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Video: How the diskspare.device stores 984KB on a DD disc (14. Oct. 2024)
Robert Smith is currently working on an update of DiskFlashback (amiga-news.de reported) and is currently working on support for the diskspare.device (Aminet link), which is a supplement or replacement for the trackdisk.device, which can be used to format...

Video: Building Your Own Level/Map Editor in AMOS (02. Oct. 2024)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how to build a simple level editor in AMOS....

Video: Can the iPhone magnet damage the data on a disc? (23. Aug. 2024)
In his latest video, Robert Smith explores the question of whether the magnets on the back of the iPhone, which act as part of the charging system, are strong enough to damage data on a disc....

Easter game: Bunny's "Boing Ball" Bounty (24. Mar. 2024)
After "Hop to the Top!" last year, Robert Smith has also released a game for this year's Easter: in Bunny's "Boing Ball" Bounty, you (as a bunny) have to collect as many eggs as possible in the shortest possible time (YouTube-Video). The game requires 1MB...

Video: Review of the PowerShark (17. Mar. 2024)
In a detailed video report, Robert Smith tests the "PowerShark", a USB-C-based power supply for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 keyboard cases (amiga-news.de reported)....

Video: Internet-enabled without PlipBox adapter (11. Mar. 2024)
In his last video, Robert Smith showed how he builds his own PlipBox adapter for his Amiga 2000 in order to make the Amiga Internet-capable with its help. In the current video this adapter is removed again, but surprisingly the Amiga can still access the ...

Puzzle game: AmiWordle 1.1 (11. Mar. 2024)
Following conversions of the puzzle letter game Wordle by Robert Smith in AMOS and Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow in Pascal, 'Macetze' has now named his version AmiWordle and written it with Blitz Basic. It can be played with German and English words....

Video: Building a PlipBox adapter (19. Feb. 2024)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he builds his own PlipBox adapter for his Amiga 2000 in order to use it to get connected to the Internet....

Video: Upgrading a A2000 to 2MB Chip RAM and ECS (07. Feb. 2024)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he not only added 1MB of Chip RAM to his Amiga 2000, but also completed the upgrade to a full ECS system....

Video: Status update on DrawBridge for MiSTer (22. Jan. 2024)
Following on from his video from August last year (amiga-news.de reported), Robert Smith shows the current status of the implementation of his "DrawBridge" project - standard PC floppy drives can be used to read and write Amiga floppies - for the FPGA Ami...

Hardware: Bass mixing with "BassMX" (20. Jan. 2024)
As Edwin van den Oosterkamp writes under the title link, one of the things he always enjoyed on his Amiga was watching demos, especially when using a hi-fi system with proper speakers instead of the small speakers in the 1084S monitor. However, the Amiga'...

Video: Repairing an Amiga 2000, part 2 (13. Dec. 2023)
A fortnight ago, Robert Smith showed in a first video how he got a donated and non-functioning Amiga 2000 up and running again. In the second part he introduces some upgrades such as BlueSCSI and takes care of the yellowed case....

Video: Repairing an Amiga 2000 (29. Nov. 2023)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he gets a non-working Amiga 2000, which he received for his birthday, up and running again....

Rogue-like: Hop to the Top - Bunny's Revenge (28. Oct. 2023)
As announced a few days ago, Robert Smith has released his game "Hop to the Top - Bunny's Revenge", as a follow-up to his Easter game "Hop to the Top!". ...

Video: Repairing an A590, part 5 (20. Sep. 2023)
In the fifth part of his video series about the repair of an A590 (amiga-news.de reported) Robert Smith had a look at an example that he could get hold of in the original case design and that still has the original Epson hard disk....

Video: Disk Backup Station (24. Aug. 2023)
In his latest video Robert Smith introduces his "Disk Backup Station" which he presented at the Kickstart 01. He will make or sell these for people, it's purely a one off, although there is the possibility that he may release all the design files for it i...

Video: Status update on DrawBridge for MiSTer (07. Aug. 2023)
Since last year Robert Smith has been working on a realisation of his "DrawBridge" project - standard PC disk drives can be used to read and write Amiga disks - for the FPGA Amiga clone MISTer (amiga-news.de reported). In his latest video he summarises th...

Video: Repairing an A590 Rev.6, part 3 and 4 (24. Jul. 2023)
In the first part of his video series on repairing an A590, Robert Smith looked at the functionality in detail and the onboard Fast RAM, the second partsecond part is all about the hard disk. In the third part (YouTube video) of the series, a Blue SCSI V2...

Video: Repairing an A590 Rev.6, part 2 (12. Jun. 2023)
In the first part of his video series about the repair of an A590, Robert Smith dealt with the functionality in detail and the onboard Fast RAM (amiga-news.de reported). In this second part, everything revolves around the hard disk....

Video: Repairing an Amiga A590 Rev.6, part 1 (29. May. 2023)
In a new video series Robert Smith deals with the revision 6 of an A590: Commodore's external hard disk for the Amiga 500 or 500 Plus, which is connected to the expansion port and can also serve as a memory expansion. The first part of the series is about...