more on the back story!
Interesting... Keep an eye on
- Amiga-news.de reports that the fake company known as Amiga Technologies UG is no longer. Over the past few years former Phase 5 employee Salvador Fernand1ez Gomez had been registering a large amount Amiga related websites in an attempt to imply ownership of the IP. In July one of them has been taken down. Hopefully they rest will be too.
- New issue: Amiga Future #170 has been published
Amiga Legal News Update
- Guess what time it is kiddies? I can't hear you....
Today's Theme
- Random links...
New Links (15) YTD (395)
- Getting online with PiStorm32, Miami DX and Encrypted WiFi": {Thread @ Amiga.org where AndyFC discusses his '...the steps I took to be able to browse using the new WiFiPi wireless network driver, and Miami DX.'}
- DeluxePaint: DeluxePaint/DPaint original 1986 amiga source code; Includes manual book and reference card pdfs for DPaint 1
- IP Innovation v. Red Hat/Novell - The Prior Art They Used at Trial - Updated: {An interesting story where in this case the Amiga 1000 was used to argue prior art in the patent case between IP Innovation vs Red Hat/Novell}
- GloomAmiga: Source code to the Amiga FPS classic by Black Magic
- Ambermoon: Historical source code and documents related to Ambermoon, the role-playing game developed by Thalion Software GmbH, and published for the Commodore Amiga in 1993.
- LOAD Magazine: {Translated German} LOAD is the magazine of the association for the preservation of classic computers. LOAD is a magazine for retro lovers who are interested in home computers, classic game consoles and their software. Whether it's hardware, games, application programs, articles about long-forgotten computers or news and reports from the retro scene, all of this makes the magazine interesting for every reader who is interested in the topics of retro computing and retro gaming. LOAD first appears as a printed edition. The magazine is designed entirely by the association's members - we write articles, do the layout, prepare the prepress and also take care of distribution.
- Hyperion Confirms Leak Of AmigaOS 3.1 Source Code: Hyperion Entertainment confirmed that at the end of December the source code to AmigaOS 3.1 was leaked, which is now causing problems for the company continuing to develop this proprietary operating system. Hyperion owns an exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to AmigaOS 3.1 granted by Amiga Inc following Hyperion's development of AmigaOS 4, which is derived from the v3.1 code-base. Because of this deal with Amiga Inc, the source leak of AmigaOS 3.1 is causing big problems for the company even though AmigaOS 3.1 is more than two decades old.
- Multimonitor Amiga Setup with P96: {youtube} A demonstration of a multimonitor setup for classic Amiga OS using P96. It's still a bit clunky, but with some recent updates to P96, it feels a lot more modern.
- Fitting an External, Boot – selectable Gotek Drive to an A500: I wouldn’t really call this an upgrade as such, more taking advantage of the latest developments in the Amiga scene. In case you’ve never heard of it, the ‘Gotek’ drive is basically a 3.5″ Floppy Drive emulator. Instead of putting floppy disks in it you plug in a USB flash drive that can contain up to a thousands Amiga Disk Files or ‘ADF’s’ (floppy disk images).
- DIY Amiga VGA adapter – GBS-8200 Part #1: This adapter would allow me to use the VGA input of my PC monitor for “testing” purposes and open up many more display possibilities without having to steal the OSSC from my 1200.
- Amiga 2000 / 2500 to VGA using GBS-8200 “Arcade” Scaler: The Commodore Amiga produces RGB video output @ 15khz. It has the ability to run in a higher resolution mode which causes a crazy amount of flicker when the screen refreshes... I used one of the scalers that are popular with us arcade people to scale the video to drive a VGA monitor. This is pretty well known, really the most limiting part is getting hold of DB-23 connectors.... I was more than impressed by the output from the scaler board, it looks really good.
- AmigaGCConDocker: AmigaGCConDocker is a project with different Docker images that can be used as the base for a cross-compiling development environment for AmigaOS 4 (ppc-amigaos). They are based on GCC versions 8, 9, 10 and 11 and they are using Ubuntu OS. They have installed everything needed (gcc compiler, SDKs, libraries) for compiling your applications out of the box. The purpose of the project is to be an up-to-date, flexible and out-of-the-box solution for cross-compiling applications for Amiga OS4, using the GCC C/C++ compiler. Those Docker images can be used on CI/CD solutions for automatic testing, compiling, packaging and deployment.
- Andy Warhol: Machine Made - Sale of 5 Unique NFTs Totals $3.38M: ...The sale success again underscores Andy Warhol’s stature as the reigning king of Pop Art, now in both physical and digital-native art forms. Originally created in 1985, Andy Warhol’s ‘Amiga’ drawings were meticulously restored from obsolete floppy disks in 2014. For the Christie’s sale, The Andy Warhol Foundation exclusively minted five unique NFTs that point to restored and preserved files from the 2014 project.
- Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985 {ARCHIVED 08 Jun 2017}: A multi-institutional team of new-media artists, computer experts, and museum professionals have discovered a dozen previously unknown experiments by Andy Warhol (BFA, 1949) on aging floppy disks from 1985. The purely digital images, “trapped” for nearly 30 years on Amiga® floppy disks stored in the archives collection of The Andy Warhol Museum (AWM), were discovered and extracted by members of the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Computer Club, with assistance from the AWM’s staff, CMU’s Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (FRSCI), the Hillman Photography Initiative at the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA), and New York based artist Cory Arcangel.
- Long-lost Andy Warhol portrait of Blondie singer Debbie Harry discovered in Delaware, going up for sale for potential millions : A long-lost Andy Warhol portrait of Blondie singer Debbie Harry from 1985 that has been hanging in rural Delaware, is going up for sale, we hear, for potential millions. The Harry portrait — and a signed disk of 10 Warhol images — was created on an early home computer when Warhol was an ambassador for a now-defunct tech outfit. Nearly 40 years ago, the famous artist signed on as a brand ambassador to early tech company Commodore and created a portrait of the “Heart of Glass” singer on an Amiga 1000 home computer as part of a promo at Lincoln Center.
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Another slow week but I'm still here!
Interesting... Keep an eye on
- I'm not quite sure I missed this but Walkero, and I quote, "devoted a lot of time working on the aiostreams package for the AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, making online video and audio streaming easier for the user, especially for websites that are resources hungry like YouTube and Twitch". Here's the 'rest of the story'... Do you want to find and watch YouTube content blazing fast?
Amiga Legal News Update
- Time keeps on ticking.. ticking ... ticking... Into the future....
Today's Theme
- Random links...
New Links (15) YTD (380)
- Do you want to find and watch YouTube content blazing fast?: For more than 3 years, I devoted a lot of time working on the aiostreams package for the AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, making online video and audio streaming easier for the user, especially for websites that are resources hungry like YouTube and Twitch. Those websites need a lot of power and a strong web browser to work, which plenty of times the AmigaNG systems do not have. So I created a few python scripts, which can also be used on other system like Lnux and MacOS.
- aiostreams new release": {Thread @ amigans.net covering the release and comments about the wonderful program aiostreams by walkero}
- aiostreams: {Homepage with the links for Twitch & Invidious(youtube)}
- The Innovative Apollo Team Amiga Interview: The team behind one of the most innovative accelerators for Classic Amiga is on fire. They don’t hold back anything it seems as Apollo Team really wants Classic Amiga to be a strong computing platform. So, I’ve got a nice talk with the main person behind it Gunnar von Boehn.
- Apollo Vampire V4 SA & ICEDrake Notes: {Lots of very detailed notes}This is a placeholder for a short set of notes on configuring and using your Apollo V4 SA and ICEDrake. This guide will obviously grow over time and do so at my own pace. I find that building and maintaining a resource like this is very helpful for myself and sharing it without warranty for others to use at their own risk.
- Commodore 1084 monitor: The Commodore 1084 monitor was Commodore’s flagship monitor, a monitor that worked with everything they produced in the late 1980s, including the C-64, the C-128 in 40 and 80 column modes, the Amiga line, and Commodore’s CGA-equipped PC clones like the Commodore Colt. Its versatility makes it popular with retro computer enthusiasts today. Not only does it work with almost any Commodore computer, it also works with a lot of non-Commodore computers.
- Amiga Pi : Welcome to my AmigaPi page! AmigaPi is a collection of menu driven scripts that ease the installation of Pi Package and Configuration of Raspberry Pi Amiga related hardware and software based solutions.
- 8bit Legends: Legends of the Commodore 64 & Amiga scene {Dedicated memorial pages for Commodore & Amiga legends that are no longer with us}
- Forward Porting with Legacy Media and Code – Part 1: AlphaPixel often gets called upon to work on legacy codebases, sometimes VERY legacy. We have contact with code from the 80s and 90s on a regular basis, in a variety of dialects and languages, and stored and archived in various difficult containers and mediums.
- coffin - a ready to boot OS3.9+ distro for AC68080 and PiStorm systems: coffin r63 requires at least GOLD2.16 core on V2 and core r9128 on V4 (Standalone, IceDrake, FireBird or Manticore) to run. If you do not have an updated core, coffin will offer you on first boot to update it to latest recommended version.
- CaffeineOSC: I am finally authoring a blog post on an Amiga, albeit a emulator it seems to be working well. Using Final Writer 97 on CaffienOS. I am always amazed how many releases of Amiga OS there are and how many modern products continue to be developed. I believe the Amiga just refuses to die and lives perpetually at this point. Only time will tell whether a younger audience will come in to play and infuse more interest and this additional life. Many of us are getting older and that is the risk of the interest dwindling verses continuing to live forever.
- CaffeineOS for PiStorm / PiStorm32: If you bought CaffeineOS on Ebay, Etsy or wherever, ask for your money back! You have just been ripped off! CaffeineOS is free. Buy me a coffee.
- CaptLeChuck: Welcome to CaffeineOS. If you enjoy it, please consider supporting what I do. Thank you. To request access to the download use the link below.
- Welcome to CaffeineOS: {CaffineOS page}
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Well color me surprised... Another slow week in the world of the Amiga but at least we're still here to enjoy it!
Interesting... Keep an eye on
- New event: October 31 to November 3 Amiga Meeting 25 is being held in Neumünster, Germany. Petro Tyschtschenko will the special guest.
- New issue: WhatIFF? #14 has been published
Amiga Legal News Update
- Keep moving... There is NOTHING to see here...
Today's Theme
- Random links...
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- TooIzzi: TooIzzi is a small game development studio located in Brazil. Its name is a play on words combining "too" with "easy" in English, representing our commitment to creating games that are easy to learn but not so easy to master. Our focus is on developing intelligent games with mechanics that challenge players logical reasoning. We believe games should be both enjoyable and cognitively stimulating. We are a small team that creates small games, but they are fun and enjoyable to play.
- 30 years ago: When the C64 and Amiga pioneer Commodore went bankrupt : 30 years ago today, the home computer era came to an end with the bankruptcy of Commodore. For fans of the cult computers C64 and Amiga, it is a day of mourning
- What was Burst Mode on the 68030 and why didn't the A2630 support it?: Inspired by this question, I'm curious what burst mode was on the 68030 and why wasn't it supported on the A2630 accelerator card commonly found in the Amiga 2500/30? I had one of these machines and always enabled burst mode and was under the impression it did something.
- Copy Protection Used on Commodore Amiga Computers: Background. The Amiga floppy controller is unusually flexible since it is implemented in the custom chips of the Amiga itself. It can read and write raw bit sequences directly from and to the disk via DMA or programmed I/O at 500 (double density) or 250 kbit/s (single density or GCR)... CopyLock - Rob Northen Computing
- 8bit Legends: Legends of the Commodore 64 & Amiga scene {Dedicated memorial pages for Commodore & Amiga legends that are no longer with us}
- The Greaseweazle: I've always liked the idea of the Greaseweazle. I tried to build one some time ago with a spare Blue Pill board I had. Suffice to say, I never got it working for one reason or another and soon lost interest... ... It has just arrived so I thought I'd document the learning process now so that when I need to use it, I can just refer back to these notes instead of having to try and piece it together. For all I know, it might be simple enough to not need these notes.... we shall find out.
- Sensible World of Soccer: {Updated home of the SWOS. News, Downloads, Tournaments, Online Leagues, Rankings, Forums, Support and more!}
- Kick Off 2 – Online: Kick Off 2 Online is a fan-made project which brings the classic 90s Amiga fun directly to your internet-enabled Windows machine.
- Raemixx500: Rämixx500 is an Open Hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ mainboard, revision 8A.1.
- Raemixx500 V2 - Amiga 500+ Mainboard Remake: Raemixx500 is an Open Hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ mainboard, revision 8A.1, which fully passed all tests.
- Bumbershoot Software: An Umbrella Site for Michael Martin's software experiments. {A VERY nice site covering the internal details on MANY different systems. Within the Amiga section you will find A LOT of Amiga 500 programming tutorials covering everything from: Drawing a Bitmap on Bare-Metal, Mode Switching, Alt Graphics Memory Layouts, Bare-Metal Startup Code and More}
- Platform Guide: Commodore Amiga: {Michael Martin's links for: Online Resources, Reference Books, Setting Up an Emulation Environment, Setting Up a Cross-Dev Environment, Writing a C Program, Writing an Assembly Language Program & Articles About the System}
- Welcome to the Amiga Libraries FTP !: You can find here all the latest Amiga Classics Libraries.
- Simulated Evolution for the Amiga: The Amiga port of Simulated Evolution is done. This started out as a one-shot project—taking a project specification from Scientific American‘s old “Computer Recreations” column and putting it through its paces with the full power that the 21st century had to offer—but it ended up inspiring a bit of extra work as well.
- zz9000-firmware Releases: {Direct link to the zz9000 firmware and drivers page. From 1.8 beta to the most current version.
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Nothing interesting to report this week so just sit back and enjoy the links!
Interesting... Keep an eye on
- The David Pleasance book Dare to Dream was successfully funded. Good job everyone!
Amiga Legal News Update
- Magic 8 ball... Will there be any news next week? << shake >> << shake >> << shake >> Outlook not so good!
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- Remembering the Amiga (25th Anniversary): A few weeks ago (July 24th to be exact) was the 25th anniversary of the Amiga. Although it wasn't my first computer, the Amiga 500 was probably the first computer I owned that felt special in some way. It was a hacker's computer, an audio/video entertainment box, a unique and colorful thing full of possibilities. The Amiga users I knew were different, too.
- Amiga 500 archive: The best source of tested ADF images of the best GAMES, DEMOS and TOOLS for your Amiga 500 computers. All the images have been properly tested on configuration: Amiga 500, 1 MB RAM (512kB Chip, 512kB Fast), KickRom 1.3, DF0 + DF1 (if the game is not loading properly, please turn your DF1 drive off to free more RAM and do a hard reboot), DrawBridge for using floppydisks or USB flashdisk for using with Gotek.
- Commodore 1084 monitor: The Commodore 1084 monitor was Commodore’s flagship monitor, a monitor that worked with everything they produced in the late 1980s, including the C-64, the C-128 in 40 and 80 column modes, the Amiga line, and Commodore’s CGA-equipped PC clones like the Commodore Colt. Its versatility makes it popular with retro computer enthusiasts today. Not only does it work with almost any Commodore computer, it also works with a lot of non-Commodore computers.
- Amiga Guide – Flash your own Gotek for less than £20 with no tools: We’ll cover how to install it into a 3D printed gotek mount in a later article and how to install an OLED screen. This will allow your gotek to fit snuggly inside your beloved Amiga with the case closed.
- 8bit Legends: Legends of the Commodore 64 & Amiga scene {Dedicated memorial pages for Commodore & Amiga legends that are no longer with us}
- C64PSU.com: COMMODORE C64 PSU, AMIGA PSU, ATARI PSU, ZX SPECTRUM PSU. New, TOP quality, reliable power supplies for vintage computers. C64, C64C, C64E, C128, VIC-20, Amiga 500, 600, 1200, Atari 520ST, 260ST & ZX Spectrum +2/+3 (A/B) Always powered by retro computing love the C64PSU is the only source of reliable power supply for your retro computer. Superior quality and unique features confirmed by thousands of Commodore C64 , C128 & Amiga users worldwide!
- Raspberry Pi A+/B+/2/3A+/3B/3B+/4 Amiga 500 case: A case for a RPi A+, B+, 2, 3B, 3A+, 4 in the shape of an amiga 500. This is based on Falken76's Amiga 500 model but has been stretched so as to fit a pi nicely without having to print an oversized case.
- Amiga 500 Computer: {Thingiverse A500 model}
- extract-adf: extract-adf is a tool that extracts files from (broken) Amiga OFS ADF/ADZ/DMS disk images. It will create all files with the correct directory hierarchy and the correct timestamps on the local filesystem. It is specially optimized for broken filesystems, and can recover as much as possible even on those. One use case is to extract the leftover files on the Kickstart 1.0 disk.
- Amiberry Amiga emulator for ARM boards: Amiberry is an optimized Amiga emulator, for ARM32, ARM64, x86_64 (macOS and Linux) and RISC-V platforms. The core emulation comes from WinUAE, and the main GUI is designed to look similar to that. However, not all WinUAE features are implemented, as Amiberry tries to achieve a balance between good performance on low-powered hardware and emulation accuracy. It includes JIT support, to get high-performance results on CPU-intensive emulated environments, like desktop applications. On top of that, there are some unique features developed specifically for Amiberry, such as the WHDLoad booter, support for RetroArch controller mapping, and several more.
- Gloom MODs: Have you already completed all levels of original "Gloom" (CD32 version)? If you bought a Floppy Disk Drive for CD32 (Analogic FDD is the most inexpensive), play following mods. You can download these mods for FREE. Enjoy these games as "Console games" !! You can also use 6 button pad for Mega Drive, one of the greatest control pad.
- Collection of Amiga part numbers collected while refurbishing repair an Amiga 500 Rev 8.1a in november 2013: {Tremendous list of Amiga chips, Commodore Part Number, Machine Used In, Troubleshooting Tips and more}
- Welcome to the Amiga Libraries FTP !: You can find here all the latest Amiga Classics Libraries.
- Unijoysticle (tm) 2: Unijoysticle is a device that allows you to use modern Bluetooth gamepads and mice in retro computers.
- Amiga questions you've always been too embarrassed to ask": {Thread @ EAB asking the question 'Did you ever have an Amiga related question that seemed too simplistic, something you should normally know the answer to and are therefore too ashamed to ask? I thought it would be nice to have a thread for such questions. Thread rule: nobody is allowed to laugh, no matter how stupid the question is.'}
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Things are again kinda quiet here in AmigaLand but that's not always a bad thing. This gives us time to sit back and smell the roses!
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- I like this video of a Multimonitor Amiga Setup with P96. Yes it's not as smooth as a modern system but even with some limitations but it does work. While this is cool, us fellow Commodore 128 users have been there done that for quite a few years!. << grin >>
- It seems like 1/2 of the posts in this section is me saying 'I'm not quite sure how I missed...' but that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Well this time I know I don't spend a lot of time on the Apollo forums but when I do somehow I missed this proposed design. Behold the V4-ShapeShifter and V4-Salamander. These are V4 Firebirds including adapters for Amiga 1000 and 2000. WOW! Now if the could just finish the Kraken.
- Here's something I wasn't tracking. probably because they are not a monthly or even sometimes a yearly publication. The German magazine LOAD. They just published issue #10. Enjoy
- New issue: Amiga Addict #31 has been published
- New issue: REV'n'GE #160 has been published
- New issue: Commodore Free #99 has been published
- New issue: LOAD #10 has been published
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- Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) Version 3.0: Simple Directmedia Layer, 2.x / 3.x for AmigaOS 4. SDL3 is in "main" branch and SDL2 is in "SDL2" branch. SDL1 is in another repo
- ACE - Amiga C Engine: Game engine / framework / support library written totally in C for classic Amiga hardware. Lightweight, flexible and hackable. ACE uses Amiga hardware features directly, aiming for as much speed as possible. The code is OS-friendly, allowing running from and exiting to Workbench gracefully. Current feature set is OCS-oriented, although produced code should work on AGA just fine.
- Consumer - Amiga Memory Log Tool: Have you ever needed to know how much memory something is consuming? Maybe a game or a memory hungry app? Perhaps you made your own game, and want to know how much system requirements are needed. This tool is a printed text log of your Amiga memory, either manually operated or fully automatic. The results are printed on the screen, and also in a text file stored in S:.
- Low Profile RGBtoHDMI for Amiga 500 : This board gives a pixel-perfect HDMI output from your Amiga 500 using a Raspberry Pi Zero (not included). It is a brand new version of the CPLD RGBtoHDMI for Amiga 500/500+. The Raspberry Pi Zero / Zero 2W (not included) goes through the board to make it extra low profile, it easily fits under an accelerator that is on a relocator, such as a TF536. If you have a revision 3 Amiga 500 motherboard, you will need the CSYNC clip option. All other motherboard revisions will not need this.
- Amiga 1000 Repair: I was at the Norwich Games Festival last week, along with six of Amigas and a BBC Master 128 with Valiant Turtle. Whilst I was there, OMTG Retro handed me his Amiga 1000 and asked if I could fix it for him, it wouldn’t boot. So, I had a look into it.
- Amiga IPX library: Amiga IPX library - from the late 90s. Originally written to support Doom networking on a LAN with PC. Makes use of SANA2 drivers.
- System73: Real Programmer with screwdriver. Born to nerd. Respawned 80s game developer. Tech, games, cycling, sci-fi and old computers. Contents may vary.
- Codecraft Integrated Development Enviroment: Codecraft is the powerful IDE for developing software natively on the Amiga. Codecraft makes it easy for you as a developer to write code, then build, execute and debug your resulting program. And everything is at your fingertips in one unified user interface. Shows your project tree as a hierarchical list of source files, Provides easy modern text editing, Builds the project tree invoking your build system, Runs your resulting program & Does source level debugging with breakpoints and inspection of variables. The software is free. But it works as an extension to TextEdit so AmigaOS 3.2.2 or better is required.
- Happy birthday, Amiga: The 'other' home computer turns 30: On July 23, 1985, Commodore kicked off a new era in its history with the launch of the Amiga 1000. Through the 1980s and into the early 90s, the Amiga built for itself a cult following and gained a reputation as a personal computer ahead of its time.
- The Amiga cannot be redefined at will!: Commodore’s bankruptcy left behind a host of orphans who continue to this day to keep alive the memory of those marvellous machines that made us rejoice, and among them a prominent place is certainly that of the Amiga, because it presented features that revolutionised the “personal” computer sector.
- [DEVLOG] Alien Breed 3D 2: The Killing Grounds total conversion for GZDoom: The release of Doom was a great day for PC users. For Amiga users, however, it was just another nail in the coffin. FPS games were uncommon on the Amiga, and John Carmack himself said that the Amiga just wouldn't be capable of running Doom. But the Amiga community just wouldn't take no for an answer. A select number of games were released for the system including Gloom, Fears, Alien Breed 3D and Alien Breed 3D 2: The Killing Grounds... So here I am introducing my devlog for a total conversion project of Alien Breed 3D 2: The Killing Grounds (TKG) for GZDoom.
- E-VO Amiga E Compiler: E-VO Amiga E Compiler is a derivative of the original Amiga E compiler written by Wouter van Oortmerssen. It adds many new features, bug fixes and optimisations including object UNIONs, string merging, non word-aligned objects and many more.
- Commodore 1084 monitor: The Commodore 1084 monitor was Commodore’s flagship monitor, a monitor that worked with everything they produced in the late 1980s, including the C-64, the C-128 in 40 and 80 column modes, the Amiga line, and Commodore’s CGA-equipped PC clones like the Commodore Colt. Its versatility makes it popular with retro computer enthusiasts today. Not only does it work with almost any Commodore computer, it also works with a lot of non-Commodore computers.
- Retro Fuzion: Retro Tech, State of the Art Solutions! {Online shop for Commodore, Amiga, Mac, Radio Shack, Amstrad, IBM & PC, Atari and Sinclair parts and more}
- 8bit Legends: Legends of the Commodore 64 & Amiga scene {Dedicated memorial pages for Commodore & Amiga legends that are no longer with us}
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! While things have been quiet on the Amiga side, earlier this week LemonAmiga was taken down by a hack of their site. Fortunately they have been able to quickly get the site back up again. GREAT job!!!
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- I'm surprise I'm not seeing this project mentioned in more places... Currently an unknown user (I'm trying to locate a name), over at Amiga Retro Brisbane is working on a mini-DTX sized edition of the Amiga 2000 called the BUSHFIRE. Currently they are on their 2nd working prototype and intends to release it open source once everything is correct. Some of the highlights are: the custom chips and the CPU have been moved to separate boards, onboard RGB2HDMI interface (just add a PI), lots of internal headers and more. I like that it's designed to be upgraded and they are thinking about addign a RTG card based upon the GBAII++ project. VERY COOL! I with then all the best and can't wait to see where this winds up!
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- Introducing the SMD2000 “Bushfire”: This is the SMD2000 “BUSHFIRE”, a mini-DTX sized edition of the Amiga 2000. It is designed to fit into a Silverstone ML09 case. This project was begun in July 2023 and is now nearing the end of development... The “Why?” question got asked a lot when I first told our local Brisbane group what I was doing. The short answer is because I want to and I can, and it’s led to a deeper understanding of how our machines work.
- A500-GraKa GBAPII++: This is an Zorro/Expansionport -expansion card for the big Amigas: A2000/300/4000 or A500 on the expansion port. It has a Picasso96-compatible RTG-driver and an automatic monitor switch. The board is based on the PicassoII++ card originally developped by Georg Braun, who unfortunately left the Amiga community. The used VGA-Chip is a Cirrus GD5434 in ISA-mode and 2MB RAM.
- New GBAPII++ RTG-ZorroII graphic cards": {Thread @ EAB discussing the New GBAPII++ RTG-ZorroII graphic cards}
- Adding a Graphics Card to the Amiga 500: Always after ways to push the trusty Amiga 500 to new limits, I discovered a post on the German A1k.org website about someone who had fitted a graphics card to his A500. This was a feat I felt I should replicate. I’m almost, but not quite, there. However, there were lots of hoops which needed jumping through first...
- Adding a Graphics Card to the Amiga 500, part 2: After a bit of debugging, it started to look like one of the memory chips wasn’t working properly. I dropped a message to the Kryoflux team and Matze, the card’s creator, asked me to send it in for repair. Despite the Christmas holidays getting in the way, Matze did a grand job and sorted it out promptly.
- Getting the Amiga CD32 online: Yes, 59 kilobits per second of PURE INTERNET! But how did I get here? Well, follow me and I’ll show you. The basic concept is to use the Amiga’s serial port to talk to an ESP8266 running a SLIP Router, which will then link to your wifi and the internet.
- Installing AmigaOS 3.2 - First Impressions!: So, AmigaOS 3.2 is available, at the moment as a physical installation from selected resellers. No matter your opinion of Hyperion, I hope people are at least in favour of supporting the resellers who keep the Amiga dream alive by purchasing the CD (yes, CD!) and any rom chips needed.
- name {ARCHIVED 23 Sep 2018}: Lately I’ve noticed a lot of questions on how to partition and prepare Compact Flash card (or HDD) for use with Amiga, so I’ve decided to write this tutorial on how to do it and format them as PFS3 partitions. At least this is how I do it :). Using PC with WinUAE to prepare everything and just pop finished card in Amiga, ready to go.
- binutils-gdb: binutils targeted for ppc-amigaos systems (AmigaOS NG like OS4.1).
- libs-ports: Scripts to port third party libs for AmigaOS 4
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Just another standard update this week. Nothing to out of the ordinary but that's ok. At least we are ALL still here and that's what matters!
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- I saw this thread on EAB by Tchucolate (Retronaut) asking "Do you need a new Amiga floppy disc drive?" Here is links to a 1 hr long video where he shows you "how I converted 3 common models of PC drive... Samsung SFD-231B, Alps DF354h {&} TEAC FD-235 all to work perfectly on an Amiga. Ultimately you will find yourself at youtube watching this VERY well done and detailed video. Converting PC 3.5" floppy Drives to work on the Amiga. Now if someone could find a way to convert a pc drive to an Amiga HD floppy I would be ecstatic!
- It looks like David Plesence is at it again and this time he's delving into fiction end of the pool. He along with Dave Haynie Dare to Dream: Commodore and Amiga Today? A Vision of What Commodore and Amiga Could Have Been... Should Have Been.... Together they tell a story on what 'could' have been. To be honest I think this will be a hard one to read.
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- Converting PC 3.5" floppy to work on the Amiga {youtube} {Tchucolate (Retronaut) asks "Do you need a new Amiga floppy disc drive? In this 1 hr long video he shows you how he converted 3 common models of PC drive... Samsung SFD-231B, Alps DF354h & the TEAC FD-235 to all to work perfectly on an Amiga.}
- Serial Transfer for a fresh Amiga Part 1 {ARCHIVED 5 Dec 2021}: Using serial to transfer files. When i was setting up my amiga, i needed a way to get files onto floppy disk. My first instinct was to look up how people used to do it or how people do it now. The first suggestion everywhere was to use Amiga Explorer and a null-modem cable or parallel laplink cable. I had the cable already but being me, i didn’t want to pay for an out of the box solution. I settled on the opportunity cost of DIYing it with free resources was my way forward.
- A.S.T. Amiga PAGE: I have written a program called ADF Sender Terminal, which should make it easy to get your ADF files back to your Amiga or from Amiga to PC. Since V1.2 both directions are possible. Transwarp allows a baudrate up to 115200 from Amiga to PC. V 1.3 and higher can send single tracks. This progarm is useful for Amiga Computers with little RAM (512k,1MB) System requirements: 32Bit Windows (e.g.: 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP)
- ITX small form factor Amiga computer case: A computer case shaped like an Amiga 500. Externally modeled accurately from my real life Amiga 500+. Advanced project for builders that know how to fabricate some things like cables and adapt and paint parts to fit their hardware. All parts will fit a normal 200x200 size bed. The non-split IO needs at least 234x234 mm bed or similad rectangular bed, but the split versions do not.
- Commodore Amiga 1200 enclosure: This is a photorealistic and high-detailed 3d print model with 1:1 resolution, compatible to Amiga 1200 keyboard and motherboard. Amiga 1200(also known as A1200) was a popular home computer in 90s which was a low-end version of high-end Amiga-s with AGA architecture, it had a Motorola MC68EC020 processor inside and a new advanced AGA chipset. It also had a hard drive inside in HD versions, so it was possible to install OS and use it as a very convenient home computer. Model was printed and tested on real keyboard and motherboard.
- Commodore Amiga 500 case 3d print model: This is a 1:1 photorealistic full resolution and high detailed 3d print model of Commodore Amiga 500 enclosure. It is suitable for 3d printing or plastic molding. All sockets perfectly fit the original motherboard. You can use this 3d case to mod and improve your Commodore Amiga 500 computer or just to make a full-size emulator on Raspberry Pi and etc. The small printers 210x210 mms are also suitable for printing - just use 6 parts version. You can find a model split to 6 parts, which fit the 3d printer table, and a model for 400x400 printers(with 4 parts). Parts are connected using M2 screws, which are soldered inside the plastic.
- Restoration : Spengat Technologies IWS500 Industrial Amiga Workstation": {Thread @ Australian Computer Museum discussing the Spengat Technologies IWS500 Industrial Amiga Workstation. A rack mounted A500. Lots of pictures and ex staffer Paul chimes in with a lot additional details. Very nice find!}
- Dune II: The Building of A Remaster: Documenting the development of a new Amiga AGA and OCS version. Dune II on the Amiga was a really popular game. Most gaming magazines gave it rave reviews and it can consistently be found on "Best Amiga Games Ever"-type lists. Despite all of those accolades, the game on the Amiga wasn't as good as it could have been... My goal is to document the creation of a remake of Dune 2 for the Amiga from scratch the way it was meant to be released and to right all of those wrongs — and more; there was no native PAL support, for example. I was on the original Dune 2 Amiga team at Westwood. Even though I did the bulk of the Dune II conversion, leaving Westwood before it was released was something I still regret, and so I want to give the Amiga community the Dune 2 experience they deserve.
- J'AmiStore: This is an implementation of the Amiga AmiStore application in Java. The reason for implementing a clone is, because the Amiga native app didn’t let me login. (So I couldn’t buy anything.) Nobody could help me resp. tell why I cannot log in. Thus I helped myself and went into the rapid hole black box analyzing the communication between the server and the application. The result ins’t a feature complete relica. Furthermore it doesn’t bother to make it pretty with images from the offered products, etc. And it probably doesn’t behave well if errors are encounter. But nevertheless it fulfill my needs to buy stuff from the store. Maybe others can have use of it, too.
- Clib4 - C runtime library for AmigaOS4: This is a fork of official clib2 present in adtools. The point of this library is to make it Amiga OS4 only to maintain it easily and add all missing clib2 features that are hard to add also on classic amigas. Classic amigas has also ixemul that is the most complete, POSIX compliant, library we have. It is useless share code that most probably no one will use. Te goal is to try to make it POSIX compliant and fix also all C++ problems we have with newer compilers. All warnings (except really few one) produced by GCC 10 and above are now gone. All deprecated OS4 functions are replaced by modern OS4 one
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! It feels GREAT to be posting in 'real time' again! If there's one thing I LOVE about the Amiga community is how dedicated and passionate we are. No matter how bad things seem to get we just keep hanging in there, Baby!
Hi how ya doing? I'm just hanging around...
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- Check this out. Due to issues of his native Amiga AMIStore application, developer migthymax took matters into his own hands and wrote a java version called J'AmiStore. As he puts it "The reason for implementing a clone is, because the Amiga native app didn’t let me login. (So I couldn’t buy anything.) Nobody could help me resp. tell why I cannot log in. Thus I helped myself and went into the rapid hole black box analyzing the communication between the server and the application. The result ins’t a feature complete relica. Furthermore it doesn’t bother to make it pretty with images from the offered products, etc. And it probably doesn’t behave well if errors are encounter. But nevertheless it fulfill my needs to buy stuff from the store. Maybe others can have use of it, too." Sorry it had to come to this but this type of dedication should come as no surprise to your average Amiga user. Thank you migthymax!
- I was not tracking this program at all. A new version of AirScan, a document scanner utility, has been released. It uses the ESCL protocol which allows network scanning directly from the device without having to install drivers on the Amiga! VERY COOL!!
- Long time Amiga supporter and the head of the "Fresno Commodore User Group", Robert Bernardo, take us on an almost 1hr tour of Trevor Dickinson's INCREDIBLE Amiga collection. Dickinson Tour of His Computers -- March 2024: Trevor Dickinson of A-EON shows his massive collection of Commodore and Amiga computers. Then he briefly shows the AmigaOne X1000, X5000, and A1222+ , and he makes some comments on the A1222+ finally being produced. Now the only one I can think who would give Trevor a run for his money would be Bo Zimmerman. Check out his MINDBLOWING collection!
- This the kind of thing that warms my heart. Original Westwood team member Robert Koon has created a patreon account to track his development of a new Amiga AGA and OCS version of DUNE ][. As he puts it "My goal is to document the creation of a remake of Dune 2 for the Amiga from scratch the way it was meant to be released and to right all of those wrongs — and more; there was no native PAL support, for example." I'm sure he will do a fine job!
- New event: on 15 Sept 24 the 4th annual Passione Amiga day will be held in Piazza Garibaldi, 31 06049 Spoleto (Italy. Held by organized by Passione Amiga, the printed magazine for Amiga enthusiasts and lovers in Italian language with commercial exhibitors, conferences with Italian and international guests and a flea market. Sounds like it will be a very nice time!
- New issue: Amiga Future #169 has been published
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- Amiga 1200: Installing AmigaOS 3.9: After having Amiga OS 3.1 on the 1200 for a while, I'd decided it was time to upgrade to Amiga OS 3.9. I had instantly realised there was a problem with this; the installation media is on a CD! There was no way I was going digging for an accelerator card with SCSI, or a PCMCIA CD Drive, so I resorted to emulation to get the OS installed. Therefore, henceforth are the steps required to build a compactflash card with a real OS for use on real hardware. Godspeed.
- WHDLoad-Download-Tool: WHDLoad-Download-Tool is a tool to help manage and download Retroplay's WHDLoad archives. Main Features: Uses Retroplay's dat files for it's database, so is always up to date, Flexible on where files are saved to, Supports the beta WHDLoad sets and WHDLoad disk magazines, Download to different folder setups, Over 50 filters available including all supported languages, Create your own curated lists that can be shared, Scan your existing set and remove unneeded files, Only downloads what you are missing, HTTP and FTP support & Full CRC32 file checksum support.
- Dickinson Tour of His Computers -- March 2024: Trevor Dickinson of A-EON shows his massive collection of Commodore and Amiga computers. Then he briefly shows the AmigaOne X1000, X5000, and A1222+ , and he makes some comments on the A1222+ finally being produced.
- Commodore Computer Prehistory: {History of Commodore from 1948 till 2012}
- An Essential Guide to Commodore Computer Models: If you were a child of the 1970s or 1980s you probably have fond memories of the early days of the “home computer” industry. Apple, Atari, TI, and several other companies all made their mark but none of them have a legacy quite like Commodore. Most people alive in that era remember the Commodore 64. After all, it’s still the best selling single computer model of all time. But there’s a long list of other Commodore computer models as well. Let’s take a trip down memory lane and see what else they did.
- commodorehistory.com: Welcome to commodorehistory.com! We are a team of passionate computer enthusiasts and history lovers who are focused on documenting and sharing the history of Commodore computers. Our mission is to create a comprehensive archive of information about the history of Commodore, including the development and evolution of the various models, as well as the impact they had on the computer industry and broader society. We aim to make this information accessible to anyone interested in the history of computers, regardless of their level of technical knowledge.
- Commodore History. Commodore's Retro Computer History. : This site was made mostly thanks to The 8-Bit Guy’s Commodore History video. And serves mainly for a brief and easy to scroll through timeline of Commodore’s place in early computing history.
- Aira Force: A downloadable tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux. This is a tool for reverse engineering Amiga 680x0 software. It allows binaries to be disassembled and investigated. The primary goal of this project is to provide a graphical user interface on top of the excellent ira “reassembler” to accelerate the workflow. Aira Force implements “reassembly” using the ira disassembler and the vasm assembler. Ira transforms the source executable or raw binary into assembly language source code, then vasm assembles the source code. The output binary should be identical (or equivalent) to the input binary.
- Birthplace of the Amiga": {Thread @ reddit with a picture. This is where Hi-Toro's Amiga "Lorraine" was born. Probably the last great creation of Jay Miner and crew. This was their office at 3350 Scott Blvd, Building 7 in Santa Clara, CA almost 40 years ago. They worked here before moving to Los Gatos and later Westchester, PA. Picture taken March 30, 2024.}
- amateursoftwaregroup: Creating software for the amiga environment for the fun of it. {Makers of AirScan an Amiga scanner utility based on the ESCL protocol, Music Tagger the id3 tagger, supports v1 and v2 tags and CDIRIP the linux port of CDIrip
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Well I did it! I'm finally caught up! I'm sure over the last 4 months I have missed quite a few important stories and topics but I'll see what I can do to make up for that and I can PROMISE you I don't plan on do this %$^^&$ again anytime soon! LOL!
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- Well... Now that I'm finally caught up NOW would be a GREAT time to give us some REALLY GOOD NEWS!!!
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- Finnish Amiga Users Group (officially Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.): Finnish Amiga Users Group (officially Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a registered, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Finnish Amiga computer users by preserving and advancing the Amiga hobby and knowledge of the Amiga computing platform in Finland. The group aims to reach its goals through volunteer efforts such as maintaining a website and discussion forums and organizing events.
- Coppenheimer 0.2: Realtime Amiga monitor. Powered by vAmiga and vAmigaWeb {Live on the Web}
- coppenheimer: An alternative UI for vAmigaWeb with realtime memory inspection.
- AmigaPCI: The AmigaPCI is an OCS/ECS Amiga computer in the ATX form factor. It provides a flexible CPU Local Bus port, five AUTOCONFIG PCI slots for expansion purposes such as video and sound, an on-board dual port ATA controller, and offers performance improvements over legacy Amiga designs.
- AmigaPCI Hardware Reference: This document is an in-depth description of the architecture of the AmigaPCI system. Although all efforts have been made to make the document as complete and error-free as possible, it is presented AS-IS. No warranty or guarantee is made that the contents are valid for all use cases. This document assumes at least basic knowledge of Motorola, Amiga, and PCI architecture. This document introduces unique concepts, including specifications for AUTOCONFIG capable PCI devices.
- PCI Hardware Developer Reference: This document defines how the PCI Local Bus Rev. 2.3 specification is implemented in the AmigaPCI. It is not a substitute for the PCI Local Bus Specification or relevant Motorola user manuals. It is expected the reader has reviewed and understands the tenants of the PCI Bus as defined in the PCI Local Bus Specification, Rev 2.3, and the relevant Motorola user manuals.
- -- Amiga Error Colours, Blinks and Guru Codes --: Here is some info I gathered from around the web concerning your Amigas boot sequence, and the error codes which your computer will provide to help pinpoint damage and issues. Do let me know if this info is correct or wrong!
- Transferring Software and Data from Amiga to PC: The Amiga Explorer software, which is available in a stand-alone version and as part of Amiga Forever, provides a very easy way to copy software and data from one system to the other, as long as the Amiga and the PC are connected with a serial cable (optionally via a USB serial interface or a Bluetooth adapter), or with TCP/IP (Ethernet, etc.) Other methods are explained in the pages referenced below.
- Amiga Video Slot to HDMI with Through Hole Components: This project was inspired by the Amiga Digital Video project by c0pperdragon. This design makes use of the Amiga 2000/3000 video slot and easy to solder through hole components, making it friendly for even the novice DIYer. At the time of writing this, all the components are available through DigiKey. This has been tested with both standard and Super Denise on Amiga 2000 rev 4.x and 6.x boards. The picture output is outstanding. It should be fully compatable with the Amiga 3000, but I do not have access to one for testing.
- Amiga-Mechanical-Keyboard: Mechanical keyboard for the Amiga 2000/3000/4000. This is a project I started while pausing on another project. This IS NOT a drop-in replacment for legacy Amiga keyboards. Rather, it is a new design using Cherry PCB mount switches and off the shelf key caps. I am not planning to work on this at the moment, but I may work on it again in the future. The schematics, PCB layout, and routing are complete (as far as I remember). All that's missing is the code for the STM FPGA.
- Marketed Commodore monitors (including Escom Amiga Monitors): by model number: {18 categories: name, picture, display type, made in, manufacturer, voltage versions, supported video input, video connectors, audio connectors, maximum resolution, release date, chassis design, best matching for (by time and class), user's manual, service manual, schematic diagram, repair info, others & additional photos or additional info covering 85 different models WOW!}
- Amiga 500 NTSC to Component Video Adapter: I saw this RGBS/VGA to YPbPr adapter on ebay for around $30 and thought I'd try it out. I already had a buffered VGA adapter (bought off ebay also) so I hooked it up with Amiga --> buffered VGA --> RGBS to YPrPb --> component output --> TV. At first, I thought it didn't work because the first TV I tried didn't support the component signals. I got a black screen. But I kept trying different TVs and about half of them would work, and when it worked, the output was absolutely beautiful. The TV deinterlacing was often perfect so you could use interlaced modes without any jitter.
- Rolling Picture on Commodore 1084S-P1": {Thread @ misterfpga.org discussing a rolling picture using a C=1084S-P1 monitor and in depth discussion about video signals and more}
- Creating a new Amiga OS: Reflections of a 50 year old developer: My first programming experience was Basic on a ZX81. Then my step-dad bought me a c64 and I was hooked. And I have been a software developer ever since. When I was lucky enough to get an Amiga, I started with Amiga Basic while dabbing in Kuma Seka Assembler, learning the ropes. Eventually Blitz Basic came onto the scene and it was a perfect match since it compiled to real binaries (real machine code, as opposed to bytecodes or “P-Code” as it was called back then), and allowed users to write inline assembly side-by-side with basic statements.
- Formatting an IDE Drive for use in an Amiga 500: You may have previously seen the IDE Adapters that I'd built for my Amiga 500 over here (internal) and here (external). Whilst they worked very well with FAT32 drives attached, I had no end of trouble trying to work out how to partition, format and mount as a native Amiga disk. For everything below, you'll want to use this bootdisk.
- Amiga 500 – Internal IDE Port: Whilst looking for side-car Amiga A590 Hard drives for the Amiga 500, I found this deisgn at PCBWay of an internal IDE interface. The design seemed pretty straight-forward, but it did have its caveats. The main one was that this device does not Auto-Configure and therefore needs a boot floppy to use it.
- Amiga 500 IDE Emulator: Very easy to build, small, internal, speed is 400-720kb/sec, able to mount OFS/FFS/fat95/...any? partitions. No autoboot, but it is working on a stock A500 (1.3 kickrom without fastram)!
- A500ide, a simple non-autobooting IDE Hard disk interface for Amiga 500 {ARCHIVED 15 May 2020}: These are instructions for building a simple non-autobooting IDE hard disk and ATAPI CDROM interface for Amiga 500's side slot connection. It might work with other Amigas. Many people have built this hack and it has worked without problems for many of them. But for some people it has not worked.
- Amiga 500 – External IDE Port: After building an internal IDE port for the Amiga 500, it was time to try an external port that connects to the expansion slot. This happened to be another lesson in taking-your-time-and-doing-proper-research.
- Zorro II Cards On The Amiga 500: The next build for my Amiga 500 was a Zorro II Card Slot Adapter. This unit uses the expansion slot on the left-hand side of the Amiga (just like the external IDE adapter) and provides a vertical slot to plug your Zorro II card into. It also has a standard floppy power plug and circuitry to choose this supply if provided, otherwise use power from the Amiga itself.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! My LAST backdated posting then I'm back on track! For what it's worth I will NEVER let myself get 3 months behind again! ha ha. This has been an absolute NIGHTMARE to update! AAGGHHH.. LOL!
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- Retro meeting, CZ and 1080p video on AmigaOS 4 with A1222: {Another wonderful blog post by Epsilon about his trip to the early May Adelaide Retro Computer group meeting and his adventure getting 1080p video on his A1222.}
- kernels: Linux kernels for X1000 and X5000 PowerPC computers.
- A-EON X1000: {Pictures, screenshots of the X1000 internals and it running various Linux distributions. Also older Linux kernels for the X1000 and X5000.}
- A1222 (Tabor board) Linux downloads: User Name: tabor. Password: amigaone {VArious Linux kernals, application, utilities, games and more}
- Using a Logitech K400 Plus Keyboard with the A1222 Plus: Using a PC oriented keyboard, and especially, one with a touchpad, can present challenges when used on an Amiga. In this blog, I'll outline the challenges, and present my solutions to make this keyboard very usable with the A1222 Plus. Many of these tips apply to other keyboards with other models of computers running AmigaOS4.
- The Guru Mediatation: {Translated from French} Who has never been enraged by wild crashes while using their machine? Windows is well known for its records in this genre but the Amiga remains a machine where crashes are still present. They are called "Guru Meditation" or "software failure" and we will try to find out more about them.
- Prevue (ESQ): The Prevue software (internally named ESQ) was used to power the Prevue Channel from its inception in 1988. In the US, it was phased out in 2000, and replaced by the Windows-based Hollywood platform. In other markets, it was maintained until 2002. Like EPG Sr., Prevue ran on the Amiga platform.
- Running the Prevue Channel Software in WinUAE: This guide teaches you how to set up an emulated Amiga with WinUAE running the Prevue Channel software. {Here you can find links to v. 9.0.4, 7.8.3 & 7.3.13}
- AmigaPCI Hardware Reference: This document is an in-depth description of the architecture of the AmigaPCI system. Although all efforts have been made to make the document as complete and error-free as possible, it is presented AS-IS. No warranty or guarantee is made that the contents are valid for all use cases. This document assumes at least basic knowledge of Motorola, Amiga, and PCI architecture. This document introduces unique concepts, including specifications for AUTOCONFIG capable PCI devices.
- PCI Hardware Developer Reference: This document defines how the PCI Local Bus Rev. 2.3 specification is implemented in the AmigaPCI. It is not a substitute for the PCI Local Bus Specification or relevant Motorola user manuals. It is expected the reader has reviewed and understands the tenants of the PCI Bus as defined in the PCI Local Bus Specification, Rev 2.3, and the relevant Motorola user manuals.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! They did it! The publishers of the AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual have translated it into English! If you haven't been tracking it the book is 450 pages covering OS 3.2 in all its glory! Delivery time: August 26, 2024. From the website.
“AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual” features clear explanations of the basics and advanced functions of AmigaOS 3.2 and valuable insights into the Amiga system, from A to Z.
The book is aimed at ambitious users who want to master the basics of the operating system, learn more in-depth techniques and gain an insight into the possibilities for advanced use of the system. And it is intended to awaken the desire to use and get back into using the system and pave the way for the basics beyond the operating system.
The book is aimed at ambitious users who want to master the basics of the operating system, learn more in-depth techniques and gain an insight into the possibilities for advanced use of the system. And it is intended to awaken the desire to use and get back into using the system and pave the way for the basics beyond the operating system.
Please note that the print run of “AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual” will be strictly limited. Early bird customers who purchase their book until 21st July 2024 will benefit from our special offer: the combined price of the book and the digital edition (PDF) is 35 €, saving 10 €.
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- Coffin/OS: Coffin/OS (versions R52, R53, R54, R55, R56, R57, R58),R59, R60, R61, R62, R63 and Pistorm Versions, are customized distributions from the Amiga OS 3.9, please note you can already download these for free but our versions are already pre-setup with updated drivers ready out of the box for Vampire cards a500v2 a600 and A1200 also the V4 sa version. Firebird and icedrake boards.
- The Amiga 8 sprite myth : There seems to be a common misconception regarding the sprite hardware used in the Commodore Amiga line of computers. I do hear it every once and a while being repeated when people are comparing systems, so I decided to write this post to try and set the record straight.
- 42 Years of programming – The Amiga: I’m doing a retrospective of 42 years on programming, concentrating on how the various computer differ from the current ones. Today I will talk about the Amiga.
- Classic Workbench Green Amiga Alien Edition: Welcome to a very special Workbench - one that comes in Alien Green or Earthly Blue! This Workbench includes a design, dockbar (with hand drawn images) and programs put together by Paul the Green Amiga Alien , who sadly is no longer with us. He began a project that never got finished back in 2002, essentially wanting to create a Workbench pack for A600 users like himself. The work was never completed, until now... This release is dedicated to him and his contribution to the Amiga community over the years. Our memories are with you Paul, rest in peace.
- PicoWyfy: PicoWyfy is a wireless network interface controller (WNIC) that connects to the clockport of an Amiga computer. It is designed around the Raspberry Pi Pico W board.
- Is compact flash worth bothering with any more?": {Thread @ reddit discussing the pro/cons of using a compact flash
- Amiga and The Weather Connection": {Thread @ reddit discussing "a complete weather graphics system based on the Amiga 2000, with the target user being TV stations in the production of there daily weather broadcasts."}
- Interview with Sid Meier from 2004: This is an interview with games industry legend Sid Meier, originally posted on Addicted to Pirates!, a now closed fansite for Sid Meier’s Pirates! that was run by Kristian Foshaug. It was originally published November 23, 2004, to coincide with the release of Firaxis’ remake of Sid Meier’s Pirates!
- An Addicted Interview with Sid Meier - Part 1 {ARCHIVED 3 Jan 2006}: Addicted to Pirates! has been so lucky to do an interview with the God of all games, Sid Meier himself! Sid Meier has come up with some of the greatest games of all time, such as Railroad Tycoon, Colonization, Alpha Centauri, the Civilization-series, and of course, Sid Meier's Pirates! All of them are games that I myself have played hundreds of hours, each! Anyways, enough of me talking, let's get down to business!
- An Addicted Interview with Sid Meier - Part 2 {ARCHIVED 17 Dec 2005}: Addicted to Pirates! has done an interview with the creator of games such as Railroad Tycoon, Colonization, the Civilization-series, Alpha Centauri, Sim Golf, and not to mention - Pirates! Here is the second part of the interview, read and enjoy!
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Only two more posting to go then I'm FINALLY caught up! As a BIG fan of all the Softwood products, I am VERY HAPPY to see not only is Final Writer back in development but, it's coming preinstalled on the A600GS. A BIG THANKS goes out to Timothy Deters for keeping FW alive! I wonder if my floppies in the attic still work?
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- As always amiga-news.de has a wonderful writeup about the latest plugin for Hollywood.Hollywood goes LaTeX: hTeX 1.0 released Press release: "Airsoft Softwair, the unstoppable coding machine, is back on your screen with a massive new Hollywood plugin release: hTeX. hTeX allows you to experience the wonderful world of LaTeX as it makes it possible to use the LaTeX markup language from Hollywood. This makes it possible to easily display mathematical formulas in your Hollywood scripts and Hollywood Designer projects. On top of that, you can also use more advanced LaTeX features like tables, boxes, and finetuned formatting. Finally, hTeX also allows you to export LaTeX formatted text as PDF documents, SVG images, and PNG images."
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- The mouSTer project is here: The mouSTer project was initially described in one of my previous posts as an adapter that will support multiple retro computers. This is a device that allows connecting any USB (not ps/2 protocol type only) mouse to as many old computers as possible.
- Why was Amiga not as successful in America?": {Thread @ reddit descussing "I know the Amiga was popular in Europe, UK and Australia. But why did it not reach the same heights in US? Do you think because Atari there was just too popular? Or was there not enough marketing of the Amiga in US? What are your thoughts?"}
- MilkyTracker - Cross-Platform XM Tracker: MilkyTracker is an multi-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. It attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS program Fasttracker II, with special playback modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker 2/3 compatibility.
- BlueSCSI tools for the Commodore Amiga: 2 utilities for managing a BlueSCSI V2 or ZuluSCSI in a Commodore Amiga. You can select the device/unit from the properties of the icon. Optionally you can specify these on the command line. CD Changer. The CD Changer allows you to swap between CD ISO images on your SD card on the fly. SD Transfer. The SD Transfer tool allows you to transfer files from the SD card to the Amiga.
- BlueSCSI: BlueSCSI is hardware that reproduces SCSI devices (hard disks, optical, etc) with an Pico 2040 dev board.r>
- The birth of 3DPro": {Thread @ reddit when a user gives an in depth response about the birth of 3DPro at Waldorf computers in Alexandria, VA.}
- Portal:Amiga: {Wikipedia's Amiga Portal}
- Power A5000: The Power A5000 was a planned Amiga clone computer, announced by German DCE Computer Service GmbH and British Amiga peripherals manufacturer Power Computing Ltd. (Not to be confused with Power Computing Apple clone manufacturer). It was one of the first Amiga clone computers announced after Gateway purchased the Amiga in 1997.
- An Ode to Deluxe Paint: The Kaleidoscopic Magical Motion Machine. When first seeing an Amiga 500 computer, it wasn't the games but a copy of the painting program Deluxe Paint II that really got me hooked. Since then, computers and visual art have forever been linked in my mind.
- Computer Legends: Amiga - A tribute synthwave song by Victor Vergara "Awesome": This is the second song in my Computer Legends Series. Next release will be the ZX Spectrum song. "Awesome" by Victor Vergara pays homage to the iconic Amiga computer through a catchy synthwave pop song. Dive into the nostalgia of the Amiga era with awesome games, 4 channels music and the greatest demoscene ever! (C) 2024 Victor Vergara "Awesome" Computer Legends: Amiga is available in all music platforms.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Holy CRAP!! I finally made it to June. Rabbits - Rabbits - Rabbits! Only 3 more posts until I'm back on schedule and rock'n again!
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- Zoom Event: TPUG Meeting for May 30, 2024: Dave Haynie !: Please join us for an evening of discussion with a living legend – Mr. Dave Haynie. His career at Commodore began in 1983 as an engineer under Bil Herd. He was later promoted to chief engineer, and stayed with Commodore until the very end in 1994.
- New issue: Boing #8 has been published
- New issue: REV'n'GE #158 has been published
- New issue: APoV #5 has been published Don't know how I wasn't tracking this.
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- Gotek internal A500 mount: An internal Gotek mounting bracket for the Amiga 500 designed in DesignSpark Mechanical 4.0. I was not happy with the internal mount I got when buying a Gotek floppy emulator for the Amiga 500. I did a respin to better position the usb socket and the oled display, and to fit both the revision A and B of the A500/500+ Cases. This is the result.: description
- APoV Magazine: An Amiga magazine from Abime.net.
- GottaGoFastRAM 8MB Autoconfig Fast RAM: This is an 8MB Autoconfig Fast RAM for Amiga 500/1000/2000/CDTV based on mkl's mem68k. It's small size allows it to be stacked on top of an ide68k board. Rather than use the original mem68k Abel code I have written a new memory controller in Verilog
- GottaGoFastRAM2000 8MB Autoconfig Fast RAM: This is an 8MB Autoconfig Fast RAM for the Amiga 2000
- GottaGoFaZt3r Fast RAM: 256MB Autoconfig Fast RAM for the Amiga 3000/4000
- GRETA: Expansion board for the Amiga A500 computer providing SDRAM, Secure Digital mass storage and Ethernet interface. Features: Attaches to the Amiga A500 expansion bus, 8 MiB Fast RAM (Zero wait state & Always available to the system via Amiga AUTOCONFIG protocol, SPI controller (For interfacing with Secure Digital storage) & 10/100Mbit Ethernet PHY
- Joydivision: This adapter was created because I missed to be able to control my old games in emulators with a real controller (Joysticks), just as they where inteded to be played =) This adapter is created as a HID that doesn't requires any specific drivers (thanks to V-USB which is used). That means that you just need to plug it in, configure your emulator to use the HID-device and start playing!
- OPEN AMIGA SAMPLER: Open source schematics, parts lists and documentation for building a generic 8bit/mono Amiga parallel port sound sampler
- OpenA1200RTC: OpenA1200RTC is an Open Hardware RTC module for the Amiga 1200.
- OpenAmigaVideoHybrid: OpenAmigaVideoHybrid is an Open Hardware implementation of the Video Hybrid integrated circuit used in some Commodore Amiga computers (Commodore Part No. 390229-0x).
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Still catching up... Last entry for May. Can't wait till the next one because I will have FINALLY made it to the same month as the next 4 postings!
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- BOING interview with George Sokianos: At the end of 2022, George Sokianos announced that he was launching a very ambitious project: to port WebKit rendering engine on AmigaOS 4 in order to be able to display the pages of the most modern websites. He kindly agreed to say a little more... The interview was done by Glames and published in our (French) Amiga magazine BOING, issue #7 (October, 2023).
- Custom Chip Register List: This is a listing of the Amiga custom registers housed inside the Agnus that control the various custom chips in the OCS, ECS, and AGA chipsets. This is the basis of hardware programming - you use these registers (and the CIA registers) to control all of the computer hardware. Click a register description to read more.
- Amiga Development Reverse engineering for the Commodore Amiga: This page is intended to serve as a central place for information related to development using the Amiga hardware.
- Building an Amiga PSU around an RPT-75B: A lot of people use Meanwell power supplies as the replacements for the poor quality ones that came with the Amiga. Typically, the 50W variants such as the RPT-60B are used because it fits nicely inside an original Amiga power supply. I wanted to see if I could use a 75W PSU for heavily upgraded Amigas. Here is the journey.
- Amiga RPT-75B PSU: Testing and enhancements: In my previous blog post, I showed how to make a new, high-spec power supply for Amiga 500 / 600 / 1200 computers. Now I want to do some testing and there are a few improvements that can be made. Let’s get to it!
- Lite XL: Overview. Lite XL is derived from lite. It is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either. The aim of Lite XL compared to lite is to be more user friendly, improve the quality of font rendering, and reduce CPU usage. Customization. Additional functionality can be added through plugins which are available in the plugins repository or in the Lite XL plugins repository. Additional color themes can be found in the colors repository. These color themes are bundled with all releases of Lite XL by default.
- NDK Setup for the SAS/C compiler: Although its development has been discontinued some years after Commodore went under, SAS/C Version 6 still is one of the best and recommendable C-compilers for classic AmigaOS development until today.
- NDK Setup for the VBCC Compiler: vbcc is a highly optimizing portable and retargetable ISO C compiler by Volker Barthelmann. It supports ISO C89 and a subset of C99. It's also still being developed and offers a variety of target distributions and cross-compiling options. Best of all: It's free. The AmigaOS distribution of vbcc is maintained by Frank Wille and can be downloaded here. Frank added support for the NDK3.2 in vbcc 0.9h, so you'll have to get this version or a later one.
- FlashROM: The Amiga FlashROM solution from OnyxSoft is a OpenSource project which is intended as a drop-in solution for Classic Amiga kickstart ROMs. The project is based around the flash chip AM29F800BB from AMD (and other manufacturer). This chip can (if used in the right pin configuration) be a direct drop-in solution for the older EPROM styled chipset like AM27C400 but have the advantage to be by nature easier to work with since it's a flashrom and does not need a special eraser for UW light etc.
- Floppy_adaptor V2.5: Converts PC floppy drive interface to Amiga/Shugart bus interface. Now also supports the Atari ST/TT. Only supports Double Density (DD) disks but works with an HD drive in DD mode. The native files in EagleCAD format are included. The Zip file contains the Gerber data
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Still catching up but I'm over the hump and picking up speed!
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- At some point I plan to group all the A1222 links in to one searchable page but until then I think Ktadd's tutorial on partitioning a new SSD drive for your new A1222 system looks to be MANDITORY reading!
- ACube Systems is pleased to announce a new release of the U-Boot firmware for its Sam460 line of motherboards. New in this version: added support for Radeon RX cards, updated x86 emulator, fixed USB handling especially for keyboard support, new boot logo and menu graphics, added FAT support and fixed several typos and small graphic mistakes. You have to appreciate the fact they are still updating and providing support for their systems.
- New issue: ZZAP! AMIGA Micro Action #15 has been released.
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- Modifying a PC floppy drive to work inside an Amiga 500: My Amiga 500 Plus no longer has an internal floppy drive. It was given away months ago to help another Amiga user. I needed to replace it, and I realised that I’m completely out of Amiga floppy drives. So, I decided to see if I could convert a PC one to fit. Here is the story.
- 1984 Amiga Presentation by Amiga Computer, Inc. : On June 14, 1984, Don Greenbaum, the Treasurer of Commodore International Limited, was at a secret meeting to negotiate the acquisition of Amiga Computer, Inc. This document was provided to Commodore by Amiga Computer, Inc to describe the Amiga computer. Don couldn't recall if the document was given to him at the June 14 meeting, or if he received it prior to the meeting. This document was generously contributed by Don Greenbaum.
- Weird Amiga 1200 Issue Repaired: In the last week, an Amiga 1200 was dropped off at my workshop to be repaired. That isn’t unusual, but the faults were unusual enough that I thought I should blog about them. The Problem... Just the motherboard was brought to me, and I was told that it would work for 15 minutes and then crash to a black screen. Sure enough, when I tested it, I could only run it for about 15-20 minutes at most.
- DiskFlashback: A Windows package to use Floppy Disk Images Files & Non/PC Real Floppy Disks in Windows, directly. I wanted to be able to access floppy disks from my Amiga, and other formats without having to boot an emulator. I wanted to be able to open a disk image file (like ADF, IMG etc) in Windows in the easiest way possible, as well as be able to use a real floppy drive too and see whats on it. So I decided to build this - which allows you to view and edit the contents of real disks and disk images directly from Windows Explorer, and yes, you can even read non-PC floppy disks in real time too (hardware required).
- A simple AmigaOS GUI in assembler: This tutorial also fitted in as an example for my first book The complete source of the example can be downloaded from the downloads page. Since the book is also intended for assembly programmers I decided to produce a similar example source to do the same GUI related things in assembly. This post is not as much a tutorial but more a accompanying text to the assembly source, which has also been made available on the download page
- amiga-hddlw: Adapts a regular PC floppy drive for high density operation on an Amiga computer
- Wi-Fi driver for AmiKit PiStorm: The content of this archive, if copied to AmiKit, will enable 2.4GHz or 5GHz Wi-Fi with WPA/WPA2 encrypted support for your Amiga with PiStorm. You don't need any of those outdated Amiga network cards anymore, because now the Raspberry Pi's internal Wi-Fi module will provide a super fast internet for your Amiga!
- A1222Plus up and running. What now? : So, the hardware is installed, and I've successfully booted from the Emergency USB recovery stick. What now? Partitioning the SSD drive of course. Now this may sound like a simple task and, in general, it is. The most difficult part is deciding how many partitions, what they will be used for, and how big each one should be.
- CBMretro: {Online shop with parts for the Amiga and C=64}
- backslide to arcanum: I’ve always really enjoyed reading about the technical details involved in other demos, like the write-ups from Leonard, Paradroid, and Slummy. So, I’ve included my own commentary below.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! On a roll!! One more week down... Six more to go!
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- Serena: Serena is an experimental operating system with an object-oriented kernel for Amiga 3000/4000 computers with support for pervasive preemptive concurrency and multiple users.
- Soundtracker origins, part 1: Where in the World is Karsten Obarski?: Today I’m starting a series of articles which is no less about passion and nostalgia, but tries to go further behind the curtains, and talks about the ones who made soundtracking possible: Mr. Obarski of course, but also those who inspired him (and those who, in turn, inspired them).
- Soundtracker origins, part 2: Welcome to Turrican, aah hahahaha: So, where were we? In part 1 of this series, we learnt more about Karsten Obarski, who became the « Father of the Soundtracker » at age 22. Through existing interviews, we got to understand where he came from, how he came to create his Ultimate Soundtracker tool on Amiga in 1987, why he called it quits a few months afterwards… and where he probably took his inspiration for The Ultimate Soundtracker.
- Soundtracker origins, part 3: Facing a stone mountain: In Part 2 of this series, Chris Hülsbeck told me that he remembers using Steinberg’s MIDI Multitrack Sequencer tool on the Commodore 64 computer, around the time he wrote his own tool, Soundmonitor.
- Soundtracker Origins, interlude: The coders behind the Cambrian explosion: Remember Part 31 of this series of articles on Soundtracker? Those were the days! I fondly remember writing the following, near the end of that article: The next parts will focus on each of the two parallel paths that I highlighted above: The Fairlight CMI path: finding out how they came up with the idea for their Page R sequencer. The « Commodore » path, going down the JMS rabbit hole, and their Multitrack Composer. Will there be more parts? Who knows? I sure don’t!
- Stickers Renew Remastered - A Wonderful set of 174 Remastered labels for 59 Games: Get reahttps://codeberg.org/CBMretro/Amiga_RGB_SCART_Adapterdy to make your floppy disk and CD collection shine like never before with Stickers Renew Remastered. Previously available in their original releases, this new edition has been designed with a single objective : Illuminate your collection! Completely remastered, these new labels has been fully reworked with cleaned and high-definition pictures, a striking level of details and colours that are more vibrant than ever. Other minor elements have also been improved to strengthen the visual identity. Quite simply, they are as
- http://blog.retro-link.com/2024/05/assembling-a1222-from-eon.html: Once again Blogger has put my photos in reverse order, even though I renamed them. Oh, well, enjoy the pics of the assembly of the A1222+. My thanks to Duncan M. of The Other Group of Amigoids and his expertise in putting the machine together; I would have done a hack job on it if I were to do it!
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- rkrm-dos: An RKRM-style reference of AmigaDOS/dos.library. This project is a documentation of the AmigaDOS subsystem of AmigaOs, the dos.library, its handlers, file-systems and structures. It is available under the THOR-Software License v3.
- Amiga-Scoopex-C: My attempt at converting Scoopex's superb Amiga Hardware coding tutorials into C.
- Announcing NetBSD 10.0 (Mar 28, 2024): {They are still supporting the 68k Amiga & MacoSystem Draco systems and the PowerPC-based Amiga boards.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Finally got caught up to May. Only 8 more updates to go... Yup it's the 4 of of May... And while I'll ALWAYS pick Star Trek over Star Wars, I'll leave you with this...
Nanu Nanu!
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- English translation of the German OS 3.9 Das Buch book: {I came across this link in a thread. Markus Nerding mentioned "A few years ago I did a "PDF Translation" of the German OS 3.9 Das Buch book. Here is a link to my Dropbox"}
- AMOS Pro BSD Socket Extension 1.1.4 Released: Version 1.1.4 of the AMOS Pro BSD Socket extension is out, and it’s a big one. Thanks to both an anonymous contributor and some improved M68K assembler debugging techniques, this version has multiple crash bugs fixed, as well as an issue that prevented the extension from working well on non-emulated Amigas. Upgrading is highly recommended!
- Anniversary 30 Years Ago Today, Commodore Died On this day 30 years ago, computer giant Commodore announced it was to enter voluntary bankruptcy and liquidation.
- Commodore Bankruptcy – Associated Press 1994 WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Commodore International Ltd., a pioneer in the personal computer industry, said late Friday it is going out of business.
- We're Getting A Full-Size Amiga 'Console' In 2024. With a working keyboard! Retro Games Ltd., the company behind the C64 and A500 Mini micro-consoles, has revealed its product roadmap for the next few years. The headline news is that the company plans to release a full-size "Amiga console" in Q4, 2024. This will sit alongside the A500 Mini system, which launched in 2022. It has been confirmed that the new system will have a fully working keyboard.
- Lets make an ADF and populate Lets get files to your Amiga. There are plenty of times where we want to copy files to your Amiga. How do we do it? What options exist? Well here I will discuss how to make an ADF then copy files to populate it!
- GoDRIvE600 Commodore Amiga 600 Floppy emulator: GoDRIvE600 is a complete solution for A600, to keep original Floppy drive and have FDD emulator. GoDRIvE600 lets you have both inside and switch between them on the go. You can use either an FDD or floppy drive emulator, but NOT both at the same time.
- Commodore Executive Rift Denied As Tramiel Quits – New York Times: By DAVID E. SANGER JAN. 16, 1984. jack-tramiel-atari-august-1984The chairman of Commodore International Ltd. denied yesterday that a dispute with directors had led to the unexpected resignation late Friday of Jack Tramiel, Commodore’s hard- driving and mercurial founder.
- Mambo's Amiga Blog: {All off Mambo's Coffin OS pages}
- Best Amiga Games Of All Time: The finest games on Commodore's beloved 16-bit system... The Amiga is perhaps the most beloved example of a home computer turned gaming machine and is responsible for bringing many classic series to the world. Sensible Soccer, Lemmings, Worms and Speedball 2 all began life on Commodore's system and helped to cement its place as one of the most exciting gaming platforms of its era.
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- Can you all believe today we celebrate, or morn, the 30th anniversary of the death of Commodore. And 30 years later we are really no closer to finally resolving the DUMPSTER FIRE that it left behind. .
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Train keeps a rollin' all night long....
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- All is quiet again. Who knows WHAT's happening now...
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- vAmiga 0.9: Webassembly port of the Amiga emulator vAmiga by Dirk Hoffmann; requires a recent version of Chrome/Edge or Firefox.
- Amiga RGB SCART Adapter: This adapter converts Amiga video connector to RGB SCART. The Adapter has 3,5mm stereo audio input so Amiga audio can be routed from RCA connectors to SCART ouput.
- Ami Sampler: VSTi 8-bit Sampler inspired by the sound of the famous Commodore Amiga for Windows/MacOS/Linux using VST3/AU/LV2. The Ami Sampler brings that feel and that sound into the modern world of Digital Audio Workstations. Obviously heavily inspired by the Amiga, as well as Protracker and Fasttracker, it also draws inspiration from last trackers like Triton's Fasttracker II and Milkytracker in addition to some modern sampler VST plugins. While in no way an emulator nor a recreation of the limitations that the late 80s software had, the Ami Sampler strives to take the classic sound of the Amiga but still allow it to stand up with a modern DAW setting.
- GreaseweazleGUI: GreaseweazleGUI.Net is a Windows GUI wrapper for the python script running Keir’s STM32F1/F7 “blue pill” micro-controller widget. I attempt to easily construct the command line arguments that are expected by his python code.
- Gopherized : A Gopher browser for classic Amiga!: Lately I've been rediscovering old technologies, especially everything that existed before the WEB as we know it today... I therefore decided to develop a Gopher client for Amiga (68k) using AMOS Professional and after a first version I'm here to share with you the second one with various fixes, removed bugs and other interesting features.
- What exactly was the Amiga Ranger?: Ranger was to be the next generation Amiga, which the original West Coast Amiga engineers began working on in 1986-87, following the release of the Amiga 1000. Jay Miner improved the graphics chipset for Ranger to address the twin problems of chip (i.e. Graphics, Sound, DMA) RAM memory space and bandwidth in the Amiga 1000.
- Amithlon Info/Patches/Kernel Source: As a former Amiga user, having owned the A1000, A2000, A3000 and A4000 with a multitude of hardware add-ons, I was very late to discover Amithlon, an Amiga emulation that uses standard x86 hardware to run the Amiga OS, Amiga OS 3.9 in fact. Once discovering this awesome software, I've spent hours on the net searching for more information and how to get the best out of it. Lots of dead-end links as well as some very useful tips helped me get Amithlon running on a number of old computers I had with varying pieces of hardware. I'm hoping to make available as much information and resources as possible, though Amithlon itself can not be provided.
- Digital Retro Bay: The seller for high quality Retro computing items such as the GoDrive, Keyboard membranes and 3D Printing.
- CF / SD and large drives FAQ": {Thread @ English Amiga Board}
- BSzili's AmigaOS ports: {LOTS and LOTS of ports. Including: Duke3dw, uHexen2: Hammer of Thyrion, GLQuake-SDL, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, WildMidi, Aliens vs. Predator, Freeciv 2, Warzone 2100, Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny, Dark Forces, Doom & much much more!!!}
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Chugga... Chugga... Chugga...
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- Well things have calmed down again but here's some more comments in a thread over at Amiga.org about the situation.
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- At the BRITS! (well one of our refurbished A1200 units was): Having been refurbishing Amiga’s for the last 5 years professionally. Never did I think we would be in 2024 and live on TV you see not only one of our Amiga A1200 units on an Instagram story but the story is from Calvin Harris himself! Check it out:
- Calvin Harris A500 Plus! story": {Thread @ lemonamiga.com covering the DJ Calvin Harris and his A500 story!}
- Interview: Calvin Harris on software, hardware and hit-making: Ask chart-topping, multiplatinum producer Calvin Harris for the secret behind all of his recent success and he'll answer you with remarkable honesty. "Luck! Pure and simple," he says with a grin. "I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!
- Building an ReAmiga 4000CR Part 1: This time it is time to build an ReAmiga 4000CR..
- RIPPLE IDE: Zorro 2 IDE Interface for Amiga 2000/3000/4000. Features: Autoboot, ROM can be updated simply by booting the update disk, Works with Kickstart 1.3 and up, Supports up to 2TB drives, Supports ATAPI Devices (CD/DVD-ROM, Zip disk etc), Boot from ZIP/LS-120 etc, Boot from CD-ROM, SCSI Direct, NSD, TD64 support & Uses lide.device
- Amiga Games That Weren't: Welcome to Amiga Games That Weren't. Legend tells of a breed of Amiga games that never crawled out of the primordial development swamp of their early existence. Games that never stood blinking in the sunlight of the gaming world. Games that were never devoured by predators of the Amiga jungle. They are the... Amiga Games That Weren't.
- 25 years of Games That Weren’t: Games That Weren’t has been running for a quarter of a century this year, which is not only staggering, but also a bit scary if I’m honest. For 25 years, we have been documenting and preserving as much unreleased software as we can for a variety of platforms. Though it all began with just the Commodore 64 at the start, the machine I grew up with and still play today.
- Found Vocal Tracks from the 1987 Song - Only Amiga Makes it Possible: {Thread @ reddit where vocal tracks for the 1987 song Only Amiga Makes it Possible have been found}
- {archive.org} CBM COMDEX 87 Elaine Vocals - Amiga Song: CBM COMDEX 87 Elaine Vocals - Amiga Song
- The Commodore Amiga was the COOLEST: Dominik Diamond recently deemed the Amiga as 'painfully uncool'. It is my mission, nay, my DUTY, to set the record straight.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! I'm plugging right along. Hopefully I'm caught up by next year. LOL!
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- FluxMyFluffyFloppy : A GUI for Greaseweazle Host Tools
- The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk: {A good history of the 3M's Floppy disk}
- Amiga 2K Front Panel: {Description translated from DE} The Amiga 2K front panel expands the Amiga 2000 with a panel for the 5.25" slot. This allows an external keyboard switch from the 7-bit A234 to be used internally and fully operated from the outside by plugging a USB keyboard / USB wireless dongle into the top left slot... The USB slot in the middle is used to externally access the RaspberryPi USB port that sits on the PiStorm 2K , so you can easily make files accessible to the Amiga OS... The button in the middle is connected to an HDMI switch and lights up as soon as the HDMI output of the PiStorm is switched to the RGBtoHDMI output. This allows an HDMI monitor to be used comfortably both for the classic HIRES resolution of games but also via the PiStorm you can work with the Workbench up to 4K. The lower slot leads the RaspberryPi's micro SD card to the outside using an extension cable. The space on the left side of the panel is for the later installation of a GoTek Systems USB Drive
- Sampling sound on the Amiga : Almost any modern PC is capable of recording sound. I mean, even the sound interfaces that are part of the mother board nowadays have microphone connectors as well as line-in connectors. This was different in the days of the Amiga when a PC by default could only beep. At least each Amiga came with stereo line-out connectors that allows it to playback audio, but unfortunately none came with audio inputs. To be able to record sound on your Amiga additional hardware needed to be purchased. This article describes one example of such hardware, the "sampling cartridge" for the Amiga.
- kultmags.com: {celebrating and archiving German Computer magazines}
- Sam460LE and A1222 Plus, a welterweight duel: Today, at the beginning of 2024, we are experiencing an unusual situation in the AmigaNG world. We have two entry-level computers to choose from: in 2023, ACube launched a new version of Sama460 - Sam460LE, and this year, after a long journey full of vicissitudes, AAA technology also introduced A1222 Plus. Concurrence of two computers of the same category is something completely unusual in the AmigaNG world, therefore it is often discussed which of them is which and who is better.
- lide.device: An Open source IDE driver for Amiga computers. Features: Autoboot, Works with Kickstart 1.3 and up, Supports up to 2TB drives*, Supports ATAPI Devices (CD/DVD-ROM, Zip disk etc), Boot from ZIP/LS-120 etc, Boot from CD-ROM* & SCSI Direct, NSD, TD64 support.
- My undying love for the painfully uncool Amiga: It may have looked like something you’d see a bank teller use, but it withstood heavy battering. And it ran the coolest games
- Specy: The all in one web editor for M68K
- AmiBench: AmiBench is a proprietry desktop environment developed by AmigaKit Ltd for the A600GS, Commodore-Amiga computers and Next Generation Amiga-like computers. It is built upon AmigaKit's System Release V46 distribution supplemented by some AROS components. Features: AK-Datatypes, Commands Release V46, Gadget Classes Release V46, AmiBench desktop environment & AmiSphereServer
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! STIIIIILLLL catching up! Well this week it looks like SOMETHING NEW has happened on the legal side. Everyone's favorite Amiga lawyer gatekeeper, Ben Hermans has had bankruptcy proceedings reopened against him. There is no way I could summarize this any better than the above link so I wont even try!
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- Cassic AmigaOS Programming: This book is an introduction to the programming of the classic Amiga OS using C as well as MC68000 assembly language. For the novice it will be an introduction into the basics of the Amiga and its OS, for the programmer who used to do this 30 years ago it will be a nice refresher. Since this book is meant as an introduction it will not cover every single function call of every single library of the OS, nor will it cover every single flag or option for the functions that are covered. It will, however, provide a solid base from where you can start writing your own software for the Commodore Amiga.
- Kalms C2P routine collection: Here is a fairly complete set of c2p routines, almost one routine for every occasion! The main aim is towards 68030-68060 processors, using CPU-only conversion, although you can find the occasional oddity in some darker corners of the archive. The main aim of this archive is to provide a fairly broad range of fast and easy-to-use c2p routines, so all other programmers need not re-invent the wheel.
- 68k Counter: Analyses 68000 assembly source to profile resource and size data. For each instruction it will tell you. CPU cycles, Bus read cycles, Bus write cycles & Size in bytes
- Public Chunky to Planar Converter Sources Chunky to planar converters are something which is needed frequently. Coding one of your own is a difficult and time consuming task. Here is a collection of downloadable sources. Please dont forget to give credits when using one of these sources.
- Kickstart 02 UK Amiga Expo: UK Commodore Amiga show 29-30 June 2024. Special Guests, Traders, Community, Performers and more.
- Interview with Camilla Boemann: Today, we're featuring an interview with Camilla Boemann, a Danish developer who is part of the AmigaOS 68k development team and who is in the process of revitalising this mythical operating system. Thank you for all your relevant answers!
- Packet Radio: Last time I was writing about progress on WiFi driver I have happily received first packet from WiFi chip. Awesome! That did gave me a huge motivation boost! I told you that I will now work on packet scheduler and start scanning for networks. The first part of this task, the scheduler, was simple but still with some issues to be solved. There are several constraints which need to be considered.
- Furnace The Ultimate Chiptune Music Tracker: System and sound chip galore - supports nearly every old-school 8-bit/16-bit system out there! from the Atari 2600 and Commodore PET to SNES, Genesis and arcades, you'll feel at home with the vast selection of systems Furnace supports. True, real-time sound engine - every sound chip is emulated using many of the best emulation cores out there for a fantastic, true-to-hardware sound. One interface. infinite setups. {win, mac & linux}
- Revision 2024: "We Are Many": {Amiga demo party results} 29th March - 1st April 2024 Regionalverband Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
- 2024 Summer School on Retro Gaming History, Critic, and Development: A summer school dedicated to retro gaming, which invites both humanities and engineering to provide unique insights on retro gaming, both theoretical and practical, and opportunities for cross-fertilization among research fields. Supported by the ACM SIGSOFT and Cloanto.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Still catching up! Boy am I behind!
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- Emu68 has finally hit v1.0. GREAT work Michal Schulz!
- New issue: REV'n'GE #156 has been published
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- Amiga Video to VGA adapter and Monitor Switcher all in one: {Translated} All-in-one Amiga video port to VGA adapter with automatic monitor switching and RGB amplifier to minimize typical LCD jail bars.
- Disk Jockey for macOS: Disk Jockey is a simple-to-use disk image creator and analyser for your retro computers (or emulators!).
- How to build an Amiga Joystick to USB adapter (DB9 to USB): After ordering a custom joystick from Immortal Joysticks, I was in need of a way to use this legendary stick on the A500 mini. Rather than buy a solution, I opted to build one using my horrible soldering skills and drafted in one of my many 3D printers. As Amiga “builds” go, it’s a simple (and rewarding) project, perfect for someone who just likes to tinker.
- Amiga 4000 Technical Specifications: Thanks to Amiga Zone for posting all of their press releases on the Amiga Format CD. These tech specs were posted by Commodore some time in 1992. They have been altered slightly to feature other models of the A4000.
- Minimig compatible Toccata 16-bit sound card: This is a module emulating the playback functionality of the Toccata sound card for the Commodore Amiga. Toccata sound card. The module is written in SystemVerilog, and is intended to be used in the Minimig core. It was not possible for me to get an actual Toccata sound card, or find the documentation for the sound card. This module is implemented by reverse engineering the Toccata sound card emulation of UAE, and looking at the OpenBSD driver. The Toccata sound card uses the AD1848 audio chip, the AD1848 data sheet was used to implement the indirectly exposed registers to the zorro II bus.
- Booting from a hard drive with the Amiga 500 (kickstart 1.3) on the Replay: One way of booting harddrives on the Replay is by using hard disk files (HDF’s). The Amiga 500 (kickstart 1.3) had no native support for harddrives though, so we need to patch it in. We want to add IDE support to the kickstart, and this patch will, don’t let the SCSI part of the name confuse you. I will not go into the details on why it’s called SCSI patch, but this is the one to use. It’s a backward compatibility thing.
- Amiga memory map: {Covering it all: Address space, CIA registers & Chip registers}
- AmiSpeedTest: Test your Amiga's Internet speed!
- msRay: This is my AMIGA / WINDOWS Raycaster project. The main engine files has been written in C without using any external libraries, so the engine is OS independent. It can be easly adapted to OS that uses 32 bit RGBA buffer rendering.
- Bare-Metal Amiga Programming : The second book in my "Amiga Programming" series has just been published. Where my previous book concentrated mainly on using the functionality provided by AmigaOS, this book is about programming the hardware of the Amiga directly. Programming the hardware directly is known as "bare-metal programming", which is a technique employed by a large number of game and demo programmers in order to squeeze the last drop op performance from the system.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Still catching up!
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- mouSTer: mouSTer is a universal USB HID class device to db9 adapter. mouSTer is the first fully configurable USB adapter for old computers.
- Amiga Icon converter: Display, convert and generate Amiga Icons in plain JavaScript. All Amiga icon formats are supported; Classic OS, Classic OS2, NewIcons, ColorIcons(GlowIcons), Dual PNG and OS4 trueColor transparent ones. The main library works both in the browser as in node. In the browser icons get rendered to canvas. In node, icons are converted to PNG. Example project for both environments are included.
- Flashback Symposium #01: is the first event laying the groundwork for further events of this kind. The venue is relatively centrally located in Germany, making it accessible to as many vintage computing enthusiasts as possible. In the coming weeks, there will be more information about the program and a schedule. The Flashback Symposium is platform-agnostic, bridging the gap between demo parties, user meetings, and digital holiday camp. The goal is to spend 3 days seeing as many familiar faces as possible, forging new friendships, in a relaxed, entertaining, and familial atmosphere.
- WinUAE Setup Guide – Step By Step: iWith WinUAE, you can emulate every official Amiga variant as well as a huge range of third-party peripherals such as accelerator cards, RAM expansion & custom ROM images. It is without a doubt, the standard when it comes to Amiga emulation on the PC. Setup on Windows is very straightforward, it comes with pre-loaded configurations, so you can simply select the Amiga you wish to emulate. All you need to do is provide a floppy disk image of a game to get up and running. Also, be sure to check out our guide to the greatest Amiga games, to get inspiration on what to play first on WinUAE!
- Amiga-Development {ARCHIVED 15 May 2018}: Created for developers of all Amiga camps {Forum for Amiga Development. Vampire, News, Crossplatform-Development, OS specific Development, System, Standard 68k reference platform, AROS Vision, Projects, Hardware-Development, Project Funding, Utilitybase, Other languages, Amiga-Development - Info Center and more}
- Graphics card emulation for AmigaOS: AmigaOS 4 drivers exist for different graphics cards but each platform specific version of AmigaOS only inlcudes a limited number of drivers for cards supported on that platform. Also QEMU can emulate a number of graphics devices but most of these are not supported by AmigaOS. Therefore it is a problem to find a combination that works and provides good results without much effort from users. This page discusses the different options for graphics card emulation and meant to be a place to collect information about this topic and to give inspiration for potential contributors who may want to look into one of these.
- The Amazing Amiga: The Amiga represented an evolutionary leap forward in computing’s creative potential.
- Amiga 500 NTSC VGA 15khz monitor list : My personal list (Golden Child's List) of monitors that will sync to Amiga 500 NTSC 15khz signals with a buffered VGA adapter (purchased from ebay)
- Amiga Posters & Artwork: Welcome to Amiga Posters & Artwork by Vasilis Psomiadis! This site contains beautiful retro posters and related artwork about some of the most revolutionary home computers of the 80s and early 90s: the Commodore Amiga family! All the available images are done by me, either as recreations of original Commodore posters, packaging, cover boxes, print ads, brochures and catalogs about the Amiga or as my own design concepts and ideas inspired by visual material of the Amiga era.
- Amiga Christmas Tree (2023): Welcome to the Amiga Christmas Tree website! Please feel free to download anything you like and contact me at arcadecammy at gmail.com if you have something to add.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! I will be retroactively updating my weekly posts until I catch up to current week. Even though I haven't been updating site I am still keeping up with the daily happenings in the Amiga community and cataloging websites.
- But with that said the biggest news this week was the A1222 TABOR was finally released for purchase. WOW!
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- Looking at the new AmigaOne A1222 : This week it was announced that the AmigaOne A1222 system is now available for people to order! We have a new AmigaOS 4 system in 2024! For me, it's release completes a long Hyperion Entertainment official beta testing program I was part of for this new system. I have been under NDA during this process and unable to talk about it, but with the A1222 system now released and final form of AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition now set in stone, I confirmed that I can talk about the new system now! So let's dive in!
- Amiga E v3.3a Compiler for The E Language By Wouter van Oortmerssen: E is an object oriented / procedural / unpure functional higher programming language, mainly influenced by languages such as ++, Ada, Lisp etc. It is a general-purpose programming language, and the Amiga implementation is specifically targeted at programming applications.
- C++ considered Harmful (and why E is better): This UNFINISHED article is my attempt to comprehensively catalogue most C++'s main failings, since I haven't yet come across anything that does so to my satisfaction. While it is based upon several years of thought on the subject, I may have made some mistakes, since I tend to steer clear of actual use of C++ where-ever possible.
- EmptyADF: EmptyADF is an easy-to-use blank (empty) ADF files creator. Main features: creating DD (880 KB) or HD (1.76 MB) disk images, OFS or FFS disk images, images with or without system bootblock, disk images with your own label {and more}
- Sidecar Restauration, Part 1: I was lucky and got hand on a Commodore A1060 "Sidecar". This first part is about the teardown of the Sidecar, and the damage assessment. But what is a Sidecar? When Commodore released the Amiga 1000, its graphics and sound capabilities were unmatched in that price range. However, because the machine was based on the Motorola 68000 processor, users were unable to run existing MS-DOS software on the machine.
- ApolloExplorer: ApolloExplorer is a file sharing utitlity for getting files to and from your Amiga from the comfort of you PC. It is very simple but very fast. Probably the fastest network transfer software you can find for your amiga. A server software runs in the background on your Amiga and allows a client running on a PC running Windows, Linux or MacOS to connect to the Amiga and browse the local disks.
- name: BBoot is a simple, minimal boot loader to load AmigaOS on QEMU emulated amigaone and pegasos2 machines. It is replacing the second level boot loader (amigaboot.of on pegasos2 and slb_v2 on amigaone) and makes booting AmigaOS on QEMU simpler and without needing a firmware ROM. The original amigaboot.of only works with the non-free pegasos2 SmartFirmware and slb_v2 is tied to U-Boot, whereas BBoot also works with QEMU's built in minimal Virtual Open Firmware (VOF) on pegasos2 or without U-Boot on amigaone.
- CD32 / Amiga / C= / Atari controller to USB adapter: This small form-factor USB adapter makes it possible to use Amiga CD32 / Amiga / Commodore / Atari controllers on your PC (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux), Raspberry PI or MiSTer. The adapter has a native 1ms/1000Hz polling rate so input lag is minimal (average less than 1ms). All of the buttons on the Amiga CD32 gamepad are supported, also third party Amiga CD32 controllers are supported. Commodore / Amiga / Atari 1- or 2-button joysticks will also work fine with this adapter, including possible turbo-fire functionality of those joysticks.
- Dreamland: {Last updated 1 oct 2001 site with a GREAT listing of Sound/Music editors, Samplers, Players, MIDI, Mpeg, Converters and various tools. Wish it maintained}
- HyperCacheAmiga: Source code to the 1980s Amiga product, version dated 1992. A fellow named Matthew Kott reached out and asked me to release the source code to HyperCache if I still had it, so I dug around, and sure enough I did, so I opted to post it here on Github.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Since I'm not adding 30+ sites a week I have had a bit more time to work on the new backend and add some new content. Fingers crossed I can keep it going a few more weeks to completion! yeah right... LOL!! But I AM trying!!
- And a BIG TODLES to our little buddy SKP!! We LOVE YOU!!! Grandpa can't wait to get you your 1st Amiga!!
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- WOW does this look %$@*# AWESOME! As someone who LOVES dead tree stuff an actual manual for OS 3.2.x. Why is it only in German? And why did I only take Spanish in High School??? Lol.. Fingers crossed for an English translation!!
- New issue: Amiga Future #167 has been published
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- Book: AmigaOS 3.2 – The manual: A practical guide to the Amiga operating system for beginners, advanced users and professionals. “AmigaOS 3.2 – The manual” is the comprehensive reference book for the current Amiga operating system. The book presents the operating system from A to Z and provides tips and tricks for efficient use, explained simply and comprehensibly
- Coding the anime "woosh" screen on Amiga: The Amiga was a spectacle of graphics and sound when it debuted in 1985. While it can trivially display colorful images like in the above example, doing so in the context of a game engine presents a lot of unique challenges. If you haven't seen the gameplay proof-of-concept video for Magicore Anomala, you can check it out here.
- The Tech Behind Eon: Tooling!: Eon represents four years of work and during this we made several iterations to various tools and pipelines. I’ll save the 3D scene packer and track loader for separate posts, but this post will cover the other aspects of our pipeline.
- Let's modify some drives.: The trick to getting PC drives to work with the Amiga is twofold: Get diskchange to pin 2 and ready to pin 34. Then jumper the drive as DS0.
- Introducing Unijoysticle 2 A500: Unijoysticle 2 A500 is a device that enables Bluetooth gamepads and mice on the Commodore Amiga. It is similar in functionality to the Unijoysticle 2+, but with some additional features tailored for the Amiga, like: Fits in the Amiga 500 / 1200 joystick port without additional cables, New buttons: “mode” button: To easily cycle between “normal”, “mouse” and “enhanced” modes, “swap” button: To easily swap joystick ports. Useful in many scenarios, specially in the Amiga 4000 where the joystick ports are swapped. Additional LED for status: Tells whether Bluetooth pair is enabled, and in which gamepad mode is selected
- How to configure Picasso96 for AmigaOS 3.x: How to configure Picasso96 for AmigaOS 3.x. Picasso96 is a Retargetable Graphics driver set for graphics cards for the Amiga. A popular make of card were the PicassoII and PicassoIV Zorro cards, hence the name.
- AmigaNOS (KA9Q) TCP/IP configuration: TCP/IP through serial, between an Amiga 500 and Linux. AmigaNOS (or AmigaTCP or KA9Q) is as far as I know the only TCP/IP stack that works on Kickstart 1.3, besides Commodore's AS225 stack (and probably just it's r1 version), made for the A2065 Zorro-II Ethernet card for Amiga 2000/3000/4000. By the time the Internet became more widespread, Kickstart 2.0 was already out and the more advanced applications all use the capabilities of the newer OS. AmigaNOS is the port of the TCP/IP stack originally written by Phil Karn (callsign: KA9Q) and was intended for amateur packet radio users. As it's tiny and was written in C, it got ported to many systems. The Amiga port was done by John Heaton.
- CD32WB - Workbench CD for CD32: I made a simple Workbench CD for the Amiga CD32, which can be used on an unexpanded machine. It needs no keyboard, can be used with only the joypad via an on screen keyboard. There are many game collection CDs available (some can even be used for listening .mods or watch .anims), but I missed the AmigaOS look'n'feel, so I made a system for myself. What can it do? You can listen to .mods, .sids, you can watch Amiga and scene related pictures, anims, try some games and demos, read documents (the complete AmigaDOS manual, the CD32 developer kit and many CD32 related articles from Aminet), you can browse other CDs, listen to audio CDs, and most of all, you can expand it to fit your needs, put your favourite games, demos, on it before you burn the iso, if you want.
- Construction of a PCB in A4000: {A graphic if what the PCB board looks like along with the layers and how to repair an open circuit}
- Retrotechtacular: Amiga Pips The PC For Mission-Critical Computing At NASA: In 1986, a group of NASA engineers faced a difficult choice in solving their data processing woes: continue tolerating the poor performance of PC architecture, or pony up the cash for exotic workstations. It turns out that the Commodore Amiga was an intriguing third choice, except for the fact that, paradoxically, it didn’t cost enough. Oh, and Apple wanted nothing to do with any of it.
- BBoot boot loader: BBoot is a simple, minimal boot loader to load AmigaOS on QEMU emulated amigaone and pegasos2 machines. It is replacing amigaboot.of on pegasos2 and slb_v2 on amigaone and makes booting AmigaOS on QEMU simpler and without needing a fimrware ROM.
- The homepage of Chris Handley: {Author of} AmigaAttributes, AmiSystemRestore, eGame, eNewsReader, FolderSync2, OdysseyLauncher2, OpenWinURL, PictureAlbum, Portabl E programming language {and} RunInUAE
- A Beginner's Guide to Amiga E: This Guide gives an introduction to the Amiga E programming language and, to some extent, programming in general.
- Amiga & Windows cross-compilers for Linux (64-bit x86): Portabl E's r6 release allows (64-bit x86) Linux users to cross-compile Amiga & Windows executables using the PEGCC program. But for that to work you will need to have installed the relevant cross-compilers.
- The Portabl E language & compiler: Portabl E is a recreation of the AmigaE programming language, along with many improvements, and the aim of being portable across different platforms.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Back from the off cycle update. I don't know if anyone found that 'Big Old List of Chips' useful for I for one think it's at least pretty complete. I think I'm going to start working on my next project. The 'Big Old List of Every Amiga Chip and their Version/Revisions. Plan of that one to be completed by 2034.. ha ha.
Interesting... Keep an eye on
- New Event: Flashback Symposium #01 is the first event laying the groundwork for further events of this kind. The venue is relatively centrally located in Germany, making it accessible to as many vintage computing enthusiasts as possible. In the coming weeks, there will be more information about the program and a schedule. The Flashback Symposium is platform-agnostic, bridging the gap between demo parties, user meetings, and digital holiday camp. The goal is to spend 3 days seeing as many familiar faces as possible, forging new friendships, in a relaxed, entertaining, and familial atmosphere. Held in Jößnitz, DE.
- New Event: Alternatives Computer Meeting 2024 is the 10th get together for this group supporting retro/older systems. Held in Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Flechtorf bei Wolfsburg, DE.
- New Repair Shop: RetroSix Repairs, mods and upgrades. Located 9D Millrise Road. Stoke-on-Trent. ST2 7BN in the UK.
- New issue: Amiga Addict #27 has been published
Amiga Legal News Update
- Let me to check the teletype....
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- Amiga Keyboard USB Adapter: This adapter converts original Amiga keyboard’s to become a standard PC USB keyboard, this makes it easy to install into a case if building an emulated system based on Emulation such as WinUAE, Amibian or an A500 Mini, Raspberry Pi, Mister, Android Box or a PC
- Gotek Rotary Encoder Install for FDD-UDD U144K / ELS34E: The U144k Gotek pcb does not havy any connections on a header like the standard board, but you can solder the correct connections directly onto the Microcontroller if you have a steady hand
- Guide to using Greaseweazle Floppy Disk Hardware Kit: This guide shows how to install Greaseweazle software with an easy to use graphic user interface on your windows PC, first download the main Greaseweazle Host Tools archive and the GUI Menu from the links below.
- USE Real floppy disks in WinUAE with FloppyBridge or GreaseWeazle: Floppybridge is a plugin by Rob Smith that allows owners of a Drawbridge, Greaseweazle or Supercard Pro USB disk controller’s to use real amiga floppy disks on a PC
- % Most Influential Commodore Amiga Programs: Programs come and go. They’ll get updated, see revisions, and eventually may end up being discontinued entirely. And given how long Commodore Amiga has been around, there are plenty of programs that once saw the limelight on our favorite computer platform, but have since fallen out of favor. Lets take a trip down memory lane with these beloved but forgotten Commodore Amiga programs.
- Modding the Amiga boot hand: {how to change the Amiga animated insert disk' image}
- Amiga pixel art: I remember Amiga games looked pretty great back in the day. Some still do, if seen on real hardware. Pixel artists adapted their art for an environment with specific video out signal processing, CRT scanlines, gamma and ghosting. Using an emulator, certain scroll text movements, copper gradients, or frame flicker tricks will look harsh and skippy. The gamma might be way off, judging by the peculiar black-points I'm seeing coming out of a lot of emulated old hardware, in particular MAME.
- Amiga HDD project: It was time to say hello to my dusty yellowed friend and see if I could open it up and salvage the HDD. Well, not quite what I expected to find. It's either 60 or 80 megabytes, Conner. Metal cradle looks clamped onto board, but I was able to just pull it out.
- Amiga cleaning time: The midsummer night's sun beckoned -- "Take out your Amiga 500 and check for battery leak damage. Do it now." So I did. I covered up the top of the case in this photo to cover a rather diverse gathering of filth. {...} Oh, there you are you leaking bastard, pissing all over my expansion memory.
- topaz-unicode: A version of the Amiga 500 "Topaz" font updated for the 21st century. {...} As a monospaced font, it'd be great for use in modern terminals, except for a couple of problems {...} This project attempts to solve both these problems.
- Amig400 (Amiga) Raspberry pi (UPDATED) amiga, 500, 600, 1200, : The Amig400 (235 X 235 Bed) is a case for the pi keyboard or pi 400. raspberry pi 4 (with pi keyboard) or pi 400
- nPiStorm - The evolution of an open source Amiga acceleratorame: PiStorm is a community driven project which aims to provide a cheap accelerator solution for your Amiga using an off-the-shelf Raspberry Pi. In this talk I will be covering: What the PiStorm really is, both as hardware and a community, {and more}
- PiStorm turbocharges vintage Amigas with the Raspberry Pi: Who needs the present when you can relive the '80s at warp speed? FOSDEM 2024 The PiStorm is an ingenious way to make real vintage Commodore Amiga hardware not only run again, but do it over three orders of magnitude faster – using cheap, open source hardware and software.
- Assassin Disk Download: This page contains links to our Assassins PD Compilation Disk collection.
- QEMU: QEMU main repository. QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and virtualizer.
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Quick update today. For everyone's enjoyment I just added a page that attempts to list *EVERY* Custom Amiga Chip and Chipset ever made. Behold the
Big Old List of *EVERY* Custom Amiga Chip and Chipset Name I Could Find.
Big Old List of Chips...
For some of the more obscure chips, such as MONICA, I could only find one or two bits of information. For others, like ECS, there were HUNDREDS.
And YES I KNOW THERE ARE ERRORS!!
But fortunately to the right of every entry is a comment button. I will be more than happy to update this WORK IN PROGRESS. Enjoy!
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Another week has passed without anything exciting happening. Well that's not exactly true but you know what I mean... But at least we have more links to enjoy!
Interesting... Keep an eye on
- The Roadshow TCP/IP stack was updated. Good job to everyone involved!
Amiga Legal News Update
- Anyone taking bets on when the next REAL bit of news will happen?
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- Toaster 2000 Flyer Ribbon cable pinout needed": {Thread @ Amiga.org discussing the pinout for a Video Toaster Flyer 2000 ribbon cable}
- BestClassicWB v2.0 for OS3.2 : BestClassicWB v2.0.4 is an expansion pack that aims to bring the ClassicWB look to OS3.2.1. It adds the GlowIcons found in ClassicWB, as well as some extra programs, tools, utilities, and datatypes. It is suitable for 020+ and AGA chipset (or similar UAE setup). You'll need a clean OS3.2.1 installation, after extracting the .lha file double click the BCWB icon to start.
- How to mount ADF file": {Thread @ frum.amiga.sk amikit support forum on how to mount a ADF}
- Ultimate AMOS: The complete guide to games programming with AMOS: The Amiga too has its own standard BASIC. In the early days it was the universally disliked AmigaBASIC. This disappeared from Amiga packs, and was not replaced by Commodore. At the same time, a new type of program appeared. AMOS was BASIC-based, but utilised the Amiga’s own custom hardware to provide a programming language which was not only easy to learn and understand, but extremely powerful too. AMOS has come to be accepted as the Amiga’s ‘standard’ BASIC. Although it can be used to program just about any application under the sun, its main strength (and the reason for its huge popularity) is its abilities as a games creator. The results can be stunning.
- wxWidgets-AOS: AmigaOS port: wxWidgets is a free C++ framework to facilitates cross platform software development. wxWidget-AOS is the port of the official wxWidgets on AmigaOS compatible platforms as Classic, AmigaOS4 or MorphOS, and theirs respective native s UIs.
- Porting to AmigaOS4 thread": {Thread @ Amigans about porting to AOS4}
- How Doom didn't kill the Amiga: A detailed account of the rise and fall of an Amiga zealot
- How to cross-compile for AROS on Windows 10 / 11 with WSL2: Cross-compiling is the process of developing software on one system that is intended to run on another system. You can compile software for AROS using an AROS port hosted on Linux. Under Windows, this is possible using WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2).
- Viewing Amiga images on a DOS PC without conversion? Let's find out how!: Young Topaz has an IFF ILBM image he wants to show his dad, but his dad’s on his PC. Learn about what it takes to write a simple IFF ILBM reader for DOS.
- "ILBM" IFF Interleaved Bitmap: {The official document from January 17, 1986 by Jerry Morrison, Electronic Arts about the "EA IFF 85" Electronic Arts' standard for interchange format files. "ILBM"}
- The Amiga: Meet Agnus, the Fastest, Mathiest Painter: Painting a reproduction from life is a challenge. At least, it is for me. It gets even harder when you’re trying to paint from life and combine in additional elements to the piece. It makes it even harder when you need to do this at least 30 times a second. It gets even harder when you’re a silicon chip and you can’t even hold a paintbrush! One of the great things about the custom chipset in the original Amigas (the Original Chip Set, or OCS, and the Enhanced Chip Set, or ECS) are the tools they have to do 2D graphics very, very well. Agnus, the controller of Chip RAM, comes equipped with a tool called a blitter, whose purpose is to copy big blocks of memory around in Chip RAM very quickly.
- The Amiga: What the heck is NoFastMem?: The Amiga was a marvel of computing at release, with a custom set of processor chips that took over audio, video, and I/O from the CPU, allowing the computer to do so much more than other machines of the era. These custom chips - Agnus, Denise, and Paula - made the Amiga the Amiga, and when the Amiga first came out, all of the RAM in the machine was made accessible to them, to really show off the machine’s potential. The RAM these custom chips had access to was called Chip RAM, ‘cause the custom chip Agnus, and not the CPU, managed access to that memory. My first real computer, an Amiga 500, came with 512KB of Chip RAM. Back then, this was a lot, but, as with all things computers, memory needs steadily grew, and the 512KB it was released with in 1987 quickly became insufficient.
- Amiga Copper Demo and Module Music Video: While researching a future post about the Copper functionality of the Amiga’s Agnus custom chip, I decided to really dig in and figure out how the Copper worked and how you would write some of the bare metal custom chip code. The process of making this video made me realize I need to do a few other posts before I can do one about the Copper, as there are a lot of prerequisites to understand it, at least at the level I am now able to understand it at. I also wanted to showcase a lot of the kind of music the Amiga was known for, module music made on music trackers.
- TURRAN FTP: The Ultimate Retro Repository for Amiga Nuts
- USE Real floppy disks in WinUAE with FloppyBridge or GreaseWeazle: Floppybridge is a plugin by Rob Smith that allows owners of a Drawbridge, Greaseweazle or Supercard Pro USB disk controller’s to use real amiga floppy disks on a PC
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Another small site update but the links are still coming! On the plus side it is nice to see the issues with AmiUpdate being addressed in a very timely manner. Thank you to everyone involved.
- While the TABOR is still a mystery, recently Eldee Stephens (Eliyahu) updated his A1222 Guide. An ABSOLUTE MUST READ if you want to know virtually everything about the 'little computer that could'.
On that note I just checked and saw I placed my order back in 18 Jan 2020. Holy CRAP I can't believe I've been waiting over 4 years ago for this computer to ship. Other than the 'red box of goodies' that arrived over two years later on 31 Jan 2022, I have yet to received any other official word. I guess I just have to keep waiting 'two more weeks'...
Interesting... Keep an eye on
Amiga Legal News Update
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- A2320 "Amber" Reference: The A2320 is a video deinterlacer board originally designed for the A2000. It is essentially the motherboard deinterlacer circuitry from the A3000 on a board. Based on the Amber chip used in the A3000, the board is often referred to as the Amber board. Physically, the board is built to fit into the video slot of an A2000. Electronically, it works fine in an A4000.
- Amiga Reference Books: This is a list of all known publications/books relating to the Commodore Amiga. This list has been created as a reference for the classicamiga project Amiga Reference Book Library Archive(ARBLA). The aim of this project is to create a central online resource of Amiga Reference Books/Manuals/Publications in PDF format. Once permission is granted for classicamiga to host each book in PDF format as part of the ARBLA project it will be scanned in and converted into a PDF version. A copyright/permission disclaimer from the original publisher/author of each publication will be included with each PDF before they can be allowed to be uploaded and published on ARBLA.
- Commodore Books: {Various Commodore and Amiga Manuals}
- The Amiga Guru, ROM Wack & SAD: Almost everyone who has used an Amiga has seen the flashing red box on a black background, with some cryptic text, and known that whatever they were doing is now gone. This was shown when the computer experienced an error that it could not recover from (crashed to use the more common terminology), and the cryptic text gave an idea of what had gone wrong. Most people just pressed the left mouse button, which would then restart the machine, and go back to whatever they were doing, often cursing the guru.
- You Can Now Bootstrap Your Amiga Without A Floppy With This One Weird Trick: Traditionally, most Amigas were intended to boot from a floppy disk. . An Amiga can readily make its own boot floppy, but only once it’s already booted up. If you don’t have a floppy ready to go, you’re out of luck, as PCs can’t readily make them for Amigas. [Roc] whipped up the amigaXfer bootstrapping method to solve this very problem.
- AMIUPDATE - AmigaOS Update Server Administration: Public updates released since AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition
- pciutils: What's that? The PCI Utilities package contains a library for portable access to PCI bus configuration registers and several utilities based on this library.
- HOW TO MAKE AN AMIGAOS 4 BOOTABLE USB KEY / SD CARD FOR SAM4x0: {Directly from ACube a guide for setting up a bootable USB/SD card.
- Summary of the Year 2023 from the perspective of an AmigaOS 4 user: {Polish translated: Mufa's review of the Amiga in 2023}
- Commodore CDTV: Despite being essentially boring technology (ooo, I can just tell some people aren’t going to like that one), CD applications are taking off. First there’s Kodak’s PhotoCD system for storing pictures, and now along comes Commodore with CDTV. CDTV is interesting because it’s basically a wolf in sheep’s clothing, or this case, a computer in CD’s clothing.
- Community: The AmigaOS community is one of the oldest and most dedicated. The loyalty of this community is one of the reasons that AmigaOS still exists today and continues to be actively supported and developed. The community has expanded worldwide, featuring users from various cultures and with different experiences. But they all have something in common, they continue to enjoy using AmigaOS daily. The following list contains some of the community websites around the world that are available to visit.
- User Groups: {listing of User Groups from AmigaOS.net}
- PiStorm: The PiStorm itself is an adapter board intended to be paired with a Raspberry Pi Model 3A+. It goes in the DIP socket on and acts in place of the CPU, but functionality can be extended beyond simple CPU emulation.
- PiStorm: There's a Discord server dedicated to PiStorm discussion and development, which you can join through this handy invite link
- Tiny Aros: {A smaller version of AROS which doesn't include the developer software.}
- Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS: This is a quick look at a few of these interesting features, some more obscure than others, but all of them decidedly useful. Most of them only apply to versions 2.x and/or 3.x of the OS. With that said, let's dive right in!
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! I can't believe January is already over. One down eleven more to go. At least we still have over 330 more days for something interesting to happen... Maybe a true winner emerges and has full control over the operating system... New Amiga systems that can run 3.x or 4.x right out of the box is produced... Or some rich philanthropist takes pity on us, buys everything, appoints a new CEO, steering committee, Chief of Hardware and Operating System design and FINALLY presents us with a road map to sanity and happiness with our little computer that could... ;-)
Interesting... Keep an eye on
Amiga Legal News Update
- Still nothing... Does anyone even care anymore? I know I STILL do!!
Today's Theme
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- Amiga power supply guide: This document details how to diagnose and replace a faulty power supply on the Amiga range of computers. Options for replacement using either an ATX PSU or smaller, compatible switch mode supplies are presented the reader.
- c64psu.com: COMMODORE C64 PSU AMIGA PSU ATARI PSU ZX SPECTRUM PSU. New, TOP quality, reliable power supplies for vintage computers. C64, C64C, C64E, C128, VIC-20, Amiga 500, 600, 1200, Atari 520ST, 260ST & ZX Spectrum +2/+3 (A/B)
- Developer AmigaOS 3: The one-stop website for AmigaOS3 developers. {Articles:} Recommended reading for the Amiga Developer, NDK Setup for the SAS/C compiler & NDK Setup for the VBCC Compiler.
- Tech Blog – Native GCC Pack: In the old good times installation of GCC compiler on Amiga was not an easy task. Now GCC Pack makes it easy with Installer script. It installs native (both hosted on and targetted to m68k-amigaos architecture) GCC 2.95.3. Then it integrates it with AmigaOS 3.2 NDK.
- Amiga + Unix = AMIX : So, what is it? Well, according to lore, the Amiga engineers at Commodore were very interested in the Unix operating system(s), and wanted to bring it to their own machines. Unfortunately, the Motorola 68000 CPU in the Amiga was deemed insufficient, as it lacked the sophisticated MMU required. This, in turn, led to the creation by Commodore of the Amiga A2630 CPU accelerator which contained a 68030 processor and mmu. And this, in turn, led to the creation of the Amiga 2500UX, which is basically an Amiga 2000 with the aforementioned A2630 card and an A2091 SCSI hard drive card with a hard drive containing AMIX.
- Attack of the Mouse Clones: Let me introduce you to the Commodore 1350, Commodore 1351, and the Commodore 1352, also known as the Amiga "Tank" Mouse. The big question: If you get handed one of these things, how do you tell them apart?
- AmiSSL OpenSSL Cryptography and SSL/TSL Toolkit for Amiga: AmiSSL is a port of OpenSSL for AmigaOS. It is a shared library that allows developers to easily add SSL/TLS/HTTPS support to their applications or access cryptographic functions, without having to worry about all the ins and outs of porting OpenSSL, whilst also reducing bloat because all applications can share the same AmiSSL library. Starting with AmiSSL v5, OpenSSL 3.x even provides a built-in basic HTTP(S) client which makes it even easier for developers to read resources from the web without needing to worry about networking code.
- No, the limits of HAM have not vanished!: We had already spoken in some detail about the Amiga’s HAM mode in an article a few months ago (sorry, it’s in Italian. But you can easily translate it with DeepL, Bing, Google, etc.), dissecting (especially from a technical point of view) all the problems that beset it and, therefore, the reasons why it was rarely used, relegating it mostly to displaying static images or movies/animations.
- PiStorm and Emu68: Recently, theres a new project, fully open source that really has taken the classic Amiga to the next level. No, I’m not talking about the Vampire. I talking about PiStorm. PiStorm is an amazingly inexpensive piece of hardware that will take your 68000 Amiga to the next level.
- Prelude Remake Zorro II Sound Card: The Prelude is a full length Zorro II 16bit sound card. It contains a 2K FIFO Cache, and a CSSC 4231A sound processor capable of playing ALaw, uLaw, 8bit, 16bit ADCPM encodings. The remake card gerbers have been made available via github. This includes all the files needed to send to a PCB manufacturer to have the blank boards made. I had mine made using JLCPCB. The cost was very reasonable and the quality of the boards is very good.
- Amiga 2000 EATX: The Amiga 2000 EATX is a project by Jason Beer and is an open source Amiga 2000 PCB in the EATX form factor. EATX is an ATX variant that defines larger PCBs, measuring 12 x 13 inches (305 × 330 mm). These are referred to as Extended ATX, or, EATX. The length of Zorro II cards and the abundance of components on the Amiga 2000 makes EATX the best choice for this project.
- A-Max II Plus by Readysoft: In the donation, I almost jumped out of my skin to find this Readysoft A-Max II Plus box. When I had my original Amiga 2000 system in the early 1990’s, I had one of these cards in my system. This card opened up an entire world of new software on the Amiga. Not only did you have the entire library of Amiga software, but the ENTIRE library of Macintosh software. I was even able to run AOL software for school research. Imagine that, running Mac software on an Amiga at full Mac speed!
- Phase 5 – Cybervision 64/3D RTG: I recently picked up this RTG video card for my Amiga 2000 system. This makes a wonderful improvement to the A2000 video http://amigaworld.net/output. While surfing the internet, the webpages are displayed in their full color pallet. The only issue I have is that this card doesn’t support mode promotion.
- Amiga Plipbox: What is it? Plipbox is an Arduino-based device that allows to connect low-end classic Amigas via Ethernet to your local network. It bridges IP traffic received via PLIP on the parallel port of the Amiga to the Ethernet port attached to the Arduino.
- Sam460LE 1.14 Ghz: {Homepage of the Sam460LE from acube system}
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Another slow week but were still here! ;-)
Interesting... Keep an eye on
- I know I've previously listed this site but it deserves to be mentioned again. Back in the day AMIGA REPORT REPOSITORY was one of the BEST resources for Amiga information PERIOD! Of all the site/resources that are no longer active this one is at the TOP!
Amiga Legal News Update
- Just keep swimming... Just keep swimming...
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- AMITEN: AMITEN TV - YOUR AMIGA & RETRO TV CHANNEL IN YOUTUBE
- Boings World: {German} Hello dear Amiga fans, this year we have another great episode for all Amiga fans. We are talking to Markus Tillmann about the Amiga 37, which is coming in October. We apologize for the dropouts in the Skype interview, ARD & ZDF are sometimes no better at it with Skype... We would also be happy to receive any suggestions or topic suggestions from you to continue making a great and interesting podcast together. With this in mind - stay healthy! We wish you a lot of fun and good entertainment with the current issue of BoingsWorld... BoingsWorld Episode 95 will be released... when it's done..! Your BoeingsWorld team
- amiga the wet machine: alternative computing with amiga and icaros desktop. {ICAROS, Amiga & Emulation tutorials & more}
- Amiga Suisse.ch: {French} Amigasuisse aims to promote the Amiga, by helping you with your Amiga problems: whether on so-called classic machines (like the Amiga 500, 2000, 1200, etc.) or on the new machines called Amiga-NG. They are on PowerPC (Aone, Pegasos, SAM) without forgetting emulators such as WinUAE and others.
- AROS Research Operating System: Wikis {ARCHIVED 27 Jun 2019}: {Info and links}
- Amigaspirit.hu: {Hungarian - News and links}
- Amiga Passion: {French} Hello everyone and welcome to this site dedicated to the Amiga. Since the end of October, the home page had not been updated, and so, here is what is done, and before the month of January ends, we take advantage of it for you wish a very happy new year 2001.
- AMIGAoneX: An Amiga blog posting mostly my own development work for the Classic and NG (AmigaOS) machines.
- AMIGA NEWS.IT: {Italian} Amiga News was born from a project carried out by a handful of young people passionate about computer science. At one time it was know as Ikir Sector}
- name {ARCHIVED 13 Mar 2016}: {Italian - Former site of ikirsector.net which is now know as AmigaNews.it}
- Amigaland.com V7: {French & English - News and information.}
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Slow week. Let's see what happens next week.
Interesting... Keep an eye on
- New issue: Amiga Future #166 has been published
- New event: Revision 2024 in Saarbrücken, DE. It is billed a the worlds largest demoscene event. March 29th to 1 Apr 2024.
- New event: MountainBytes 2024 in Lorzensaal, Cham Switzerland. A week full of shows, copetitions and wordshops. February 16th - 18th 2024.
Amiga Legal News Update
- I think the compass is broken...
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- AmiKick: {Polish & on Aminet} A {windows} program for checking images of Kickstart memory (ROM), which is located in every Amiga computer. It allows you to easily verify the correctness of the Kickstart and detect possible errors, before uploading the image to the memory chip (EPROM, EEPROM, FLASH) and mounting it in the Amiga. It supports 69 basic versions of Kickstart (support for new versions can be easily added) and your own 1 MB Kickstarts created with the Remus package. It was written in C using the free "Open Watcom 1.9" environment. Runs on Windows 95 or later (requires 386 or better processor).
- AxRuntime (AxRT): AxRuntime (AxRT) is a tool for application developers who enjoy creating their applications using Amiga APIs. The runtime allows developers to continue developing Amiga applications in unmodified way while at the same time being able to utilize modern development tools available on Linux or Windows like IDEs, debuggers, profilers, etc.
- Romy A4000 & A3000": {Thread @ amiga.org discussing Romy A3000/4000. The function of Romy is very simple : it allow a new 512 KB block space for Kickstart}
- Sophisticated Development: {Downloads and manuals for Ariadne, AriadneII, ConciertoIV, P-II(plus), P-IV, PabloIV & PalomaIV}
- name: I've written some Am*ga software, of which the most famous probably is the BlizKick tool. I am too lazy to maintain a separate webpage for them, so this page will re-open in the software directory shortly. If that doesn't happen automagically, click here. Am*ga programs written by Harry "Piru" Sintonen
- Radeon Driver and USB/SD Boot on Sam4x0: description
Dear valued customers, We have received numerous inquiries regarding the appropriate Radeon driver to use and how to go about it. We understand that using AmigaOS 4.1 can be a bit challenging in this regard, so we would like to provide you with some helpful information to make the process easier. Please take a moment to read the linked article, which discusses the various versions of Radeon drivers and provides instructions on how to install them on AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition. It is crucial to carefully go through the article to ensure a smooth installation.
- BassMX: description
As a bit of an audiophile, the one thing that has always bothered me a little is the Amiga's perfect channel separation, also sometimes known as "drums on one speaker and the bassline on the other". This can cause the sound to feel unbalanced. {...} So here is my solution, called "BassMX". It takes the audio from one channel, filters it so that only the low frequencies are kept and mixes that with the audio from the other channel. In short, it mixes the bass. And it does that for both channels of course.
- Kooky Tech {ARCHIVED 15 Aug 2019}: Remember when computing was fun? Kooky Tech is a blog for those who enjoy the more quirky side of technology, which includes alternative operating systems, obsolete systems and new developments for classic computers and consoles with a healthy dose of nostalgia. I grew up in the home computing boom of the late 80s/90s, started on Commodore 8-bit machines, fell in love with the Amiga and continue to enjoy these systems today. Dan Wood
- CU-Amiga: The World's best selling Amiga magazine. CU-Amiga Magazine published its last issue in October of 1998. This site is preserved for historical purposes only.
- I Crashed My Fiesta: The random ramblings of a random citizen. {Lots of Amiga & classic commodore related blog entries. Good read!}
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! It's nice to be able to do small updates each week again. Quiet times in the Amiga community but hopefully once the weather gets better so will the news.
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- I know I have already cataloged this link but it's worth posting it again. Component Locator Chucky 1.41. It's an INCREDIBLE parts locator for the: Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000D Rev 9.4, A3630 (reamiga project), A3660 Rev 1.1 (reamiga project), Amiga 4000 RevB - Acill, Amiga 4000 Plus - ALICE - NONSUPPORTED, Amiga 4000TX -, NONSUPPORTED, AA3000 Plus NONSUPPORTED, AA3000 Plus DB Firebird - NONSUPPORTED, Blizzard1260, Junior 600, RE-AMIGA 1200 Rev 1.4, RE-AMIGA 1200 Rev 1.5, ReAmiga 3000 Rev 1.0, ReAmiga 3000TH Rev 1.0, ReCD32, TF1230, TF1260 & TF536. It also links to the individual project pages too! WOW!!
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- ADFMaster: Tool to work with ADF Files on Mac.
Still in development but works so far for many tasks. Files can be easily copied to or copied from Image by drag and drop.
- WarpWebP.datatype: WarpWebP.datatype is a datatype which allows you to view and read WebP image files. As far as I know, this is the first WebP datatype for AmigaOS 3.x or MorphOS. A unique feature of this particular WebP datatype is that in addition to supporting the 68k (with optimized versions for 020, 030, 040 and 060), it also supports the PowerPC processor, with native OS4, WarpOS and MorphOS versions.
- Turbo 2000 Super - Wireless Controller Amiga Design: Wireless controller with additional functions for classic computers and consoles with 9-pin connector. Suitable for, among others: Commodore 64/128, VIC-20, 16, 116, Plus/4*, Amigas & CD32, Atari 65XE, 130XE, 400, 800, VCS/2600, 7800, XE, Atari ST, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Sega Master System {and others}
- - Smart File System, Walkthrough -: This "how-to" is more or less a walkthrough made due to the high amount of questions regarding SFS posted on several forums and mailing lists. This walkthrough covers everything from editing the kicklayout to the usage of tools like Media ToolBox and it's divided into sections for easier reading. 1. SLB 2. Kicklayout 3. MTB 4. Shell Commands
- Smart File System: The Smart File System (SFS) is a journalling filesystem used on Amiga computers. It is designed for performance, scalability and integrity. This project has been created to release the source code of the original C version under the LGPL license.
- Smart FileSystem {ARCHIVED 16 Apr 2013}: {Smart Filesystem 1.277 full archive with tools and docs. AmigaOS 3.x/m68k: SFS 1.279 (23.12.2007) & AmigaOS 4/PPC: SFS 1.279 (23.12.2007) versions}
- PFS3 All-In-One v19: {Github of PFS3}
- HDD LED module for Amiga 1200: As an owner of an expansion card with its own storage connector (e.g. in Vampire V2, Icedrake V4, PiStorm, etc.), you face the problem that displaying the operation of the device via LED activity on the Amiga 1200 is not possible. Unfortunately, manufacturers have neglected to include this feature in their extensions. The solution to this problem is the HDD LED adapter for the Amiga 1200, which provides 2 separate inputs. This allows the activity of, for example, hard drives or the PCMCIA port to be displayed using the original LED module on the Amiga panel.
- The Amithlon Debacle is The tale of the X86 Amiga that Moved the Community: In the early 2000’s Haage & Partner commissioned 2 software engineers Bernd Meyer and Harold Frank. The goal was to secure the survival of the Amiga from uncertain death on the X86 platform. What is Amithlon and how did it ended up being the biggest legal debacles of the Amiga scene? It’s a Linux and latter QNX kernel based emulator. The beauty of Amithlon comes from the fact that the software had direct hardware access and custom chip emulation disabled the Amithlon outperformed the almighty A4000.
- TF1230 and 3Com PCMCIA Ethernet": {Thread @ exxosforumn discussing the TF1230 and 3COm PCMCIA Ethernet card, WIFI and more}
- ReAmiga: What is the ReAmiga project? The ReAmiga project is simply put a project I started to get replacement PCBs for broken Amiga Computers. Technically the project never intended to make new machines, it is more to try to salvage what is possible from the old machine. {replacement and upgraded boards: A3630, A3640/A3660, ReAmiga 1200, ReAmiga 3000 & ReCD32.} Also an INCREDIBLE parts locator for the: Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000D Rev 9.4, A3630 (reamiga project), A3660 Rev 1.1 (reamiga project), Amiga 4000 RevB - Acill, Amiga 4000 Plus - ALICE - NONSUPPORTED, Amiga 4000TX -, NONSUPPORTED, AA3000 Plus NONSUPPORTED, AA3000 Plus DB Firebird - NONSUPPORTED, Blizzard1260, Junior 600, RE-AMIGA 1200 Rev 1.4, RE-AMIGA 1200 Rev 1.5, ReAmiga 3000 Rev 1.0, ReAmiga 3000TH Rev 1.0, ReCD32, TF1230, TF1260 & TF536.
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- Happy Anniversary Babe! Thank you for 30 WONDERFUL Years!!!
 143 me ;-)
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- Greetings and salutations everyone! Well it's finally 2024 and the Amiga is basically where we were last year. Still no A1222, OS4 is just creeping along, and no real changes in the legal situation. But despite this 68K development is still strong as ever! Raspberry Pi accelerators for the classics, the never-ending devotion of the many unpaid 3.x developers and a few all in one retro systems on the horizon (Vampire, A600GS, RetroGames new stand alone system and more. So rather than being depressed I'm looking forward to the new year!
- Also after adding 1112 links last year I look forward to not having to add 30+ links a week! ;-)
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- Amiga North Thames: Amiga North Thames is a computer user group, based in North East London (uk) which was started back in January 1999. We are a dedicated bunch of enthusiasts who fondly remember the computer that history forgot, the Amiga range of Computers originally built by Commodore International. Despite Commodore's death, the Amiga continues to survive even with the many changes of ownership. Now after many years of legal wrangling, the future of the AmigaOS is in good hands once more and moving forward.
- Amiga: Amiga Mexican Restaurant and Bar. London, United Kingdom
- name: Hello Cave Dwellers and welcome to The Cave. A place where the history of technology is explored, enjoyed and celebrated with your host and keeper of The Cave, Neil. What began by innocently sharing a hobby on YouTube in 2017 has evolved into a thriving channel of over 100,000 subscribers at youtube.com/RMCRetro where popular formats including "Trash to Treasure", "Retro Road Trips" and "Show & Tell" episodes see Neil restore, preserve and protect retro technology.
- Welcome to the Retro Collective: Hands-On Vintage Technology Museums. Set across two floors of a listed mill in Stroud, UK, the Retro Collective is a visitor attraction comprising two hands-on retro technology and gaming museums, The Cave and Arcade Archive. With an expanding assortment of old computers, consoles and arcade cabinets to try out, there is a whole history of technology and gaming to explore across several nostalgic exhibits, including a comprehensive retro magazine archive and recreated high street store.
- Amiga Boot-up Screen Colors and System Error Checklist": {Thread @ amigalove.com discussing Amiga Boot-up Screen Colors and System Errors}
- Super Buster 11? Why? ": {Thread @ amibay.com discussing the differences between the various buster chips}
- GBS Control: an alternative firmware for Tvia Trueview5725 based upscalers / video converter boards.
- name: What does it do? Processes (line doubles) retro games with NO input lag – Unlike other scalers, such as the XRGB Mini, the OSSC works on individual scanlines rather than a frame at a time, that means there’s no input lag whatsoever (well, a few nanoseconds if you really want to be precise). Eliminates ugly deinterlacing artefacts and bad scaling. Converts SCART and Component to DVI/HDMI. Convert VGA to DVI/HDMI – Connect a retro PC directly to the unit and enjoy HDMI processing of all your games. Convert analogue audio to digital DVI/HDMI. Fast deinterlacer.
- Medusa rev. B SCART EU : Medusa project was started 6-7 years ago, when 2 people - old retro stuff geeks have met - Acidmaker (creator of Sio2sd and proffesional file system used at Harvard, Columbia university and many others) and me. Since very beginning Acidmaker was into gettting perfect picture from ATARI ST / ATARI 8bit / Amiga. Meanwhile, me (lotharek), as opposite side, was into simple usage, ergonomy and user friendly interface. After 5 long years of develomennt, many protototypes, hours of discussions/testing, thousands of euros spent (obviously...) we are very happy to announce, that final project is coming and it is about to be released in preorder for retro community soon.
- How to build AmigaOS4 cross-compiler (binutils 2.23.2 & gcc 8.2.0) on MSYS2: The advantage of having up2date crosscompiler for amigaos4 probably have no needs to explain, as everything move forward, and even on amigaos4 we had to move even by small steps. While for having cross-compiler at all there is very good reassons: speed and ability to use all range of helpfull tools such as cmakes,autoconf and scripting languages, but for having updated cross-compiler there is even more reasson: ability to use c++XX till c++17, thread support in c++XX, bugfixes (and new bugs, of course:) ) and all the fancy stuff which come with new gcc.
- Welcome to Capitoline: At it’s core Capitoline (Cap) is an Amiga kickstart editor, but like any software project, it’s grown arms and legs, added features which may or may not be useful to everybody. Main features: You can load ROMs in various different formats, decrypt, extract from ADF etc. Once loaded you can take a ROM apart, “ROMSplit” into modules then you can put a new ROM together “add” from these modules or other ROMs and ADFs. You can patch ROMs to change text or behaviour. You can save ROMs for burning to EPROMs (byteswap, interleave, split). You can create skick files for softloading Kickstarts or use within WHDLoad {and much more}
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- Another year in the bag! All I can wish for is a better 2024!!
Wishing everyone a safe and productive New Year from the whole AmigaSource family.
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Well I did it. I added 1112 links this year! Honestly there was NEVER any doubt! Was it worth it? Definitely. One thing this site shows me is the incredible grit and determination of the Amiga community. While v2.0 of the site is STILL under construction I feel good about next year!
- Now with that out of the way can you believe another Christmas has come and gone and the New Year is only a day away? I hope Santa got everyone what they wanted. (pssss Santa.... Where's my A1222??) While I'm waiting I got a retro tank mouse for my pc. There's noting like using a corded mouse with no scroll wheel in 2023. Almost like using a real Amiga! All it's missing was the ball! Ha ha!
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- NATAMI Advanced Amiga Compatible {ARCHIVED 15 Aug 2012}: {Official NATAMI Blog} In a consumer version the NatAmi is intended to be a very affordable Amiga successor. An Amiga that is powerful enough to be useful for today's typical tasks. The major long-term intentions for NatAmi are: beeing an Amiga compatible design, have the original AmigaOS, binary OS replacements and Amiga applications running, enable playing new and classic Amiga games, expand features to 24bit truecolor gfx and 16bit audio on custom chip register level, implement USB, Ethernet and flashdisk support, provide immediate system on/off and hilbernation, provide enough resources and power to surf the internet and watch online videos, add features to be able to playback DivX, Xvid and DVD
- The Commodore Amiga. Everything was better on the Amiga {ARCHIVED 16 Oct 2012}: {Various articles about the Amiga}
- GURU-MEDITATION {ARCHIVED 28 Jun 2012}: If you have been programming the Amiga for a while you have most certainly seen your nice Amiga blow up in front of your eyes. However, the Amiga is a nice computer, and if it crashes it will try to do that as neatly as possible. You are usually (!) allowed to save any important files, and when the Amiga goes down it will give you a last message, trying to tell you what went wrong. Many programmers have not realized how important that last message is. For them, it is just a collection of strange numbers. But those numbers can actually tell you what exactly went wrong, and once you know what went wrong, it is usually no problem to find the bug.
- Vintage Computer Federation Forums - Commodore: From the Pet to the Amiga
- 15kHz SVGA Monitors: {A table currently listing 211 monitors}
- 15kHz SVGA Monitors: {A page listing 15kHz SVGA monitors}
- CRT PC monitor 15khz": {Thread @ reddit discussing 15kHz monitors}
Back to the Amiga – Pt. 1: I will publish various Parts to this series when I get time to write about them, but to start you off this is Part 1 which shows you what you require to get your Amiga to output to VGA
- How can you connect an Amiga 500/600/1000/2000 to a modern monitor?": {Thread @ reddit discussing how to get the Amiga connect to a modern monitor}
- Amiga 500 CPLD RGBtoHDMI v2: Allows you to use a Raspberry Pi Zero to output a perfect digital image via HDMI. The pixel clock is derived in a very different way to other implementations which means no Denise / Super Denise jumper and no "sparkling" pixels.
- ACA1231 on OS3.1.4.1: After installing Amiga OS3.1.4.1, I’ve noticed that the 68030.library and MMU support with ACATune does not work correctly on my older ACA Card. Running ACATune -status shows that the ACA1231-41Mhz card is being detected as a ACA1230-28Mhz card with not features enabled. To fix this problem please follow the guide below
- Building an MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA Converter: Over the past few years there have been many occasions where I've wanted to connect an old Hercules, CGA or EGA card to my VGA multisync monitor, but these require a converter - something I've never managed to acquire. Back in mid-2022 I started looking for an alternative, and quickly found one that appeared to fit the bill - the GBS8200 video converter. Sadly, I fell victim to the same false advertising as many when I purchased this board from a popular Chinese retail online store. The GBS8200 was attractively-priced at around 20 EUR, not including tax and shipping. In this article, we'll explore what this converter board can and cannot do, and my updates to successfully get it working on a retro PC.
- 15 kHz CRT Monitors: If you are a dabbler in DOS gaming and prefer to use a CRT instead of a modern "flat panel" LCD/LED, you might be looking for a good all-rounder CRT that supports the full frequency range employed by Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA and SVGA. In addition, these monitors will also support both digital and analogue RGB inputs, since all PC video standards prior to VGA were digital.
- Jay Miner Interview: The 1992 AUI interview with Jay Miner has become an important artifact to understand the pre-Commodore era of the Amiga, and learn about the development of the Lorraine prototype. However, it was not the first time the magazine had interviewed the man behind the machine- Jay had also gave the magazine an exclusive interview four years previous. At this point in time he was still bitter about the decisions made by Commodore and the direction that they took the Amiga. The interview is scanned from the June 1988 issue of Amiga User International and saved in JPEG format. Hopefully the former publishers will not mind it being distributed to a wider audience.
- Amiga Ranger: {German - Page detailing the prototype Amiga Ranger computer. w/pictures}
- Tech Blog: This page has technical write ups for our demos. Right now we will publish various parts from Eon over the following weeks/months. Making Eon
- Beyond Akiko: grafica packed al minor costo usando i bitplane: {Italian - A detailed artice about the Akiko chip in the CD-32}
- Commodore-Amiga Sales Figures: Information on the sales of the Amiga throughout the world may be lacking in many respects. However, there are some figures available that indicate how many were sold during the Commodore era. These only show official figures, the number of Amigas world-wide has been estimated to be 4 times as much.
- Dave Haynie - October 01, 2003: {Mirror of an interview conducted on Amiga.org} I wanted to thank you for taking the time to answer some of the questions we have lined up for you ... Here goes:
- Xena questions": {Thread @ g the Xena chip and its usage.}
- Xena Resource: The Xena Resource provides access to the Xena chip on the AmigaOne X1000. Two functions allow you to use the Xena chip.
- Sentinel X-Logger: {PDF} Standalone Xorro serial data capture card & logger. A=EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce the completion of the Sentinel X-Logger, a standalone Xorro based serial data capture card and data logger for Amiga one X-series of computers.
- Fantastic animation: "Dance of the Stumblers" (Steve Segal, 1987): t doesn't happen too often that one stumbles [pun!] upon Amiga material from 1987, and is genuinely surprised. "Dance of the Stumblers" is a staggeringly beautiful, dynamic Amiga-generated animation that just has to be seen.
- What chips did the Amiga 1500 ship with?": {Thread @ reddit discussing what chips shipped with the A15000}
- AKReal: Pre-configured distribution for AGA/RTG Amigas. Based on AmiKit. Unofficial. AKReal is a collection of more than 350+ pre-installed programs
- Setting up a Compact Flash card with Classic Workbench and WHDLoad for Amiga 600/1200 : About a year ago, I bought an Amiga 600. It did not have a hard drive, but all Amiga 600 have an IDE port, and you can use a Compact Flash card with a CF-IDE adapter as a hard drive. That worked fine, and I could install Workbench on the CF card, and use it. But eventually I though I should try to use WHDLoad, so that I could run more games directly from the hard drive.
- F2R16 - HN62402/27C400 ROM emulator - Amiga Kick: Flash-based HN62402 ROM and 27C400 EPROM emulator for vintage computers and arcade machines. The Amiga, like many other computers of the late 80s, uses 16-bit wide mask ROMs to store the machine firmware. Unfortunately, the pinout of these ROMs is incompatible with the JEDEC defined EPROM pinout. F2R16 brings all the benefits of modern flash memory technology to any platform designed to use these obsolete devices.
- Hyperion Teases Amiga Community: People, this is an interesting thing to follow first-hand. Hyperion, the company behind AmigaOS4, has been talking about its “Most Ambitious Project” for a while now, but on December 31, they started teasing the Amiga community like crazy. They opened a site called a-eon.com, which is most likely about the MAP.
- 25 Years of AmigaOS Development: Hyperion Entertainment have posted a visualisation of the AmigaOS source code repositry. You can see it grow from AmigaOS 1.0 back in 1985 right through to today.
- Hyperion Entertainment VOF Partners with SciTech Software to Add Graphic Power to AmigaOS 4 and Beyond {ARCHIVED 24 Jul 2004}: SciTech Software Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment VOF are pleased to announce they have enterered into a strategic partnership which will see SciTech's SNAP(tm) technology integrated into AmigaOS 4.x which is currently under development by Hyperion for PPC based systems.
- Stratagus port for OS 3.x is released: {Thread @ eab.abime.ent discussing Stargus Startgus is a Starcraft Mod that allows you to play Starcraft with the Stratagus engine}
- Stratagus: Stratagus is a free cross-platform real-time strategy gaming engine. It includes support for playing over the internet/LAN, or playing a computer opponent. The engine is configurable and can be used to create games with a wide-range of features specific to your needs {Starcraft}
- Starcraft 1 and Warcraft 2 for Amiga OS4: So, I think I blogged about Stratagus a long time ago. It was an RTS engine that was ported to Amiga OS4 (and possibly 3.x as well). Using some addons, called Stargus, Amiga users could play Starcraft 1. It’s been around for a while but there is something called Wargus for Stratagus that makes Warcraft 2 available for Stratagus.
- CrowPi Lite laptop running Amikit 12, MIDI and real Amiga floppy disks: Recently I found out about a Raspberry Pi laptop solution called CrowPi Lite. I have seen plenty of these solutions in the past, but they were never truly mobile solutions - but this one is different. I decided to get one, and get it working with AmiKit 12, with MIDI hardware support and even using real Amiga floppies via drawbridge usb floppy drives! Keep reading for more details!
- AKReal: AKReal is a collection of 350+ programs for real Amiga AGA/RTG computers. Based on AmiKit
- AmigaSDK-gcc: Contains the AmigaOS 3.2 NDK, AmigaOS 4.1 SDK 54.16 plus extra SDKs fixed to work with the GCC compiler. Please note these are meant to be installed on top of Bebbo's Amiga GCC devkit so install that first if not done already.
- Analogue Pocket - Commodore Amiga: This is based on the MiSTer Github of the Amiga MiST project (Also known as Minimig) and the VexRISCV RISC-V chip for the Media Processing Unit (MPU) between the core and APF framework for floppy, hard drive and CD-ROM access.
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