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Stephen Leary's TF530 accelerator board for the Amiga 500 is a nice piece of hardware for several reasons. It's low-cost, open-source, fast, has an IDE controller, and a great name.

Why not build one youself?

You need some proper tools, and should have some good soldering experience - SMD parts are really small... And you need some patience and knowledge to find the components.

For starters, check the video below, where Stephen shows the first steps in building it "from scratch".

The next step in Apollo / Vampire accelerators development: After the boards have been put into mass production, they're now available from Amiga retailers AmigaKit in Great Britian and Relec in Switzerland!

http://www.amigakit.com

http://www.relec.ch

Hello and a warm welcome to my blog which will about my adventures with my brand new Amiga machine, the Amigaone X5000.

Wait a minute, did you say new Amiga machine, in 2017?  Well yes the Amiga is still around in 2017 thanks in large to the never say die attitude of its fanatical users and we even have new hardware to run our systems along with the latest edition of the operating system Amiga OS4.1 Final Edition which currently sits on update 1 as of December 2016.

Amiga enthusiast and developer mritter0 (Mark Ritter) has released a new program called Workbench Explorer.  It’s only for OS4.x (let’s hope a 3.x comes out soon), but it looks very good and has modern features for a navigator.

It’s found here: –> link <–

Some screenshots:

If you like informative podcasts and love the Amiga (why else would you be here?), then check out the Amiga Ireland Podcast.  It’s full of news and interactivity between the hosts.  I found it well worth the time.

Here’s episode 3:  –> link <–

Thomas Richter, big Amiga.org forum contributor, has a good thread over at amiga.org about using the Amiga Shell.  His posts are sprinkled about the thread, surrounded by comments.

It’s always good to find out command line tricks and syntax, so I recommend it.  I learned a few things too.

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If you are looking for files for MorphOS, go to the latest website repository for all things MorphOS:

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What is probably the defacto RTG standard, Picasso96 (which I believe edged out CyberGraphX years ago because of WinUAE’s support of P96), has been sold by the owners to Hyperion (makers of OS4.x) and Individual Computers (makers of many Amiga Hardware products).

I’m guessing Hyperion wanted greater control of this RTG system.  CyberGraphX, the main competitor, was owned by some of the authors of MorphOS, and it is the default RTG system on the MorphOS system.

Jeff Minter AKA Yak is one of those guys that i just can’t get enough of, i have been a huge fan ever since his very strange Camel games back in the 80s, hell for all i know it might even be longer than that too as he made a lot of games before that too including the very memorable Hover Bover. Polybius is one of those games that once you start, you can’t stop. It is an vector based...

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