#amiga

Amiga Wifi Internet Access via the Floppy Drive Port

SysInfo is an application for Motorola 680x0 based Classic Amiga and is used for getting information about the system like OS and library versions, hardware revisions and stuff.

Commodore Amiga - Operating Systems - Workbench

A unique Gotek Mount for the Amiga A1200 that moves the interface (OLED screen + rotary encoder) to a “floppy” sticking out of the mount, simulating a real floppy.

I recently purchased an Amiga 1200 which has hard drive support through an internal IDE connector. Adding a hard drive is appealing since booting from floppy disk or a Gotek floppy drive emulator can be quite tedious and slow. The good news is that there are solid state options using compact flash (CF) or secure digital (SD) card solutions through an IDE adapter. I went with a CF card adapter that I purchased for less than $30 from AmiKit on eBay. This is shown below inserted into the IDE slot on my 1200.

HstWB Installer is an application, which can automate installation of Amiga OS, Kickstart roms and packages with additional content. Creating new harddrive images for Classic Amiga and installing Amiga OS, Kickstart roms, ClassicWB, WHDLoad games and demos properly can be a cumbersome task unless you spend a lot of time figuring out how this is done step by step.

Native AMIGA filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE

The Amiga was designed during the aforementioned “MB” days. It was generally conceived that there was not going to be any affordable storage medium higher than 4GB in size. If 4GB was all the space I wanted, I wouldn’t be writing this post in the first place.

Download an Amiga Workbench OS Preinstalled packs setup for real A500+ A600 A1200 A1500+ A2000+ A3000 A4000 and UAE

In my thesis, I study Amiga ASCII text art. Amiga ASCII is a form of text art where the composition of letter characters set in the Amiga computer's font forms a two-dimensional representation or image. The Amiga scene is a subculture of computer enthusiasts that was popular in the 1990s. At its core are the logos and other visual materials created for BBS systems and the competitive rivalry among artists who create text art over their image-making prowess.

VisiCalc on the Apple II. Lotus 1-2-3 on the IBM PC. Aldus PageMaker on the Macintosh. Deluxe Paint on the Amiga. The computer industry loves a “killer app,” that unique piece of software that compels consumers to purchase new computer hardware just for the privilege of running it. I can personally attest to Deluxe Paint as it compelled even my technophobic mother to buy into its potential.

By default, the parser does string interpolation using the characters < (less than) and > (greater than). The cleverness of this is debatable: these characters are also used for I/O redirection, which can quickly make things confusing. Luckily, the parser also accepts the directives .BRA and .KET, each followed by a single character, which lets the programmer override the default interpolation characters. The terms BRA and KET are most likely borrowed from Dirac notation.

This paradoxical duality of writing commercial software and cracking games defines the complex and often incomprehensible attitude towards copyright or intellectual property - for lack of a better word - on the demo scene.

Still, there are setups and there are setups. Having recently visited the Swedish Amiga demo party GERP, I had the opportunity to photograph a worthy contender to - and, to me, current holder of - the throne. Without further ado, let's examine!

That was solved recently when I bought an Amiga 1000 on eBay. This is the long-overdue story about how I restored, fixed, and upgraded it and my future plans. If you’re the rabbit hole type, I added as many links and references as I could so you can dive deeper into the Amiga world. I hope you enjoy reading it.

The core of the Amiga Operating systems consists of the three major components Exec (scheduling, memory management, IPC), Intuition (GUI library) and AmigaDOS (process and file management). AmigaDOS is based on the Tripos operating system which Commodore bought because development of their own DOS subsystem failed to meet deadlines. In this article, I am presenting searchable PDFs of the very rare Tripos manuals (638 pages) as well as the AmigaDOS manual (304 pages). Comparing the two documents will share some insight in the relationship between Tripos and Amiga OS.

Sharing just 64kB of SRAM between an Amiga and a Raspberry Pi, this clever FPGA board provides a way to get a classic computer back online.

Since the Raspberry Pi was just sitting there, and the Amiga lacked (*) a network adapter - why not just connect the dots and get something up and running? I did, and it worked. Here's a quick writeup on what I did - if anyone's interested I can write a more detailed post with all the information I have.

Do you know those weird, abstract games that you find yourself instantly drowned in and hopelessly addicted to? Be warned: you just stumbled upon one. A great one. Amiga and PC versions

Do you know those weird, abstract games that you find yourself instantly drowned in and hopelessly addicted to? Be warned: you just stumbled upon one. A great one. Amiga and PC versions

My second ever MOD. Lots of Meat Beat Manifesto and Aphex Twin samples. Awkward, but less sucky than the first. Still pretty sucky, though

My first MOD ever, using OctaMed. Sounds awful and out of tune. I could have sworn I fixed that using some parameter in OctaMed, but no player I've found agrees with me. Could be I just sucked and didn't hear it back then

Had some friends who wanted to start an artscene / demoscene group called "L8X" (ie. latex), so I knocked out this intro theme in an afternoon. Source material was a pile of NES game samples and a few random synths and movie vocals.

This was someone else's Amiga MOD, which in turn was a cover of Rob Hubbard's C64 chiptune Goldrunner. I remixed it by replacing all the samples and reworking a bunch of the patterns, as a learning exercise

The last Amiga .MOD that I wrote before the end of college. Still kind of cheesy, but the best thing I turned out with an A1200 and a CasioTone MIDI keyboard. Lots of weird technical things, like squashing a 4-track drum pattern down to one track by hand-merging samples and working out the composite pattern

I wrote this, as an Amiga .MOD back in the mid-90s. It's cheesy dance music

I wrote this, as an Amiga .MOD back in the mid-90s. It's cheesy dance music

"Lemmings started life as a simple animation back in August 1989 when DMA Design had just moved into their first office (which only consited of 2 small rooms), and were begining a new game called Walker (based on the walker that was used in Blood Money)."

"For fans of the Commodore Amiga, the introduction of the new Amiga 3000 was big news, even though the price tag was nearly $4,000. This program looked at the new Amiga computer and new third party appplications. Demonstrations include the Amiga 3000, the Amiga 2500, the AmigaVision authoring system, The Animation Studio, and the Video Toaster from NewTek. Also includes a visit to FAUG, the First Amiga Users Group, in Palo Alto. Guests include Paul Montgomery, Tim Jenison, Lou Wallace, and Hedley Davis. Originally broadcast in 1990."

"How to deal with the “not-so-mellow yellow” of old computers and consoles "

"Hungry for a new machine, one of the Amiga projects floating around in 1996 was the Amiga Walker."

"Module files (MODs) are a class of file formats used to represent music on a computer. They store several patterns or pages of music data in a form similar to that of a spreadsheet. These patterns contain note numbers, instrument numbers, and controller

"Here's a DIY MOD player you can build (MOD is sorta like a MP3, popular in the 80's with Amiga computers)"

"An AMIGA card game (52 cards) is available made under licence of AMIGA."

"This is the unofficial online version of bac-v10.zip that was published with PAiN issue 10/03 (54) in Oct'2003."

"The Amiga was notable for its use of unique, dedicated processor chips for tasks like real time video effects. Dennis has recreated these chips in a Xilinx Spartan-3 400K gate FPGA."

"Customers should be able to move their own data between independently developed software products. "

What sort of surreal collision of technologies is this?! "Can I use Apple's Mighty Mouse in Amiga Forever on Windows?"

Heh, heh. One of my few musical attempts uploaded to Aminet.

Amiga demos in DivX format

"...Magic Menu offers the possibility of so-called popup menus, i.e. menus which are activated on any point on the screen will unfold on exectly this position."

An old interview by me with Sidewinder of classic Amiga MOD fame. Breathless and awkward.