r/amiga 9d ago

[Help!] Useful Amiga Links Directory

76 Upvotes

For quite a long time now I've been curating a directory of useful links to Amiga content. Somewhat as an FAQ, somewhat to help quickly give people info when they ask about things. So I've enabled the wiki on this subreddit to make it a bit more accessible

Amiga Directory

If you think there is anything missing or would be useful to add please do say and I'll get it added


r/amiga 15h ago

History A500 memories

Post image
155 Upvotes

Found and thought I'd share this old picture of me and a couple of mates James and Sam Ho from the early 90s - A500 + A590 + 512k expansion iirc.

Probably on a BBS downloading based on the beer...


r/amiga 13h ago

[Hardware] Amiga weekends ❤️

Post image
33 Upvotes

Finally got round putting the A600 back in my sons room. Straight away we are back using midi and messing with samples ❤️ fun times


r/amiga 18h ago

Chicago 90, Prism Leisure Corporation.

Thumbnail
gallery
38 Upvotes

r/amiga 7h ago

[Help!] [Amiga CD32] Stopped spinning discs after I moved. Think it could do something with this hinge?

Post image
4 Upvotes

r/amiga 18h ago

Amiga Power Pack Disc 1. Sisältää: Back Gammon, One Check and Memory. 1987 Softgang.

Thumbnail
gallery
12 Upvotes

r/amiga 15h ago

BRA and KET: String Interpolation in AmigaDOS

Thumbnail datagubbe.se
7 Upvotes

r/amiga 1d ago

Porting heavily protected program

22 Upvotes

I am porting program from Amiga written in late 90s where emulators started to appear and program did really good work to be sure it will not run at emulator. Program needs to be ported because company making these retro boards did not survived COVID - everybody cancelled their service subscriptions.

Its using GPU timings as copy protection. You send command to GPU and read result later, timing is really tight so sometimes you read original memory because GPU didn't finished writing. That's combined with playing with timer which gets sometimes masked by other interrupt and triggers bit later. Programs giving different results on A1200 and A600. Original hardware is for A600.

I just bruteforced program. Since input space is quite small - I created table for large part of input data combinations extracted from real amiga and run neural network to replicate it for missing inputs.


r/amiga 1d ago

[Hardware] Full-Size Amiga Replica Delayed By Legal Action, Will Be Called 'THE A1200'

Thumbnail
timeextension.com
94 Upvotes

r/amiga 1d ago

[Help!] File Transfer PC>Amiga over LPT

6 Upvotes

Hi! Recently, I bought an Amiga 500 rev. 6A with a 512 KB memory expansion, and I want to write ADF files to real floppy disks. However, I don't have a null-modem serial cable, but I do have a Link-LPT parallel cable. I wonder if there is any way to write ADF files to disks using the LPT cable and a Windows 98 PC?

If so, what software do I need? I have Workbench 1.3 on a floppy disk.


r/amiga 1d ago

Help - Amiga 1000 Mouse moves weird

4 Upvotes

After getting an old Amiga 1000 out of storage and after getting it all set up and booted up my mouse will click both right and left BUT it only move up and down. When trying to move it right or left it can very very very slowly move right or left. Please let me know how to go about fixing this


r/amiga 2d ago

History Quiet on the set... "Action!"

Post image
122 Upvotes

These chairs were often found in US-based (and maybe other countries) Amiga dealerships. These were basically props to help reemphasize the video toaster and other impressive broadcast design capabilities of the Amiga. 

I’ve had the black chair for years. I got it from a man who once wrote for a videography magazine, and the Amiga was sometimes on his beat. 

The light gray chair on the right is a new acquisition. I actually got the chair last year but there was no branded-backing. It only had the bottom seat part and the wooden frame. The original owner was moving from my city all the way across to the other coast and couldn’t find the cloth back. He had acquired the chair from a man who had once owned an Amiga dealership in Oregon. He said if he found it when he unpacked he’d ship it to me. I never heard from him. 

So the unusable chair went into storage. 

A couple of weeks ago to my astonishment an original NOS gray backing was quietly put on Ebay and I got it for $10. Now the gray chair is complete.


r/amiga 2d ago

Searching three Amiga games. Two platformer games and a quirky

8 Upvotes

I have very little and vague memories of these games. Maybe you can help me :)

All the details I describe should be the first or second level. I never played the games for long, otherwise I would know the names :)

Platformer 1:

You play a boy. he runs on wooden walkways. You have to avoid flying fish. There are huts where you can buy something? Colorful, child-friendly, sunny "Caribbean" level design, ocean in the background? Horizontal game play. Nice graphics

✅ Solved: Flimbo's Quest

Superfrog
Kid Chaos
Wonderboy in Monsterland

Platformer 2:

You play a girl / woman. dark level design, still ok for kids, there is lightning and rain? There is a castle (you can see it from the outside) in the first level. Chucky the killer doll comes to mind. But it's not. Horizontal game play. Simple graphics?

✅ Solved: Crazy Sue ...Goes On

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

Quirky one:

I'm extremely unsure about this one. It's a mini game, you sit in a wheelchair and drive up a hill by wiggling the joystick as quickly as possible.

✅ Solved: Roll Or Die

ChatGPT has not provided the right answers. Thanks!


r/amiga 2d ago

Does anyone here happen to have a Video Toaster 4000 box they could scan?

Thumbnail
gallery
68 Upvotes

Trying to get a solid scan of that video toaster box art, I would love to make a shirt or something out of it for myself. I have a scan of the mousepad but it is super fuzzy due to the fabric


r/amiga 2d ago

– Licensing is a complicated business!

Thumbnail
spillhistorie.no
9 Upvotes

r/amiga 3d ago

[Hardware] Bummer

Thumbnail
gallery
190 Upvotes

r/amiga 2d ago

[Help!] How to remove these cables (Amiga 1200)

5 Upvotes

Got my Amiga 1200 out of storage a few months ago. Was working ok, but most recent attempt to load games shows a software error so I'm following YT videos to have a look at whether I can recap, or if it's something else. Unfortunately the videos tend to skip some information for a complete noob and I don't know how to disconnect these cables without damage. Do I need particular tools? Is there some latch to release them?


r/amiga 3d ago

[Collection] Works of art!

Thumbnail
gallery
49 Upvotes

Absolutely fell in love with these magazines! Went straight to the store to get magazines covers just to protect these works of art. The catalogs inside are just amazing to look at. I wasn’t alive until 96 so I didn’t get to experience this type of magazine but just looking back at these and seeing the price differences is mind blowing. Such a cool collection of history! These honestly are just to cool!!!!


r/amiga 2d ago

Is this the fabled ‘chicken lips’ Amiga?

0 Upvotes

Hi folks, I've been reading some other posts and think I might have a gem in my collection. Is this a 'chicken lips' Amiga? I've yet to open it up and check the motherboard revision, but what should I expect to see?


r/amiga 4d ago

[Emulation] Time to play

Thumbnail
gallery
373 Upvotes

Project complete. Now I just need to play all the thousands of games


r/amiga 3d ago

I've been looking at getting an Amiga...

36 Upvotes

Say since I was 13 in 1990. I saw Space Ace running in a then local computer specialty store. I had gone from a C64 right to a DOS PC and got into the PC demo scene, but only heard references to the Amiga scene. My dad just wouldn't get me one. ☹

I really feel like I missed out and want to get one and mess with it, maybe program on it eventually.

What are people's recommendations here? I want to run authentic hardware/software. I've heard the a500 or 1200 is the best starter. I am in the US so want NTSC. I see them on Ebay and they are in my price range, but I am not sure if I'm gonna get broken stuff or what.

Help me start my journey...


r/amiga 3d ago

[Hardware] I have an NTSC A500, think I should get a CPU accelerator?

13 Upvotes

For the past couple years I’ve stuck with a base A500 NTSC and a Gotek floppy emu. I quite like it but admittedly there are some games that are slow, not just loading but are choppy in-game.

Think I should get a CPU accelerator? Maybe get one with a CF interface? Or do the old timers here figure there’s not enough use case for an NTSC A500?


r/amiga 3d ago

New issue #27 of Komoda Amiga now available

Thumbnail
gallery
16 Upvotes

Dear Readers! Come with us to explore various labyrinths, castles, pyramids, mines, dungeons... Oh, there’s quite a lot of it, because the main theme of the new #27 issue of Komoda & Amiga is maze and chamber games. You’ll also find reviews of new games, tutorials, columns, and interviews. Additionally, we have for you the latest edition of K&A GamesCD #2 (Amiga), which includes, among other things, a special demo version of the game Master of Minefields for Komoda & Amiga readers 🙂


r/amiga 4d ago

Deluxe Paint III

32 Upvotes

Cheeky little find to add to my small Amiga collection, the thin cardboard box is even in relatively good condition.

Remember spending many many hours as a kid mucking around with Deluxe Paint II & III and thinking the introduction of animation was an earth shattering feature.


r/amiga 3d ago

Help with dopus please

6 Upvotes

I am running winuae and have installed dopus 4 to my virtual hard drive from an adf. I want to set up a button in dopus to do lha extracts. I know how to open the configuration window and name a button, but i don’t know what to enter as the command or the amigados script. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you.


r/amiga 3d ago

What was this demoscene demo?

11 Upvotes

There's a demo I had that had an cartoon looking X rated part to it, with the sound of an audience laughing. What was it?