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Platform game: Video tutorial and download for AMOS game "Hop to the Top!" (03. Apr. 2023)
To mark the upcoming Easter, Robert Smith - we reported on his various projects such as DrawBridge - wanted to create a platform game in AMOS about rabbits and chocolate eggs that could be controlled with a joystick or keyboard. In his video tutorial...

Video: Chemical Free Retrobrighting Alternatives (13. Feb. 2023)
In his latest video, Robert Smith uses theoretical considerations and practical experiments to address the question of how to brighten up yellowed keyboards and cases of retro computers without the usual hydrogen peroxide. He has found two successful alte...

Website launch: retro.directory (17. Jan. 2023)
Robert Smith, previously known for his DrawBridge or FloppyBridge project and various video releases, has put online "retro.directory", a first version of his website for searching and finding museums, magazines, clubs and groups, events, podcasts, Youtub...

Advent Calendar: Door 20 - Robert Smith (20. Dec. 2022)
It's getting close to Christmas and we open the 20th door with an anecdote from Robert Smith. The developer is probably best known for his project, initially called "Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer": this uses a microcontroller - in this case...

Video tutorial: Programming "Santa's Present Drop 2" in AMOS (19. Dec. 2022)
Last year, Robert Smith showed how he ported a game from HTML 5 to AMOS in a four-part video series. The result was "Santa's Present Drop". In his latest video, he shows how he programmed the second part of the game in AMOS....

Video: Lets Make a Halloween Game in AMOS (25. Oct. 2022)
In his latest video, Robert Smith explains how to program a fun Halloween themed puzzle game in AMOS....

Video tutorial: Configuration of DrawBridge under WinUAE (30. Sep. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

Floppy disk drive for WinUAE: Waffle (25. Sep. 2022)
Based on Robert Smith's FloppyBridge, Retrogiovedi.it offers at the title link a floppy disk drive in Amiga-inspired design called Waffle for use with the emulator WinUAE, with which ADF files can be created or written....

Video: What is DMA? (16. Sep. 2022)
In his latest video Robert Smith explains Direct Memory Access (DMA) and among other things also the interleaved mode of the Amiga....

Event: Voting for the Community Award of the Amiga37 (07. Sep. 2022)
On October 15/16 the Amiga37 will take place in Mönchengladbach (amiga-news.de reported). It is now possible to vote for the award recipients of the "Community Award" under the title link. For this a registration via e-mail address is necessary (if not al...

Video: How FloppyBridge works (29. Aug. 2022)
In his latest video Robert Smith explains how his project FloppyBridge (amiga-news.de reported) works exactly, by which the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry can work with real floppy disks. You can support the developer, for example, on his Patreon page....

Video: The World of Amiga Tracker Music (15. Aug. 2022)
In his latest video, Robert Smith goes back in time to the 1980s to explore the origins of Amiga Music: the Tracker, and The MOD file. He looks at how these mod files are put together, how a Protracker module works, and why the files are so small even t...

Video: AMOS-controlled Quiz Buzzer System (04. Jul. 2022)
In his latest video series, Robert Smith shows how to build an AMOS-controlled quiz buzzer system based on an Arduino board: Part 1 shows how to build a cable version of the simple quiz buzzer system that includes different sound effects for each key ...

Video review: WinUAE & FloppyBridge (21. Jun. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.8 / FloppyBridge 1.2 (10. Jun. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

Video interview: The Amiberry developer Dimitris Panokostas (09. May. 2022)
In his latest interview, Robert Smith has talked to Dimitris Panokostas who is the developer of the Amiga emulator for ARM-based single-chip systems, Amiberry....

Video tutorial: How to program Wordle in AMOS on the AMIGA (25. Apr. 2022)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how to program Wordle in AMOS on the AMIGA. He says the tutorial is suitable for beginners and includes an example of the binary search algorithm, which is very useful when searching for a word in the list....

Video: DrawBridge for MiSTer in development (11. Apr. 2022)
Robert Smith's project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppy disks with a standard PC disk drive connected. After successfully implementing this project, the de...

Video: Introduction on Artificial Intelligence (29. Mar. 2022)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows the basics of artificial intelligence (AI) using neural networks. He elaborates on how to develop them using genetic algorithms and confronts them with various problems to see if they can solve them (see also MIT's ...

Do-it-yourself: Adapter for connecting DB9 joysticks (14. Mar. 2022)
Two weeks ago, we reported on Robert Smith's video showing how to 3D print your own retro-style joystick. In the new video that followed, he now shows how easy it is to build an adapter to connect vintage and retro joysticks to a modern system via USB....