Vintage Amiga Hardware Blog

This tutorial shows you how you can access a FAT16 (Windows compatible) formatted Compact Flash card on your Amiga 1200 and Amiga 600 in order to transfer files from your PC to your Amiga.

An old 16 MB CF-card will be fine for transfering files to your Amiga from your PC.

The first thing you need to do and have is to get yourself a PCMCIA adapter for Compact Flash cards. Every Amiga 600 and 1200 comes with a PCMCIA-port on the side, this port can be used with network cards and modems also. (more…)

This has got nothing with Amiga to do I know

But anyone got a ZX-Spectrum 128K for sale? It does not have to be in good condition, most important is if the motherboard is functioning. (more…)

 Now you can turn off your Pegasos 2 next-gen Amiga from the workbench!

As lame as it sounds I have actually been quite annoyed that I can not shut off my next-gen Pegasos 2 based AmigaOS 4.1 system from the Workbench. I mean this is not a classic AT-system with an old school mechanic on-off switch, it is just like a PC, an ATX-system where you should be able to shut off the computer software wise. (more…)

AmigaOS 4.1 in all its glory

AmigaOS 4.1 is not vintage or retro so you might wonder why such topic is the matter of the day here in the underground bunkers of Vintage Amiga Hardware Blog? (more…)

Today I launched my latest Amiga blog called ”Vintage Amiga Programs”. The last two years have seen me focusing mainly only on Amiga hardware but I think it is time for me to also get back into Workbench again.

There are many programs I have grown fond of in Workbench so it would be nice to fill up a blog with information about them.

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I remember how difficult it used to be to set up a new Amiga before WinUAE enabled Amiga formatted hard drives to be mounted under the emulator.Workbench 3.5 and 3.9 came on a CD-rom but previous version of Amiga Workbench came on floppies. 

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