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2026-07-11

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Two really quick update points to be made this week. First... My bad!!! I just realized I 'forgot' to post my weekly update on the 11th. In my defense I'm currently away from home and have been quite busy. (Note: The date 'may have been backdated a bit' to protect the innocent. ;-) )

  Second, and really the BIGGEST point to be made, after 24+ years v2.0 of the site is more than just some fever dream or drug induced hallucination... All I'm going to say right now is I have 5000+ links to start validating, plus a few more house keeping tasks but rest assured this site WILL BE CELEBRATING ITS 25 ANNIVERSARY IN STYLE!!!

Interesting... Keep an eye on

 

Amiga Legal News Update
  • Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 53
    • “When the lamb lies down on Broadway” (Thanks Mr. Gabriel and crew)

 

Today's Theme
  • Random Links...

 

New Links (15) YTD (420) 
  • AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES RUSHES BACK ONTO THE MARKET: Following a five-year sabbatical, the Amiga side of the liquidated Commodore International Ltd, now called Amiga Technologies GmbH, and a subsidiary of Escom AG (CI No 2,695), will mark its return to the personal computer and games consoles market with the September launch of the Amiga 4000T Tower and A1200 machines. The primary objective was to get Amiga products back on the market as fast as possible, said Petro Tyschtschenko, general manager of Amiga.
  • Amiga hangs its second coming on a scalable OS {ARCHIVED 10 Dec 2000}: AMIGA'S scalable operating system, Amiga DE, will be embedded in TV set-top boxes by Christmas, with handheld devices and games consoles scheduled for next year. Amiga president and CEO Bill McEwen, in Melbourne earlier this month to unveil the AmigaOne PC, says the rejuvenated company has set its sights well beyond the desk-top PC market. "We, as a company, are focusing all of our attention on OEMs (original equipment manufacturers)," says McEwen. "We have a consortium in Japan of 63 companies and this will be using our stuff on a whole new breed of handhelds."
  • Telegram on Amiga: Diary of an MTProto Client in C: Telegram Amiga starts from a simple, slightly stubborn question: can you build a real, text-only Telegram client on Amiga-like systems in 2026, without turning it into a screenshot demo?
  • CDBench: CDBench is an AmigaOS CD filesystem benchmark utility. It benchmarks the mounted AmigaDOS view of a disc, so it works with plain ISO9660, Rock Ridge, Joliet, UDF, bridge discs, and audio tracks exposed by the filesystem as files.
  • 2MB memory upgrade for Commodore Amiga 500/500+: This is a two megabyte memory upgrade for the Commodore Amiga models 500 and 500+. It is a modern replacement for the original A501 0.5MB (512K) upgrade from Commodore. Add up to 2MB of memory to the machine depending on motherboard revision and Kickstart version (see below for details). Can provide both chip RAM and slow RAM in one expansion.
  • Cursor set: Amiga {ARCHIVED 22 Mar 2020}: I have made a set of cursors based on one Amiga cursor (can’t find my reference image right now…) that I use on all my Windows machines (which, ehem, is all I got right now). The cursors are orange with a white highlight and black shadow, making them visible in as good as any environment. Here I also included a green version, which might be preferred by some.
  • cursor.cc: {A few Amiga OS pointers & cursors for your website and the code to add them}
  • Etherbridge - An Amiga Ethernet Network Driver: What's that? The Etherbridge device driver is an Amiga SANA2 compliant Ethernet network driver for AmiTCP/IP, Miami, Roadshow or other Amiga TCP stacks. It turns a cheap PC ISA network card in conjunction with a Commodore PC emulator card (A2088, A2286, A2386) into a fully Amiga usable networking card.
  • Driver-AmigaOS-KS8851 : This is the AmigaOS network driver for the Amiga1200 Plus re-implementation
  • A2386-PS2 - RAM Adapter: What's that? In the late 1990s when I bought a used A2386 Bridgeboard for my Amiga 4000, I felt angry that I should have to addinally buy expensive and aged ZIP ram for that card. For 2 mega bytes ZIP RAM I should pay 200 DM (~100 €) !!! {...} I remembered having some old 1MB-PS2-Simms lying around and thought that it should be a possible to use them on my Bridgeboard with only a small adapter. The result of my thoughts and work was that little adapter which can be installed into the free ZIP sockets of the Commodore A2386 Bridgeboard. The adapter is able to provide 8MB RAM which is the official maximum - with a trick also to incredible 16MB! (This needs a BIOS-Update!)
  • Guru Meditation crashes in Amiga emulation: common mistakes: A Guru Meditation error can look dramatic {...} The good news is simple: most Guru Meditation errors in Amiga emulation aren’t random, and they usually don’t mean the emulator is broken. {...} The trick is to stop guessing and give the software the machine it expects.
  • Fitz: Fitz is a lightweight, cross-platform, symmetric network file server and mounter for Amiga and Unix-like systems (Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, ...). No configuration files, no daemons, no hassle - just a single command line program for sharing and mounting directories ad-hoc style. For Amiga, a GUI prefs program is included. Fitz supports Amiga case-insensitive filenames, permission bits and comments, not only when serving from an Amiga, but from Unix servers as well. Support is provided through xattrs, and the required capabilities are detected and negotiated with clients at runtime.
  • Commodore Amiga 500 Artwork: This site is a personal portfolio for my Amiga 500 creative work.
  • name: These are some of the artworks I created on my Amiga 500 Plus in 1991. They are images I used to draw back then, mostly in Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. The artworks were recovered from VHS tape backups made from my Amiga. The slight blur and analog artifacts are part of the original preservation process, so I kept that feeling instead of trying to make everything look too clean.
  • Mnemosyne: Mnemosyne is an open source disk utility application for AmigaOS 3.x, which can be used to show you what files and folders are taking up space on your disk. It is written in C and utilizes NDK 3.2 and ReAction. Features: Disk usage statistics, File/Folder search, Easy to use, Fast, No limits on size of files/folders & Graphical representation of disk usage


2026-07-04

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Exciting news. I think after 24 years I may have FINALLY found someone willing to help me update the site in preparation for the 25th Anniversary relaunch! I'll be able to share some more information next week but right now things are looking pretty positive. With that said I would like to truly thank everyone from the bottom of heart who reach out to my posting. It was my pleasure to speak with each and everyone of you! More to follow!

Interesting... Keep an eye on
  • BIG news, as far as I'm concerned, FinalWriter 7.3 has been officially released! As as life long SoftWood Inc fan, I go back to their first word processor, Pen Pal. and I couldn't be happier that this GREAT word processor is back for OS 3.x and compatible on 4.x too! I'll be ordering my copy very soon!
  • I don't believe I'm following this as closely as I should but new firmware and SW drivers have been released for the MNT ZZ9000 Amiga Graphics Card. Blitter Studio has picked up where the creators MNT have left off and look to be doing a fantastic job!
  • And I would be re-missed not to mention the current sales of the Commodore Callback 8020. Over the past 5 days they have broken the 8k mark. I'm impressed! From what I read they most likely have more than broken even and have made a nice little profit too. But if this chart is accurate that's a good thing because it looks as if sales have started to level off. Although if they could keep selling ~100 a day thats over 35k and who am I to complain. As I stated before I didn't think this would 'break' them but it's not what I would have planned for their second act.
  • New event: Pianeta Amiga is being held 26-27 in Florence Italy. "Like the mythological phoenix, the historic Amiga event is reborn from its ashes and is ready to welcome users, developers, companies and curious people again in a two-day event full of events and news". I've been to Florence and it a beautiful place to visit even if there are no Amiga's around. ;-)
  • New issue: Amiga Rulez #26-01 has been published.
  • New issue: BOING #11 has been published.
Amiga Legal News Update
  • Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 52
    •  “When the lion lies down with the lamb”

 

Today's Theme
  • Random Links...

 

New Links (15) YTD (405) 
  • FinalWriter 7.3: FinalWriter 7.3 represents the latest evolution of one of the Amiga platform's most capable and feature-rich word processors. This release focuses on modernizing the user experience while maintaining compatibility with the workflows that users have relied on for decades.
  • Softwood (ARCHIVED 28 Mar 1997}: SoftWood began in 1986 as one of the first software developers for the Amiga computer. We have developed and now offer the best selling, personal productivity software for the Amiga including Final Writer, Final Calc, and Final Data. {...} Although our love for the Amiga computer has never diminished, the realities of the computer industry has influenced us to broaden the scope of our business. After almost three years of development by an expert Windows® software developer, we now offer Final Writer for Windows® 95 and Windows® NT(tm). Our entry into the PC arena is like the proverbial David doing battle with Goliath. However, we are confident our product has what has been missing in PC word processors for years--ease of use and raw power!
  • Looking for someone with an Amiga? Find them here! {ARCHIVED 28 Dec 1996}: amiganet.com. This web site is dedicated to communication among Amiga users world-wide. You can have a free entry in this site that includes your name, email account, link to a web site, personal information, and a description of your Amiga configuration. The only requirement is that you must be an Amiga user. This is not just another page of links, because whether you have your own web site or not, you can have an entry in amiganet.com. email your request to: hello@amiganet.com. This service is provided free of charge to Amiga users by SoftWood, Inc.
  • Alex Electronics {ARCHIVED 11 Apr 1997}: A dealer supporting the Amiga in Northern California.
  • IBrowse (ARCHIVED 15 Jun 1997}: Omnipresense Inyernational Ltd proudly presents IBrowse. "... is simply the best browser there is for the Amiga platform at the moment." www.amigasupport.com
  • Amiga Development Fund {ARCHIVED 27 May 1997}: ADF (Amiga Development Fund) is an idea Giorgio Gomelsky came up with after reading about the Linux Development Fund. In essence, the group will accept donations and use those donations to fund much needed projects for the Amiga.
  • VisCorp Press Releases {ARCHIVED 02 May 2001}: {Several press releases related Visicorp and the Amiga}
  • Amiga lives! Gateway resurrects a pioneering PC {ARCHIVED 09 Jun 2001}: Amiga owners who have been holding their aging computers together with tape and bailing wire are rejoicing at the news that Gateway 2000 Inc. will introduce a line of the desktop machines and a new operating system within a year. Gateway 2000 bought the rights to the Amiga brand and its patents in a German bankruptcy court in March, leading to feverish speculation among the groundbreaking graphics computer's small but devoted core of fanatics. Gateway operates Amiga as a separate division, but until now has kept mum about its plans for Amiga
  • A2000 Revision 4 Power Supply Unit: I came into possession of a non-working Amiga 2000 Rev. 4. The power supply let out the magic smoke. Unable to find any documentation online, and knowing that my analog electronics skills are limited, I decided to reverse engineer it to learn something along the way.
  • Copperline: An Amiga emulator written in Rust, built around a vendored copy of the pure-Rust m68k CPU core, with a pixels + winit window for video and stdout for serial. {...} It covers OCS, ECS, and AGA (independent Agnus/Denise revisions, programmable blanking, machine profiles from the A500 to the A1200, CDTV, and CD32, with Gayle IDE, A2091 SCSI, and the AGA display path: 8 bitplanes, 256-entry palette, HAM8, FMODE wide fetch; remaining gaps are recorded in the internals docs). The timing model is taken seriously {...}
  • AmiBLEHID: Connect a Bluetooth LE mouse or controller to an Amiga joystick port. With minimal other components (essentially just a 74HC05 and the joystick port connector), an ESP32-H2 module can be connected to an Amiga joystick/mouse port, and allow a BLE mouse or controller to be used with the Amiga.
  • Catalyst: Hardware-accelerated TCP/IP and TLS offload library for classic Amiga — a drop-in bsdsocket.library replacement backed by a network coprocessor. Catalyst moves the entire TCP/IP stack, and TLS/SSL termination, off the 68k CPU and onto dedicated coprocessor hardware. The Amiga writes socket requests into a memory-mapped mailbox; the coprocessor does the networking and crypto. Existing Amiga network software runs unmodified, and HTTPS — historically punishing on a 68k because of the TLS handshake crypto — becomes fast because the cryptography runs in hardware.
  • Debian PowerPC ROOT images: ROOT images for PowerPC machines. {Will work on the AmigaOne X1000}
  • Catalyst: Offloaded TCP/IP and TLS for classic Amiga, via a hardware coprocessor mailbox. Drop-in bsdsocket.library + catalyst.library. Catalyst moves the entire TCP/IP stack, and TLS/SSL termination, off the 68k CPU and onto dedicated coprocessor hardware.
  • 16 bit were enough: when Commodore Amiga computers ruled the Techno and Hardcore dancefloors around Europe : Everyone knows the commodore 64, or c64, or "bread box", of course. the single most sold unit in computer history, to this day. The "sequel" computer by the commodore company might be lesser known, sadly. the commodore amiga is a bit of a glitch in the timeline of Computers. When it was engineered in the 80s, it was way ahead of its competition. 4096 colors at once, build-in parallax scrolling, a GUI that looked (and worked) better than microsoft windows, multimedia abilities...


2026-06-27

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  While it's another slow week in AmigaLand, things are a bit different over in Commodore World. Peri has sent two new emails to better explain the game plan for the Callback. I don't know if really worked or not but at least he's trying. Now they're looking into the possibility of a slightly cheaper model (less RAM & no headphones) combined with a further temp price reduction. As always I wish them all the best.

Interesting... Keep an eye on

 

Amiga Legal News Update
  • Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 51
    •  “When the seas run dry”

 

Today's Theme
  • Random Links...

 

New Links (15) YTD (390)
  • Commodore Corporation BV Trademarks: {Curious what trademarks the New Commodore owns? Well wonder no more.
  • Amiga PSU Meanwell RPT-60B: I had two broken Amiga PSUs and wanted to replace the contents with a modern powersupply, Meanwell RPT-60B seem to be used frequently so that was my primary choice. I also wanted to keep the modification nondestructive and found 3D printed mounting brackets to accomplish this. Even though both PSUs had the same partnumber, the innards were not the same and needed two different brackets.
  • Amiga 1000 NTSC to PAL Conversion: Steps needed to convert a Amiga 1000 NTSC to PAL
  • CDTV CDROM CR-511-B Disassembly and Reassembly: This is a guide to disassemble and reassemble the CDROM (CR-511-B) in the Commodore CDTV. My CDTV had issues reading CDs and I had to yank the caddy to get it to eject the disk. The grease in the mechanics had hardened so everything had to be cleaned and relubricated with silicone spray and grease.
  • Sassenrath, Luck, and Dev Boxes - Amiwest 2025: (youtube) Amiga engineers Carl Sassenrath and Dale Luck talk about a pair of Dev Boxes which were used in the development of the Amiga computer. Filmed by Bernardo on November 2 at the Amiwest Show in Sacramento, California, USA.
  • AmigaOS Library Vector Offsets explained: the modular architecture behind the Amiga: The Amiga is usually remembered for the things that were easy to see: bouncing balls, Protracker, Deluxe Paint, video titling and games. But some of the Amiga’s most impressive engineering lived far below the screen, in the operating system itself. One of the cleverest examples was the way AmigaOS handled shared libraries. Long before modern desktop systems made dynamic linking feel ordinary, the Amiga used a compact, fast and surprisingly flexible system built around Library Vector Offsets, usually shortened to LVOs.
  • Gloom (portage Java) — compilation & build: (French - translated) Gradle project for the Java port of Gloom. This file explains how to compile the sources using the original GloomAmiga repository (which provides the assets: maps, textures, sprites, sounds, palettes, tables…).)
  • Ultimate Amiga 1200: PiStorm, CD32 Mode and Full Hardware Expansion: Some time ago, I had the opportunity to get both an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 1200. While the Amiga 500 was restored as a fairly traditional machine, I had a more ambitious project in mind for the Amiga 1200. My goal was to build three different machines into a single computer: A high-end Amiga {..}, A more traditional Amiga 1200 {...}, & A CD32-compatible system {...}
  • ReWarp: WarpOS/PowerUP for AmigaOS 4. This project is a reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4 (work in progress). It's aim is to support all the current flavors of machines running AmigaOS 4 including the X5000. At this moment 95% of all WarpOS functions are implemented.
  • ReWarp3DPPC: This project is a Warp3D wrapper for use with ReWarp (a WarpOS reimplementation for AmigaOS 4).
  • ReWarp: WarpOS for AmigaOS 4. This project is a reimplementation of WarpOS for AmigaOS 4 (work in progress). It's aim is to support all the current flavors of machines running AmigaOS 4 including the X5000. At this moment 95% of all WarpOS functions are implemented.
  • Inside the Italy Amiga talks: Commodore’s next big retro computing question: The latest Commodore press release reads less like a conventional corporate update and more like a carefully placed signal to the retro computing world. Beneath the travel notes, the Italy setting, the private meetings and the easy humour, there is a serious business story developing. {...} The revived Commodore has already proved that nostalgia can open the door. The question now is whether it can walk through it without becoming trapped in its own past.
  • SonnetAmiga: Reimplementation of WarpOS supporting Sonnet Crescendo 7200 and other PowerPC PCI cards (mirror of CVS development repository).
  • OctaMED Soundstudio Features: {detailed list of features of V1.x} This will be the last Amiga version by me, V2 will be authored by Joern & Thorsten.
  • ADF MAGAZINE DOWNLOAD: AMIGA ACTION, AMIGA DREAM, CU AMIGA, AMIGA CONCEPT, AMIGA FORMAT & AMIGA COMPUTING


2026-06-20

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Glad to be 'almost' back home!! The nice thing about being webmaster of your own site is the ability to ret-con the posting dates. While this MAY seem like it was posted on the 21st, I'm sticking with the 20th. ;-) 

   So with that said what does everyone think about Commodore's next move? I think it's safe to say most people aren't happy. Personally I'm not a fan if for nothing than the price alone. $499 and that's WITH $100 off?? That's crazy money! Speaking as a guy who STILL has flip phone (Kyocera DuraXA Equip: Rugged, removable battery, headphone jack & no apps all for less than $200) there's no incentive for me to switch. Obviously I'm not the target market but let's hope someone is.

  Let's be realistic, they were ALWAYS in a tough spot for their next move. Without a lot of time and money all they can do is license/rebrand existing products. The C64U is an exact case in point. A pretty successful case in point but one none the less. I like the theory this is a way to protect Commodore's name in the phone market and get another product out quickly for little risk. Just spend some money on rebranding a phone, tweak some software and BAM there you go!

   So other than all the good vibes that have gone down the drain, this won't break them. I have FULL faith that everyone at Commodore had input in this decision and knows more than us about the road map to the future. Hopefully this turns out to be is just another step in what will be a looooooong list of products to include them working with Colanto on a THOROUGHLY PLANNED and EXECUTED roll out of the new Super Amiga. Fingers crossed!!!

Interesting... Keep an eye on
  • You need to check this out. CUSTOM-BBS! if for nothing else than to read the backstory of this legendary product! After 40 years it's back and up and running on an emulated Amiga for your BBS'ing enjoyment. It's billed as the FIRST BBS for the Amiga and even the father of the Amiga, Jay Miner, loved and bought a copy. That's good enough for me!
  • If there is one teeny, tiny, thing I really dislike about the Amiga it would be its lack of a true simple file file manager. Yes there's always Directory Opus but right out of the box your SOL. Over the years it seems my workflow has really evolved around 'power using' a file manager and LightTreeFM looks to have a lot of features to fill in that gap. I can't wait to try it out.
  • New issue: WhatIFF? #20 has been published

 

Amiga Legal News Update
  • Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 50
    •  “More chance of the sun rising in the west”

 

Today's Theme
  • Amix and other random Links...

 

New Links (15) YTD (375)
  • CUSTOM-BBS!: A 1988 Amiga bulletin board system — back online. The board runs on a real (emulated) Amiga — a true single line, one caller at a time, just like 1988.
  • AMIX Cross-Toolchain Bootstrap: All kind of AMIGA AMIX 2.1c related stuff.
  • grimoire-amix: Documentation for Amiga Unix (Amix) — Commodore's port of AT&T System V Release 4 (SVR4) to 68030 Amigas.
  • MNT VA2000 Device Driver for Amiga UNIX (AMIX): This is my AI driven hobby project to implement a device driver for the MNT VA2000 RTG graphics card running under Commodore Amiga UNIX (AMIX), System V Release 4.0.
  • Xrtg — X11R5 RTG Server for Amiga UNIX (AMIX): Xrtg is an X11R5 server for Amiga UNIX (AMIX) SVR4 that drives the MNT VA2000 RTG graphics card directly — bypassing the native Amiga display chipset. This is my my very (un)reasonable vibe-coding adventure. The goal is to explore, and see how far the combination of old hardware, old Unix, modern AI tools can go.
  • lszorro: Dynamic Zorro expansion board lister for Amiga UNIX (AMIX), in the style of lspci/lsusb. Identifies all Kickstart-configured expansion boards from a built-in database of 461 manufacturer/product entries (sourced from the Linux kernel's zorro.ids). This includes cards whose Zorro address space is inaccessible from userspace on a running AMIX — such as RTG graphics cards and video digitizers. This is a hobby project developed out of curiosity about forgotten Amiga Unix hardware.
  • The "Year 2000 Problem" and the Amiga: To make a long story short, the Amiga in general does not suffer from a "Year 2000 Problem" as is commonly referred to in the PC world. Still, the Amiga faces three distinct date problems and a single, specific Year 2000 problem with limited scope. This document shows you how to find out if your Amiga might have a "Year 2000 Problem" and then goes into detail, explaining the technical aspects of the issues and how they may be addressed.
  • Amiga 600 Junior: It is a replacement board solution for the Amiga600, or an Amiga 600 clone if you like this way. Just as Chucky’s ReAmigas for other Amiga models. Primarily designed to replace old rotten boards – and to be honest, A600s are very affected by the leaking issue. {By Róbert Tihanyi in 2022}
  • Amiga A600 Junior Build: The Retro BB channel presents an Amiga A600 Junior Build, turning a failed A600 into a clean and upgraded machine. The project replaces the original board with a reverse-engineered Junior motherboard and fits it inside a frosted clear case. This gives the system a fresh look while keeping the classic A600 layout.
  • Gloom Reforged: GLOOM - the Amiga FPS classic by Black Magic, but kinda 'Reforged' for AmigaOS. AGA only and PiStorm32 recommended! This project aims to build an enhanced Amiga version of Gloom, based on the original, unmodified source code {...} The goal is not to turn Gloom into a completely different engine, but to modernize and improve it where it makes sense on real Amiga hardware, while preserving the look, feel, speed, atmosphere, and gameplay identity of the classic release.
  • ZGloom Editor: A basic Level editor for Gloom/ZGloom from Amiga for Windows. Gloom Level Editor is a standalone Win32 / x86 Visual Studio editor prototype for creating and editing Gloom-compatible maps. The goal is to provide a practical desktop tool for inspecting, editing and exporting map data while keeping the workflow close to the original Gloom/ZGloom structure.*{windows}
  • AmigaOS 2: The Greatest Upgrade: A system software release for the ages. Five years after releasing the Amiga 1000, {...} It was time to bring AmigaOS, too, into the 1990s.
  • LightTreeFM: LightTreeFM - A Modern File Manager for Classic AmigaOS. LightTreeFM is a native two-pane file manager designed for classic AmigaOS systems. It focuses on practical daily file work, low memory usage, predictable redraws, and a Workbench-friendly visual style that feels at home on real Amiga hardware.
  • Interview with Jay Miner : {Translated - last known interview} Interview conducted by Ruud Dingemans and taken from Amiga Magazine - February 1994
  • The billionaire who might have saved Amiga: Pentti Kouri, Hyperion and AmigaOS 4: For most Amiga users, the story of the machine is a story of chips, demos, strange brilliance and loyalty that long ago passed the point of medical explanation. {..} But one of the most important figures in the later Amiga story did not come from the familiar world of engineers, coders or user-group legends. Dr. Pentti Kouri came from finance, and that made him a very unusual character in a very unusual computing saga.


2026-06-13

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  Another quiet week in AmigaLand but only 3 days until Commodore announces their next move. While we know it has nothing to do with the Amiga, I hope they're able to keep their momentum going with phase 2. Fingers crossed!

  - Quick side note... Two weeks ago I took a rather aggressive move on my part to try and find someone to help me finish a few things on the site and make it a bit more functional. Much to my surprise I've been overwhelmed by the number replies and all the kind words about the Amiga, Commodore and the site in general.

  With that said I'm going to take the next week to review, then start reaching out to see if I can find a good fit to get v2.0 ready before the 25th anniversary in October. Wish me luck and stay tuned for more updates.

Interesting... Keep an eye on

 

Amiga Legal News Update
  • Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 49
    • “Donkeys will dance ballet”

 

Today's Theme
  • Links about the Juggler demo and other random links...

 

New Links (15) YTD (360)
  • AMIGA NOTES: This document contains various notes, tips and proposals for Amiga programmers and users, and lists of known bugs and workarounds for various software. It was written by James Jacobs of Amigan Software on 9/8/04, and last updated on 3/6/26. If you have any additions, corrections or suggestions, please email us.
  • List of web browsers that run on Amiga OS: {A great source of web browser information in general to include the Amiga} Amelinium, AmiZilla, AMosaic, aMozillaX, AWeb, IBrowse, NetSurf, Origyn, Timberwolf, Voyager (Amiga) & WebsterXL
  • PicoWyfy WIFI adapter for the Amiga: I just got a PicoWyfy and has spent a day playing around with it in my Amiga 1200. I am very happy with this device as it has helped me get my Amiga 1200 online and onto my network at home. The PicoWyfy is a “wireless network interface controller” and it connects to the clock port on the Amiga (either on the motherboard or on a Zorro card or other clock port solutions). Read more about PicoWyfy here, you will also find instructions on how to get one there.
  • Jim Collas Offers Clarifications: As you can imagine, I have been following the newsgroups closely as you discuss the Linux decision. The personal attacks on me are discouraging but I can't blame some people for being very angry. It's understandable given what the Amiga community has been through in the last few years and the way this situation unfolded. I wish I could have managed this situation better but I have been traveling a lot and QNX blindsided us with their announcement. As I mentioned in an earlier post, we were planning to communicate the Linux decision along with our technical brief.
  • PaulaNet — Amiga WiFi via the Floppy Port: PaulaNet is a WiFi network adapter for the Amiga that uses the floppy disk port as its data interface. It requires no internal hardware modification — just plug into the external floppy connector.
  • Prometheus-Resurrector (a.k.a. PrometheusX): {summary from another page} Prometheus-Resurrector is based on the Prometheus PCI daughter board from 20 years ago. If you are familiar you might know about the Firebird PCI daughter board for Amiga 4000 and Amiga 3000, they are sort of related. One difference between Prometheus-Resurrector and the original Prometheus is that this one is using Xilinx chips for CPLDs instead of rare, hard to find, Altera chips. Also, you can order PCBs yourself and build it.
  • Prometheus - Open Source: First of all, apologies for the long delayed publication of Prometheus Open Source version. Life has its own rules. The bugfix (a history). During bugfixing the original version of Prometheus code, I made a small description of the bug, as well as how to fix it. Fortunately, it surviced in some old backup, so I include it here for completeness. It may help to understand the new (VHDL) version of the code a bit.
  • A4000 Front Cover: Old computers are great, but the plastics don't stand the test of time, yellowing through brominated flame retardants, or just getting brittle with age. The Amiga 4000 is one of those affected, and due to the limited numbers they were produced in, replacement parts are difficult to get hold of. I created this front cover to sit alongside some of the other case replacement projects out there, and in particular, efforts to reverse-engineer and provide spares for worn-out parts.
  • Faery Tale Adventure - Modula-2 (mx) Port: Faery Tale Adventure clone in Modula-2 (mx compiler + SDL2)
  • Recovering Eric Graham’s 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer source code : AlphaPixel often gets involved with modernizing and updating old performance and graphics code. Sometimes that means client work under NDA. But sometimes it means a fun side quest in the mystical realms of curiosity, preservation, and the practical problem of getting old data into a form that can be read and used on a current machine. Today let's talk about Amiga Juggler
  • Amiga Juggler Animation: In November of 1986, early in the history of the Amiga computer, Commodore released a new demo, a continuously looping sequence of 24 full-color, full-screen frames, with matching "clink" sound effect, playing at 30 frames per second.
  • The Juggler Raytracer: Rendered in Your Browser. The Juggler image on this page is not a JPEG or a PNG. It is drawn dynamically by a Javascript program that runs in your browser when you load this page. The program is a Javascript translation of the raytracer that produced the original Juggler animation in November of 1986.
  • A real-time clone of the classic Amiga "Juggler" demo in WebGL.: A real-time clone of the classic Amiga "Juggler" demo in WebGL. Original demo Copyright 1986 Eric Graham. This version by Ben Hanke 2021.
  • Eric-Graham-1987-Juggler-Raytracer-1.0: Eric Graham's original 1987 Juggler Raytracer 1.0 source code and related data
  • Eric Graham - The Juggler: In November of 1986, early in the history of the Amiga computer, Commodore released a new demo animation featuring a robot juggling three mirror balls. {...} This demo really showed off the Amiga's superior graphical capabilities. The way the 3D environment was accurately and dynamically reflected in the glass balls hadn't been seen before. It was one of the earliest full-color 3D raytraced animations rendered and displayed on a personal computer. In fact, I know of no earlier example than this famous demo by Eric Graham


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