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…
by Noname/Haujobb 2019 seems to be a golden year for the Amiga scene! After a fantastic demo-competition at the Revision party earlier this year, we now had the dedicated Amiga 34 event-fair which saw perfect weather and a range of highlights that this report will try to cover. Amiga 34 took place at the “Rheinisches…
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Today, Dascon and me game a demoscene talk at Amiga 34 in Neuss, which was a lovely event with many important news for the Amiga community. I leave it to someone else to cover all the amazing hardware and software news that premiered there. The focus of our talk was on cross-development of music and…
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…
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…
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…
Equip2 is a dataspace implementation that provides flexible access to programming language objects across a variety of platforms and programming languages. It is especially well suited as a higher level datastore for distributed applications. Equip2 provides template-based data queries into the datastore and an integrated state/event model with change notification. Equip2 is available on Sourceforge….
Almost two years passed since my last post to this blog in April 2008 – oh boy! But the time has been quite exciting as I got married, completed my PhD, and took a new job back in Germany. Anyway, I am still working in the same area of interest and can thus continue on…