In case you've missed it: A new graphics card for the PCMCIA slot is soon to be released.
The original information seems to date back to the Amiga 40 event in Germany, and was amplified by Amiga Bill when he put it on his YouTube channel in Oct. 2025, but some updates have been coming in over the past few weeks.
Writing a demo is a lot of fun, because there are basically no limitations. You just use what you have, and there's no fixed goal. You can make it as short or as long as you like, and when something doesn't work, you either change it, or just drop it.
While all along the way, of course, you run into a lot of issues. A proper demo generates graphics and sound, and has some sort of timing. That's a little less work than a game, which additionally needs user interaction (input) and "rules of engagement", but it's still quite a lot to handle.
Chances are you want to change your Amiga emulator's configuration quite often, for example for developing and testing purposes. A script that runs the emulator can help you to do so without effort.
There are thousands of ways to somehow simplify Amiga emulator usage. If you're a GUI & mouse user some of the work has already been done, but for the CLI user there might be some annoying typing involved.
Walkman, arcade, Live Aid: Pop band "Men Without Hats" of "Safety Dance" fame released an ode to the `80s a couple of months ago, that features an Amiga 500.
Ok, admittedly, the Amiga really plays only a minor role here. But it's always fun to see one out there in the wild, and in this particular context, it's evidence how much of a cultural icon an Amiga computer is. Who would've thought that 40 years after release it shows up in a YouTube video that got 1.5 million views in its first nine months?
Going back to the oldskool: first demo by Amiga alive.
It was about time to create a demo. It runs on MC68000, Kickstart 1.2, 512KB RAM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oettY1Dj10
This looks oddly familiar. But it still doesn't boot AmigaOS 3.2. Sigh. ;-)
British electronic music producer Pete Cannon and his Amiga/AtariST driven studio.
When browsing through AmigaOS developer documentation and C code, there's always a funny, interesting, sometimes enlightening little find.
It's just nice to see how it all ties together, and the changes made from one operating system (API) release to the next. Learning about the infrastructure of software, esp. over multiple versions, exposes some of the thinking process of the operating system developers.
Yet another find for the "connoisseur".
It appears that in the 1990s, not only C coders, but also video hardware geeks had a good sense of humour, and since they were both German, they naturally shared the same field of activity in that regard.
We have no reports if the "dirty" text file in question actually enhances the performance of the VLab Motion video capture card. It is very likely, though, that - where allowed - it did enhance the performance of the video editor.
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Someone made a delicate little mistake when sending his C code to the publisher in 1990...
Ah, good old German humour. Thankfully, no reference to the "adult" function in question could be found throughout the book, so it doesn't result in "premature failure" when bedtime-coding your "Amiga".
The dual-Blitt() function may cause some trouble, though, not just because it's dual, but also because no reference to BlittLine() could be found either.
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