Jeremy Reimer’s long-running History of the Amiga series is interesting reading for those who remember Commodore Amiga from their childhood. When it first arrived, the Amiga was a dream machine…
http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/
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Almost An Amiga For Not A Lot
http://hackaday.com/2017/07/18/almost-an-amiga-for-not-a-lot/
For Amiga enthusiasts without the eye-watering sums required to secure one of the new Amiga-compatible machines with a PowerPC or similar at its heart, the only option to relive the glory beside finding an original machine is to run an emulator. [Marco Chiapetta] takes us through this process using a Raspberry Pi, and produces an Amiga that’s close enough to the real thing to satisfy most misty-eyed enthusiasts.
He starts with a cutesy Amiga-themed Raspberry Pi case
We’re taken through the set-up of the Amibian emulator distro, then locating a set of Amiga ROMs. Fortunately that last step is easier than you might think, even without trawling for an illicit copy.
Build A Killer Amiga Emulator For Under $100 With The Raspberry Pi 3
Read more at https://hothardware.com/reviews/amiga-emulator-with-raspberry-pi-3#7fjr0WEtwVE8RuJr.99
Tomi Engdahl says:
Amibian is what you need to transform your raspberry pi3 into an Amiga.
https://gunkrist79.wixsite.com/amibian
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Amiga 500 Mainboard Gets an Open Hardware Remake with the Rämixx500 Project
https://www.hackster.io/news/amiga-500-mainboard-gets-an-open-hardware-remake-with-the-ramixx500-project-2ea3e8bf22b1
Grab the KiCad schematic and PCB files to recreate this retro motherboard.
Amiga 500 fans know there is a dwindling supply of original parts for their beloved platform. Thanks to Open Retro Works, the mainboard may no longer be in limited supply. Using KiCad, they recreated the original circuit board as an open hardware project called Rämixx500.
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An Amiga Sampler 30 Years Later
https://hackaday.com/2020/08/08/an-amiga-sampler-30-years-later/
There was a magic moment for a few years around the end of the 1980s, when home computers were better than professional ones. That’s a mighty grand pronouncement, but it refers to the crop of 16-bit home computers that genuinely were far better than nearly all PCs at the time for multimedia tasks. You could plug a sampler cartridge into your Amiga and be in the dance charts in no time, something which sparked a boom in electronic music creativity. As retrocomputing interest has soared so have the prices of old hardware, and for those still making Amiga music that cart can now be outrageously expensive. it’s something [echolevel] has addressed, with an open-source recreation of an Amiga sampler.
OPEN AMIGA SAMPLER
https://github.com/echolevel/open-amiga-sampler
Open source schematics, parts lists and documentation for building a generic 8bit/mono Amiga sampler cartridge
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/20/a-love-letter-to-my-lost-amiga/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/08/scratch-built-amiga-2000-stacks-up-the-mods/
Tomi Engdahl says:
I was a video game software pirate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ockNRSt3Nsk
This is the story of how I inadvertently became a software pirate in the 80′s starting with the Commodore 64 and then to the Commodore Amiga where one program would change everything, X-Copy Pro. Please Enjoy!
Disclaimer: The video is not meant to promote software piracy in anyway, rather discuss my history and what most computer users in the 80′s experienced.