ISS has an Amiga compatible display
Astronauts of the International Space Station can plug in an Amiga 600, 1200, or CD32 and play games on a beamer!
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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.
AMIGA alive "Quick Clips"
"Quick clips" are a number of quickly recorded and little edited videos of what you might call "everyday Amiga issues" - installing a software package, fixing some C code, transcoding a file from one format to another, and the likes.
So far, these "quick clips" can be found on the YouTube channel:
Rewriting AMOS code in C
Some "live" examples of how to translate AMOS code to C code.
A little odd: TAG_DONE and TAG_END
Sometimes one might get confused when to use TAG_DONE in AmigaOS C-code, and when to use TAG_END. The answer is very simple: They're one and the same. But it turns out there might be a little bit of an unknown story to these two widely used tokens.
TAG_DONE showed up before TAG_END, in NDK1.3, along with struct
TagItem, but not as part of the system includes, and the TagItem system
wasn't used in system functions.
Or was it? This is a section of code from the file Read-Me1.3/A2024Docs/OpenA2024.c, which is part of NDK1.3.
Great Amiga Demos!
Just in case you didn't notice, there's a growing number of Amiga demo videos on the YouTube channel.
Amiga demos are just fun to watch, and oftentimes feature some fantastic music.
This is a collection of classic Amiga "multimedia", featuring demos by The Black Lotus, Spaceballs, Digital, Parallax, etc., and more to come. Maybe you wanna subscribe to the channel to get notified of new uploads?
To get you started, here's Spaceballs' "State of the Art" from 1992:
"It’s a reckoning": Worms 30th anniversary
In 2025, Cult game "Worms" by Team17 will have its 30th birthday. To celebrate the occasion, a new release of the game is planned - with levels created by the Amiga demo scene!
Amiga in the movies: Robot Ninja (1989)
An Amiga 500 was spotted in 1989 splatter-comic movie "Robot Ninja" - both on screen, and behind the scenes.