Cool Amiga hardware pictures from cool party

I am typically always impressed by the German Amiga scene, nobody hacks hardware more hardcore than German Amiga fanatics and I do not think there is any place outside Germany with more badass bad to the bone, power packed, action packed, muscle packed hardcore x-treme Amiga systems oozing with liquid nitrogen needed to cool down [...]

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Posted in Hardware on Oct 1st, 2009, 1:20 pm by Retro Amiga User     

Turn off your Pegasos 2 from the Amiga Workbench

 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, [...]

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Posted in OS4, Software on Oct 1st, 2009, 12:51 am by Retro Amiga User     

Deneb Amiga USB 2.0 Zorro card

I have been promising myself to purchase a Deneb USB 2.0 card for my Amiga 4000 for close to a year now, finally I gave in and decided to get one!
It was a tough decision since I have wanted to get an Indivision for my A4000 for quite some time too, however I guess there [...]

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Posted in Hardware on Oct 1st, 2009, 12:40 am by Retro Amiga User     

Indivision AGA for genuine A4000 Tower?

Jens Schoenfeld Amiga-innovator extraordinaire and boss of Individual Computer – making good hardware for good computers, established 1986 (I guess). Most famous for making hardware devices for the Amiga with additional clock ports as a bonus have posted a question on Amiga.org everyone still running a genuine Amiga 4000T should find and answer pronto!
Question is [...]

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Posted in Amiga 4000 on Sep 23rd, 2009, 11:59 pm by Retro Amiga User     

Exciting new automatic monitorswitch from Germany?

In my last post I wondered if there were any switch solutions for automatically switch between AGA/ECS/OCS and graphics board output out there, witch at the moment there were none.
I solved the problem in one of my A4000 system by attaching an old Bmon manual monitor switch, you might remember the Bmon switches that Eyetech [...]

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Posted in Hardware on Sep 7th, 2009, 12:32 pm by Retro Amiga User  7 comments   

Automatic monitor switch for CGFX/Picasso96 systems

Anyone know of any automatic monitor switch solutions for a graphics board based Amiga system?
In my A4000 system I have a manual Eyetech Bmon monitor switch so I can switch between AGA and CGFX screenmodes, a working solution but an automatic switch is so much nicer IMHO.
I can not think I am the only one [...]

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Posted in Hardware on Jul 11th, 2009, 3:17 pm by Retro Amiga User     

Anyone wants to buy an Amiga 1200 tower case?

Hi guys,
With expanding family comes space problems. I need to make some space in our home so I need to let my Gift Top A1200 tower go.
The Gift Top A1200 tower is a super nice tower custom made for Amiga 1200 motherboard, it has an AT PSU with connector for Amiga motherboard, space for PCI or [...]

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Posted in Amiga 1200 on Jul 1st, 2009, 8:34 am by Retro Amiga User     

AmigaOS 4.1 review (sort of)

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?
Yours loyally have been using AmigaOS 4.1 for two weeks now and it hit me today that 4.1 is just as much retro as Workbench 3.1 [...]

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Posted in OS4, Software on Jun 9th, 2009, 9:53 pm by Retro Amiga User  7 comments   

AmigaOS4.1 on Pegasos 2 is like all kinds of awesomeness

So I finally got my package of AmigaOS4.1 for Pegasos 2 this Friday and it has been all kinds of awesome kick ass experience, I kid you not, this is the greatest thing since A500, almost.
Initially I though I would miss functionality of my classic big box systems but no, I have not missed them [...]

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Posted in OS4 on Jun 1st, 2009, 8:47 pm by Retro Amiga User  2 comments   

Bplan Pegasos 2 G4 1GHz motherboard

I got hold of a Pegasos 2 motherboard today. The Pegasos motherboard originally ran MorphOS (and some Un*x OS), for Amiga enthusiasts, MorphOS was off course the reason to get one.
MorphOS can run some Amiga applications that are system friendly, so it is going to be interesting to see just what can be run on [...]

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Posted in Amiga clone on May 17th, 2009, 10:02 pm by Retro Amiga User  2 comments   

How to fix broken SIMM sockets in the Amiga 4000

I guess broken SIMM sockets in the A4000 is no news for most Amiga enthusiasts these days. You rather expect a second hand Amiga 4000 to have broken SIMM sockets than not.
The kind of SIMM sockets used in the Amiga 4000 is all plastic, the little tabs holding the SIMM secure has a bad habit of [...]

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Posted in Amiga 4000 on May 16th, 2009, 11:00 pm by Retro Amiga User     

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