The Loop
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The Loop

I have made physical copies of our demo The Loop with new disks, printed label, cover, and case. The first physical copy was sold to Willi of Factor 5 at gamescom 2024. Cheers mate! Contact me if you want one, too. Mail to ybccreznaa@tznvy.pbz (rot13, reverse here https://www.rot13.com). The Loop was made for the A500/1000/2000,…

Using SNTP time on Amiga

Using SNTP time on Amiga

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…

Amiga 34 Report and Discussion

Amiga 34 Report and Discussion

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…

Amiga 34 Demoscene Talk

Amiga 34 Demoscene Talk

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…

Haujobb Amiga Framework released

Haujobb Amiga Framework released

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…

Developing Prototype 1 for Amiga on PC using a mixture of C and 68k assembly

Developing Prototype 1 for Amiga on PC using a mixture of C and 68k assembly

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…

DCD1 – Amiga Demo CD

DCD1 – Amiga Demo CD

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…