Links / 2018-12-05 16:38:35

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;
• All about Amiga graphics in the Amiga Graphics Archive;
• An article dedicated to the Amiga X5000 from A-Eon on ArsTechnica!
• A short post on the Vampire v4 on Gizmodo;
• Some documents on the Amiga, its history, and its programming.
• An article on Slashdot about the new reverse-engineered A1200 and A4000 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;
• A very cool and complete converter from PNG (and others) to Amiga modes, in particular HAM16!

• Hollywood multimedia-oriented programming language;
• Assembling "Hello World" on an Amiga for Amigas;
• Fighting viruses...

Emulators and Customisation

• The Amiga Workbench Simulation, a JavaScript-based emulator;
• Scripted Amiga Emulator, a JavaScript front-end to WinUAE;
• Running (any) Amiga on QEMU;
• Creating your own ROMs for your Amiga on your Amiga (and some MS-DOS).

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 ;
• A very interesting discussions of latency in emulators, may apply to WinUAE (or not!);
• A two-part piece (1 and 2) on the development of the Atari ST, which seemed as chaotic and rushed as the Amiga Lorraine...
• A story of the history of the micro-processor... maybe not invented by Intel!
• A list of the 13 greatest error messages, incliding our beloved Guru Meditation;
• A comparison of different OSes against Windows 7/Vista (a bit outdated);
• An amazing gallery of graphical user interfaces, with tons of information and a timeline!
• A very cool interview with Simon Phipps, author of Rick Dangerous ;
• A site on building your own computers;
• An open-source reimplementation of Dune ;
• A new graphic card, the ZZ9000, for big-box Amigas with a lots of goodies!
• 3D-print services for Amiga custom designs;
• Drawings realised by George Stibitz, father of the modern digital computer, on an Amiga.