10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast: November 2021

A500 Adventures: Planning our Repair - Episode 113

This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am starting a new Mini Series about the Amiga 500, along the same lines as my A2000 Adventures series from a few months back. This machine has some reliability issues, so we are going to get busy getting her all fixed up. In Episode 1 we are introduced to the machine, and to the A500 in general for newbies and make a road map of the repair process.

Need Amiga Goodies? Shop Retro Rewind and save 10%!

https://www.retrorewind.ca

Discount Code: TIS10MARC

Frank will be donating the amount saved in discounts to "Daily Bread"

https://dailbread.ca

Whoever accumulates the most discounts gets two $50 gift card to give away! Please help out channel win, as we are certainly the most awesome crew!

Learn how to mod your Rev 5 board to support Kickstart 2.x thru 3.1:

https://retrozonesite.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/the-amiga-500-rev-5-kickstart-upgrade/

Links to the Socials:

Want more info on Amiga Art Contest 2021? Find it here!

https://www.amigaartwork.com

Interested in supporting the show? Become a Patron!

https://www.patreon.com/10marc

Index:

0:00

0:16 Monologue and Intro

1:18 About the Amiga 500

6:34 About Amiga Graphics Modes

9:43 A bit about Revision 5 boards

11:14 Retro Rewinds Donation Drive for Charity!

15:36 My A500 Woes... and a fried keyboard!

19:30 Finally we talk about future plans!

24:37 Testing to see if she boots

26:23 The Outtro

Follow me on the Socials!

https://10marc.com

https://twitter.com/10marc1

Also follow me on my new instagram account:

https://www.instagram.com/10marc_amiga/

Check out my Facebook Links!

https://www.facebook.com/10MinuteAmigaRetroCast/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/amigaartwork

https://www.facebook.com/groups/commodorecomputercentral

Amiga Art Contest 2021 The (un)Livestream

Thank you all for your patience with the #AmigaArtContest Livestream failure yesterday - a piece of technology failed miserably causing disconnects from the Internet every 30 seconds or so. I won't name names... but take my advice and buy good quality cables!

The Amiga Art Contest 2021 lives on, though! Vicky and I reconnected later in the day and recorded the entire event anyway and now I can reveal it to you! Please join us as we share all of this beautiful artwork with you, chat about the Amiga in the art scene and dazzle you with witty repartee! (Two out of three ain't bad...)

Huge thanks to our sponsors for the prizes this year! You guys are all awesone!

Thanks to AmigaKit for the donation of the 8MB RAM & Flash ROM card with an optional FPU for the A1200 for the "Best of show" category.

http://amigakit.com/

Huge thanks to A-Eon for supplying our second place prizes of either a digital copy of ImageFX or Personal Paint for Classic or NG Amigas! This is also part of the "Best of Show" prize.

http://a-eon.com/

Giant Thank You to Frank from Retro Rewind in Canada for the lovely gift of $50 gift certificates to all of our First Place prize winners!

https://retrorewind.ca/

Thanks to Vicky (Pixel Vixen) for her contribution to the show as Co-Host again this year. I appreciate it! Check her out on YouTube, and also check out her amazing new Manga project - Future Saviors.

https://www.youtube.com/pixelvixen

https://linktr.ee/futuresaviors

https://twitter.com/future_saviors

Check out all of the artwork, animations and MOD files on the Official #AmigaArtContest website!

https://www.amigaartwork.com/

Contributor Contact Information

Brent Santin - Prom Night on Callisto & Merry Jelly Bean Tramp

https://www.brentsantin.com

Paulee Alex Bow - Wicked Game Remix

https://www.youtube.com/user/elmosexwhistle

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUNvHbt_XCxQgrox7gC0NwA

Sophie Rose - Into the Night Mod & Xmas Amiga

https://sophie-rose.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/sophierosemusics

Follow Eric Schwartz on Twitter:

@ProductionsEric

Check out "The Most Poorly Produced Amiga Show On YouTube" - Hold and Modify with Kevin Quattro:

https://www.youtube.com/c/HoldandModify

Be sure to subscribe to Cityxen! They are so much fun!

https://www.youtube.com/cityxen

0:00 Index

0:16 Intro and Monologue

7:30 Equipment used for Presentation

9:04 Animation Category

44:08 Animation Winner Reveal

45:52 3D Category

1:02:03 3D Winner Reveal

1:05:00 Music Category

1:39:20 Music Winner Reveal

1:41:24 Photo Category

2:00:16 Photo Winner Reveal

2:04:00 Hand Drawn Category

2:48:50 Hand Drawn Winner Reveal

2:53:00 Best Of Show Reveal

Links to the Socials:

Want more info on Amiga Art Contest 2021? Find it here!

https://www.amigaartwork.com

Interested in supporting the show? Become a Patron!

https://www.patreon.com/10marc

Follow me on the Socials!

https://10marc.com

https://twitter.com/10marc1

Also follow me on my new instagram account:

https://www.instagram.com/10marc_amiga/

Enter: The Greaseweazle - Episode 112

This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am reviewing the fantastic GreaseWeazle Version 4 from Kiers Fraser and assembled and sold by AmigaKit. This wonderful device allows us to use a PC Floppy drive to read and write Amiga 880 KB floppies and create ADF files. And now we can use it in WinUAE as a real Amiga Floppy! Nifty! Join me in reviewing this product and learning how it works.

Want to buy a GreaseWeazle? Check with AmigaKit!

https://amigakit.amiga.store/greaseweazle-p-91279.html

Check out Kiers Github page here:

https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle

Everyone needs a FluxMyFluffyFloppy GUI!

https://github.com/FrankieTheFluff/FluxMyFluffyFloppy

Update to WinUAE Beta to read the GreaseWeazle:

https://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/winuae

Here is some HxC Floppy Emulator software that can be used to convert files.

https://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/

Check out Jan Beta's YouTube channel, too:

https://www.youtube.com/c/JanBeta