Amiga 34 Coverage

In 1997 a friend of mine (Dr.Dreyer) and me (Noname) worked on a demo cd project for AGA Amigas with 68030 CPU, because that was what we and many others had at that time. Our goal was to include all our favourite demos and not allow any crap on the CD. Our vision was to…

This text summarizes the tools and workflows that we used during the development of our Amiga demo Prototype 1, which was released at Breakpoint 2010. Introduction The development of Prototype 1 implicated programmers with different backgrounds ranging from high-level C/C++ engine coding to low-level Motorola 68k assembly coding. Hence we decided to devise a tool-chain…

I never really cared too much about having correct time information available in my Amiga. Maybe not least to the fact that the battery backed-up real-time clocks on Amigas are usually not backed-up by a battery. Getting started Today, I got triggered to change that. Bubbob42, one of the AmigaOS 3.2 developers, mentioned that he…

Happy New Year! As mentioned in our Evoke seminar on Modern Amiga Demo Cross-Development we were planning to make our demo framework publicly available. This has finally been done! You can now find the release with complete documentation (currently 45 pages PDF, as well as HTML) on https://github.com/leifo/haujobb-amiga. If you ever wanted to code that Amiga…

This tutorial is showing you how to create a fully partioned Amiga CF-card in about 10 minutes from scratch. The process will involve using a Windows-based disk image tool and writing a prepared image-file directly to the CF-card. The resulting card contains four empty Amiga partitions that have been set to the correct MaxTransfer of…