Articles from Amiga Alive

A very dirty Amiga 2500

Wow, that's a very dirty Amiga 2500.

Decades of dust and insects' body fluids (and probably some bodies, too) have settled on this Amiga 2500 case. If you want clean such a thing, make sure to not apply much rubbing and cleaning fluid to the label. It's basically paper with only a very thin layer of color coating, that comes off quite easily.

Update 3 for AmigaOS 3.2

Yesterday, Hyperion Entertainment once again proved its commitment, releasing another update for AmigaOS 3.2.

It's update no. 3 for this version of AmigaOS, and it includes new Kickstart ROM version 3.2.3. The release contains a multitude of bugfixes and little enhancements, among which are updates to ReAction classes, TextEditor, DiskDoctor, HDToolbox, and some memory optimization that frees 12KB of ChipRAM. 

Head over to Hyperion's website for more details, and download (for registered users):

Lara Croft (literally) runs on the Amiga!

A lot of people have been waiting for this - the time has come: play "Tomb Raider" on your Amiga!

This popped up just hours ago. Ok, it's "OpenLara", and so far only a proof of concept / tech demo - some features are missing - but it's the actual Tomb Raider-ess, it runs very smooth on a PiStorm, and from what we're hearing so far, it's even playable on a 68030. That's quite a lot!

Amiga on MTV: "Shades" by House Of Usher (1992)

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.

Grind - new demo! (Dev Arena v0.6)

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:

Floppy drive disk detection repair - as not expected

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.

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