https://hackaday.com/2023/10/19/you-can-now-order-a-brand-new-amiga-pcb/?fbclid=IwAR2-E0bM-bTw8pYDj_lsRtqXzMp1Py3t5w0oUgV6cNd9376wEdc3Yb2Wgo0

Warhol was undeniably enthusiastic about digital art, but Haring felt the strongest affinity with the new medium. He integrated the Amiga computer into his work much more and drew these five digital images which will be offered in this sale as NFTs.

An Amiga 500, Stereo Master and handful of $1 records from a 1990 Sunday market: Can we make a dance track on a budget home computer? Of course! Back when big-name dance tunes required big-budget-gear, a secondhand Amiga let you take the first steps to making a dance-floor banger.

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

New DIY dongle helps demoscene devotees, chiptune aficionados, and retrogaming enthusiasts recreate authentic 8-bit sounds on a budget

“Why buy an ordinary sound sampler — when you can buy a recording studio?” asked a 1991 advert for the New Dimensions TechnoSound Turbo — a marvelous piece of kit which transformed the already extremely capable Amiga into a near-pro-level audio workstation. While the “revolutionary” notion of owning your own sampler for 35 quid vs. paying £100s for professional studio time — or £1000s for an Akai S1000 — may seem quaint in 2020, when everyone has access to a vastly more capable “studio” in the form of their mobile phone, demoscene devotees, chiptune aficionados, and retrogaming enthusiasts still clamor for authentic 8-bit sounds and the gear required to produce them.