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Using an Amiga Cross-Compile Toolchain
With my changes to the 68000 Relocator Flash project I needed to compile the source code of the flash tool. I could have done this on the Amiga itself, but since I’m developing on my Linux laptop I figured it would be better to setup a cross-compile toolchain for the Amiga on my Linux laptop.… Read more
2020-12-27
Amiga 68000 Relocator Verilog Updates and More
Following on from my post yesterday I decided to do a minor change to the Verilog on the 68000 relocator and pave the way for future changes. Read more
2020-12-26
Building an Amiga 500 Relocator with Flash ROM
When using an accelerator that replaces the 68000 CPU in an Amiga 500 you often need to use something called a relocator. This is because the card gets in the way of things like the keyboard in the Amiga, so the relocator moves the socket somewhere else. The two common ones are straight relocators which… Read more
2020-12-25
Trying Out Even More Amiga 500 Plus Upgrades
My journey through trying out Amiga upgrades has been continuing recently with some minor changes to my Amiga 500 Plus. These ones are a little more minor but still useful. Read more
2020-12-21
Building a Terrible Fire 536 Accelerator
I already have a Terrible Fire 534 accelerator, but Terrible Fire created an improved 68030 based accelerator for Amiga 500, Atari ST and similar machines called the TF536. This accelerator uses a 100MHz crystal which clocks the CPU at 50MHz. Whilst it does not have an FPU like the TF534, it does have 64MB of… Read more
2020-12-20
Converting a PC Floppy Drive to Amiga
I recently purchased an external floppy drive the for the Amiga which was sold as “untested”. Unfortunately “untested” in this case meant “doesn’t work and someone did a bad attempt at repairing it”. There were parts of the drive physically broken and it was beyond repair. I lucked out because unlike the Rotec drive I… Read more
2020-12-05

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