Monday, February 7, 2022

At least cross compiling for the Amiga 500 is easier than the 16 bit DOS mode PC stuff

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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 (...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

Getting stuff onto the Amiga 500, or "holy crap please include bootstrapping serial file transfer utilities in your OS"

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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...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Hacking up an Amiga 500 for 1MB chip RAM and 512k slow RAM

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 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 an...
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Monday, January 17, 2022

Figuring out how Amiga 500 RAM expansion projects work

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 (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 f...
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Monday, July 26, 2021

When off is not off, or "why is my amplifier pulling 30mA when it's off?"

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 I have a little shed out the back with a 100W solar panel on it and a 13.8v battery. Right now it's just running a Raspberry Pi 2 power...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

On calibrating up a ubitx, or "why the hell is this so complicated"

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 I've built a few of ubitx/bitx40 radios over the last couple years. I built one of each for me, and a couple for other hams. The bigges...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Repairing and bootstrapping an IBM PC/AT 5170, Part 3

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So! In Parts 1 and 2 I covered getting this old thing cleaned up, getting it booting, hacking together a boot floppy disc and getting a work...