Monday, May 23, 2022

Getting new simgen backdrops on my amiga 500

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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 fo...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

It took me WAY too long to get this gotek to work...

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 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 documente...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Amiga 1200 - Kickstart 3.1.4 upgrade, but not upgrading to AmigaOS 3.1

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 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 ...
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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