Saturday, March 12, 2022

Upgrading my Amiga 500 from OCS to ECS - Episode 119

 This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am upgrading my shiny new Amiga 500 to a full ECS machine with 1 MB of CHIP RAM and all the fancy-pants ECS video modes! Join me as I go over the procedures, including the modifications to your Amiga 500 to upgrade it, and review the nice ECS Chipset. It is more powerful than you might think!

How about that cool Ace2b from Individual Computers? Or ordering an 8372A Agnus Chip? Check out the goodness here!

https://icomp.de

Remember, to use the 1 MB Agnus, break the connections between pads 2 & 3 on J2, bridge pads 1 & 2 of J2, and cut the trace for JPA7. 

Are you a DIY Guy? Check out the Github for making your own 2MB Agnus adapter!

https://github.com/LIV2/A500-2Meg-Chip-ram

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A Shiny New Amiga 500 Arrives! Episode 118

 This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am sharing my shiny new Amiga 500 I just received. We will take her apart and see what's inside and also talk about her history and where she came from. 

Interested in checking out the stuff from Retro Rewind?

https://www.retrorewind.ca

How about that 2MB Agnus Upgrade from Individual Computers?

https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/produkt-details/product/ace2.html

How about the awesome ACA500?

https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/produkt-details/product/ACA500plus.html

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The Rogue64 Review for the Commodore 64

This week on "ChickenHead Chronicles" I am reviewing the new game from Badger Punch Games and BitMapSoft "Rogue64". As the name implies this is a "Rogue Like" game for the awesome Commodore 64! Enjoy!

Want the Cartridge version? There will be more soon!

https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/rogue-64/

How about the Itch.io version?

https://badgerpunch.itch.io/rogue64

You might want a Kung Fu Flash to go with it...

https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/kung-fu-flash.html

https://retrorewind.ca/kungfuflash

10MARC won Retro Rewinds Donation Drive for 2021! Awesome! Frank will be donating two $50 gift cards for his shop - to enter, just email, message, or smoke signal a picture of your Amiga Setup! This will be a random drawing, so quality does not matter! One entry per person, unless you are a Patron... They get a few extra entries tossed in for being so awesome!

Email your picture to art@amigaartwork.com

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Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Amiga 600 RGB2HDMI Review - Episode 117

This week on 10MARC, I am covering the really awesome new RGB2HDMI interface for the Amiga 600 created by Joachim Firnhaber. This great little interface lets your Amiga 600 join in on the Raspberry Pi Zero fun and get a rock solid, non interlaced HDMI display!


Interested in this project? Check out...

https://github.com/jockel71/RGB_HDMI_A600


How about checking out my pal Jan Beta's review?

https://youtu.be/a063IfVbhoI


Don't forget Hoglet67's awesome software that you need!

https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI/releases


10MARC won Retro Rewinds Donation Drive for 2021! Awesome! Frank will be donating two $50 gift cards for his shop - to enter, just email, message, or smoke signal a picture of your Amiga Setup! This will be a random drawing, so quality does not matter! One entry per person, unless you are a Patron... They get a few extra entries tossed in for being so awesome!

Email your picture to art@amigaartwork.com


Index:

0:00 - The Opening Credits

0:16 - Monologue

5:00 - The A600 RGB2HDMI

9:25 - How does she look

12:12 - Fixing Overscan modes

14:16 - Games!

16:01 - UNLIMITED POWER!

16:22 - The Finicky Furia

22:25 - My Opinions...

25:59 - 10MARC Wins Retro Rewinds Contest


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Monday, December 20, 2021

The PiMiga Review - Amiga Emulator for the Raspberry Pi - Episode 116

This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am reviewing the awesome PiMiga software designed for the Raspberry Pi 4 and Pi400 computer. Chris Edwards has done a great job putting the package together. Join me as I cover the software, hardware and the cool stuff the PiMiga can do!

Take a look at Chris Edwards channel on YouTube:

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


Want to help Chris Edwards out for all of his hard work?

https://paypal.me/macphreak4evr


Download PiMiga here!

Pimiga2.0 X64 here: 

(remember use 7zip not regular zip)

***Note this is non working. YOU choose to make it functional by using your purchased or owned roms ***

https://bit.ly/3FVNiL4

ZIP md5sum: 034d9994aa307f1dfea613f58d33eb71

.IMG md5sum cfb0a798cba1d612747720f71719f37f 


Check out PiMiga on Discord:

https://bit.ly/3rhf6FO 


Need the Raspberry Pi Imager?

https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/


Pick up the Amiga Forever with 3.1 ROMS here:

https://www.amigaforever.com/


Want to learn more about ScalOS?

http://scalos.noname.fr


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Sunday, December 19, 2021

Amiga Turbo Santa Game Review - Featuring Daniel - Episode 115

This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am joined by my son Daniel in reviewing the new game "Turbo Santa" for the Amiga. Please join me as my  son mops the floor with me and then laughs at my mediocre gaming skills. I blame his mother.


Want to buy Turbo Santa for yourself?

https://nivrig.itch.io/turbo-santa


Please throw a little extra Nivrig's way!

And, follow his exploits on Twitter!

https://twitter.com/nivrig


Please use my magic code TIS10MARC at Retro Rewind!  You can save 10% on your order, and every use of my code helps donate to "Daily Bread" food bank in Toronto! Do your part this holiday, and buy cool computer stuff at the same time.

Index: 

0:00 - Intro

0:16 - Monologue

1:42 - Intro to the Game

5:03 - Meet the Competition

5:50 - Son Vs. Dad

12:32 - Thoughts on the Game





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Amiga 500 Adventures: Repairing and Recapping the A500 - Episode 114

This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast we are continuing our Amiga 500 Adventures series... but not with the results I had hoped. 


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0:00 Index

0:16 Intro

1:29 Looking at the Damage

2:34 Tracing the Pad

5:16 Troubleshooting Agnus

8:20 Success! But for how long...

11:00 Lets talk about Capacitors

13:35 The Repair Equipment

16:00 Tragedy Strikes


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