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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 😢🕹️ 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! 🖥️👻
    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026- #DrTimKing #legacy #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 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.

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

  5. 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

  6. 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.

    archive.org/details/maniac-man

    Viel Spaß! 😎 :computerfairies: 😜

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

  7. 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! 😉

    archive.org/details/amiga-spie

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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. "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

    aminet.net/package/docs/misc/r

  12. 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:

    amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-

  13. 💻🚫 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! 👏
    datagubbe.se/braket/ #403Forbidden #stringInterpolation #techHumor #webAccess #HackerNews #ngated

  14. @climagic I credit #AmigaDOS with easing my way into #Unix (and then #Linux) #shell and forever tainting my view of the more-limited #MSDOS.

  15. All of a sudden I am looking for a 68030 accelerator for the Amiga 2000. There are a few modern ones in different states of readiness, it seems.

    Can anyone point me to something solid? (Older would be fine - but I see none on offer in the regular places.)

    Update: Has anyone tried the new Dicke Olga board? It has a disable switch which I require.

    #Amiga #Commodore #CommodoreAmiga #Amiga2000 #AmigaDOS #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagetech #accelerators #CPU #Motorola #MC68030 #DickeOlga