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Archive 09/2022

`17.Sep.2022` Twitter	Print/PDF magazine: Komoda & Amiga plus #21 (English/Polish) "Komoda & Amiga Plus" is dedicated to retro gamers and deals mainly with Commodore's 8-bit computers and Amigas. Among the topics of the current issue 21 (summer/autumn) are an article about Amiga in NASA service, the second part about the situation of Amiga in 2022 and several game reviews. The magazine is available as printed issue inclusive Commodore 64/128 coverdisk for 9,54 Euro plus shipping (about 5 Euro) or as digital issue for 2,12 Euro. (dr) [News message: 17. Sep. 2022, 07:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Sep.2022`	Floppy disks, part two: Who got them? Tom Persky! Recently, the offspring discovered the almost criminally forgotten floppy disks as a game object, which not only our one, but also many readers were drawn into many fond memories. However, there is someone who never lost interest and passion for collecting floppy disks and even made a business out of it: Tom Persky. He is the founder and operator of floppydisk.com. I stumbled across an Interview with him the other days, which is included in the book Floppy Disk Fever - greetings to Joerg Doege :) and now published by "Eye on Design", the editorial platform around design issues. He bought the domain in the early 1990s and was originally involved in duplicating floppy disks. As he says, he "never in a million years thought I would ever sell blank floppy disks." His business, which used to be 90% duplicating CDs and DVDs, is now 90% selling blank floppy disks. Which he finds shocking. Currently, he has about half a million floppy disks in inventory, but also offers a disk recycling service. Of course I asked him if he also had experience with Amiga users...As he writes, this is limited to the duplication of floppy disks. He has one or two Amiga customers who order duplications of a few hundred disks. He can still do that, since he still has some duplicators that recognize and support the Amiga format. Unfortunately, since he no longer has any original Amiga equipment, he does the duplication, but the final quality control has to be done by the customer. Even though his equipment is very reliable, there is always some nervousness when he sends disks that he cannot test. Now it's great that his business still exists, but I wanted to at least see if there was a local alternative to America. I thought I had found one, but the offer to sell blank floppy disks is currently not available. And I was asked not to mention the site either, lest I get a flood of inquiries...;). So if you are in the process of writing your own text adventure, with umpteen high-resolution background graphics, and want to put it on the market on 10 disks per slipcase, you will have to look elsewhere... ;) Have a nice weekend! (dr) [News message: 17. Sep. 2022, 06:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Sep.2022`	8-/16-bit emulator for Mac OS and Linux: Clock Signal V2022-09-16 Thomas Harte's Clock Signal is an emulator for various 8- and 16-bit platforms aiming to be invisible to the user. The idea is to simply start the source medium without configuring the emulator oneself. Clock Signal is available for Mac OS and Unix-compatible systems. While there is also an Amiga emulation included, it "remains wilfully inaccurate" for now. Yesterday version V2022-09-16 was released. Changes: fixes an error in Apple II disk image handling that caused corruption upon save adds emulation of the Apple II SCSI card (dr) [News message: 17. Sep. 2022, 06:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Sep.2022`	Real-time strategy: Update of Vanilla Conquer Artur Jarosik had released version 1.0 of his port of the first part of the real-time strategy series Command & Conquer to the Amiga in May (amiga-news.de reported). Now he has released a separate version ("vanillatd_no_vamp.zip") for Amigas without Vampire accelerator card, which offers a twice optimized rendering speed. Also, the custom cursor is now enabled in the game. (dr) [News message: 16. Sep. 2022, 17:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Sep.2022`	Video: What is DMA? In his latest video Robert Smith explains Direct Memory Access (DMA) and among other things also the interleaved mode of the Amiga. (dr) [News message: 16. Sep. 2022, 05:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Sep.2022`	SCSI-SD adapter: ZuluSCSI-Firmware 1.0.8 ZuluSCSI is a new generation of file-based SCSI hard disk and CD-ROM drive emulators. ZuluSCSI emulates a SCSI-I or SCSI-2 hard disk using an SD memory card (amiga-news.de reported). Today version 1.0.8 of the firmware was released. Changes: Enable PHY_MODE_DMA_TIMER by default if no GreenPAK is present on V1.1 hardware Initial implementation of synchronous mode for RP2040 Add device type autoconfiguration for more filename prefixes: MO, RE, TP Relocate Apple default drive IDs to shared code Add platform support for upcoming RP2040-based ZuluSCSI RP2040: custom bootloader & performance improvements RP2040: Fix SCSI-2 mode not getting enabled due to ATN handlinghttps://github.com//pull/64 RP2040: Add support for SCSI-1 single initiator mode (dr) [News message: 16. Sep. 2022, 05:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Sep.2022`	Connector board for FPGA Amiga clone: MiSTress 600 After the currently sold out versions for the installation of the FPGA Amiga clone MiSTer into an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 or ITX/Micro ITX PC-, 8bits4ever today officially introduced a conversion kit for the Amiga 600 as well. As with other MiSTress models, the original Amiga 600 keyboard can be used as a regular USB HID device, and the case LEDs light up just like the MiSTer's. As the site writes, this first batch will take about 5-6 weeks to be ready for shipping. The introductory price is 135 Euros plus shipping. Among other features, the MiSTress 600 has a hub with five USB ports, RGB/VGA DB15 connector, RCA stereo audio (with selectable I2S DAC), two DB9 joystick connectors (SEGA Megadrive compatible), and an internal 2.5-inch drive bay. The keyboard controller has an extended keyboard layout, which gives access to most of the keys you would find on a normal 104-key keyboard, and which are otherwise missing on the Amiga 600 key set. (dr) [News message: 15. Sep. 2022, 18:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Sep.2022` Amigaworld.net (Forum)	Video: Amiga Alive and Kicking also at Amazon Prime in the USA The crowd-funded documentary "Amiga Alive and Kicking", which has been available for download since the end of June (amiga-news.de reported), is now also available on Amazon Prime - but currently only in the USA. (snx) [News message: 15. Sep. 2022, 09:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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