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The Amiga event in Essen Germany 2010

Monday, July 26th, 2010

x1000-amiga-logo

Maybe some of you guys know recently there was a fairly huge (in the Amiga world) Amiga event in Germany (aka the capital of Amigaism in the world).

There where some groundbreaking news there such as X1000 news, MorphOS news and other stuff of coolnes from the world of Amiga that refuses to die.

Lets have 10 more years, lets celebrate with these images and videos if you missed this event!

Photos and videos (a bit slow server, varning, maybe he is running it on 68k Amiga system?)

Here is a video of the dual core Amiga X1000 system

Another video of the X1000 in action

Here is a Apple G4 Powerbook running MorphOS

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MorphOS 2.4 with support for Apple Mac mini released

Friday, October 16th, 2009

After lengthy rumours that where already somewhat already confirmed, the AmigaOS compatible operating system MorphOS have finally been ported and released to the MacMini PPC!

MorphOS 2.4 which were released this week is the latest version of MorphOS an OS created back in the late 90’ies when lack of direction in the Amiga world inspired some developers to take matter in their own hands and create a new Amiga-like, Amiga-compatible operating system running on PPC hardware.

Previous versions of MorphOS runs on the bplan Pegasos 1 and 2 PPC M-ATX motherboards (which are extremely neat and sano looking motherboards), the bplan Efika mini system and on the Phase 5 PPC cards on classic Amiga systems. Now Mac Mini has been added to the supported hardware which has a couple of positive side effects for all Amiga-fans around the world:

1. Cheaper next-gen Amiga-systems.
Any PPC Mac Mini will work with MorphOS 2.4, you can usually find a second hand Mac Mini G4 for around 150-200 euro second hand.

2. You do not need to buy MorphOS 2.4 if you want to try out a next-gen AmigaOS.
Sure 150 euro is quite a lot of money for an operating system, but if you are unsure the ISO is free to download so you can try it out on your PPC Mac mini, it will work for 20 minutes before slowing down, requiring a reboot.

3. The fastest PPC-based next-gen Amiga out there.
Mac mini (PPC) was released with up to 1.5 GHz CPU. It is the fastest PPC CPU ever to run a next generation AmigaOS.

The future?

Let us all hope Mac mini port of MorphOS will be a success and future versions of MorphOS will be able to run on MacBook, G4 towers and other PPC based Apple hardware!

Find out more about MorphOS on the official MorphOS  site.

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Minimig Amiga clone marches on, new firmware released

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Seems like yesterday we first heard about the Minimig Amiga clone in FPGAA package made by a single individual (!). But that was actually in 2005 and the project which is open source marches a head. Hopefully one day we will all be sitting with our 17×17 cm Mini-ITX format Minimig monsters running softcore AAA + Voodoo 2 chipsets and softcore 060 clocked at 500 MHz, untill that day, you will need to be excitied with the little steps, which is not so little after all.

Check this out:

- a lot of changes to improve compatibility (included text file contains more detailed description)
- support for 4 (with ARM mini-board) or 2 floppy drives
- selectable floppy drive speed (double or normal)
- support for hard disk emulation (hardfile support) with soon to be released ARM mini-board
- 28 MHz CPU turbo mode (works also with 16 MHz 68SEC000 parts)
- fast blitter mode
- selectable PAL and NTSC mode from the OSD menu
- OSD menu control with Enter, Esc and arrow keys
- ADF files are not alphabetically sorted but can be selected by pressing a key with the first letter of their name
- support for 2 MB of Chip and 1.5 MB of Slow RAM (hardware modification required)
- scan-line emulation effect

Impressive eh?

Find out more at the official site

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Minimig Amiga games and programs compatibility database up

Monday, November 10th, 2008

The Minimig is the Amiga 500 clone that shock up the Amiga world by storm in Amiga.org during late summer 2005 to the point some members questioned if the project was a prank. It was not, it is actually possible for a single guy to design and create an Amiga 500 clone all by himself.

The Minimig is not however 100% compatible with an Amiga 500 so some applications and games does not work but Minimig is work in progress so the list of working applications and Amiga games is by no means definitive.

Check out the Minimig compatibility database

And if you begin to salivate over a Minmig (I know you want one) check out Acubes or Amigakits homepage!

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Amazing Amiga news from Individual computers

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Amiga premium hardware manufacturer Individual Computer have released some news for the hungry Amiga community.

  • Combined C64 Flickerfixer, 1541 emulator, SD card slot, PC-keyboard interface, ETA first quarter 2009, price 220 euro.
  • MicroMys, PC-mouse adapter for Amiga. Use cheap PS2 mouse on Amiga (IMHO, looks like a really nice product).
  • Updated version of Catweasel 4.
  • Update to the Lyra PC-keyboard adapter, use PC multimedia keyboards with the MMKeyboard drivers.
  • And finally … .   if you are the lucky owner of the C-one motherboard you can purchase an additional hardware add-on to run Minimig core on the board!

What about Clone A? ;)

Find out more information about Individual Computers exciting new and updated products on their newspage!

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Black case for Minimig Amiga 500 clone

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Minimig is the Amiga 500 clone that took the Amiga world with a storm back in 2006.

Since it is a homemade project it does not have a proper case. However now you can get proper cases for it, even in black!

Check out pictures of the new black Minimig case here
There is also a video on YouTube

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