February 2025

New custom-made IDE controller (Ripple)

There is quite a side market for custom-made Amiga hardware. One such is for an IDE controller, that comes in several board colors. The people that keep the Amiga going with things like these should be supported for their efforts. See the link to the sale page –> here <–

Network printing utility under development

On the Amiga OS 4.1 side of things, there is a network printer utility under development, called Airprint. The developer is making great strides but it still isn’t 100% from what I’ve seen. It can discover network printers From AmigaOS4, and other details. Many testers are helping with it and with their printer models. Other platforms take this feature for granted so it is good to see it coming to Amiga.

Validating my dataflyer BUSS PAL replacement GAL

As some of you that have been following my reverse engineering efforts over the last few years, one of the tasks I took on was reverse engineering the BUSS PAL TIBPAL16L8-25 present in on the Expansion Systems Dataflyer plus SCSI-ONLY card. My PAL reverse engineering tutorial series on this site documents some of the steps involved.