Saturday, March 12, 2022

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?

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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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Saturday, November 20, 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%!

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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/

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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


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