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Ah, Hugo! That brings back some memories. The whole concept of using a telephone to control a game on live TV was pretty groundbreaking at the time. Did you ever play it, or was it more of a nostalgic curiosity for you?

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Yoomp! is likely a well-known IP among retro gaming enthusiasts, though it was relatively new to me since I never followed the Atari scene closely. While Indie Retro News and others have covered it multiple times across various platforms, it never truly caught my attention—until talk of an Amiga version surfaced (go figure! :-p). The game has been out for a while now and continues to receive updates, which is fantastic. Even better, it now has a collector’s box for those of us who love having a physical edition to proudly display on our shelves.

Astronauts of the International Space Station can plug in an Amiga 600, 1200, or CD32 and play games on a beamer!

Another nice example of how the Amiga was used as a low-cost video production workhorse.

According to an article in a 1993 issue of "Amiga Kickstart" magazine (see links below), the music video for House Of Usher's techno track "Shades" was created on an Amiga 500+, using DeluxePaint IV.

Twelve years ago, I wrote an article about the Trojan Phazer Light Gun—an incredibly popular piece that continues to attract a lot of views, likely due to the growing interest in the Retro Light Gun market. This follow-up write up explores the current state of Light Gun games on the Amiga and highlights the black Trojan / Magnum Phazer gun I purchased in Denmark a couple years ago.

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Yet another preview of "Grind" - the grown up brother of Amiga 500 Doom-clone "Dread" - just popped up on YouTube.

"Dread" was a super impressive project that spawned full-game-release project "Grind", and it's looking better than ever. 

Here's the latest video, that was uploaded just minutes ago to famous retro-gaming channel Saberman RetroNews:

 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!

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 <–

I forgot to include the link to the AirPrint utility thread in the last post.

Follow the progress –> here <–

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.

Did you pick up the excellent TerribleFire card for your Amiga CD32 and wish it came with a cover? Well, now you can get a well-crafted, solid cover designed by Maciej Sees on Thingiverse. If you have a 3D printer or know someone who does, don't hesitate to print one out!

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