Classic Amiga

I have an Amiga 1200 which I would like to get back in operation.

It has a Viper 1230/28 RTC Also known as a M-Tec T1230/28 RTC
68030 accelerator which when it has 8 megs of memory installed, makes the PCMCIA slot useless. I could just use 4 megs, but even 8 is anemic :P (I would use my Apollo 1240, but it unfortunately is defective)

So, how to connect it to the internet? I found this device which appears to be a bridge between a serial device and ethernet. From what I understand, it emulates a modem and will provide a PPP connection to the broadband router. (That is if I'm reading things correctly?)

http://www.digi.com/products/seria…

Does anyone here have any experience with something like this? $182 is a bit much to spend and find out it doesn't work. I would be using the dial-up TCP/IP software that comes with OS 3.9

Is
andi.w #0x7fff, %d0
a good way to get the absolute value of %d0.w ?

For those of you who might be curious, I just determined the hex values of all of the palettes in Amiga OS 1.x and 2.x. They are as follows:

(1.x color ordering rearraged to better fit with the 2.x ordering)

1.x
        blue    black   white   orange
        05a     002     fff     f80

1.0 (Musicraft)
        lblue   black   white   orange
        77c     002     fff     f80

2.04    
        gray    black   white   blue
        aaa     000     fff     68b

tint    
        tan     black   white   blue
        ba9     002     fff     68b

pharaoh 
        blue    black   white   orange
        8ac     002     fff     fc9

sunset  
        blue    black   white   orange
        8ac     002     fff     e97

ocean   
        green   black   white   blue
        5ba     002     eef     57a

steel   
        blue    black   white   dkblue
        9bd     002     fff     68b

chocolate
        tan     brown   white   peach
        a98     321     fee     fdb

pewter
        silver  black   white   blue
        ccb     003     fff     9ab

wine
        pink    black   white   rose
        c99     002     fee     b67

A2024
        pea     black   white   blue
        a96     002     fff     779

Dunno if anyone besides me will find this useful, but there you go

So, back in 1985, at the launch of the Amiga, A little-known artist named "Andy Warhol" digitized and colored an image he had captured Live(1) of little-known musician named "Debbie Harry". [Video on Google Video -- fast forward to 12:00 in]

As far as I've been able to determine, there are no digital copies of this imagery in existance, not anywhere public anyway.

One thing that I started to work on, and I'd eventually like to accomplish is to re-compose the original 64,000 pixels of that 320x200 image from that press conference footage (which is on the Cloanto Amiga Forever DVD in its entirety) by hand.

I had started to do it by re-scaling the image in Photoshop, and doing various bits of processing to get the base done, then started tweaking by hand, but I'm starting to think this is completely the wrong approach.

The correct approach is: Set up my Amiga 1000(2) with the A1300 genlock. Next, either use the Amiga Forever DVD, or build a new DVD with properly scaled imagery to fit the screen as perfect as possible, playing that DVD on repeat through the genlock. Next, fire up Deluxe Paint 2 and draw on the blank slate with the correct pixels; pixel for pixel, to recreate the imagery.

Depending how hardcore I am, I could instead use GraphiCraft, since it's a direct descendant of "ProPaint" which is what Andy used originally. If I could find that, I'd gladly use it.

Yeah. I'm a geek. I totally accept this.

(1) Pun: the hardware he used was a precursor to the "Live!" framegrabber. (2) which is now in storage.

Hello all Amiga-maniacs. I'm a girl with a huge passion of my Amiga 500 since 1996. I still adore Amiga but unfortunatly she's "dead" (some keys such as CTRL ALT Amiga SHIFT and the mouse clicks are all broken) but I still have my own Amiga PC with me.

I have a channel at YouTube.com with the same username as my LJ and I hosted a few vids of some Amiga games of my own. I have a program named Lemonade that I download from LemonAmiga.com website. You need a WinUAE and kickstart ROMS to run it. I got theme with a simple help of some "partners" of the Lemon website


I still need to do more recordings...however I still play lots of Amiga games.

My fave from all times is of course "The Settlers" and with that whole passion of War and Strategy games I created a community about Settlers and other related games...

Find it at the_settlers1



C yo all!

I have a HUGE collection of computer systems and games as well as vintage video game systems and games, manuels come with most of them.

stores.ebay.com/MD9-Enterp...tidZ1QQtZkm

Thank you for looking.

Oh, and please do contact me on the ebay seller page to let me know that you saw this ad, to recieve a special discount, as well combined shipping rates.

So I decided to revive my Amiga 1000. Back in college I re-grounded and replaced the PALs on the daughterboard, but I did a poor soldering
job... namely, I took a shortcut which worked for a while... some of those center pins never saw any
solder. Over time, they corroded and it all stopped working. The last time before this week that I actually
had it working was bout 8 years ago at this point.

I put up loads of pics for those interested.

In any event, I've encountered a problem. I soldered the PALs directly to the board, since I couldn't find any sockets at home, which works,
as I can get it booting now. (The floppy
drive being vertical thing no longer is true. It works horizontally now.)

Here's the problem...

It seems like some colors aren't being generated properly. all 12 levels of Red look perfect. green and blue do this weird stepping thing. Rather than the effective values being "0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9" for example... it's treating them as "0 1 0 1 0 9 8 9 8 9" It's like one of the middle bits of the value are being ignored. I looked around on the net, and found reference to a color issue being a result of a bad 74HC244 in the video circuitry, so I think this might be related. I tried a different Denise, but to no avail.

here's a movie that demonstrates the issue:



Does anyone have any clues for me?

Since the recent comment in "The Joy Of Tech" about the OS X 10.5 feature that gives the desktop multiple desktops.. "Wow. Virtual desktops.. They're finally part of the Mac OS? How quaint!" it got me thinking.

On the Amiga, sure, you can have multiple screens up, which you can pull down to reveal, hide, resort, etc... but Workbench never used more than one screen. AmiWM does, since that's all it does, but not the original Workbench...

The concept of multiple desktops existed back then... at least to the very early 1990s (since I remember things like TVTWM and such) but they never made it over to Workbench.

In retrospect, it seems totally obvious... multiple Workbench screens, each with different apps running on them (for workbench-screen apps), different file browsing windows open, etc.

So... yeah. Virtual Desktops were sooo almost there, but not quite. I guess I didn't really have a point with this.

Hey Guys,
New here, just thaught I would start a topic going.

What were your favourite games on Amiga... I can remember quite a few, utterly stunning games!!

Turrican II
Wizkid
XJ220
Premier Manager

What about you guys?

Hey all. I have a few things from the Amiga's past that I've been looking for, for quite some time now. If any of you know of any leads for any of this stuff, let me know. :)

• Accolade's "Game Of Harmony". It was a pretty fun game, which I lent to someone and never saw again. A floppy would be ok, ADF image would be best. All leads for this .adf on the net eseem dead. :(
• Commodore's "Musicraft". First pre-release version with "SpanishFlea.smus" on it. The second pre-release floating on the net is missing this track.
• Andy Worhol's artwork that he did on the Amiga. A good scan from Amiga World or a color PDF of the article would be nice, that issue of Amiga World would be better, the original data files would be best. I don't care if there's nothing that can read the data files, i'll convert them.

I have Amiga World issues back to issue number 4 or 5, but Andy Worhol's article was in issue 1 or 2...

for any of you that are interested, I've got a bunch of very early Amiga stuff in my data repertoire... some pre-release (v27, v29) workbenches, apps, demos, etc.. :)