Tag: amiga 1000

Blake Patterson has posted on his excellent blog “The Byte Cellar,” an excellent article where he talks about his 35 years as an amiga user. As he says initially, it is a “meandering and reminiscent” type of post, which I’d say is one of the best types of reading when we feel walking down memory lane for an extra dose…

During the preparations for the 30th Anniversary Event in the cellar of the Amiga developer Dale Luck, a prototype of the “Ranger” was found. Under the title link one of the organizers, Chris Collins, has published photographs. After “Lorraine”, which later became the Amiga 1000, Ranger was planned as an extendable version with Zorro-slots similar to the Amiga 2000.More Photos:…

Ron Nicholson and Joe Decuir, engineers that designed Amiga’s custom chipset “Lorraine”, will be attending on the next 25th & 26th of July the Amiga 30th anniversary at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Ron and Joe will be presenting for the first time their work on the Amiga Lorraine chip set, while working with Jay Miner, the…

Amiga-news has shared today this link, from the “Computer Collection Vienna”, where it show an Amiga prototype, called VELVET REV03, ICs mostly from early 1985, thus six month before official presentation! The machine has only 128k RAM and can be expanded by another 128k on front expansion port to a maximum of 256k. The final version ended up with a…