A USB adapter for PC’s to read/write Amiga disks
I found this recently on Facebook: An adapter that lets a PC read and write to Amiga Floppy disks. This could come in handy!
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Icaros Desktop’s first 64-bit AROS download is available
AROS is great, and Icaros Desktop has been probably the most well-known distribution out there. Their 32bit, single core version is very useful. Now, they’ve released a very early 64 bit version.
There are heavy warnings that this isn’t anything other than a work-in-progress, proof-of-concept version that won’t replace the existing 32bit version for a while. it does give us something to play with though.
It does support SMP (more than one core). It also identified the CPU (under VirtualBox).
A quick way to get into AROS development
With AROS’s x86 (and also x64 multi-processor version), porting cpu-heavy apps or creating new ones may be more doable than other variants (no knock against 68060/vampire or PowerPC users, but even those are still not nearly as powerful as the Intel/AMD machines that AROS can run on).
But how to start developing? Well, the distributor for IcarosDesktop (paolone), has put together a virtual machine image of an Ubuntu distro with the AROS development system already set up.
New MorphOS 3.12 is out and it looks like iMac G5’s may be supported
Yet another great release of MorphOS is out and other places are mentioning it. However, it seems that a little-mentioned blurb in the release notes hint that the iMac G5 (20 and 17 inch models, with G5’s) may be supported even though they aren’t listed in the supported hardware section.
The 17″ and 20″ iSight iMac G5 models have the internal model number (in Apple terms) of PowerMac12,1 (for both).
In the Quark changelog section of MorphOS 3.12:
- Added basic PMac12,1/PPC970FX frequency switching support
and in the G5 Power Management section:
Is Jen Schönfeld (of icomp.de) about to exit the Amiga market over legal issues?
It appears that Individual Computers (makers of many very useful classic Amiga hardware products), may be considering leaving the Amiga market if the legal battles with Cloanto and Hyperion don’t end soon (or end in a Cloanto victory).
Here’s supposedly a message from Jens about it:
This email was from February of 2019, and he clarified when the email got out that he’s giving the situation until this coming February (2020) to decide what he will do:
Exploring the Coffin OS with WinUAE – pt 2
In this entry, I’m going to do a dive into the software provided with the standard install of Coffin OS. See my former post on Coffin OS setup with WinUAE –> here <–
There is a dock bar at the bottom, ToolManager, that has many prebuilt shortcuts:
From left to right, here’s what they launch:
Add a Raspberry PI to your A500 expansion slot
This is old news now, and I didn’t blog about it back when I first heard about it, but I thought it was long overdue to have a way to add a Raspberry PI to an Amiga to take advantage of cheap, but powerful hardware.
Enter the A314:
There’s a long thread on EAB about it that is good reading.
A Cryptic screenshot of an upcoming Amiga 3.x update?
While digging deep on a German forum that was discussing the Amiga OS 3.1.4.x release, there was a thread called “OS 3.2 Preview”. Attached was this image (Click to see a larger version):
People that look closely can see some hints of what is to come (not easy but there were several small things added that people found).
New Graphics card for Zorro II/III Amiga
A few years ago, I posted about a newly designed zorro graphics card called the VA2000.
Well, it looks like a new card is in the works, this time with a dual core ARM-7 processor, which is supposedly for decoding video and audio. Check out the website here
Exploring Coffin OS (Vampire) with WinUAE – pt 1
I’ve been interested in the custom Amiga OS bundle/distro for Vampire users called Coffin OS for a while now. There haven’t been many reviews of it for non-vampire users and I thought I’d give it a go using WinUAE. This will be the first of a 2 part review, with initial setup and initial configuration. Part 2 will be more about the bundled software.