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Way back in about 1992, I finally had enough money (ok, well, enough credit) to finally expand my Commodore Amiga 500 to how I wanted it. I previously had an A501 memory expansion module and an external floppy drive that my parents had bought me for Christmas the year or two before. A major upgrade was a Microbotics VXL*30 accelerator card which included a 68030 at 25mhz, and whopping 2MB RAM which was just amazing for the time. I may make a post in the future about the specifics of that card.

This is old news now, and I didn’t blog about it back when I first heard about it, but I thought it was long overdue to have a way to add a Raspberry PI to an Amiga to take advantage of cheap, but powerful hardware.

Enter the A314:

There’s a long thread on EAB about it that is good reading.

While digging deep on a German forum that was discussing the Amiga OS 3.1.4.x release, there was a thread called “OS 3.2 Preview”. Attached was this image (Click to see a larger version):

People that look closely can see some hints of what is to come (not easy but there were several small things added that people found).

A few years ago, I posted about a newly designed zorro graphics card called the VA2000.

Well, it looks like a new card is in the works, this time with a dual core ARM-7 processor, which is supposedly for decoding video and audio. Check out the website here

I’ve been interested in the custom Amiga OS bundle/distro for Vampire users called Coffin OS for a while now. There haven’t been many reviews of it for non-vampire users and I thought I’d give it a go using WinUAE. This will be the first of a 2 part review, with initial setup and initial configuration. Part 2 will be more about the bundled software.

If I and Jeroen Tel got one thing in common then it has to be that every game has to have a good soundtrack and I guess this is why I ended up being such a fan of gaming in the 80s, the Commodore 64 SID chip has always made me smile and no, I […]

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Recently I finally managed to secure my own Amiga 3000! I really wanted to get one of these for a long time now.

Shadow Of The Colossus is a rather hard game for me to write about as this is, well, this game is actually in my top 3 games of all time list and yes they have already released the game 3 times and every single time it blew me away in ways no other game has […]

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This weekend I took a look at the Amiga 500 and Amiga 600 memory expansion cards and A1200 real time clock port expansion module, all kindly supplied to me for review by AmigaKit.

Hello Amigans,

Today I am taking a look at the recently released ADF handling software for Classic Amiga called GoADF from BitPlan, on my Amiga 500 running AmigaOS 3.1.4.1 and also on my Amiga 4000T running AmiKit Real 9 (OS3.9 base).

The name "VARTA" strikes fear into the hearts of Amiga 500 plus, and A501 memory expansion owners: VARTA rechargeable batteries have been built into these devices, and with growing age are prone to leak green acid, damaging the printed circuit boards and other components.

With a little more experience and new information gained, there was something left to do...