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Now there is an easy way to order that Amiga mouse

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

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I mentioned the Amiga mouse from the Essen show in an earlier post, now there is an easy way for you to order it yourself without going to a1k.org and Google translate (if you can not speak German language).

Just go to this thread on amigaworld.net and follow instructions, price is around 15 euro which I think is a great price for a neat Amiga USB optical mouse. Keep in mind this is a mouse for a next-gen system and not for 68k systems although I guess it will work fine with Deneb and other USB solutions if 68k floats in your boat.

Oh, and it seems to be filled with water and has a boing ball in the transparant part of the mouse, how neat!

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Mystery Amiga mouse spotted at the Essen Amiga event

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

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This mystery Amiga mouse was observed at the Amiga Essen event. Ball in water, how nice. I want one. Rumour is that the mouse was ordered by the crew over at a1k.org from China, but do not tell anyone because it has not been certified for use in Europe.

Anyways, I do not care about RoHS, I want this Amiga mouse! :)

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Automatic monitorswitch for classic Amiga from Germany

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

This is too cool to be true, on a1k.org user Ratte have made himself a very professional looking automatic monitor switch so that Amiga can switch between native screenmode and RTG-modes just as if you where running a CyberVision64-3D with scandoubler or Picasso IV.

I guess this device is specifically made for the Indivision, but it should be easy to modify pinouts to work with other scandoublers (however why would you, Indivision is the best).

You can be sure I am already saving up euro for at least one of these cool switches :D

Automatic monitor switch on a1k.org

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Elbox, makers of Amiga hardware still alive, celebrating 27′th birthday

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

The Amiga world as of today is full of unique companies, such as those sending laughing representatives all the way from Canada to Italian Amiga parties when company is based in Belgium, Europe, to those that long time ago gave promise to deliver shocking hardware when a certain Amiga operating system would hit four dot zero.

Yes, we are talking about Elbox that polish based company that shocked the Amiga world with its range of PCI-expansion boards back in the millennia shift and other details which we will not touch upon here in this news post.

So what about Elbox?

They are celebrating their 27’Th birthday by offering free shipping online for all purchases in the Elbox online store between 18th November and 1st December.

If you have never experienced what it feels like pulling your hair out of your head out of despair of not being able to configure a Mediator PCI-buss for your classic Amiga yet, I suggest you order one for your classic because this is one experience every true Amigan in the world should experience at least once (maybe twice) in their Amiga lifetime.

EU-shop
Not EU-shop (maybe for Canadians?)

Oh, one more thing, they are working on Radeon 9200/9250 support and now you can use the DVI port on the graphics board. Highly recommended since huge resolutions with VGA gives a fuzzy output.

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Indivision ECS and Apollo 630 in an Amiga 600

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Jens of Individual Computers have not hidden his feelings of the Apollo line of turbo boards for Amiga which are of horrible design so it was not unexpected to hear that his new ECS scandoubler would not work together with the Apollo A630 030 turbo board for the Amiga 600.

Well, on the world famous extreme A600 page this dude have managed to hack an ECS Indivision inside his Amiga 600. As you can see on the instruction page, it required some constructive thinking and physical hacking of the hardware devices.

A600 is  the smallest Amiga ever, now it has a 030 and built in scandoubler capable of 1024×768, wow I want one even if it has a crap Apollo 630! :)

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Indivision ECS now for sale at online Amiga dealers

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

I have been mentioning Individiual Computers Indivision scandoubler/flickerfixer a lot on a sister blog to this blog: Vintage Amiga Hardware Blog, so it is only natural I take that tradition to the news-blog too don’t you think?

Anyways, the new ECS version of the Indivision is now ready and for sale, you can find it at Amigakit for example (and at Vesalia too).

The ECS version of the Indivision works on the A500, A600 (with the IC memory expansion only), the A2000 and finally on the A3000.

You might wonder why someone would like to run a scandoubler/flickerfixer on the A3000 when it already have one built in, while the built in scandoubler of the A3000 is great the Indivision is much better suited to TFT screens and comes with a lot of cool functions too.

So if you have always dreamt of connecting your OCS/ECS Amiga to a CRT or TFT but always found out that 500 dollars for a second hand scandoubler on eBay was too much I highly suggest you buy one from the above dealers pronto because I somehow suspect part of the income from the sale of these devices will go directly to the further development of the Amiga clone – Clone-A!

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Amiga notebook for sale

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

LOL, I just had to post this.

Some dude made an Amiga 1200 “notebook”. The kind of hack where you mount a TFT on hinges on the back of the A1200 case. It is a nice mod, but check out that color :)

Hopefully this link will work forever in the future (not)

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Some happy users will get the new Amiga 600 Individual computers memory expansion

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

According to Individual Computers website, they have begun shipping Amiga 600 memory expansions to Amiga web stores around the world.

The 603-memory expansion features one megabyte of chip-mem, one clockport (yes, what did you expect? this is an Individual Computers product after all ;) ), a realtime clock and finally the socket for the much awaited ECS version of the Indivision scandoubler/flickerfixer wich will be released later this year.

Wow!

More info on Individual computers website

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MMKeyboard fully works with Lyra 2 Amiga PC keyboard converter

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Previously on Amiga-news we mentioned the new PC-keyboard interface for Amiga called Lyra 2 from Individual Computers. Lyra 2 supports the MMKeyboard package from Aminet so that you can use all kind of cool multimedia buttons on a PC keyboard connected to a classic Amiga.

According to the author of MMKeyboard the Lyra 2 is a great keyboard converter that is very well designed to work with Amiga hardware.

You should read more about MMKeyboard on the official site
Off course, do not forget Individual Computers, creator of the Lyra 2 keyboard converter

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New production run of Deneb USB2 card for Amiga

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Deneb is a fantastic USB2 card for any Zorro equipped Amiga computer. The Deneb has been highly praised for its excellent functionality now enabling fast USB2 compatibility on big-box Amiga system. Not only does Deneb offer fast USB2 connectivity for USB memory sticks, you can also attach USB sound card –usable with AHI-, USB network sticks and USB to SATA converters to your Amiga very cheap since you can use common PC devices on your classic Amiga.

The first production run of the Deneb has been sold out so thankfully E3B is pleased to announce a new production run of the already legendary USB card. If you want to enhance your big-box Amiga beyond cool and show all those stupid PC-users (lol, what a flashback to the 90’ies, Amiga back for the future) what an Amiga can do, I suggest you make an order now!

E3B

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