I am pleased to say I received my two Checkmate displays this week from the UK, one black and one cream coloured. Let's take a closer look!
This will be part one of a two part blog series as there is a lot to look at and a lot of systems to try them out on!
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.
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.
Well, that was a long pause! Almost 5 years since I’ve said anything about the Amiga community. Well, in that time, I’ve purchased a PowerMac G5 1.6Ghz machine and have been happily running MorphOS3.18 on it. I just found out that 3.19 was release with a load of changes: –> here <– Which I hope to install soon.
I did find out some information about compiling debian linux kernels that support KVM CPU virtualization for G4 (maybe even G3) and G5, which I hope to dig up again and share soon. It was a year ago.
In the post xmas sales rush here in Australia, one deal that got my attention was from Jaycar, who was offering the Retro Arcade Game console for $50 on clearance! Since it is normally $250, I thought it worth picking one up and quickly checking it out!
Welcome to my first blog post of 2025. I hope you and your family had a great Xmas and new year period and got some much needed rest and relaxation.
I had planned that also, but it didn't quite turn out the way I had hoped...but it started out well enough, with a planned train trip just after Xmas 2024 to Melbourne on the Overland train to see family.
AmigaOS 4 News – December 2024 Happy New Year everyone! First, I’d like to thank you for visiting the Old School Game Blog and checking out this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup. Today it is December 30th and tomorrow is New Year’s Eve. It’s been a year filled with activity on all Amiga platforms, including the AmigaOS 4 […]
A surprisingly simple repair to a microscopic, but essential problem with an Amiga 1200's floppy drive.
This drive didn't work reliably, and at some point failed completely, not detecting disk media anymore. Only with a little bit of extra pushing on the disk, it would click and start reading, but immediately stop when released. A more thorough inspection was required.
Hi everyone, During the last week or so, quite a few uploads of interesting software has reached OS4Depot. Amongst these are two game ports from Daniel Jedlicka a.k.a Trixie and George Sokianos a.k.a. Walkero. If you enjoy a session of Mahjong, I think you will be right at home with Shisen-Seki and Lopan. Shisen-Seki is […]
Hi everyone, Back in the summer, I put in an order for the then upcoming A600GS from AmigaKit. Sadly, I have not been very active since then. Various circumstances also put a stop to blogging. Recently, I’ve had more time and energy to look into this little machine. Thought I’d do a quick write-up about […]
For the German Amiga user in the 1980s and 90s, few computer periodicals could top the Amiga Magazin, published by the company Markt & Technik. The mag was so big in its day that it ran for an impressive twenty-two years before it ceased publication in 2009. Sadly, I don’t speak or read German myself, so the only issue of the magazine I’ve ever owned is the complimentary copy I got when I bought my Amiga 500.
I am finally finished with work for the year, and so this weekend I am finally able to finish some 2024 blog posts I had been working on, but never had time until now to complete!
So for regular readers, you will get a bunch of posts all at once! Hope it makes up for being a bit too quiet this year because of my workload..
