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Retro Supplies: Four new hardware products (26. Sep. 2024)
After Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutching presented updates for existing hardware projects at the beginning of July (amiga-news.de reported), he is now presenting four new developments: ZonKEY is a replacement for the 6570 keyboard controller IC used in all ...

Retro Supplies: Updates of hardware projects (05. Jul. 2024)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings and his shop "Retro Supplies" visited the Kickstart 02 event in England last weekend and presented updates of his hardware projects: He has developed a new version of the RGBtoHDMI board for the Amiga 500, which enables p...

Blog: Building an Amiga PSU for upgraded Amigas (25. May. 2024)
As Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings writes, many users use Meanwell power supplies as a replacement for the ones supplied with the Amiga. Usually the 50W variants like the RPT-60B would be used because it fits well into an original Amiga power supply. In the ...

Blog: Repairing an Amiga 1200 with an unusual problem (13. May. 2024)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings describes in a recent blog entry how he repaired an Amiga 1200 whose motherboard worked for 15 minutes and then crashed with a black screen, sometimes paired with random noise....

Blog: Modifying a PC floppy drive to work inside an Amiga 500 (06. May. 2024)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings describes in a recent blog entry how he modified a CITIZEN Z1DE-57A PC floppy drive so that it works in an Amiga 500....

YouTube: Recording of the PiStorm-presentation at FOSDEM 2024 (16. Mar. 2024)
Andrew "LinuxJedi" Hutchings, full-time CCO for the MySQL alternative MariaDB Foundation, is known as a developer of hardware and software for the Amiga. At FOSDEM 2024, an open source developer conference held on March 3rd to 4th, 2024, in Brussels, Belg...

LinuxJedi blog: PiStorming (15. Sep. 2023)
In his latest blog entry, Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports on the installation of a PiStorm32-lite (with Raspberry Pi 4) in his Amiga 1200 and clearly summarises important points to consider....

LinuxJedi-Blog: Making Amiga IFF thumbnails work in Linux (24. Aug. 2023)
In his latest blog entry Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports how to correctly display thumbnails of Amiga IFF/ILBM files on Linux machines....

LinuxJedi blog: Restoration of an Amiga 4000, parts 5-7 (19. Aug. 2023)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings had already published four blog entries on the restoration of an Amiga 4000 (amiga-news.de reported) and continued this now with the parts 5, 6 and 7....

LinuxJedi blog: Restoration of an Amiga 4000 (10. Aug. 2023)
After the restoration of an Amiga 3000 (amiga-news.de reported) Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings now dedicates himself to an Amiga 4000 and has already published four blog entries about it: 1, 2, 3, 4....

LinuxJedi blog: Restauration of an Amiga 3000, part 3 and 4 (28. Jul. 2023)
After the first two blog entries about the restoration of an Amiga 3000 bought from the USA (amiga-news.de reported), Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings continues this series with part three and part four, in which he describes various cleaning efforts and upgr...

LinuxJedi blog: Advantages of a 68010 processor (24. Jul. 2023)
In his latest blog entry Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings (amiga-news.de reported) reports about advantages of a 68010 CPU compared to a 68000....

LinuxJedi blog: Restauration of an Amiga 3000 (15. Jul. 2023)
In two detailed blog entries Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings shows how he restores an Amiga 3000 bought from the USA. The first part is mainly about adjustments to the power supply and changing from NTSC to PAL system, in the second part he replaces the 100M...

PiStorm32-lite: JLCPCB soldering issues (20. Jan. 2023)
Since about three weeks the building instructions and documentation for the PiStorm32-lite are available (amiga-news.de reported). After that, many interested people ordered the necessary parts from JLCPCB. Some problems occurred during assembly, which An...

Floppy emulator: GoFloppy (06. Dec. 2022)
Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings had already reported about his new floppy emulator project "GoFloppy" on Twitter some time ago (Tweet 1, Tweet 2) and now also found the time to report about it in more detail on his blog: the "GoFloppy" drive is a floppy driv...

Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000 (16. Aug. 2022)
The Amiga 1000 is extremely popular right now: After Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings reports about the restoration, now Richard "Shred" Körber describes in two blog entries (part 1, part 2) his experiences which he made during the refurbishment of the Amiga ...

Blog: Restoration of an Amiga 1000 (15. May. 2022)
The developer Andrew 'LinuxJedi' Hutchings (among other things RGBtoHDMI adapter and ChipRam extension RAMesses) describes in a new blog series how he reconditioned a recently acquired Amiga 1000: while in the first article he puts the device into operati...

Chip-Ram expansion for Amiga 500, 2000, Commodore CDTV: RAMesses (31. Mar. 2022)
Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about his latest development 'RAMesses': this board upgrades an Amiga 500, 2000 or the Commodore CDTV to 2MB chip RAM without soldering or cutting the motherboard. It is based on the board develo...

Developer blog: Status update on RGBtoHDMI board (30. Jan. 2022)
Developer Andrew Hutchings reports on his website LinuxJedi about the latest progress and developments of projects he is involved in. In his latest entry Amiga RGBtoHDMI Boards Update – January 2022 he summarizes the state of development rega...

Developer log: This Week in PiStorm 2021-08-15 (17. Aug. 2021)
In his weekly column 'This week in PiStorm' the developer Andrew Hutchings summarizes the latest progresses on the 'PiStorm' project. In his latest entry among others he has reported, that Claude Schwarz has started developing an Amiga 1200 version o...