Sunday, September 25, 2022

Installing a kickstart ROM adapter in my Amiga 1000, or "Nothing works, and nothing makes sense"

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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....
Monday, July 11, 2022

Fixing a third commodore plus/4, or "god damnit adrian stop it"

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Here's a fun and easy one to fix. One commodore plus/4. Here's what it displayed. Looks like the TED chip is outputting something, b...
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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