#amigados — Public Fediverse posts

Happy (delayed) Birthday Linux! 35 and counting.

Thanks for letting me in control!
And, err, I feel some urgency to look at myself, older than 35 and counting.

My digital journey:
- mid 80's (childhood): my first PC, the awesome #ZXSpectrum 128K! self learning #BASIC, dreaming everything could be done with a computer. Playing around with my friend's #Commodore64K as well. - 1999
- 1991: #Linux is born! ... and I have no idea...
- early 90's (teenagehood): saved money for a couple of years or so, and bought the #Amiga500 expanded to 1M. #AmigaBASIC and #AmigaDOS; #Workbench1.3 is my place. Learning some #DOS, #Pascal and the almighty #C in high school.
- late 90's (dropped the university), bouncing from a short job to another. I could not afford a new computer, but I built one using scraps from other people. Late adoption of early MS Windows (95 to XP). I bought a PC magazine which included a CD with a full copy of #BorlandC++: BOOM! You know, I had no CD-ROM drive, but these are details I worked around. My unconscious feeling "Code is power, code is control" starts growing fast, but I feel trapped by licenses and lock-ins.
- 2000's: my first Linux discoveries #mandrakelinux / #knoppix live CD. That was sooooo cool, but I could not release myself from MS tools and app. #lock-in
- 2009: completely switched to #linux (Thanks #Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 9.04) and never had a personal non-linux PC ever since - but I have to deal with them at work 🙁. I also bought a 512MB-RAM Atom Netbook that's still alive, running on #debian 12.

- 2012: my first smartphone (Android): I think I did not know at that time Linux was running under the hood. Today I know it's not the same thing anyway.
- 2014: after a five years learning curve (barely no free time, you're supposed to be a dad, lately. And work all day long, of course!) I was able to port, test and publish my comfort code ❤ (#APT package)
- 2024:
- farewell Ubuntu; hopped to #Debian to give some fresh air to my values and needs. APT fits me better than Snaps and Flatpaks . I know I could do better (#InitSystem, #displaymanager, etc.), but Iet's try to get to some kind ethics/pragmatism trade-off 😀
- so long, GMS. Hopped to #eos on my smartphone.

---- TODAY ----
War is across the globe. All of the areas are building wall, setting up (or trying to) domestic infrastructures before bombs drop in their houses. Bragging about sovereignty (also digital). An Italian privacy-focused FOSS infrastructure is enlisted as terrorist.
The Earth is warmer, hearts are colder.
The sky is still blue.

---- WISHLIST and GOALS ---- unsorted
- Be a good person
- Give back and give away to the world
- Get on stage again and do that regularly
- A pure-Linux daily driver smartphone
printf("CTRL+C to break.\n"; while(alive){ ROCK(); DANCE(); breath(); love(); CODE(); CODE(); CODE();}
- My son embracing #FOSS
- Be a better person

Amiga 1000: революция, которую Commodore чуть не провалила

23 июля 1985 года Commodore представила машину, которая переписала правила игры для персональных компьютеров. Amiga 1000 позиционировался не просто как новый компьютер, а как революционное событие в области мультимедийных возможностей — система настолько опередила своё время, и спустя четыре десятилетия она остаётся почитаемой иконой среди технофилов и энтузиастов ретро‑компьютеров. В прошлом месяце A1000 исполнился 41 год, а его наследие до сих пор ощущается в архитектуре современных компьютеров и игр.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1074974/

#amiga #amiga_1000 #a1000 #commodore #ocs #amigados #настольные_пк

All issues resolved. The 40MHz 68030 accelerator is installed and working in the A2000.

Here's a victory video of Black Lotus' 2019 OCS/ECS Amiga scenedemo 'Eon'. I am unsure if anyone will get the irony of this video, but the spark of that irony is what motivated this CPU upgrade from the Commodore 68020 board I was running before.

#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #video #Amiga2000 #demo #scenedemo #demoscene #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #MC68000 #MC68030 #AmigaDOS #GVP #CRT #vintagetech #tech

There is an Amiga emulator in Apple's App Store for iPadOS right now: "Amigo"

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amigo-amiga-emulator/id6792285150

#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #emulation #iPad #iPadOS #iOS #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #Apple #UAE #MC68K #AmigaDOS #emulators #Mac #AppStore

I FORGOT ABOUT 'SETCLOCK SAVE'.

#AmigaDOS

#batteryissue #RTC #Amiga #CommodoreAmiga

8MB 16-bit FAST RAM installed! Now to drop in the 68030 board...

#Amiga2000

#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #MC68K #MC68030 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #hardware #vintagetech #tech #Amiga2000 #RAM #techphotos #CPU #FPU #AmigaDOS #AmigaOS #ByteCellar #scenedemo #demo #dmeoscene #video

Happily, was able to find eight 30-pin 70ns FPM 1MB SIMMs, so I can populate the 16-bit Zorro II RAM+SCSI card to 8MB in this Amiga 2000 upgrade.

#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #MC68K #MC68030 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #hardware #vintagetech #tech #photo #Amiga2000 #RAM #techphotos #CPU #FPU #AmigaDOS #AmigaOS #ByteCellar

Cracked open the Amiga 2000 and am moving from a 14MHz 68020 to a 40MHz 68030, and increasing FAST RAM in both 16-bit Zorro II space and 32-bit extended space.

The "new" accelerator is a GVP G-Force 030 (Impact A2000-030 Combo Series II) with 8MB 32-bit FAST RAM and 68882 FPU.

This board has a jumper allowing it to be fully disabled, which I will bring out to a toggle switch (for cycle-exact 68000 scenedemos).

#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #MC68K #MC68030 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #hardware #vintagetech #tech #photo #Amiga2000 #RAM #techphotos #CPU #FPU #AmigaDOS #AmigaOS #ByteCellar

😢🕹️ Oh no, #AmigaDOS developer Dr. Tim King has logged out for the last time. While he might be running a preemptive #multitasking system in the afterlife, we here on Earth are left to wonder why our modern devices still can't do what his #OS did in 1984. Let's hope his next venture beyond the mortal coil isn't written in BCPL! 🖥️👻
https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html #DrTimKing #legacy #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

Obituary: AmigaDOS developer Dr. Tim King has passed away

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272655

#HackerNews #AmigaDOS #TimKing #Obituary #TechHistory #GameDevelopment #RetroComputing

Obituary: AmigaDOS developer Dr. Tim King has passed away

Dr. Tim King passed away at the end of July, his family confirmed upon request. King played a key role in the development of AmigaDOS and thus in an important chapter of the Amiga's software history.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html

#Amiga #AmigaDOS #TimKing

RKRM AmigaDOS 1.25 Expands ACTION_DIE and Buffered I/O Documentation
#Amiga #AmigaDOS #RKRM #AmigaProgramming #Aminet #ThomasRichter #RetroComputing
https://theoasisbbs.com/rkrm-amigados-1-25-expands-action_die-and-buffered-i-o-documentation/?fsp_sid=11391

Amiga people: Do any of the new accelerators that work with the Amiga 2000 allow fallback to the original 68000 by way of a PHYSICAL SWITCH or jumper?

I want an accelerator that can be disabled (without using soft-menus to control the state) so that the Amiga is able to fall back to its 100% exact original 68000 state, which some demos require to run properly, due to cycle-precise coding.

I have an A2620 68020 accelerator in my NTSC A2000, but it does not have a physical switch (just a soft menu) and the state gets lost when I juggle that soft menu and the need to also use Degrader to reboot into PAL mode.

Apparently the A2620 can be modified to add a switch, but it's beyond my abilities.

Many thanks.

#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #Amiga2000 #A2000 #accelerators #amigademos #demoscene #scenedemos #AmigaDOS #MC68K #help #vintagetech #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers

Hier die Heft-Diskette der Zeitschrift "Amiga Spiele Disc", Ausgabe 10 mit einer Vollversion von "Maniac Mansion" für den Commodore Amiga. Im Zeitschriftenhandel erschienen am 25. August 1993. Die entpackten, bootfähigen Spieldisketten hab ich euch ebenfalls als ADF-Images beigelegt.

https://archive.org/details/maniac-mansion_amiga-spiele-disc_diskette

Viel Spaß! 😎 :computerfairies: 😜

#RetroGaming #WinUAE #Amiga #Commodore #Emulation #90er #80er #90s #80s #Lucasfilm #LucasArts #Diskette #FloppyDisk #AmigaDOS

Ruhiger Morgen im Büro heute. Treib' mich mal wieder n bisschen auf Archive.org rum und hab mir dieses alte "Amiga Spiele" Heft von Markt & Technik runtergeladen. Die alte Diskette für den A500 funktioniert noch super und per AmigaDOS Skript konnte ich mir zwei Spieldisketten von Maniac Mansion erzeugen. Wieder ein schönes Teil für die Sammlung! 😉

https://archive.org/details/amiga-spiele-disc-10-maniac-mansion

#RetroGaming #Amiga #ManiacMansion #LucasArts #LucasFilm #Adventure #Diskette #FloppyDisk #AmigaDOS #80er #90er #80s #90s

More Amiga fun with the Amiga 1000 and Parceiro II+ !

#Psygnosis

#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #A1000 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computers #gaming #retrogaming #retrogamers #retrogames #nostalgia #Parceiro #CRT #MC68000 #AmigaDOS #Kickstart #video #nerdy #OnlyAmiga #Commodore #ByteCellar #deskspace

Having an awesome time putting my new Parceiro II+ that just arrived in the mail through its paces on my Amiga 1000. I had the original Parceiro and it was a game changer, but the Parceiro II+ is just a polished vehicle for perfectly experiencing the Amiga as it was in its heyday.

Kickstart in ROM (no floppy needed!), HD / volumes on removable SD card, 8MB FAST RAM expansion, real-time battery-backed clock.

And I've been focused on the Kickstart 1.3 partition so far; I've hardly had a chance to play with the KS 2.04/WB 2.1 and AmigaOS 3.1 modes / partitions.

Such amazing work, David Dunklee! What a way to make the Amiga shine.

#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #A1000 #Amiga1000 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computers #nostalgia #Parceiro #CRT #MC68000 #AmigaDOS #Kickstart #photo #nerdy #OnlyAmiga #Commodore #ByteCellar #deskspace #retrogaming #retrogames #retrogamers

AmigaAI for AmigaOS Brings Claude to Classic Amiga Systems
#Amiga #AmigaOS #AmigaAI #RetroComputing #ARexx #Workbench #AmigaDOS #ClaudeAI #ClassicComputing
https://theoasisbbs.com/amigaai-for-amigaos-brings-claude-to-classic-amiga-systems/?fsp_sid=3437

A browsable collection of Amiga mouse pointers.

https://heckmeck.de/amigastyle/amiga-pointer-archive/

#Amiga #AmigaOS #AmigaDOS #CommodoreAmiga #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #mouse #WIMP #OS #GUI #nostalgia #tech #vintagetech #pixelart #UI

What time is it?

#AppleWatch #Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaDOS #Commodore #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #OS #watchfaces #photo #Apple #watchos #watches

Forty years ago today, the Commodore Amiga 1000 was released to the world. With its unprecedented graphics & sound capabilities, powerful 16-bit CPU and custom chipset, and UNIX-like multitasking OS, the Amiga was a truly revolutionary system for its time. And, many are still in use to this day, with the platform seeing new software and hardware development from month to month.

I presently have three, myself. :-)

Happy 40th, Amiga!

#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #vintagtecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computinghistory #computers #MC68K #AmigaDOS #AmigaOS #tech #technews #vintagetech

I am checking out a few Amiga disk images and I gotta admit: This one had me confused for a bit.

As shown in the attached screenshot of DirectoryOpus, I had found a savegame with a file date "older" than the game it originated from. At first, I thought this to be very unusual. Then I remembered: Back in the day, Amigas did not usually have a real-time clock with a battery backup, so every time you booted up the system, the clock would be reset to a fixed date and time!

I'm feeling kinda stupid right now.

#Amiga #Commodore #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroGaming #DirectoryOpus #AmigaOS #AmigaDOS #SimCity

"This archive contains the PDF version with active links of the AmigaDOS ROM Kernel Reference Manual. As the physical edition is out of print and sold out by now, the PDF version is hereby made available to Amiga users free of charge."

#RKRM #Amiga #AmigaDOS #Kernel #RetroComputing #ReferenceManual

https://aminet.net/package/docs/misc/rkrm-dos

Hyperion releases AmigaOS 3.2.3, here in 2025. [The Register]

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/amigaos_3_2_3/

#Amiga #AmigaOS #AmigaDOS #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #Workbench #MC68K #Commodore #HyperionEntertainment #news #technews #OS #tech #blog

In the latest blog post on Datagubbe.se, entitled "BRA and KET: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS", Swedish tech nerd and software developer Carl Svensson takes a look at an often-overlooked detail of AmigaDOS: using the rarely documented terms BRA and KET, the article shows how to easily embed variables in strings:

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-03-00102-EN.html

#Amiga #AmigaDOS #blog

💻🚫 Ah, the classic '403 Forbidden' jazz hands performance, where readers are left yearning for string interpolation wisdom from the ghost of #AmigaDOS past. 🎭🥁 Turns out, the only strings being pulled are the ones ensuring you can't access the page. Bravo! 👏
https://www.datagubbe.se/braket/ #403Forbidden #stringInterpolation #techHumor #webAccess #HackerNews #ngated

Bra and KET: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS

https://www.datagubbe.se/braket/

#HackerNews #Bra #KET #StringInterpolation #AmigaDOS #HackerNews