I created a little blog entry to link your Amiga to the internet via a Serial link and RPi. Not quick but functional. Just a little something worth sharing.
Everything I’ve done recently getting my #Amiga 600 up and running would have been impossible without web searching (and finding!) answers to long forgotten problems.
If this knowledge was produced now, it would unfortunately end up in a convo on a Discord server somewhere and would be impossible to search (and find…)
Stop using Discord for anything else than just chatting. Stop dumping knowledge into a black hole. Use forums. Use the open web. Future nerds will thank you.
@CerebralHawks ? While you're technically not wrong in some ways, if it's a smaller or more focused community, similar can occur even on Discord. E.g. if there's one primary community for a subject, you could essentially get shut out if one person/group running it takes a dislike to you.
At the same time, the benefit of Discord you mention with there being many communities can also exist with many forums, & arguably even better given independent servers altogether.
@didier Speaking of open web, if you're not into the forum model, consider blogging/personal sites!
It's good to work through your thoughts and it builds your own personal store of info if you use it as such. Plus you can entirely set aside any of the social elements if you like, making it a nice little creative reprieve away from others for when you need it.
https://neocities.org/ is a good platform for this sort of thing for any interested but wary of getting into the weeds of hosting.
Another banner that I made. Chaos Engine is anothe great game! Love to play it in co-op mode. 😊
This banner wasn't easy to make. I welcome compliments but also critique on what I could have done differently. 😎
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am previewing a new CD compilation for the #Amiga CD32 - A bunch of accurate Arcade games from JOTD - Including Ms. Pac Man, Xevious, Phoenix and more! https://youtu.be/38q_svXL7rY
Did TTE just drop another one? Hybris Turbo Edition now available on our WHQ BBS! To celebrate, me and Waterman did a litte #Amiga riff on the old
Fairlight 64 cracktro.
AA contributor and AmigaLive tournament host Mark "pnutttz" Nuttall is working on a game of a different kind. Check out his campaign on Kickstarter! #Amiga#AmigaTrumps
too bad I never owned a MegaDrive in the 90's. Was too much into the #Amiga , which I do not regret, as it created me the person I am (as a software engineer/engineering manager). Though, I would wonder what this would have been if I had a Sega instead... ;-)
on that note: i just booted up an A500 that I bought 20 years ago for the first time
i never had bothered with the machine because I preferred its older brother A1000 for the case design and overall style
as it turns out, the previous owner installed a 2MB RAM + clock upgrade, as well as an internal HDD in this A500! i had no idea they were capable of having internal HDDs D:
i soldered a new clock battery in, and it's running like new. pretty amazing machine for its footprint.
@vga256@vga256https://RetroRewind.ca has plungers for the Mitsumi style keyboard. For a spring my advice is to reach out to us through the Contact Us link on the website and we’ll see what we can do. 😁
As a youngster, I made my first Deluxe Paint pixel art on an Amiga 1000 in 1986. Coming from a Commodore 64 with a fixed palette of 16 colors, the Amiga was revolutionary at the time.
I went on to use "DPaint" professionally on a daily basis for around 10 years, creating pixel graphics for games, advertising agencies and television shows.
I've just watched the #Amiga demo HAMazing by Desire and I want to say a few words about it. The first ones are: it's insane what hardware that's almost 40 years old could do. It blew my mind as a kid and rightly so.
The demo is all about leveraging HAM mode, which allowed you to display up to 4K colors simultaneously. Let me explain how that worked and how remarkable this demo is. 🧵 1/6
The original Amiga OCS chipset had a palette of 32 color registers which was the maximum that could normally be displayed at the same time, using 5 bits per pixel to index them plus 1 bit that could be used to halve the brightness of the color.
In Hold-And-Modify mode these 6 bits weren't used to encode a color, but a command. You could set the value of a pixel from a 16 colors palette, or copy the color of the previous pixel while changing one of its components. 2/6
This was achieved via the Copper - one of the Amiga coprocessors - and is not an easy trick, requiring careful coding and precise timing.
Anyway, this demo is fantastic, the authors have amazing skills and the hardware was so much ahead of its time. And if you want to read more about it Wikipedia has a very good article about HAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify 6/6
