Hi, Thank you for visiting the Old School Game Blog. A new version of the lightweight text-editor Lite XL has been released for AmigaOS 4.1. This time it is version 2.1.6R1. The port is being maintained by George Sokianos a.k.a Walkero. The program itself was created by Francesco Abbate and the Lite XL team. We […]
AmigaOS 4 News – November 2024 Hi, December 1st is here and it is (finally) time for a new post on this blog. Thank you for visiting the Old School Game Blog and checking out this month’s AmigaOS 4 Monthly Roundup. Some of you have noticed that I haven’t released any roundups for several months. There are many […]
"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:
Some "live" examples of how to translate AMOS code to C code.
I had planned to do this next part much earlier, but I had to travel to Prague again for work in late September and much of October.
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.
Empowering Remote Access to Your AmigaOS4 Machine
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:
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!
Good old amiga > software rework by me for aros..
In September 2006, I purchased a Samsung 204B SyncMaster monitor for $320+tax. It was a 4:3 monitor, and for certain tasks like my Logic Analyzer Cart, it’s perfect.
It failed in July 2024, and would no longer power on. There was a VERY faint blue flashing happening on the blue power led on the right-hand side of the unit. I figured it was a power-related problem.
There was a HDD backup utility for the Commodore Amiga called Quarterback, part of a suite of tools called Quarterback Tools. This utility allowed you to backup existing files on your HDD, compress and/or encrypt them, and split them across multiple floppy disks.
This backup tool stores a catalog, which contains a number of directory entries at the beginning of the backup file, and then contains file markers for either compressed (CFM + 0x90) or uncompressed (FMRK) files.
