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  1. RPROM: 7-fold Kickstart switch now available in store

    RPROM, developed by Niklas Ekström and Per Bengtsson, is a ROM emulator for the Amiga 500, 600 and 2000 models based on the RP2350B microcontroller. For those who don’t want to solder it themselves, RPROM is now also available as a ready-made product at the title link.

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

  2. I felt like having a little play around with my old Amiga 500, which is usually neglected in favour of my 1200. I already miss the 1200’s hard drive! 😆 Also, this has only half a meg memory, it did have a memory expansion card in it but that had a battery on it… RIP.

    I’m currently revisiting some old overdisks.

    #Amiga #Amiga500 #RetroComputing

  3. Neat. Now the A500 can have Zorro slots!
    youtu.be/ZMifg0vddxc?si=uHn4ao
    Now we need to make it fit into an AT or Checkmate case WITH the Zorro cards...
    #commodore #amiga500

  4. Deluxe Paint V: Keyboard Overlay for Amiga 1200

    The author of the website @the_industrious_rabbit has put together a keyboard overlay for Deluxe Paint 5 that works on the Amiga 1200 (and should also work on the Amiga 500).

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-

  5. I can't get Generation X to run to conclusion on my Amiga 500 (1MB OCS, ECS Agnus). It always hangs with a red screen a short while after the "press RMB for secret music disk" part. Since that thing uses weird MFM encoding for the disk, it might be the diskette? Or the disk drive?
    Has anyone run this demo successfully from diskette? @chainq maybe?
    Is there a FlashFloppy firmware that supports the weird ADF file?
    demozoo.org/productions/390028/
    #demoscene #amiga500 #revision2026

  6. One antique chip posted from the UK, a small piece of tape, a tiny act of vandalism, and finally my Amiga has achieved a new level of hackery. One whole megabyte of chip RAM!

    Just to stocktake here, what used to be a stock revision 5 Amiga 500 now has ...
    - a 68010 CPU
    - an upgraded Angus to support 1MB of chip RAM
    - an 8 meg RAM expansion and IDE controller
    - Kickstart 3.2 ROM
    - a gotek floppy emulator
    - 64GB SDD
    - Compact Flash card reader

    It's getting closer to done, I guess. Not much else to do without turning it into something completely different.

    #retrocomputing #amiga #amiga500

  7. I finished A Thing! A new power supply for my Amiga 500, but Mean Well did the hard part really. I probably spent the most time on picking out a fancy sleeve for the power cable so I didn't get have Another Black Wire on the desk.

    Now comes the scary part where I actually plug it into an Amiga, even though I've checked the voltages are on the right pins many, many times.

    #retrocomputing #amiga500