It’s been a while since I’ve made any entries, but I have been lurking around the Amiga community on and off for the past few months, thinking about a trend I’m seeing: People getting printed boards of either replicas or completely new Amiga board designs and building them by the parts.

I hope to talk more about these and the new designs, but for starters, here’s a video of someone soldering on the components for a replacement Amiga 1000 board that also sports things the Amiga 1000 never had access to: 68060 accelerator, a USB board, and a video card.

Just thought that some Amigans might like to see this one person’s efforts with the TF530 accelerator I’ve been talking about recently:

So, back in the day, if you wanted to read or write Amiga floppy disks, you needed a dedicated Amiga floppy drive.  The first workaround was to get a catweasel card from Individual Computers, which would allow a PC standard floppy drive to read and write Amiga floppies.

Then, there was the Kyroflux forensic floppy controller was supposedly able to read Amiga floppies.

It was just a week ago that I posted about QEMU patches being worked on to let the Sam460ex motherboard to be emulated. I was excited because this means that