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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....

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.7 / FloppyBridge 1.1 (01. Mar. 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: How easy is it to make your own joystick using a 3D printer? (28. Feb. 2022)
In his latest video, Robert Smith attempts to 3D print and build his own retro-style joystick for his Amiga. He takes you through all the steps from design to build in his tutorial. Below the video is all the information needed so anyone can build their o...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.6 (16. Feb. 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: How Floppy Disk Copy Protection Worked (14. Feb. 2022)
In the first episode of his two-part series on floppy disks, Robert Smith, best known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppy disks using a standard PC floppy drive, explained how data is stored on a floppy disk, both physically and computer-w...

Video: How Data is Encoded and Stored on Floppy Disks (31. Jan. 2022)
Robert Smith, known for his DrawBridge project for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive, has now published the first part of a two-part series on floppies, following his tutorial on porting a Christmas game from HTML5 to AMOS. In it, he...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.8.5 (update) (12. Dec. 2021)
Robert Smith's project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) for reading Amiga floppies using a standard PC floppy drive is officially supported since the recently released WinUAE 4.9.0. In addition, Smith has made other changes with the new versio...

Amiga disks on PC: DrawBridge 2.7 (27. Oct. 2021)
Robert Smith has updated his project 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge)for read Amiga disks using a common PC disk drive. According to the author, additional to improved diagnostics, improved reading/writing, extra features and new UI version 2....

Amiga disks on PC: Pre-orders and name change for Smith's project (17. Jul. 2021)
Robert Smith has renamed his project for reading Amiga disks using a PC disk drive from 'Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer' to 'DrawBridge' (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge). Besides, now it is possible to be placed on a waiting list: Smith sell...

Amiga disks on PC: Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer V2.6 (23. Jun. 2021)
Similar to ADF Drive, Robert Smith's project "Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer" uses a a micro controller - an Arduino board - for enabling a common PC disk drive reading and writing Amiga disks. In version 2.5 recently the direct access to a...