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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
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
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
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
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
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