Generations
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Time for a family reunion! This picture spans over three generations: Amiga 500 (1987), Asus X57S (2008), iPad 2 (2011).
Time for a family reunion! This picture spans over three generations: Amiga 500 (1987), Asus X57S (2008), iPad 2 (2011).
The Amiga startup-sequence is a script file located inside the S: logical device (usually SYS:s) and executed at boot time. This script is responsible for system initialization: patching the rom, adding disk buffers, loading drivers and mounting devices, launching services, making assigns, creating ram folders.. My 1.3 startup-sequence For my Amiga 500 configuration (on WinUAE) […]
In this post I will briefly describe some of the features of AmigaDOS: command syntax, amiga shell, batch scripting. In the beginning was the CAOS In the original planning, the AmigaOS module for file system handling was called CAOS (Commodore Amiga Operating System)[a][b] and its design specs, written by the Exec creator Carl Sassenrath, were reach […]
While designing the theme for Amigalog.com I decided to include all the Amiga logos inside the page layout: the typeface logo, the rainbow check mark and the unofficial Boing Ball. For the typeface logo I used the Bodoni font[a], the closest font to the one used in the original Amiga logo that I could find […]
The old 1084S monitor I’m using with my Amiga 500 still works pretty well, but I’d like to find some way to connect the Amiga RGB out to a modern VGA LCD or CRT display. As a first attempt, I bought a RGB-VGA adapter from Amigakit[a]. NotesAmigakit [↩]
I’ve got a very little unused PC desk which I’d like to use for my retro computing station. As you can see in the picture above, the desk is designed for a typical desktop PC set: there is a bottom shelf for PC placement, a sliding shelf for keyboard and mouse pad, and on top […]
The Lotharek’s floppy drive emulator[a][b] has finally arrived. I just bought a 4 gigabyte SD card and I’m ready to test the emulator. SD card initialization and first test The first thing to do is preparing the SD card. After a FAT32 formatting, I created a config file using the floppy emulator utility application. As you […]
A very interesting and fascinating history of the Amiga written by Jeremy Reimer for arstechnica.com
I’m in Sicily, at my parents’ home, for Easter holidays. It’s time to wake up my old Amiga 500, which has been sleeping under a cellophane in the garage for the last fifteen years. It’s everything where I left it: the Amiga 500, the original two button mouse, the Commodore 1084S RGB monitor, a joystick, […]
Back in the late eighties, when the world of personal computers was populated by ugly noisy monochrome pieces of junk, the Commodore Amiga – with its multitasking windowed OS, powerful CPU, stunning audio and graphics provided by a dedicated chipset – was like a time machine pushing yourself a decade further. The Amiga was my first personal […]