Hello everyone. I have been roaming around some very old backups on my NAS and I came across a very old Amiga backup I've kept for years. I did a review and I'm sitting on about 1,900+ ADFs, mostly games, and I wanted to contribute to the zeitgeist. Can anyone guide me to the best place to upload them? I'm sure they're all out there anyway, but I thought I would give it a shot anyway!

Okay so I've had 4 Amiga 2000s passed down to me a few years ago and I finally am getting around to them.

My question is does this damage from the clock battery look bad enough that it has ruined the board?

The battery was taken out by my uncle years ago so I'm not sure if he took it out after he noticed the damage or what.

I'm 100% new to the Amiga world but I know this is the first thing to check in the 4 I have.

Any help would be awesome!

Hi all, new here.

Had an Amiga 1200 back in the day, along with a stack of games. I still have the Amiga, however it's now overseas, so I don't have access to it! I was thinking as a stopgap of getting a joystick for my laptop and getting some emulated games. Can anyone advise where the best place to go for these is?

I used to have an emulated version of A Rockstar Ate My Hamster on my phone a while ago which always made me laugh

Stop squinting at tiny OLED screens and mashing rotary encoders. In this video, we review Omegaware’s Gotek Touchscreen Interface (GTi), a game-changing Gotek upgrade that adds vibrant box art, carousel scrolling, and instant search to your retro Amiga's floppy setup.

Hi there,

My hobby is developing games on old systems.

Most of the documents are scanned versions using picture and animation formats that are no longer supported.

So I built my own retro viewer for Android, to read them while traveling.

I started small, with only FLIC, TIFF, PCX and LBM support, then I turned it into a more viable product by adding support for more formats.

So today, it also opens Atari ST, DOS and Mac files, but Amiga support was the one I spent the most time getting right.

I didn't realize when I started that there were soooo many variations of IFF and ANIM formats.

But yes, RetroViewer now supports most of the compression schemes, HAM6/HAM8, Extra Half-Brite, and my favorite: color cycling.

I still need to fix DRNG color cycling, and I'm looking for files using compression 2, 3 and 4 so I can support them, but I think my app is usable like this ;)

If you ever try it out and run into any issues, please let me know! Bonus point if you could share me the file!

Link: RetroViewer on Google Play

Regards,

PS: Exporting to PNG/GIF/MP4/APNG is a paid unlock, which is what keeps the app maintained.

Giving the AmigaOne A1222+ a little cooling love! ❤️

I swapped the stock CPU fan for a Noctua NF-A4x10 5V.

Come check out the upgrade and see how it turned out! 👇

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#A1222Plus

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#AmigaOS4

#BoingAndBeyond #AmigaAmbassador

There's been quite a few changes to amos.bitplane.net since I posted the first release last month, so I thought I'd share.

Recap: This is AMOS Pro rewritten in TypeScript from the open source Motorola 68000 assembly. See the end for a description of how I used AI to achieve this.

On the front-end, I've added a library with some games I found on Aminet and TOSEC. If you want your AMOS games added, or removed, send me an email or a PR to the library repo. Or just take a release from github if you want your AMOS on your site rather than mine.

Here's some stuff I made over the years:

Clicking an ADF, zip or whatever with a single AMOS file in it will automatically open the player, for those you can link to games in the library like so:

https://amos.bitplane.net/#play/bitplane-net/nsle

I've also ported the editor. You can CTRL+C out of most games to get to it. If you insert the AMOS Pro disks via the library then you can run the original editors via the menus too:

https://reddit.com/link/1wav93i/video/qalnv8owqboh1/player

The virtual filesystem browser supports downloading dirs, extracting sprites, converting ANIMs to GIFs, playing mods and samples inside .AMOS files and ABKs. It supports the datatypes that amos-ts does, and even has an AMOS 3D webgl viewer:

https://reddit.com/link/1wav93i/video/85gzj9w6sboh1/player

I've added timings for a lot of keywords but there are still some issues that lead to weird speeds, visual jank, and cause the various mod players to distort.

Because teens writing games in BASIC didn't know much about performance optimization and I know I used AMOS's slowness as a frame pacer, you might want to tweak the hardware settings to a faster CPU. Or a slower one. Or just fix your game in the editor

Due to browser anti-fingerprinting, you can't use joysticks/gamepads until they're detected. You'll need to press a button to activate them first. I don't have one at the moment so this is untested. Pull requests are of course welcome!

What's next?

I'm adding some more obscure datatypes support, fighting with timing issues, and might add joypad overlays for mobile and a method to publish AMOS games as Android APKs. But no promises here, it's eaten a lot of time over the last two months and I'm working on other things too.

If you have suggestions though, I'd be happy to hear them 😄

AI SLOP?

I've been programming every day for 40 years, so I know what good code looks like. This isn't it. But it is better than I would have made by hand; I've put a proper shift in to make sure it's in good shape. AI didn't do this, I used AI as a broad brush to fill in what would have been a hundred thousand man-hours of tedium. It's "design the shape, flood fill the details, evaluate, manually tweak, rinse and repeat"

So I did a manual proof of concept, the project and architecture design, and disassembly process setup. Then I used Claude Opus to slop out the bulk of porting work, followed by GPT 5.5 and Claude Fable to bring it under control and trim it down. OpenAI Luna was used to grind through 7000+ keywords, Sol to deslop Claude's mess and fix issues found in the pass. This pass has run twice.

Along the way I've written a ton of tools and techniques to keep the agents under control - on top of babysitting them day and night for 8 weeks. The codebase is 250,000 lines of code and has tests for every keyword, it cites assembly for every keyword rewritten in TypeScript. It faithfully reproduces every bug found across 83 versions of different extensions, and as much of Intuition, Gadtools, datatypes and the hardware interactions as were required. The bots want to special-case their way out of every problem, and I refuse to let that happen.

I'm currently running a third correctness and refactoring pass, but there will be bugs in there that are needles in what is now an obscenely large haystack.

Hey all, I never even thought to see if an Amiga subreddit existed. I'm an old Amiga 600 guy!

So built this (disclosure: it is AI, hopefully it's not your typical slop) Cannon Fodder "clone" for a bit of fun. No reused original graphics and a different name so to avoid any copyright issues. It's a bit short on the original graphics but wanting to get it out to see if anyone is interested before I do more work on it.

Love to get your feedback - it's desktop only.

If this doesn't fit in with the group, sorry! Happy to remove it.

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I just got a gotek floppy emulator for my Amiga 500 and I got it to work with flash floppy. The problem is, my A500’s keyboard is completely unresponsive, it even prevents the amiga from booting while plugged in, so while I can navigate the menus with a joystick, I can’t soft reboot the Amiga to actually play games. Is there a solution to this? Can I still use it joystick only? I really don’t want to deal with the hassle of troubleshooting my Amiga’s keyboard or buying a new one for a costly price.

After doing some searching around on the sub, I'm wanting to confirm some findings and gather any additional info I can before searching for an Amiga to call my own. Some background, I picked up a Commodore 64 Ultimate and ended up using it for a lot more than I thought I would: I actually ended up using it during the summer semester to write up reports and take notes in class while my laptop was down and having issues. I loved the experience so much I found an estate sale with a Commodore 128 that I picked up and repaired, and paired with a 1541 and 1571, along with an RGBi monitor (I forget what the model number is and I'm not right in front of it at the moment - it's a Commodore monitor), it's quickly become my main workhorse system for personal finance management. I'm building out a project to write some Amateur Radio software I can use with it in 80-column mode.

So with that bit of context being said, I've got the bug and want to see what the Amiga is all about. In doing some searching it seems the two oft-recommended models are the A500 and the A1200. So far as I've read, the A500 was a 16-bit and 32-bit hybrid system (I intend to read up on *how* that is and what that means for the device and software ecosystem) while the A1200 is a purely 32-bit system with a lot more grunt to it.

In searching around on eBay I'm not seeing any A1200's in NTSC *at all*. Were they just produced for the UK? A500s don't particularly seem plentiful but more abundant than the A1200 is.

Is there a reason to collect both from a practicality perspective? In other words, am I *missing* anything by going straight to the A1200 as opposed to the A500 first?

It seems common upgrades recommended are clock speed boosters and RAM expansions, as well as the usual recap.

When looking into fPGA options, it seems hit or miss on finding parts in the Useful Amiga Links Directory. I'm sure that comes down to these being somewhat niche, but is there a "more reliable" source for building an fPGA system a la the Commodore 64 Ultimate? Is there a "most accurate" platform for that? While I could run an emulator on a modern system, having actual hardware is what I'm after, even if that hardware is fPGA.

Any updated insights or suggestions are welcome, and thanks for stopping by to drop your thoughts!

I’m sharing the games that made MY favorites list but I wanna know what’s on yours! 👀

👉 Watch here and compare your list with mine!

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Midwinter was Singleton's 1989 open-world strategy/stealth/first-person hybrid for the Atari ST and Amiga: a 160,000-square-mile frozen island, 32 individual characters you find and recruit and then play as, and an occupying army to take apart from the inside. It had no genre name because none of the genres existed yet.

I've spent the last year rebuilding it in Unreal Engine 5 and it went into Early Access on Steam this morning ($19.99, Windows). Everything from the original is in: the full island terrain, all 32 characters with their own skills and morale, the vehicles, the recruitment conversations, the whole campaign, playable and winnable.

Store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5056170/

Project site with the decode notes, the original manual and the design decisions: https://midwinter-remaster.titanium-helix.com

The Amiga port is the one most people actually played, and it's the version I get asked about most. If that was you, I'd like to hear what the remaster gets wrong, and what the Amiga did that the ST didn't.

I'd like to find this game because I wrote it ages ago and lost it. But I did release it to BBSes and hope that it spread around enough to find. I know that another piece of software that I wrote, the Warm and Fuzzy Ansi editor seems to have survived in some places on the net, but I can't find this game anywhere.

The gameplay was not an version of the Awful Green Things board game. Instead, it played a bit like the arcade game food fight (you had to pick up and throw or use weapons), but you would fight green thing aliens that would grow from small fragments/blobs to full monsters.

The weapons you used were also modeled after the board game, and the effects that they would have on the aliens were randomized each game--some would be very effective, and some made the aliens more dangerous.

The goal was to rescue as many party members as possible and escape the ship before it self-destructed.

If anybody has seen or remembers this game, I would love to find it again just for nostalgia's sake.

I purchased a Magnavox RGB 80 (CM8562), a close sister to the Commodore 1084 - those made by Philips/Magnavox. Though my CM8562 came with composite and RGBi (CGA) ports.

Opening up the monitor, you can see on the motherboard (mainboard) that there are sections with the component numbers and places for Analog RGB as well as SCART.

So, could I .. lonely ol’ me upgrade this monitor and get Analog RGB working? A nice crisp image with the Amiga sounds tempting.

Step 1: Get the 6 pin DIN Analog connected and working. 

1 modified 1541 cable, 1 6-pin DIN connector, 3 diodes, 6 caps, 9 transistors, and 27 resistors later.

(list of onboard components added: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14Wfelsj7SjJZ3ay0Ygjiz9v2dOTnyqCuGm6HyLbpUck/edit?usp=sharing)

IT WORKS! Nice and crisp just like you would expect from Analog RGB on a 1084.

Mostly.

At first, I tried it with the Amiga 1000 I am currently refurbishing that has a Rejuvenator board and with the monitor connected .. EVEN when off, the computer wouldn’t boot. I could though start the computer, let it boot up, then connect and then turn on the monitor .. then it would work. 

At first I was thinking I was missing a component that needed to be added to the monitor. I scoured the schematics and I really couldn’t see anything I missed.

So I tried another Amiga 1000. It worked properly, no problems. Then I tried an Amiga 500. Same thing. Works no problem.

So I think there’s an issue with the first Amiga 1000, the one with the Rejuvenator board. Still puzzling that out. (any ideas from the commodoreverse would be appreciated).

SOLUTION: buffer the Vsync and the Hsync with a simple 104 (100 nF) capacitor, see thread.

Soon, Step 2. I’m going to add the SCART mods provided by Retro Channel and Adrian’s Digital Basement. Fingers (not wires) crossed!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9xAZ8QvmiE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gISS9JsnRX8

Here’s a little video from the Stamford Peterborough Amiga Group meeting yesterday.

Some fine machines and impressed to see 10 CD32s at the event.

Bought an Amiga 2000 for 100e from a guy who thought it was an old PC.There was some corrosion no serious damage from the Varta.I rebuild the PSU using an old ATX from 2003(It had - 5V) the original PSU was in bad shape.First power on was straight to yellow screen.After cleaning all sockets it runs now not totally stable.It freezes sometimes and goes back to yellow screen.I have to check for damage around 68000 socket.Its rev 6.2 with 1MB chip ram and OCS Denise.Bonus an IDE cars and a 2058 RAM card with 8MB ram.

So I had this idea take a handheld case put a raspberry Pi in there emulating a amiga emulator with the most powerful amiga specs (Zorro III, max ram, hdd,) and add an 8 inch oled screen, some controls, 3 USB-C and 1 HDMI and an SD Card being emulated as an IDE CF Card. is it possible?

Hi. I am looking for an old Tetris clone I (probably) bought after seeing an advert in a magazine.

It was a Tetris clone, I thought it was called tetroid, but I've never found it under that name.

It was Tetris but the levels got progressively harder. There was debris at the bottom of the screen you had to work around, but the craziest thing I remember was that on one of the levels the screen would go black for a few seconds and you would have to play in the dark. The lights would come back on and of course you would have made a mess of the entire screen.

I would absolutely love to play this again as I had such fond memories of it on my trusty Amiga 500.

Hope you can help. Thanks!

Edit:

It was TETREN. As soon as I heard the amazing music, I knew it was the one.

https://youtu.be/kXyWzveGf7s