ClassicHasClass
A more obscure Commodore employee (where he apparently met his wife), but still quite influential during the Amiga era. Along with more pedestrian units such as the Amiga 3000 and the monochrome Amiga 2024 monitor, my favourite device he worked on was the 1987 prototype SX-500. That's exactly what...
AMR
This week I was asked to help prepare artwork for a commercial print job. The job involves a die-cut template to be used for packaging across a range of products, for which there are some 40 different variants. The customer … Continue reading →
Adrian
This post is about AmigaOS 3.1.4 on my Amiga 2000. AmigaOS 3.1 from Amiga works fine. However, there are a few interestingly subtle differences between 3.1 and 3.1.4 that are worth knowing about, and they stem from both OS and ROM changes that you need to be aware of.Let's start with why I...
Adrian
I gave my amiga 1000 keyboard cable to a friend so she could complete her Amiga 1000 setup. I then ordered some replacement RJ12 cables (4 wires!) to get mine working.But they didn't.Let's talk about why.Firstly - yes, the cable is a RJ12 4P4C rollover cable. Ie, if you hold both connectors up...
Adrian
I slipped and bought a TF536 to put into my Amiga 2000. TL;DR is it's now running, but it took a bit of fiddling to get there. When I was last getting it going I noticed it didn't like any Zorro-II RAM in there, so I simply disabled it (it wouldn't do much) and left it alone. The storage card I'm...
Adrian
EDIT - the original article has an image of the PCB with the floppy power connector mounted the WRONG WAY. This is the INCORRECT WAY. Do NOT do it this way!TL;DR - I'm half way through building an Amiga 500+ replica. The goal:New PCBNew clear caseActual floppy drive!TF534 Accelerator, yes I am...
Adrian
The Amiga 1000 is a slick looking machine. It however loads its ROM from floppy disk. The Wikipedia Article on the Amiga 1000 explains why.I wanted to put a Kickstart 1.3 ROM in my Amiga 1000. There are adapters out there you can build and install. I chose one, followed the instructions, and it...
Adrian
This'll be nice and short.I wanted to add some new backgrounds to simgen, which is a hack on Amiga Workbench 1.3 setups which allows for a 1 or 2 bpp (2 or 4 colour) background image.Part of it is figuring out how to convert to a suitably formatted IFF (interchange file format) for an Amiga. I...
Adrian
The short version - when you buy an actual OG Gotek with the OG Gotek firmware, it doesn't work in any convenient way that is documented on any of the retro computing sites, because you DEFINITELY need to flash it with different firmware.Ok, so the less short version!I picked up a busted Amiga 500...
Adrian
So I splurged a couple bucks on the updated AmigaOS 3.1.4 from Hyperion. It came with both the ROMs and AmigaOS. Now, I have 3.1 installed already, and I wanted to just drop in the ROMs.It almost worked.It looks like they moved some libraries from the ROM out to disk/RAM in order to make space.So...
Adrian
I wanted to hack on Amigaterm (https://aminet.net/package/comm/term/amigaterm) a bit, but I found out that someone already had done that (https://aminet.net/package/comm/term/amigaterm_enh). They fixed some bugs and added speeds above 9600 baud - 19200 works fine on the Amiga 500, and 38400 works...
Adrian
Yes, I know I'm ranting about 1980s OSes, but to be quite frank, modern OSes on a variety of hardware still have a similar problem.Wait, what do I mean you ask? Surely you will always have ethernet/wifi/USB available? I almost started writing a bit on that here given I end up working behind the...
Adrian
In a previous post I dumped a bunch of information I had learnt about what had happened in open source Amiga hackery. I've now gone and committed the initial hacks needed to prove that it works and document how I did it.My goals here were:Build one of the memory expansion Gary adapters that are...
Adrian
(Wow, what a shift in topics here..)Yeah I picked up an Amiga 500. Specifically, a rev6 amiga 500. It has 4 extra spots on the mainboard for another 512k of chip ram that isn't populated.Crap I'm going to have to explain chip RAM.Ok, so the Amiga is a pretty nifty architecture, especially if you...