Links / 2016-04-17 14:03:00

Some interesting, Amiga-related links, in no particular order but by categories.

Information

• Commodore Free Issues, a magazine dedicated to everything Commodore, in particular C64, but also Amiga;
• Some explanations on why use an Amiga in 2011, a cool video showing off the capabilities of recent Amiga hardware and software;
• A test of AROS Broadway at Linux Action Show;
• The Computer Magazine Archives, Amiga-related magazines stored on the Internet archive;
• Commodore is Awesome, Amiga-related magazines, including Amiga Format and Amiga World;
• DLH's Commodore Archive, tons of magazines, books, docs in PDF;
• An interview with Trevor Dickinson in the Greek magazine Retro Planet;
• The big book of Amiga hardware tells you all about hardware for the Amigas;
• Very nice vector schematics of Amiga motherboards.

Programming

• Blit: a multitasking, windowed UNIX GUI from 1982 with reference to the Amiga;
• Gource CVS visualization of 25 years of Amiga development;
• Lots of examples of AmigaOS programs with source code;
• Unofficial Amiga Developer and User Documentation, a wiki with lots of tutorials.

Tools

• Hollywood multimedia-oriented programming language.

Emulators

• The Amiga Workbench Simulation, a JavaScript-based emulator;
• Scripted Amiga Emulator, a JavaScript front-end to WinUAE.

Misc

• Cool Web site with an Amiga style;
• A blog about the Amiga 1000 and how to run Kickstart 2.0!
• A Guru Meditation occurring on OpenSubtitles.org;
• A Wordpress template with the style of Workbench v1.x;
• A Wordpress template with the style of Workbench v2.x;
• Superbes remix de musiques de jeux;
• A very interesting (and long) article about OSes, memory, virtualisation... and the Amiga!
• An interesting discussion on improving the performances of class Amigas;
• A data-switch to use multiple Amigas with the same mouse, keyboard, speakers...
• A comparison of the Falcon 030 vs. Amiga 1200;
• On using a Raspberry PI as an Amiga floppy-drive emulator;
• On using an Amiga 1000 with the Comspec 2MB AX2000 and the Kickstart 2.0.
• A experiment of running a Web server on a Mac SE/30... much less interesting