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Developing GUI Applications for Amiga OS
One of the things lacking with the Amiga 68000 Kickstart Relocator project is a GUI to manipulate the flash ROMs, the original project had one in a fork, but it was proprietary. It doesn’t support DiagROM at all and doesn’t support the dual-ROM firmware I wrote for version 3.0. So, I decided to spend some… Read more
Amiga 1200 Upgrades
Earlier this month I acquired my first Amiga 1200 and repaired the floppy drive in it. I have blogged about how I am connecting it to my home network, but not about all the other work and upgrades I have done to it so far. So, it is time to cover it in this post. Read more
Networking an Amiga 1200
If you want to get files onto your Amiga from your PC there are several ways of doing this, including pulling out ad SD or CF card and copying files that way. In fact I do this on my Amiga 500 right now. But for my Amiga 1200 I wanted to do something different, particularly… Read more
Repair of an Amiga 500 RGB2HDMI c0pperdragon v2
I recently upgraded a friend’s TF534 to have a 68882 FPU in it, a simple case of soldering a PLCC socket onto the board and popping in the chip. When that was delivered for the upgrade, in the box was also a c0pperdragon Amiga v2 board that was badly damaged. I said I would have… Read more
Review: Sew Ready Amiga 500 Cover
With my wife running a candle business called Appleyard Candles I am a firm believer in supporting small local businesses. I recently purchased a cover for my Amiga 500 from a small local company called Sew Ready and decided to do a quick review of it to help support them. Read more
My First Amiga 1200
I recently managed to acquire my first Amiga 1200 from a user on the Norwich Amiga Group. It came with just the unit and power supply. It has yellowed a bit, especially the keyboard but was functional. It was known that the floppy drive was faulty. I’ve spent an hour with it so far so… Read more
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