60 new links in the AMIGA alive Web Directory
Massive update to the AMIGA alive Web Directory - now 285 websites listed!
With new sections "Demoscene" and "MorphOS", and 60 new links added.
Happy surfin'!
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New page: Microbotics MBX1230XA accelerator board information
Ok, actually it's an old page: the
Hardware: Microbotics MBX1230XA accelerator board information page
is back, with updated information!
(And we were able to fix our MBX1230XA accelerator board! :-) )
New page: The AMIGA alive Web Directory
Did you notice we have a new page? It's the AMIGA alive Web Directory, with more than 200 links to Amiga-related websites! Happy surfin'!
Rarest of the rare: The Commodore Amiga CD1200
The arrival of CD-technology for personal computers caused a huge shift in software development and user experience. The added storage capacity led to a hugely increased amount of content delivered with a software title. Gone were the days of swapping floppy disks, now a single CD could deliver everything required, and much more. CD was everything and everywhere.
Building the TerribleFire TF530 accelerator board, part 5: Testing. More testing. And... happiness.
I'm learning new things about the TF530 almost daily...
Demoscene: Nerve Axis on TV in 1998 / "Relic" live
Now this has to be a unique, and one of the rarest pieces of Amiga history ever: demo group "Nerve Axis" gets visited by TV channel ".tv" ("dot TV")!
Gaming news: Elfie the Unicorn, Heroes of Gorluth, Tales of Gorluth II
New games! Amiworx and Amiga68K-Productions have some new stuff waiting for you classic Amiga gaming aficionados.
"Tales of Gorluth" by Amiworx got some sort of sequel by the name of "Heroes of Gorluth". It's an action adventure platformer, and claims to have some interesting NPC interaction, boss battles, lots of action, and high quality graphics and sound. It's available as digital download, and CD-ROM edition, which is limited to 300 copies, and requires a 68020 CPU, ECS/AGA, and 2MB RAM. You can get a glimpse of it's epicness over at:
Building the TerribleFire TF530 accelerator board, part 4: Software and Installation
Handling ~40GB of downloaded installation archives is not for the squeamish. And I built the M68000 CPU socket connector. And then there comes the moment of truth.
Disclaimer: This is not an instruction. Use at your own risk. No responsibility taken for whatever you do. Safety first. Kids, dont try this at home.
Web browsers: iBrowse 2.5 news & Voyager goes GPL
It wasn't a hoax: IBrowse lives! In April 2017 we reported news about iBrowse being (still?) actively developed (again?), and a few days ago the iBrowse page was updated with more information. Additionally, Voyager web browser has resurfaced with a GPL source code release!
The changes in iBrowse 2.5 are too numerous too list, but here are some highlights:
Apollo Team Activity Report: GOLD 2.7 core, GOLD 3 core, Vampire V4
Apollo team has released an activity report on their forum website, addressing some current issues, like the halted Vampire V2 600 production, as well as ongoing new developments.
Some highlights from their report:
- GOLD 2.7 includes faster IDE, hardware sprites, optimized rewrite of RTG graphics driver, MapROM functionality, hybrid software/hardware FPU, HyperThreading, and more
- GOLD 2.7 core will be available for Vampire V2 500, V2 600, and V4