Sunday, May 30, 2021

The Amiga PiStorm Review - (And it's not $11) - Episode 97

 This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am reviewing the new PiStorm open source accelerator for our A1000/A500/A2000 Amigas. Is this the Golden Goose we have been waiting for, or a big old Goose egg? Spoilers: It is somewhere in between... Join me as I talk about what's involved in setting this complicated beast up, and as I explore why it does not quite act like you think it might.

**Addendum: The CHIP RAM Speed issue looks like it was associated with a commodity loaded by Best WB - Working with one of the Devs, we came up with a few ideas, mostly related to mouse driver / middle mouse wheel driver problems. I disabled all my commodities to be thorough, and the CHIP RAM access sped up and is now only about 10% slower than normal instead of 30%. I re-enabled the commodities... And cannot recreate the problem I have been having for a week. Silly Computers... Check out the Github here for the PiStorm: https://github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm How about joining the Discord Server? https://discord.com/invite/j6rPtzxaNW Meet me on the Socials! https://twitter.com/10marc1 https://facebook.com/10minuteamigaretrocast https://www.10marc.com https://www.amigaartwork.com

Sunday, May 9, 2021

Turbo Sprint for AGA Amigas Review - Featuring Daniel - Episode 95

This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast, Daniel and I are reviewing the brand new arcade conversion Turbo Sprint for AGA Amiga's from our good friend Graeme Cowie, AKA McGeezer. This awesome game uses Hi Res AGA graphics to bring the Atari Arcade Classic "Super Sprint" to the Amiga! And... I teach Daniel how to count to the color "D"... Wanna buy the game? Sure you do! https://mcgeezer.itch.io/turbo-sprint There is a 5 minute timed demo for free of the game on his website, too. How about subbing to his YouTube channel while you are at it? https://www.youtube.com/user/Mcgeezer1000 Want to buy one of the new Atari VCS consoles? No? Nobody? Anybody? Visit me on the Socials! https://twitter.com/10marc1 https://facebook.com/10minuteamigaretrocast https://www.10marc.com https://ww.amigaartwork.com https://patreon.com/10marc

AmigaKit 8MB RAM & Flash ROM card for the A1200 Review - Episode 94

 This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am reviewing the nifty Amiga 1200 add on, the 8 MB RAM and Flash" card from out friends at Amigakit.com - join me as I cover the neat features of this expansion card and go over how it works and what you can do with it.

This is also my first video for the month of #AMayGA Want one of these goodies? Come and get one! https://amigakit.amiga.store/a1200-flash-fast-memory-expansion-upgradable-p-12702.html?currency=GBP Don't forget to take a look at the other cool goodies at their store! Follow the Amigos from Amigos Retro Gaming! https://www.everythingamiga.com Need the ROMS for your new card, just buy Amiga Forever and they are yours! https://www.amigaforever.com Follow me on the socials! https://www.twitter.com/10marc1 https//www.facebook.com/10minuteamigaretrocast https://www.10marc.com https://www.amigaartwork.com Take a peek at my Patreon! https://patreon.com/10marc

Amiga Forever 9.1 Review and Tutorial - Episode 93

 This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am reviewing the fantastic Amiga Forever collection from our friends at Cloanto. Just a few weeks back they have updated to version 9.1 and added some fun and interesting features we will be chatting about. You just may learn something new, too!

Want to buy Amiga Forever? Sure you do! http://www.amigaforever.com/ Follow me on the Socials! https://www.twitter.com/10marc1 https://www.facebook.com/10MinuteAmigaRetroCast https://www.10marc1.com https://www.amigaartwork.com And visit my Patreon so i can feed my twelve starving children and hungry puppy. Or maybe buy more Amiga stuff to review for you. It's one of those two... https://patreon.com/10marc


Monday, April 12, 2021

Amiga HAM 6 & OCS/ECS Graphics Tutorial featuring Image FX

 This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am experimenting with some new photos of beautiful roses that I took on a trip to a Tucson Rose Garden with my wife. These photos are getting the HAM6 treatment and we will be learning to use ImageFX to manipulate and create fantastic HAM6 and other format images.

The system is my original Amiga 500 from 1988, fit into my Checkmate 1500+ Case from Stephen Jones, and using the Vampire V2 from Apollo. Video capture from the Amiga's RGB is helped with the new RGBtoHDMI from C0pperdragon and Retro Rewind. Stephen Jones still has a few cases left! Buy one today! https://www.checkmate1500plus.com/ Need a Vampire for your system? https://www.apollo-accelerators.com/ Check out all of Pixel Vixens videos! https://www.youtube.com/c/PixelVixen/videos especially her HAM6 video. https://youtu.be/Xw7mHJxMLqk How about Jojo073's artwork? Pretty sweet stuff! https://twitter.com/jojo073jose https://www.youtube.com/user/jojo073/videos Speaking of Amiga Artwork... all these HAM6 photos will be available on: https://amigaartwork.com Check me out on all the Socials: https://twitter.com/10marc1 https://www.facebook.com/10MinuteAmigaRetroCast https://10marc.com

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The Rose Garden in Tucson is lovely! Take a virtual tour here. https://www.visittucson.org/business/gene-c-reid-park-rose-garden

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

RGB to HDMI Review for the Amiga 500 - 10MARC Episode 91

 This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am reviewing the cool new RGB to HDMI interface that so many in the Amiga community are talking about. Will this upscaler live up to it's reputation, or is it a big (pi) zero? Take a look and find out!

Want one of these premade boards from Retrorewind? https://retrorewind.ca/amiga-rgbtohdmi Take a look for the discount codes from my friends here: https://www.everythingamiga.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/ Learn all about the project and support the creator here! https://github.com/c0pperdragon/Amiga-Digital-Video You can download the latest version of the software here: https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI/releases Like all the artwork and MOD files you saw today! It was from Amiga Art Contest 2019 & 2020! Learn more right here! https://www.amigaartwork.com/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/10marc1