Amiga Thread.

[rSl]

got the image from Senad @retrokram, so i think it's senad

 

[TrashyMG]

got the image from Senad @retrokram, so i think it's senad

Ah, With the face covered it was hard to tell, hate to say they're balding in similar ways.

 

[Farox]

Just found this and i really love it...

 

[Farox]

A friend of mine started to collect and release a collection of old italian releases (many of this not available on Web anymore) for Amiga.
He want to release aperiodically a volume full of productions in ADF (Amiga disk format), collaboration is open to anyone that have some lost italian production (maybe salvaged from old floppys or BBS), if you have one or more release not available anywhere and want to contact him write to italo@trinityhq.eu


He named this collection ItaloDisco (not related to the recent song by The Kolors), and now released his first volume.

You could download from ItaloDisco by Trinity
or from Pouet and Demozoo

 

[TrashyMG]

Just ebay purchased another likely broken Amiga 2000 to restore. The case and keyboard look in better shape than my current one. Comes with a boxes of random disks so could be interesting or a bunch of junk... we will see.

 

[TrashyMG]

Update: That Amiga 2000 is the most mint one I've seen, VARTA Battery didn't leak at all, removed it and amazed to see no damage. I may eventually replace the electrolytic capacitors, but it appears to work fine.

I will eventually get back to the Floppie209 replica PCB I spent a lot of time populating the components on it and figure out what is going wrong with that project. But for now I have a fully working system with the Vampire V2 to play with.

 

[ClockworkCoder]

I recently got a PiStorm32 Lite for my A1200. Hoping to get some time over the next couple of weeks to check it out.

 

[TrashyMG]

My A2000 setup is back and running again, better casing and internals and an actual working floppy drive unlike my old system. So transferred over the Vampire V500 V2+, X-Surf-100 Ethernet, with Rapid Road USB Controller. It came with a Supra SCSI controller card, but no HDD, so not sure that works.

 

[Farox]

Another year passed and my friend Z3k from Trinity released (during Passione Amiga Day 2024) Vol 2 of ItaloDisco.

I was there in Spoleto and saw some of the demos included in this release presented at show.

Download here at Pouet www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=97774

Or at his page https://www.trinityhq.eu/italodisco/

 

[TrashyMG]

So several Amiga related updates, Several months ago I got to be an early adopter of a new Apollo-Computer based accelerator card for the Amiga 2000 (Salamander), this one slots into the CPU expansion slot of the A2000. It's basically the V4 Firebird (For the A500), just on an expansion board that places the connectors of the accelerator to the back ports. I ended up with a GIGA version, with the 1GB of system ram.

• Apollo 68080 CPU: With 64-bit AMMX acceleration for exceptional performance.
• RAM: 512 MB (Standard Version) or 1024 MB GIGA Version
• Super AGA Chipset: RTG and TrueColor 32-bit, enabling you to play all AGA games on your Amiga 500/2000.
• Integrated FlickerFixer: Supports Amiga PAL/NTSC for a flicker-free display.
• Audio Quality: 8/16-bit audio with 56 kHz and 24-bit mixing for superior sound.
• Maggie 3D Unit: Impressive 3D graphics and performance.
• FastKick: Optimized Kickstart routines for faster system boot.
• 2 FastIDE/DVD/CompactFlash Controllers: For rapid data transfer and additional storage options.
• Micro SD Card Slot: For easy storage expansion and data exchange.
• 2 USB-1 Ports: For mouse and joypad.
• Network Card with DMA: High-performance network connections.
• 100 Mbit Ethernet: Fast network connection for online communication and data transfer.

It's an impressive card, and now slotted to my new pristine A2000 and it gives proper AGA graphics, audio out of the HDMI port. Great system....

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However, I had a left over V2 Vampire Accelerator and my old A2000 system with some expansion cards was just sitting there... As the Salamander card basically does everything and there is no need for expansion cards, I wanted my other A2000 to have a different approach, It was going to utilize the A2000 expansion capabilities a bit more. I picked up a PC Bridgeboard Single-board computer, an A2286AT, which is an 80286 CPU board that interfaces both the Amiga and PC side of the A2000, as the A2000 from it's inception was designed to host these bridgeboards that gave the system PC capabilities. By default the A2000 has only one 16 bit ISA slot, the other two were 8-bit only, but they left it so you could solder in the 16-bit sockets if you so choose, so that was the first thing I did.



By default the A2286AT card allows you to use the PC side of the system seamless along with workbench, but the graphics at best are just CGA and at speeds not good for any gaming. So I slotted in a SVGA card, Sound Blaster 16 and something called the Picomem, it's an 8-bit ISA card that is a memory expansion, but also allows you too boot off HDD and Floppy images on an SD card along with giving you USB mouse/Joystick and other features... I also broke out my old 17" Hitachi RasterOPs SVGA monitor and using an HDMI to VGA converter for the Vampire card along with a VGA switch box to switch between the PC VGA and Amiga output. Ironically I'm having more fun with this system than my pristine A2000 with the fastest accelerator on the market...



This Amiga 2000 Specs:

Amiga-Side:
Vampire V2 V500+ Acellerator
Individual X-Surf-100 Ethernet card with Rapid-Road USB Controller.
Commodore A2286AT PC Bridgeboard
Amiga Floppy Drive (Right)
Front loaded CF card for Amiga OS (Bottom drive bay slot)
PC-Side:
Tseng Labs ET3000 SVGA video card
Sound Blaster 16
PicoMEM Expansion Card
PC 1.44MB Floppy drive (left Black).

 

[ClockworkCoder]

Small one from me - I'm now on the waiting list for an RK58 mechanical keyboard replacement for my A1200, and am hoping to have a Checkmate Monitor to use with it by Jan. I've started setting up a corner of one of the room for my retro stuff, so looking forward to getting it all set up.

 

[netcat]

I want a checkmate too. With mister fpga inside.

 

[ClockworkCoder]

I want a checkmate too. With mister fpga inside.

I may opt for an iMiga to go inside, assuming it gets completed at some stage.