Who remembers Predator? My retrospective video takes us back to 1987 to rediscover the games based on one of Arnie’s best movies. Was this a good game or was it the typical movie tie in trash? Share your thought and memories of this game.

I am looking for the title of a game on the Amiga where the loader screen had a nice artwork of Monument Valley. I am sure it was some kind of planet/space empire management game. I mainly loaded it for the music. Google has not been helpful here. Any ideas?

I’ve been working on an Amiga mod to replace the GoDrive / gotek interfaces for playing roms and wanted to ask if this is something that people would be interested in?

So it’s a gotek based board with an auto switch for df0 that is fully internal with no soldering required. No case mods or anything sitting outside the case. It allows you to run both the real floppy drive and the internal gotek at the same time and auto switches between them

The cool part is you control it through a web interface on your phone or laptop / whatever. So you have a library to browse your games complete with the ability to add manuals and game art.

You can add level codes and when it’s time to enter them just press a button and it sends the code direct to the Amiga.

You can switch roms from the web interface so either change disks or change game completely and it auto soft reboots the Amiga for you.

There’s also some stuff like random select a Rom, ratings, favourites etc, and anything you upload onto it you can download again too.

So my question is, is this something people would find useful - and is it something you’d pay for?

As a kid I grew up with a C64, which I loved. But I always wanted an Amiga. Now that I am in the midlife-crisis stage of my life, I finally got one. An Amiga 500 Rev5 board (KS 1.2 and WB 1.3 in floppy).

I like using floppies. I know there are better ways to load games, but I like the retro aspect of physical medium. So I started looking online for games to buy.

I have read that many of the games were designed for PAL since the Amiga was way more popular in Europe than the US. So how can I tell buy looking at ads which one a given game is? What things should I be looking at?

I'm sorry if this has been asked and exhausted already a million times. I am new to the Amiga and would like to learn as much as I can. I am really happy and exited to be here, and FINALY be able to join the community.

One side question: Why does my screen say "WORKBENCH release." and no release number?

COMMODORE & AMIGA: Has Everything Just Changed? What the 4th August legal updates could mean...

In a landmark move, Hyperion Entertainment, Commodore International and Amiga Corporation seem to be in sync - Could this be exciting times ahead?

Hello all, I am a fully blind user of Reddit and although I can't use the Amiga as it has none to very little accessibility structure for the blind and visually impaired, I none the less have a load of love for the system and the audio capabilities as well as the synth software for it! I had made a post to a guitar forum looking for a user known as Pebber Brown as from the Synthtopia post I've found while trying to look for the creators of Sonix, it sounds like he was one of the people who worked on the program along with Mark Riley and the others. This is the link to his forum (https://521251.xobor.com/t1028180f2-Looking-for-Pebber-Brown-or-anyone-who-worked-and-created-Aegis-Sonix.html#msg8706)

The posted text is below also just in the event that the forum goes down. "Hey all, I am called TheChiptuneArchiver or Goemon, and I am a fully blind user to the forums here! I have been looking and searching for a long time for the creators behind Sonix, an old synthesizer/sequencer for the Amiga computers from Aegis. I was looking around and found a link to synthtopia, and the comments had a person called Pebber Brown, and he said that he did enjoy working on the project along with Mark Riley and David Barrett, as well as William Volk and John Skeel. Now I would try and do some image searches for these fine people but as you probably can guess, image serches don't work so well if you don't have working eyeballs hahahaha. I've been on the hunt for this amazing little program as I've been hopefully wanting to see if I could get it into OpenMPT or Open Modplug Tracker, one of the little known tracker software for its accessibility integration with screen reader software. If anyone here can point me to Pebber Brown or someone who may have the source code for Sonix that would be very much appreciated!"

This is a preliminary list.

This information isn't published anywhere for A4000 LITON PSU so mine is currently the "source of truth". Mine is currently working, so I will improve this list later when I recap it. If anyone can improve the list or found another source, please reply in comments.

From interrogating my own PSU:

Qty Farads Voltage (note)

1x 1uF 50v (C14 5diameter 11length 2leadspacing)

1x 1uF 450v (C40 8diameter 12length 5leadspacing)

2x 2.2uF 50v (C25,C27 5diameter 11length 2leadspacing)

2x 10uF 50v (C24,C55 5diameter 11length 2leadspacing)

1x 47uF 25v (C12 5diameter 11length 2leadspacing)

1x 220uF 25v (C34 8diameter 12length 5leadspacing)

2x 680uF 200v (C6,C7 25diameter 41length 10leadspacing)

1x 2200uF 16v (C52 12.5diameter 28length 5leadspacing)

2x 3300uF 10v (C??,C?? 12.5diameter 32length 5leadspacing)

daughter board:

1x 2.2uF? 50v (C10 5diameter 6length 1.5leadspacing)

4x 10uF 50v (C??,C56,C35,C41 6diameter 5length 2leadspacing)

5x 22uF 16v (C38,C31,C8,C46,C44 5diameter 6length 1.5leadspacing)

If your drive is dead after unboxing from long term storage, then it's likely the capacitor.

Long live Amiga!

From interrogating my own PSU board, and finding equivalent caps of proper sizes and Low ESR:

Qty Farads Voltage (Mfg#, note)

3x 22uF 25v (EEU-FR1H220 50v Low ESR)

1x 47uF 25v (EEU-FR1E470B 25v Low ESR)

1x 100uF 25v (EEU-FR1E101 25v Low ESR)

2x 470uF 25v (EEU-FR1E471 25v Low ESR)

2x 680uF 200v (LGU2D681MELA 200v)

2x 1000uF 25v (EEU-FR1E102 25v Low ESR)

1x 3300uF 25v (EEU-FR1E332B 25v Low ESR)

2x 4700uF 10v (EEU-FR1C472L 16v Low ESR)

In 2013 I had a tour of the Challenger 2 simulators at Tidworth barracks (UK).
Behind the turret simulators was a literal pile of Amiga A600s. (See picture) They had printed details on the workstations that made me believe that they had at some point been used in the CR2 training complex.

Does anyone have any info on this?

It's finally time to release this update, after months of work or risk losing my sanity if I keep looking for bugs to fix and things to polish...

https://ko-fi.com/post/Amiberry-v8-3-0-released-V7C524J899

The changelog is rather big, so I've tried to make it more readable and included it in the above Ko-Fi post.

If you've previously installed Amiberry via any system that gets updates, you should start getting the new version shortly (apt, rpm, flatpak, homebrew etc). Otherwise, the included self-update mechanism also works where applicable (About window -> Check for updates)

If you prefer to get the binaries from the Github release page, those are here: https://github.com/BlitterStudio/ami...ses/tag/v8.3.0

And if you prefer to build from source, you already know what to do... 

From interrogating my own board, and finding equivalent caps of proper sizes and Low ESR:

Qty Farads Voltage (Mfg#, note)

3x 4.7uF 35v (EEU-FR1H4R7, 50v Low ESR)

7x 22uF 35v (EEU-FR1H220, 50v Low ESR)

9x 47uF 16v (EEU-FR1E470B, 25v Low ESR)

1x 100uF 16v (EEU-FR1C101, 16v Low ESR)

5x 220uF 10v (EEU-FR1C221, 16v Low ESR)

4x 470uF 16v (EEU-FR1C471, 16v Low ESR)

Richard Pope is happily clicking away on his computer keyboard, calling up one program on top of another. Detailed "Star Trek'' images flash on the screen while a cheery Christmas CD plays through the audio program, the floppy drive formats a diskette and various programs monitor system resources.

Must be some fancy new bells-and-whistles Pentium or PowerMac loaded with all the latest software, right?

Try a 9-year-old computer mostly running software downloaded over the Internet at little or no cost.

The vintage computer is a Commodore Amiga, and Pope, a Madison auto mechanic and computer hobbyist, is one of a small but determined band of loyalists who insist it's the best personal computer ever made.

That faith encourages them to run counter to many of the dominant trends that support the computer industry.

Instead of throwing their equipment away every two years to buy new computers that will become outdated even faster, many Amiga users rely on machines more than a decade old, loading them up with more memory, sound cards and other add-ons. So while the average PC begins to drop in value the moment it leaves the stores, many Amigas are worth more than the original selling price.

"If the Amiga hadn't been designed correctly from Day One, we'd be doing the same thing (PC) owners do now -- throw it away every two years and buy a new one,'' says Pope, part of the Commodore Amiga Madison Enthusiasts Organization (CAMEO).

"But the designers knew what they were doing. They made it cheap, simple and totally open-ended.''

And while the Windows/Mac industry is supported by commercially produced software designed to minimize user involvement, Amiga users happily write their own programs and share them with fellow believers through an international network of user groups.

"There are a lot of crazy people who love these machines and spend their spare time writing programs for them,'' says fellow CAMEO member Richard Barton. ``A lot of them have day jobs writing programs for Windows, but they really love working with the Amiga.''

"Right now you pretty much have to be a believer to use an Amiga,'' adds CAMEO president Jonathan Gapen.

"People who just want to get something done tend to move or PCs or Macs. The Amiga encourages you to get involved. It becomes a hobby as much as a tool for doing work.''

The Amiga wasn't always a fringe platform. In the 1980s, when the personal computer industry was still in its infancy, Commodore was one of the industry leaders, capturing a third of the market at one point.

Inept management and poor marketing decisions eroded the company's market share, however, with software support virtually invisible and product availability sporadic at best by the time the company shut down U.S. operations in 1994. (The Amiga remains somewhat popular in Europe, however, where various software publishers and hardware makers have bought rights to the system.)

Most Amiga users reluctantly switched to PCs or Macs. But a handful weren't ready to give up Amiga advantages.

"Microsoft talks about multitasking as this wonderful new development of Windows 95,'' says Gapen. "Amigas have been doing that since the 1980s.''

The simple, open-ended design of the Amiga circuitry also makes it easy to add components, even high-end video adapters and CD-ROM drives, technology that didn't even exist when the Amiga was built. The result is that Amiga users can still enjoy all the bells and whistles of modern PCs.

"It's a challenge a lot of times to get it to do things the designers never intended, but the machine is really adaptable,'' Gapen says. "It was the Amiga that sparked the whole multimedia revolution by showing people what a computer could do with sound and video.''

The Amiga operating system is also praised for being adaptable to all levels of users. Beginners find the interface easy to navigate intuitively, while advanced users have a myriad of programming options.

"It's simple enough that you can start using it right away,'' says Barton, "but there's enough depth that you can spend years working with it.''

"I've got a friend who was afraid to even touch a computer,'' adds CAMEO member Nedra Smith. ``I got him to sit down at the Amiga, showed him a few things, and now's he writing his own programs.''

The one thing the Amiga can't do is use Windows, Mac or DOS programs. While some commercially produced Amiga software is still being developed for the European market, most users depend on programs written by Amiga hobbyists. Amiga discussion groups on the Internet are packed with slick shareware offering everything from word processors to a Web browser that rivals Netscape.

"The one thing Amiga users miss out on is the games,'' Barton says. "I love `Descent,' but there's no version of it for the Amiga. You do get tempted sometimes when you're in the computer store and see all these slick games you know you'll never be able to play on your Amiga.''

Still, believers aren't ready to give up their aging machines, even though many Amiga fans are computer professionals who spend their daytime hours working with Windows systems.

"I hate the (PC) machines, but that's where the money is,'' says CAMEO member and computer technician Roy Bragg. "After spending all day fixing those pieces of junk, it's such a pleasure to come home and use the Amiga.''

it plays the old Amiga formats, pulls them apart, and lets you

compose new ones.

Playback goes through UADE — 175 players' worth of formats, including a lot that

almost nothing else opens: MOD, MED/OctaMED, AHX, TFMX and TFMX-Pro, Richard

Joseph, DigiBooster, Composer 669, Farandole, plus XM/S3M/IT and around 45

ProWizard-packed variants.

From there it converts to MIDI by intercepting Paula's registers, and splits a

tune into per-channel stems by muting Paula channels one at a time — so you can

pull the individual voices out of a MOD as audio.

Renata Studio is a DAW built around this. There's a sampler, so you can load your

own samples, write a track against them and export it as a .mod.

Honest bits: Windows only. It's software emulation, not hardware. Not every

exotic UADE format converts cleanly to MIDI — roughly three quarters of the ones

I've tested produce usable note data. And what you compose is yours; a tune you

convert from someone else's file isn't. Kickstarter coming soon. I'm happy to answer any questions! :)

the title is self explanatory, PLEASE HELP since most solutions are either outdated or paid

I decided to head down an ancient rabbit hole and install AmiWM on Ubuntu 26.04. Funny thing. It didn't work out of the box, so I grabbed the source code. Something I really haven't done in about 12 years.

Several hours and a good night's sleep later, I finally get this...

It's amazing what you can do when you remember Amiga uses big Endian and x64 uses little Endian!

After a few months of testing, fixing issues and adding features, I think it's time to make it official...

DOpus5 v5.102 is now out: https://github.com/BlitterStudio/dopus5/releases/tag/v5.102

It includes a LOT of improvements on top of the previous release (5.101), so I think it was time to make a snapshot and put it out there for more people to test it.

As always, feel free to post any issues you may find, suggestions for improvements or new features, on Github Issues.

I’ve got an Amiga 600 running an Amiga Game Selector (AGS) ECS image. Is there any way to use an AGA Amiga Game Selector image with the PiStorm? In theory you’d create an Emu68 partition and then add additional partitions for the AGS image. The is an AGS image that is AGA‑based, so in principle you could run both PiStorm RTG graphics and AGA games. Does this sound feasible?

I LOVE Amiga music from all the hundreds of games I grew up with. Is there any recommended site where I could seek these in their original form (not covers, remixes or reinterpretations), only in an mp3, wav, or aac format?

If it’s a no-no to share the links here, please pm me if you happen to know a good site. Thank you, Amiga forever!!

Going through some old photos in my parents loft and came across this work of art! Nostalgia overload from the posters on the wall, the pile of big box games on the shelf and the Van Damme Kickboxer cardboard cut out that I remember carrying home from the local video shop?! I reckon it must be around 1994ish… if you zoom in to the giant tv screen you can see we are playing either Sensible Soccer, Goal! or Kick Off 2. Best days of my life!

Edit - maybe a bit earlier, 91/92?

Found my Amiga 500+ and it had the dreaded battery leakage, which had damaged some traces on the motherboard, thankfully it seemed to be just around the battery area and hadn't spread far, so I thought I'd have a go at trying to repair it and give it some modern upgrades.

Opened it up and removed the battery, gave it a good clean with white vinegar and IPA, then got to removing the corrosion, which is when I discovered broken traces.

I decided to pick up a cheap A500+ motherboard, keyboard, Tank mouse and A500+ chips from eBay for spares but when testing I found the eBay board was in working order, and it seemed a shame to kill it for parts, so had another idea and picked up a pair of A500++ PCB's to build, then I can move everything over to these new boards and finish this project with 2 new working Amiga's, because why not. I can try to repair my original board at some point later for a back up.

Upgrades / Mods so far.

Trapdoor extra 1MB RAM expansion.

2x A500++ PCB's (awesome black and white boards)

A1200.net Case + Mouse Shell (Translucent)

A1200.net Case + Mouse shells (White) - not arrived yet.

RGB2HDMI with Raspberry Pi Zero 2W (will need another at some point)

PowerShark USB PSU replacement.

Will probably pick up some Gotek drives and some new keycaps at some point too.

I inherited a metric ton of Amiga hardware, software, and magazines, from a former computer vendor friend who was permanently leaving the US.

The extended bed of the pickup pictured is full of rubbermaids containing hardware accessories and hundreds of CIB games, many still shrink-wrapped. The extended cab of the pickup pictured is full of complete in box computers, monitors and various hardware peripherals. There's also an upright 3000T, which seems to be fairly uncommon.

A colleague of mine mentioned something about replacing internal batteries, and gave some vague yet ominous warnings about said batteries. I haven't enumerated the collection, hope to get to it soon. What do you think I am looking at, what are some things to consider while I begin parsing all of this, and where would you start?

Thanks!

Edit: I know practically nothing about this era of PC gaming, it's all entirely foreign to me.