A new 68040 Accelerator for the Amiga 500
So, the guy that has been Vlogging on YouTube about his open-source 68030 accelerator every week or so just announced his plans to make a 68040 version for the Amiga 500. Wow!
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Found an old picture of “OS5” development system
Back in 1998, Amiga Inc was in talks with QNX to use their desktop system as a potential base for the nextgen Amiga. Their web archive page also teased a new system for developers of OS5dev:
Ah, all the glory of tower systems in the late 90’s! Who else remembers these?
You can see their developer’s page archive here:
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The first Amiga NextGen OS to support 64bit native architecture and multi-cores: AROS
Well, if there was a race to see which of the Amiga-flavors of OS would support both SMP (multiple processor cores) and 64bit architecture, along with the extra RAM afforded by 64bit addressing, it was won by AROS. Check out the video below:
Tech Demo for a new Amiga Platform game
Just saw this one on YouTube. Good to see that classic Amiga game development continues over 20 years after Commodore shut down:
Keep up the good work developers!
Amiga 1200 CD install video
Enjoy this video by an Amiga user who wants to add a CD drive to their Amiga 1200:
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Part 2:
FlowerPot: A quick and easy way to set up Amiga OS4.1FE on WinUAE by the makers of Amikit
The makers of Amikit, an amazing emulated pre-built environment, has released FlowerPot, a set of tools to automate setting up OS4.1FE in the latest and greatest version of WinUAE, without some of the limitations we ran into in 2015 and 2016 (like only being able to use PicassoIV emulation and not higher-RAM UAE graphics, pci bridgeboard support, etc).
It’s not free, but it’s not expensive either. I’m currently testing it and will have a review later.
Cool, retro wallpaper
Just an aside, someone made this retro wallpaper with Amigans in mind. Click for larger version:
Amiga 4000 Teardown and Restoration
Here’s a good video about restoring an old Amiga 4000 with a VideoToaster.
Demo of Hollwood on Vampire 500
Here’s a demo of the Hollywood development program running on the Amiga 500 with the Vampire 500 accelerator. This was from AmiWest 2016. Looks good!