A Love Letter To My Lost Amiga
My first love was a black wedge. It was 1982, and I had saved up to buy a Sinclair ZX81. That little computer remains the only one of the huge …read more Continue reading A Love Letter To My Lost Amiga
Category Archives: amiga
You Can Now Bootstrap Your Amiga Without A Floppy With This One Weird Trick
Traditionally, most Amigas were intended to boot from a floppy disk. . An Amiga can readily make its own boot floppy, but only once it’s already booted up. If you …read more Continue reading You Can Now Bootstrap Your Amiga Without A Floppy With This One Weird Trick
Linux Kernel 6.0 Released for the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 PowerPC-Based AmigaOS Computers
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a very substantial and comprehensive update of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for AmigaOS 4.1 54.16.
Also Linux: Kernel 6.0 f… Continue reading Linux Kernel 6.0 Released for the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 PowerPC-Based AmigaOS Computers
Linux Kernel 6.0 Released for the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 PowerPC-Based AmigaOS Computers
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a very substantial and comprehensive update of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for AmigaOS 4.1 54.16.
Also Linux: Kernel 6.0 f… Continue reading Linux Kernel 6.0 Released for the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 PowerPC-Based AmigaOS Computers
Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Computer?
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Today GitHub’s official Twitter account asked the ultimate geek-friendly question. “You never forget your first computer. What was yours?”
And within 10 hours they’d gotten 2,700 responses.
Commodore 64… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Computer?
Retrocomputing, Time To Hang Up The Original Hardware?
For those of us with penchant for older technology, there’s something special about operating with older hardware. Whether it’s a decades-old camera, a vintage keyboard, or a home computer from …read more Continue reading Retrocomputing, Time To Hang Up The Original Hardware?
Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: A Joystick Like They Used To Make
With the rise of the gamepad courtesy of several generations of game consoles, the joystick has become an almost forgotten peripheral, sidelined into the world of flight simulators with its …read more Continue reading Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: A Joystick Like They Used To Make
‘Turn an Old PC Into a High-End Amiga with AmiKit’
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes:
AmiKit is a compilation of pre-installed and pre-configured Amiga programs running emulated on Windows, macOS, and Linux (as well as running on classic 68K Amigas expanded with a Vampire upgrade card).
Be… Continue reading ‘Turn an Old PC Into a High-End Amiga with AmiKit’
AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Remains Well Supported With PowerPC Linux
Mike Bouma writes: Despite being expensive and having been sold out for quite some time at the main Amiga Dealers, two days after Linus Torvalds’ release of Linux 5.18, Christian “xeno74” Zigotzky made the latest PPC kernel available for the AmigaOne X… Continue reading AmigaOne X1000/X5000 Remains Well Supported With PowerPC Linux
How to Write Your Own Games – for the Amiga
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: With the release of the A500 mini (which also supports A1200 games) and its side loading feature you may be interested to get started with Amiga Retro games development. This is why I collected some recent A… Continue reading How to Write Your Own Games – for the Amiga