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(Note: Current results from the old database. Until I can finish adding all the NEW links in to the database, I HIGHLY recommend opening all the previous years (2024 and back) and using CRTL-F to search each page too. Sorry...
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14-16 Feb 25: MountainBytes 2025, Lorzensaal, Cham, CH
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15-16 Feb 25: Vintage Computer Festival SoCal, Orange, CA, US
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12 Apr 25: LA Maker Faire + City of STEM Festival - Classic Los Angeles Computers! (CLAC!), Los Angeles, CA, US
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18-21 Apr 25: Revision, Saarbrücken, DE
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Late Summer 25: Amiga 40th, The Heart of Silicon Valley, CA, US
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11-14 Sep 25: Classic Computing 2025, Kulmbacher, DE
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18-19 Oct 25: Amiga 40, Mönchengladbach, DE
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Big Shops and Vendors
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Another slow week in AmigaLand but I would like to just say THANK YOU to all the good people who STILL LOVE and SUPPORT the Amiga. We are an AMAZING community with AMAZING people. Amiga Rules!!!
Interesting... Keep an eye on
- New Top 10+: AmigaLove has been added. An excellent source for source for news and information!
- Crowd Funding: With the popularity of the PiStorm a new bounty for a Warp3D.library for PiStorm systems equipped with Pi4 and Pi CM4. "Warp3D" for PiStorm will access to the Videocore VI Chip allowing a higher resolution, faster fps and more stunning looking visuals for 3D Gaming on PiStorm-equipped Amiga systems. Sounds GREAT!
- The Croatian Amiga WARP Association has released their 2025 Amiga WARP Calendar. Print your copy today!
Amiga Legal News Update
- Let's keep this train a mov'n!
Today's Theme
- Random Links...
New Links (15) YTD (45)
- Quake 1.09 for AmigaOS and MorphOS: This is a port of id software's famous first-person shooter Quake 1 for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS, WarpOS and PowerUp.
- QuakeWorld for AmigaOS and MorphOS: This is a port of id software's Quake World for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS, WarpOS and PowerUp. QuakeWorld is a multi-player specific version of Quake, optimized for playing over the internet. It allows a server to predict the movement of an object based on its current speed and trajectory, so the server doesn't need to receive continuous data from the client and can deal much better with lags.
- UADE plugin for Audacious music player: - Custom fork of UADE including support for additional formats and platforms not (yet) supported in official UADE releases:
- UADE - Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator: UADE is a music player for UNIX platforms that plays music formats used on the Amiga computer.
- T H E S C A V I R U S: {SCA has posted the source code of their infamous SCA Amiga Virus. Released on 5 Jul 1987}
- Commodore's official comp.sys.amiga posting regarding the SCA Amiga Virus: {Bill Koester of CATS detailed investigation of the virus.}
- 'Virus' plague taps a system: {The West Australian newspaper article reporting on SCA Amiga and other viruses}
- Amiga G-Copy for PC: It is a PC Windows program that uses the Greasewaezle by Keir Fraser, ADF-Drive by D. Tonn or DrawBridge aka Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer by Rob Smith to create backup copies from/to HD/USB/SD and of course from/to floppy disk
- ADF-Drive is here: {Translated German} ADF drive is the extension to a USB memory interface which uses the media transfer protocol (MTP), which is usually used by handies. {...} The new firmware provides a drive that can be formatted and can generate files from the floppy disk with drag & drop, but can also write to a floppy disk.
- OpenC64MegaDrivePadAdapter: OpenC64MegaDrivePadAdapter is an Open Hardware adapter that allows the safe connection of a Sega Mega Drive (known as Genesis in the US) controller to a Commodore 64 or Amiga computer.
- Accessing Amiga HDD on a PC via USB ": {Thread @ amibay covering some details of using WinUAE with a real Amiga formatted HDD}
- Amiga SCSI and IDE Devices: Disk Image Files and Direct Access: This document explains how to: Create an HDF disk image of an Amiga disk drive attached to a Windows PC, which can then be used both as a backup and in Amiga Forever. Attach any SCSI or IDE device to a Windows PC and use that directly in Amiga Forever
- How to format and install AmigaOS on a hard disk in UAE {ARCHIVED 04 Jun 2009}: {Step by step instructions w/pictures}
- WavConvert4Amiga: A Windows utility designed to convert WAV files for optimal use with Amiga computers and music trackers. Features an intuitive interface for sample rate conversion, waveform editing, and ProTracker note tuning. Sound Sampler in the style of the Older Amiga Applications, to create Amiga 8svx(iff) samples
- The Sage IV computer system and the Amiga 1000: a legacy of innovation: The Sage IV computer was the ideal development platform used by Commodore engineers for testing and refining early hardware prototypes. It was essentially a development and debugging environment that helped simulate the behavior of the eventual Amiga hardware. As the Lorraine prototype was being developed, it used a combination of early versions of the Motorola 68000 processor and custom chips that would form the backbone of the Amiga architecture.
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! So it looks like Hyperion might finally be 'dead'? See below for people smarter than me summarizing the news. What does this all mean? Well if I go by the forums it doesn't mean a lot right now, but who knows what's REALLY happening in the background. Fingers crossed!
Interesting... Keep an eye on
Amiga Legal News Update
- A little action on the battle front. amiga-news.de has reported that former Hyperion director Timmothy De Groot has been reappointed again. Here's some insight and a little bit more. As always I don't expect anything but still I'm always interested where this train wreck is heading...
Today's Theme
- Random Links...
New Links (15) YTD (30)
- Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83: Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore and an influential figure in the early days of personal computing and video games, passes away Sunday at the age of 83.
- Memory Lane. From The Interface, newsletter of the Fresno Commodore User Group: This is a limited series of articles saluting some of the past members of the Fresno Commodore User Group, people who have made a significant contribution to the club. Our more recent members did not have the pleasure of knowing these men and women, many of whom have passed on. However, they made a lasting impression on the club and the author.
- That's why CRT is unbeatable! CRT vs PIXEL PERFECT!": {Thread @ reddit discussing in depth the advantages of the CRT vs an LCD}
- Portland Commodore Users Group (PDXCUG.org): Commodore Users Group in Portland, Oregon. Our group specializes in Commodore 64, SX-64, Commodore Vic-20, Commodore 128 and other Commodore computers. We meet regularly to discuss ideas, code, brainstorm projects, participate in the scene, and play games.
- Puget Sound Commodore Users Group: Whether your interests are games, productivity suites like GEOS, hardware hacking, or getting together to reminisce about some of the best, most interesting 8-bit computers, come to a meeting and leave knowing you're not alone. We've got a lot of ideas and dreams for these electronic playgrounds that Commodore created.
- TOGA The Other Group of Amigoids WEB Page {ARCHIVED 26 Feb 2024}: TOGA, The Other Group of Amigoids, was formed in 1991 by Lawrence Brown. He had moved to California from another state where he was involved with an Amiga user group called Amigoids. Lawrence is no longer involved with our group. He currently works for Cisco Systems in Menlo Park, CA. While with Cisco and with Cisco's help, he was actively involved in getting computers (specifically Amigas) in to local schools.
- SAUG - Sydney Amiga Users Group: The user group was focused on the Classic Commodore Amiga but also newer developments such as the NG (Next Generation) Amigas – which eventually came to be known as the AmigaOne. A lot has changed since then. The Classic Amiga is now well and truly a “retro” machine. The NG Amigas came and went, and are now mainly a niche product. The user group is now focused on 1980-1990 era retro computers in general, such as Commodore, Apple and Atari machines. This also includes the Amiga of course!
- Czech Amiga News: {Reproduction of the original website - From 1998-2003 this website was a MAJOR player in the tracking of daily Amiga events. REAT source of historical Amiga happenings! To that point if you scroll to 19 Oct 2001 you will see my posting for the launch of AmigaSource.com}
- Sales Analysis of GVP (Great Valley Products) Hardware for Amiga Computers": {Thread @ Amigalove.com discussing the history, product development, sales figures, comments from Gerard Bucas (CEO) and more. AWESOME thread!}
- The Eye Of Infinity: Wicked is tactical arcade game, designed and written by Paul Norris and Rupert Bowater of Binary Vision, released on 28th June 1989 for the Amiga, Atari ST and later, the Commodore 64. It was published by Electric Dreams/Activision. This site documents and analyses the game to preserve its legacy.
- AGuide Viewer: AGuide Viewer is an open source reader for AmigaGuide documents implemented as a browser extension. It works with Firefox and Chromium on all platforms.
- Amiga Hardware Faults and Solutions List": {Thread @ lemonamiga.com covering: GENERAL FIRST STEPS GUIDE TO FAULT FINDING, GENERAL DEAD AMIGA ISSUES, DISPLAY, ROM, FLOPPY DRIVE, KEYBOARD, MEMORY, HARD DRIVE, JOYSTICK/MOUSE, POWER/PSU, ANGUS, SOUND, NTSC, GURU's & Misc}
- Workbench 3.1 Installation, Tour and Tools Guide": {Thread @ lemonamiga.com covering: Workbench Guides, Config Files, Advanced Hard Drive/Media Setup, Floppy Guides, Display Setup, Advance Setups, Games and Controllers & Misc}
- Amiga Shops that you can Trust this Christmas!: Several online stores specialize in Amiga hardware and software. Here are some of the most popular options for doing an Amigan happy this Christmas {2024}
- Virus Help Team's 30'th anniversary: {...} So from the 1'st of January 1995 Virus Help Team in Denmark took off, and within 6 month we opened Virus Help Team's in Norway, Holland and Canada. Our common aim and goal has always been to help Amiga users with virus problems and support the antivirus programmers. If you are curious and want know how we all got started with our antivirus work for Amiga community.
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Second posting of the year but the first one with new links.
Interesting... Keep an eye on
- Little over a month ago AmigaLove.com announced the opening of their new software archive.
"I’ve been immersed in this project that has been years in the making—a project I’m incredibly excited to share with you: a dedicated Software Archive for Amiga content. It launches today on Amigalove.com with over 200 disks imaged and over 300MB of total content so far.
This archive is a labor of love, aimed at preserving Amiga history from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Over time, I’ve collected and digitized hundreds of disks—pieces of digital history that are either unavailable online or nearly forgotten. Many of these artifacts hold cultural and technical significance, providing a unique glimpse into a bygone era of computing."
WOW what a collection and work of LOVE... Amiga Love to be precise!
- And not be outdone on the preservation front they did it again! intric8 posted a thread where let us know of his latest endeavor of preserving historical user group magazines. The first one is three years of the "AmigaUser" Newsletter (Starting with Oct 1988 Vol 3 Number 10) from Everett Washington. (USA). 16 pages of PURE GOLD!!
Now I LOVE computer history and HOLY COW what a HIGHLY interesting and fascinating look at our Amiga from the local user perspective. I was going to try and summarize this issue but I know I couldn't do it justice. So just take my word and read it!
- Amigaworld.net is again back from the dead! The old server finally bit the dust and a new one is up and running. Glad its not gone forever!
- New event: The 2025 LA Maker Faire is being held on 12 Apr at Exposition Park in Los Angeles California. Over 65+ Makers & Exhibitors will be in attendance with our own Robert Bernardo, of the Fresno Commodore User Group and the Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network will be there supporting Classic Los Angeles Computers! (CLAC!)
Amiga Legal News Update
- Seriously guys.... It's been three day since my last posting and you haven't figured it out yet? LOL
Today's Theme
- Random Links...
New Links (15) YTD (15)
- Games Released in 2024 Index": {Thread @ lemonamiga.com} Rather than go through and update the old thread I thought I'd include links to all Amiga games released this year in a new easy-to-use thread (I hope).
- ProTracker 2 (v2.3D) clone: {windows} I have written a portable ProTracker 2 (v2.3D) clone in C using SDL 2
- Fasttracker II clone: {windows} I have written a portable Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2.
- 30pin SIMM RAM expansion for the Amiga A500: In preparation of receiving the first Amiga 500 for my retro-computer collection, which sadly didn't come with an A501 RAM expansion, I decided to make my own memory expansion board for it. Keeping with the "using whatever I happen to have in my hardware bin" theme, I decided to use 30pin SIMMs in this. I had to use at least two modules, since each SIMM is 8bit wide and we have a 16bit bus to populate.
- Amiga 500 ATA hard disk interface: This is an ATA hard disk interface board, for the Amiga 500. It's designed to connect on the expansion port on the left side of the amiga, and it's compatible with the ide.device driver included in rkide.lha in the aforementioned archive.
- Summary of 2024 AROS x86: The end of the year is a time for reflection and recapitulation. After years of less activity, we can safely say that this year has brought us many positive developments. From month to month we recorded significant progress, which you had the opportunity to follow on our blog. AROS has moved forward with momentum and does not intend to slow down!
- Pimp my Ami #1 – Fluo: For the past few years, I’ve restored hundreds of retro machines to their original state (sometimes with minor mods) and I am kinda bored with it. Time to try something different.
- The Faery Tale Adventure - Amiga: This repository contains the source code to the original "The Faery Tale Adventure" published by MicroIllusions on the Amiga in 1987. It was written by me (Talin) over the course of seven months.
- Amiga PD disk index: This page contains links to indexes of some Amiga Public Domain (PD) disk series. 17 Bit, Amiga E PD, Amiga Magazin, Amigan, AMOK, AMOS PD, ARUG, Assassins Games, Assassins Utils, AUGE 4000, Bavarian, Cactus, Club Amiga de Montreal, Demo-Utils, Faces of Mars, Franz, Fred Fish, General PD, German, German Games, KickStart, LSD LegalTools, Nordlicht Spiele, NZUG, PD Soft, PD Soft, PDK, Purity, Saar, Scope, SNAG, Taifun, TBAG, Time {and more}
- AMIGAMEGA: Made by sceners, for sceners. Enjoy this collection of Amiga Demos & Games
- DevWare: Public Domain library collected, cataloged and sold by DevWare Inc. DevWare created a public domain disk library composed of three different series. “DevDisk”, “WorkBench” & “FunDisk” series.
- Amiga Software: This archive is a preservation effort dedicated to building a historical archive of Amiga abandonware, software, files and written content distributed on disks from 1985 to 1996. The collection encompasses Disk Magazines - subscription-based curated disks — along with disks from local User Groups, Public Domain collections and individual Shareware and Freeware software titles. AmigaLove.com aims to safeguard these digital treasures for future generations, offering both documentation and downloads of the original files. If you have relevant software you think should be represented here, contact. AmiDock, Amiga Animation, Amiga Arizona (AMAZ!), Amiga Users of Calgary (AMUC), AmigaGames, AmigaWorld Tool Chest, AMnews, Best of Amiga, Bronx Users Group (BUG), Daytona Beach Amiga Computer Enthusiasts (dbace), DevWare, Disk2ADF and ADF2Disk, Doctor AMI, National Capital Amiga User Group (NCAUG), The Commodore 64 Door & Tracy Amiga Group (TAG)
- Preserving Amiga History: The Launch of a New Amiga Software Archive": {Thread @ amigalove.com announcing the launch of their new software archive. WOW what a collection and work of LOVE... Amiga Love to be precise!}
- "AmigaUser" Newsletter (Oct 1988), Now Preserved with 3-Year Timeline": {Thread @ Amigalove.com about the ongoing preservation of various local user group magazines from the beginning of Amiga and its glory years. ABSOULTE GOLD in those pages!}
- MorphOS Hardware Compatibility: On this page, you find a list of hardware that is directly supported by MorphOS 3.x.
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Today's Highlights
- Time to stick a fork in 2024... It's done! All I can wish for is a better 2025!!
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 one last update before the end of the year then it's off to 2025. While I didn't break last years record of 1112 new links, I did at least make it past the 700 mark. (720 to be exact) Still not to shabby! If anyone thinks this is caused by a lack on links TRUST me that's not the case!! There are NO shortages of site to catalog!
- Now to better prepare for the end of next year like Amiga-news.de did, I am going to start tracking the 'best' website and 'biggest' stories so I can do a recap just like them. Until then you will have to settle for their WONDERFUL recap of their site and Amiga happenings for the past 6 months. Server admin Markus Bonet goes into detail of how they compiled their stats a listing of the top news items. Boy do I LOVE their website!! Oh and here's one more year end review. Epsilon gives us his take on Amiga Games in 2024. Enjoy!
-So with that said Good Bye 2024 and Welcome 2025.
Interesting... Keep an eye on
Amiga Legal News Update
- Looks like everyone is still on holiday...
Today's Theme
- Random Links...
New Links (15) YTD (720)
- Amiga gaming research(?) project: {Thread @ reddit where user danby has played and reviewed 614 Amiga games to see how they still hold up today. A complete list of games and ratings can be found there}
- Company behind Amiga OS 4 seems to be either going or is in fact bankrupt: So, I won’t be wasting too many words on this – partially because I’m not into cheap soap operas, and partially because there’s no way to know what’s going on with this nonsense without dedicating a year’s worth of detailed study into the subject. So it seems that the company Hyperion, which develops and owns the rights to Amiga OS 4 and Amiga OS 3.2 has gone into bankruptcy proceedings.
- AMOS programing for Amiga: {Links to download various AMOS resources. AMOS, Complier, AMOS 3d, Easy AMOS, AMOS Pro, Pro Complier. Also AMIGA AMOSZINE}
- 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.
- A Review of the A600GS from AmigaKit: Back in the summer, I put in an order for the then upcoming A600GS from AmigaKit. {...} Thought I’d do a quick write-up about how it has worked for me so far. I hope you’ll find it helpful if you are in the market for one, or of interest if you are just curious about it in general.
- wolfSSL on Amiga: As many of you are probably aware, I am one of the developers of wolfSSL. I specialise in porting to various platforms, everything from 16bit microcontrollers to big iron 64bit server processors. I decided to see if I could get wolfSSL running on a 30+ year old platform, specifically “Jops”, the Amiga 4000 I just finished restoring.
- Australian Commodore & Amiga Review: The Australian Commodore & Amiga Review was a popular magazine dedicated to Commodore and Amiga computers. It was published from 1983 to 1996 and was known for its in-depth articles, reviews, and tutorials on software, hardware, and gaming for these platforms.
- Amiga 5000 System: Block diagram of the proposed #Amiga 5000 system created by Dave Haynie in 1991. This document was generously contributed by Randell Jesup.
- This is Meynaf's Amiga projects page: {Translated French}This is Meynaf's Amiga projects page. If you don't know what an Amiga is, this page doesn't contain anything that might be useful to you. {Port of the game Heroes of Might and Magic 2, New dungeons for Dungeon Master, Port of the game Gauntlet from the ST to the Amiga, Port of the game Joust from the ST version, A few players and other utilities, for good old DT2,Mpega.library optimized for 68030 and more.}
- IFF Master: IFF Master is a tool which lets you inspect IFF files. It's the EA 85 variant which is quite popular on AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS. It's a partial reimplementation of IFF Master from Kay Drangmeister.
- USB 27C400 EPROM Emulator: This module emulates and is pin compatible with the 27C400 4 Mbit (512Kb x8 or 256Kb x16) EPROM. The 27C400 UV EPROMs have compatible pinout with ROMs used in many computers and electronics from the 1990s. The Commodore Amiga 500/A600/A1200 and Acorn A3020/A4000 all used this ROM pinout. The module can be used as a drop in replacement for the ROMs in compatible systems.
- Boing #9 - Interview with Oliver Roberts: You probably know Oliver Roberts as he's the current author of the iconic Amiga browser, IBrowse. Maybe his name also makes you think about the Warp Datatypes. He kindly answered our questions...
- Ktadd's Software Applications for AmigaOS: {maker of VideoClipper, SimpleSub, ffmpegGUI, ClipDown and more}
- Sam460 - PCIe pioneer: {Translated Czech} Even though the Sam460ex has been with us for almost fifteen years, it is a bit of an inconspicuous computer in the AmigaNG world. You won't find almost any blog or review about it. Maybe just a few videos on YouTube. And yet this computer is exceptional in several ways. So since I have had its latest version, the Sam460LE, since last year, I will introduce it a little.
- Amiga Games in 2024: It is wonderful that in 2024 we have so many interesting brand new games to try out on the Amiga platform. For me I was surprised how many new games we saw released!
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Well another year is almost in the books. In the big picture the musings of a bunch of vintage computer users really doesn't mean much. Seriously... There are BIGGER issues in the world that need to be addressed. But with that said having a hobby or even a passion to keep us to keep us distracted in our spare time is a good thing!
While the lawsuit is STILL unresolved, we are all STILL waiting 'two more weeks' and we are STILL no closer to a definitive path forward, I believe we all have something in common. Something about this computer STILL make us happy, and for that I say 'Thank You'!
More sad news this week. Martyn Brown, co-founder of game developer Team 17 has passed. With his oversight he was responsible for such game as as Alien Breed, Body Blows, Superfrog, Project X and Worms! Apparently he had been sick for some time. Our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends.
Interesting... Keep an eye on
- New hardware. Looks like the guys at AmigaKit are at it again. The BIG story this week is their release of the A1200NG motherboard. In the same vein and their A600GS but this time it's close to a fully functional, full size replacement motherboard for a A1200 case. Still no official word if OS 3.2 can be directly installed on it. From the looks of the forum responses it hasn't been to overwhelming. One big question being asked is will they be selling a complete system? One in case with a keyboard, drive an OS? I guess only time will tell.
- Free software update: Amikit is offering free updates to version 11.9. As it seems this is truly becoming the go to turnkey version of the OS What are you waiting for?
- Video: amigatronics.com has conducted a 25+ min interview with Trevor Dickenson "In 2011, we had the privilege of interviewing Trevor Dickinson, head of the company behind the next generation AMIGA systems. Today, we are fortunate to do it again, review what has happened since then, and analyze the current situation, among other topics.
- New event: Amiga-News has a news story about Amiga 40 18-19 Oct in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Since the information is German I'll let the link give you the details.
- New issue: Amiga Future #172 has been published
- New issue: REV'n'GE #165 has been published
- New issue: ASM Magazin , the GERMAN retro computer print-magazine, #12/14 has been published
Amiga Legal News Update
- I guess we've ALL been bad this year... LOL
Today's Theme
- Random Links...
New Links (30) YTD (705)
- Amiga 30 and the Unkillable Machine: Thirty years after its introduction, the Amiga is still influencing computing
- Happy Birthday Amiga Computer!: Thirty years ago, the Amiga computer launched at Lincoln Center. Count me among its fans who are remembering and celebrating
- Amiga: The Computer That Wouldn’t Die: Having outlived a number of its corporate owners, and spurred on by its passionate users, the Amiga computer is going back to market again—but this time, in very different forms
- Documentaries for Engineers: Mission Control, Denial, and Viva Amiga : These three films will keep you thoughtfully entertained during your vacation travels
- Silicon Valley Mourns Amiga and Lynx co-creator Dave Needle: Fans of the Amiga computer turned to social media to react to the death of Dave Needle, one of its creators
- Chip Hall of Fame: Motorola MC68000 Microprocessor: The processor that powered the original Macintosh, as well as the beloved Amiga computers
- VIVA AMIGA: THE STORY OF A BEAUTIFUL MACHINE {ARCHIVED 9 Jun 2019}: In a world of green on black, they dared to dream in color. 1985: An upstart team of Silicon Valley mavericks created a miracle: the Amiga computer. A machine made for creativity. For games, for art, for expression.
- Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: The Gadgets You Loved Most: Hundreds of IEEE members entered our contest. Here are the most memorable submissions
- Amiga 500 (A500) Computer History: The Amiga series represented Commodore’s attempts to garner the home market, and the Amiga 500 was their budget-friendly model. Although they marketed the A500 as a multi-purpose device, most users of the time remember playing games on the system.
- Amiga 500 to Amiga 1084 RGB Cable: Quick documentation of the pinout of making a replacement RGB cable for the Amiga 500 to connect to the Amiga 1084 Monitor, primarily because I couldn’t find a pinout diagram online that worked properly.
- ReSDMAC: Verilog code to replace the Commodore SDMAC found in the A3000. This project is has been a community effort with the PCB design by Jorgen Bilander and the code by Mike Taylor. It has been exercise in reverse engineering the Commodore SDMAC 390537 as found in the Amiga 3000
- Amiga 1200+: This project is a re-implementation of the Amiga 1200 board started from the schematics. I made some changes and enhancements to the original schematics.
- How fingerprinting identified a press leak: Back on the Atari ST and Amiga illegal copies were a big problem. It's impossible to stop, but it was often worth trying to at least make it hard for copies to get cracked and distributed. For some reason, we suspected press versions might be a source of leaks. So for Ambermoon, I implemented a fingerprinting mechanism. And lo and behold, it helped us identify a leak! And now that I've released the source code, I can more easily show how I did it.
- QuarkTex: QuarkTex is a 3D graphics hardware virualization solution first released in 2003. It transforms calls to the Warp3D API inside an emulated AmigaOS to native OpenGL calls for a host Windows system.
- Blender’s prehistory - Traces on Commodore Amiga (1987-1991) : Today Blender is one of the industry leaders, but it started quite small, three decades ago. If you ever wondered when and where some of the most iconic Blender conventions like "right-click select" or 3D cursor originated, it’s then, in the Amiga era, even before Blender was born.
- Blender’s History: {...} Roosendaal wrote the first source files titled “Blender” on the 2nd of January, 1994, still considered Blender’s official birthday. Originally, Blender was planned as an in-house application for NeoGeo; it grew from a series of pre-existing tools, including a ray-tracer built for the Amiga. This early version of Blender was intended to address a perennial frustration among creatives: when a difficult client requires multiple changes to a project, how do you implement those changes painlessly?
- Tracer: The 1991 AmigaWorld Tech Journal Raytracer written by Brian Wagner
- (Amiberry powered) Lightwave Render farm: In the distant 1990, a 3D modelling, animation and raytacing package was released to the world: Lightwave 3D – it was originally running on Amigas with the Video Toaster card, but later became available as a standalone software package as well. It went on to become available to other platforms besides the Amiga as well (which had the last release with v5.0r), being used in multiple Hollywood productions and independent films, and is still around today. But we’re interested in the Amiga version here, and specifically what we can do with it today. Yes, we’re a weird bunch of people, I know…
- rendernode: Tools to automate an Amiga-based ScreamerNet render farm
- Networking an Amiga to a PC {ARCHIVED 28Oct 2020}: Thanks to the inclusion of Screamernet with Lightwave 4.0 and higher, you may use a single copy of Lightwave to render your work on multiple computer systems. This greatly speeds up your rendering time, and if you have several computers around, Screamernet is flexible enough to allow you to use Modeler on one system while the others are busy rendering.{...} But before you can 'start Screaming', you have to have a network up and running. Screamernet will use your existing network, it will not do the networking for you.
- Emu68-Imager: The Emu68 Imager is a utility to allow PiStorm users to easily prepare an SD card with Emu68 and a basic pre-configured AmigaOS 3.1, 3.2 or 3.2.2.1 installation.
- Installing PFS3AIO on Amiga OS3.2": {Thread @ amiga.org on how to setup PFC3AIO under OS3.2}
- Using MediaVault & mediavault_script (OS4) : So, in this entry, I'll provide an in-depth review of MediaVault v1.5.1 written by George Sokianos, who has made many great contributions to the AmigaOS4 community. I'll also cover using it with mediavault script version 1.6, which I wrote to allow choosing an audio player or saving the stream via a requester. MediaVault v1.5.1 is an AmigaOS4 program that allows you to search for and play streaming radio stations as well as podcasts.
- GoldenCode: GoldenCode is an independent one-man software company located in Kerpen / Germany. {Games: Souverän Soccer & Atomic Bomberman. Taborized ports of: Atomic Bomberman Remake SPE, Battle Squadron SPE, Tower57 SPE, VoxelBird SPEn & VoxelNoid SPE}
- AROS News: Periodic overview of the AROS scene. Distributions, AROS sites, Tutorials, Downloads {and more}
- Writing my own dialogue scripting language: Magicore Anomala is an Amiga game I'm working on. I made Doki Doki Literature Club using Ren'Py, a Python-based visual novel engine that has some staggering capabilities. But thinking about it, there are tons of games with visual novel-like dialogue features—maybe even the majority of them at this point. How is dialogue implemented in these games? Do most of them use existing dialogue scripting libraries, or are they more often spinning up their own solution? I have no idea, but given the extremely specific features and limitations of Magicore, I had no choice but to create my entire stack from scratch (like literally everything else in the game engine).
- Amiga Assembly Game Programming Tutorial series: Hello, I'm writing an Amiga game in assembly for myself and I thought that would be interesting to share the knowledge with other people. The tutorials will be addressed to beginners, the only pre-requisite is the knowledge of Motorola 68000 Assembly language programming.
- Programming the Amiga Series Part 1: Installing AMOS Basic the Easy Way!: AMOS BASIC is a fun, powerful, and user-friendly game programming language and environment for the Amiga. In this video we look at installing AMOS in a couple of easy way... Amiga AMOS Basic Programming Tutorials: Installing AMOS, Loading images and configuring AMOS screens, “Dual Playfield”, Bobs and Sprites, Maps and Scrolling, Better Tile Scrolling, AMOS AMAL Animation Programming & Playable Shoot-Em-Up Game
- Amiga Basic Tutorial: This tutorial will help you to begin to understand how to write Amiga Programs using AmigaOS and Workbench. To create a GUI interface or aGames using the bu
- CanDo For Amiga Fans: Welcome to our CanDo website! We provide support for this great development environment for the Amiga... Looking forward to hearing from you...
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Today's Highlights
- Greetings and salutations everyone! Christmas is almost here! I hope everyone has been good so Santa brings you that new Amiga you've been asking for. I have my fingers crossed!!
Interesting... Keep an eye on
- Is Amigakit working on another 'new' Amiga? It looks like they are. The domain of a newly posted website is pointing us in the direction to a A1200 version of the A600GS but this maybe somthing a bit more. Since there's not a lot of official information to go on, I'll just let the wonderful amiga-news.de summarize what they know. If it turns out to be just another motherboard then it's still better than nothing. Another source of replacement parts is always a positive thing but ultimately what we really need is a new source of replacement chips. Santa are you listenikng?
- New issue: Amiga Future #172 has been published
- New event: On 14-16 Feb 2025 MountainBytes 2025 will be held in Lorzensaal, Cham Switzerland. "Join us for a weekend full of shows, competitions and workshops, celebrating one of the oldest digital arts." Sounds like a good time!
Amiga Legal News Update
- Are you there Santa??? I need a BIIIIIIIIIIIIIG favor....
Today's Theme
- Random Links...
New Links (30) YTD (675)
- my ARexx scripts for OctaMED SoundStudio my ARexx scripts for OctaMED SoundStudio for AMIGA These are some tools I wrote in ARexx for OctaMED. Hope they're useful to someone :)
- Quick Start Guide AmigaONE X1000 First Contact System: AmigaONE X1000 First Contact System. Developed by: A-EON Technology. Guide design by: ACube Systems Srl. Distribution: AmigaKit LLC. Original Guide layout: Stefano Guidetti. X1000 Guide Updates: Darren Eveland. X1000 ISO preparation: Carl Moppett. 1st edition - December 2011
- Commodore exhibition to show off rare Amiga prototypes: An event celebrating the Amiga's 30th birthday is gearing up to show off rare prototype versions of Commodore's iconic computer over the weekend. Hosted at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, the "Amiga is 30" exhibition will feature the Ranger - Commodore West's follow-on to the A1000 - alongside Amiga Lorraine Prototype wirewrap boards.
- fw2odf: FinalWriter (Amiga word processor) to Open Document Format conversion
- Pistorm32-Lite: Introduction. The PiStorm32-Lite is an accelerator for the Commodore Amiga 1200 computer. It has been created by Claude Schwarz. This speeds up the Amiga 1200 by leveraging the Raspberry Pi's computational power. The Raspberry Pi plugs into the PiStorm and emulates the native 680x0 CPU at much higher performance than the original CPU. The Raspberry Pi is running software emulation of the 680x0 CPU using Emu68 developed by Michal Schulz. As a community project it is assembled and distributed by well known suppliers such as Amiga Kit.
- PiStorm32 – Getting started guide Pt.1: This guide is designed to help overcome that barrier and help those that might need a little help in the right direction. I know there is a beautiful EMU68 image that’s provided by most suppliers but I didn’t get the PiStorm32 to play around with CaffineOS. I wanted a fully featured Workbench with all the extra features, something to feel like “traditional” hardware but with the speed and extras that are often beyond most people’s budgets.
- amigafonts: Faithfully remade multi platform Amiga fonts in Amiga aspect.
- What is a Guru Meditation Error?: A Guru Meditation Error is a critical error message that originally appeared on Amiga computers, signaling a system crash akin to the "blue screen of death." It was an imaginative way to indicate that the system encountered an irrecoverable issue. Though it was primarily linked to the Amiga, the term has found new life in modern computing, most notably in VirtualBox.
- Amiga Translators' Organization: Amiga Translators' Organization was created because for a long time, programmers who wanted translations for their programs would either have to post "Translators wanted"-mails onto newgroups and mailing lists, or they must use translators they knew. {...} ATO was then built as being an organized pool of translators. We want to make programmers' lives as easy as possible by offering many translators for a wide range of languages, and still offer the quality assurance. This quality assurance is done through the proofreading concept which you can see here.
- Spritework on the Amiga 500: Disregarding the specific intent of the designers, though, I also think it’s interesting to repeat the exercise moving from the Atari 800 to the Amiga 500; many of the Amiga Original Chip Set’s design decisions around sprites feel like reactions to pain points when developing for the 800, while a few others feel like they’re preserving some old design decisions in the Ataris.
- Amiga 500 Keyboard - Arduino Leonardo: This Arduino sketch converts an original Amiga 500 keyboard into a USB HID, allowing it to function as a modern USB keyboard. Using an Arduino Leonardo, which supports native USB communication, the sketch reads the Amiga 500 keyboard signals and translates them into USB keystrokes, preserving the vintage feel with modern compatibility.
- RISKYKVM: Amiga adapter targets KVMs, but can be used as USB to DB9 and Amiga Keyabord interface
- powerpc/chrp: Remove CHRP support: {News posting about the removal of CHRP support from maintainers of the PPC version of the linux kernal)
- The story of the Amiga cult classic Twintris: We spoke with developer Svein Berge, as well as another Svein Berge, about Twintris on the Amiga. In 1990, the German publisher Digital Marketing released an Amiga game called Twintris. It was essentially an attempt to recreate the legendary puzzle game Tetris, but specifically inspired by Atari’s arcade version of Tetris. As a result, much of the focus was on two players competing against each other simultaneously on a split screen.
- py-guide-viewer: Extended Amiga Guide File-Viewer in Python. Written by Zeittresor. This is a File Viewer for the Amiga Guide Fileformat (.guide).
- Mini Amiga A4000 (Pi 3b Emulated/3d Printed): Being a bit of an amiga fan I have always wanted an a4000 but they were (and still are) unreasonably expensive so we decided to design and 3d print a miniature one including a replica mini 1084s colour monitor.
- Nightly Build Downloads (ABI-v1): {AROS nightly builds. amiga-m68k, darwin-i386, darwin-ppc, darwin-x86_64, linux-i386, linux-x86_64, mingw32-i386, mingw32-x86_64, pc-i386, pc-x86_64, pc-x86_64-smp, raspi-armhf & sam440-ppc}
- Amiga 500: Completing a Simple Game: {Last part of a series documenting the development of a simple game for the A500}
- Retro32 - Amiga: {A quick link to all of Retro32's Amiga pages. Lots of good stuff here!}
- WhatIFF? Forum: Post here only about the magazine, including information on current and upcoming issues. Share feedback for writers, suggest changes, etc.
- Amiga 30th Anniversary Event: {Homepage to the 30th Anniversary event held at the Computer History Museum on July 25th and 26th 2015.}
- Amiga Oktalyzer tracker: Oktalyzer was a commercial tracker for the Amiga computer by the German developer Armin Sander and distributed by Mayer Verlag in 1988. The latest version (1.57) was published in 1991.
- Flight Simulator II - In-depth Amiga Written Review With Pics : In an office in the city of Santa Clara California, 1984, a team of designers worked feverishly on a custom chipped computer built around the Motorola 68000 processor. Many may know the story of how Jay Miner, Dave Needle, R.J. Mical, Dave Morse, and perhaps even Mitchy the Dog came together to create one of the most legendary single computer models of all time, the Amiga. Often neglected in this story telling is another legendary designer, Bruce Artwick. According to Computer Gaming World, Artwick had been plucked away from SubLogic's Illinois offices and was working just as frantically on the Amiga as any other on that team, though with a slightly different goal in mind.
- How to Setup Your Raspberry Pi 5, 4 or Pi400 with PiMiga Amiga Emulator + Games Bundle: In this video we look at how to set up your Raspberry Pi 5, 4 or 400 with PiMiga, the best Amiga experience you can get in 2024. Below you will see the changes to the instructions you need to take a note of for the brand new release.
- Raspberry Pi Amiga Emulation Options: When I bought my Amiga 500 I was excited to be able to test my programming on real hardware, but unfortunately I can’t effectively do the development on my 500 due to the fact the systems I was aiming to use all require beefier hardware, and obviously I don’t have the money to buy physical versions of all the hardware I need to test performance with.
- AMOS programing fro Amiga: {Links to download various AMOS resources. AMOS, Complier, AMOS 3d, Easy AMOS, AMOS Pro, Pro Complier. Also AMIGA AMOSZINE}
- Amiga E: Amiga E is a programming language and compiler I started creating for the Amiga in ‘91, released publicly in ‘93, commercially in ‘94, and released as open source in ‘97. It was most similar to C++, in the sense that it was fast and weakly typed, and had a rich set of features from procedural, object oriented and functional programming languages. I wrote the entire thing in assembly language, which will always persist in my mind as the craziest software engineering exercise I have ever gone through (400kb of mostly uncommented assembly in a single source file, for a complex compiler).
- 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.
- APOLLO - FREE SOURCE - Code written by Matt: GZIP'D TARS. A lot of this stuff is very old. dice-1.15.tgz - 68000 C compiler suite. This is the DICE C compiler suite which I wrote as shareware for the Amiga in the early 90's. I no longer do any development work on this project but there seem to be enough people still in need of it, including myself for some old commercial projects, that I decided to wash it off and report to run on a BSD or Linux host.
- DICE-NX : DICE-NX is a C compiler suite for Commodore Amiga computers and for Motorola 68000-based embedded systems. It is a fork of the DICE product developed by Matt Dillon of Obvious Implementations Corp in the 1990s, now relicensed under the BSD License. DICE-NX aims to restart development of DICE with a focus on the modern retrocomputing scene, including support for the latest AmigaOS 3.2 line. DICE-NX is currently early in development. There is no packaged release yet, and building DICE-NX may be challenging!
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