Archives: 2008 June

I am running OS4 on my Amiga 4000 desktop. While AmigaOS4 is a great technical achievement (especially on classic hardware) compatibility with older software leaves a lot to desire so the past few months I have been thinking of running dual boot with AOS3.9.

AmigaOS4.0 does not need Kickstart 3.1 roms, but Workbench 3.9 does. Thankfully [...]

You might remember a Russian project from a year ago or so where some dude created a small piece of hardware that replaced the floppy drive inside an Amiga and made it possible to load disk images (ADF-files) from cheap memory cards.
There is a new project that seems even more promising since the Turkish floppy emulator [...]

Sometimes simple is good. There is just something really cool about a kickstart switch for the Amiga.
Add it to an A500 and you have a reason to have a cool shiny stainless steel switch through a hole in the A500 cover.

Georg Braun from Germany has created a replacement motherboard for the Amiga 1000.
 
Those who know their Amiga history well might remember the Phoneix replacement motherboard for the A1000 released around 1990.
In comparison with a stock A1000 the Phoenix motherboard was much more modern and comparable with modern Amiga systems.

I just came back from my vacation in Turkey and found out that my internal A500 IDE hard drive interface that I ordered had finally came. I was eager to try it out in my Amiga 500 project I have been tinkering with during the past six months.