Collaborate Disseminate
In the world of retrocomputing it’s the earliest models that garner the most interest, usually either due to their rarity, or sometimes just because of their flaws. The Commodore Amiga 1000 is a case in point, it was the machine everybody wanted but its A500 home computer sibling made the …read more
Continue reading The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later
If you had an Amiga during the 16-bit home computer era it’s possible that alongside the games and a bit of audio sampling you had selected it because of its impressive video capabilities. In its heyday the Amiga produced broadcast-quality graphics that could even be seen on more than a …read more
Continue reading Amiga Now Includes HDMI By Way of a Raspberry Pi Daughterboard
“Steve Jobs is now known for revolutionizing just about every part of the tech world, but back in 1988, he was perhaps best known for getting fired,” remembers SFGate:
In his first product reveal since his dismissal from Apple in 1985, Jobs unveiled a … Continue reading Newly-Released Trove of Recordings from the 1980s Includes Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak
The Amiga Fast File System (AFFS) is making a minor comeback in the new version of the Linux kernel. The Register reports: As noted by chief penguin Linus Torvalds in his weekly state-of-the-kernel report, a change to AFFS popped up among what he descr… Continue reading Amiga Fast File System Makes Minor Comeback In New Linux Kernel
[retrohax] has provided vintage computer guidance for years, and part of that guidance is this: sometimes using paint as part of restoration is simply unavoidable. But the days of tediously color-matching to vintage hardware are gone, thanks to [retrohax] offering custom-mixed spray paints in Amiga 500 Beige, C-64 Beige, and …read more
Continue reading Retrocomputing Spray Paints: Amiga Beige, Commodore, and ATARI Grey
There was a magic moment for a few years around the end of the 1980s, when home computers were better than professional ones. That’s a mighty grand pronouncement, but it refers to the crop of 16-bit home computers that genuinely were far better than nearly all PCs at the time …read more
Early in 2019, it became apparent that the retro-industrial complex had reached new highs of innovation and productivity. It was now possible to create entirely new Commdore 64s from scratch, thanks to the combined efforts of a series of disparate projects. It seems as if the best selling computer of …read more
Continue reading Why You (Probably) Won’t Be Building A Replica Amiga Anytime Soon
Can you run Doom on the Amiga? No, not really, and arguably that was one of the causes for the computer’s demise in the mid-90s as it failed to catch up on the FPS craze of the PC world. [Krzysztof Kluczek] of the Altair demogroup has managed not exactly to …read more
Continue reading Doom Clone Shows What An Alternate-Reality Amiga Could’ve Had
Mike Bouma is Slashdot reader #85,252. (And judging by his Slashdot profile, he was also a participant in the short-lived Amiga webring.) He writes:
KK of the demo scene group Altair is making a Doom clone for the Amiga 500. The system requirements a… Continue reading Developer Attempts ‘Doom’ Clone for the Amiga 500
No doubt some purists in the audience will call this one cheating, since this Amiga 500 from 1987 isn’t technically connecting to Spotify and playing the music by itself. But we also suspect those folks might be missing the point of a site called Hackaday. With all the hoops [Daniel …read more
Continue reading Expansion Board Puts Spotify On The Amiga 500