Category: Commodore Amiga

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AmigaRemix

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Battle Squadron ingame, Stormlord (intro), GODS Into the wonderfull – daxx step 2 dub Remix, RSI Megademo – BA1, Stormlord ingame, Turrican title, RSI Megademo – Loader, Turrican 2 Title, Hulk Hogan Hymne – Real American, Jumping Jackson, Platoon…

Amiga 600 FPGA accelerator

Igor Majstorovic is working on an FPGA accelerator (Vampire 600) for the Amiga 600. He started his project in 2010 and he now has a stable system. The accelerator improves the speed of the A600 from 0.55 Mips to 1.85 Mips. You can follow the progress of this project on Igor’s blog. Website: http://www.majsta.com/index.phpSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Scriba v1.7.0. – MorphOS

Scriba is a simple word processor for MorphOS, developed by Carsten Siegner. A few of the features are: Formatting, current date / page, tabs, spell-checking, images and the export of PDF, SVG, EPS or PNG. Recent changes: SVG and RTF import, Professional PDF, Drag/Drop Pictures and a review of the source code. Website: http://aminet.netSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Interview with Antony Crowther

The Amiga Lore web page had an interview with Antony Crowther. Antony got into game programming at his school together with Ben Daglish, Nigel Merryman and Martyn Peverley. He worked on the following games: Bombuzal, Phobia, Captive, Captain Planet, Knightmare and Liberation. Website: http://www.abime.netSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

X500 Plus is live on Kickstarter!

The X500 PLUS is a computer case design inspired by the wedge shaped computers with inbuilt keyboard of the 1980s and 90s, mainly the Commodore Amiga 500.The X500 PLUS has taken several years of development and it aims to be a versatile and unique computer case. Some configuration examples: AmigaOS compatible motherboard (SAM440ep, SAM Flex or SAM460ex), Radeon 9250, 4650…

New Minimig Case

Thomas Koch from http://www.xyqom.net is designing a new case for the Minimig FPGA board.Minimig (short for Mini Amiga) is an open source re-implementation of an Amiga 500 using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) Below are some prototype pictures to tease you! Website: http://www.xyqom.netSource: http://eab.abime.net

WinUAE 2.6.0 Beta 9

– 68000 NBCD didn’t emulate undocumented V-flag behavior. (Probably forgotten long time ago because SBCD had correct implementation) – It was impossible to get out of halted CPU state in some situations. – FDBcc and FScc 6888x FPU instructions without installed FPU returned wrong f-line exception PC field. – Directory filesystem: emulate Windows shortcut (.lnk) files and symbolic links as…

Assist v0.9 – AmigaOS 4

Assist is a dictionary of information for AmigaOS. The features are: All the content from the “Get the most out of your AMIGA” PDF guide. Shortcuts and Links. Easy downloading and unpacking of software. Play YouTube videos and it has AmiUpdate support. Changes in this version: Copy links to the clipboard with a right mouse click. Warning before overwriting previously…

Turbo Chameleon – Minimig Joysticks

AMR is working on the Minimig core for the Turbo Chameleon. You can read all about the progress on his blog. The latest changes are: The Commodore C64 joystick ports are now usable from the Minimig core. A problem with the Extended Fast RAM is resolved. And in the OSD menu you can now select 24 Mbyte of Fast RAM….