This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am introducing a new visitor to the 10MARC Labs. On a recent trip to my local Surplus store with a Patron we found a nice Apple IIe with a DuoDisk and a nice Monochrome Monitor in great condition. So what else could we do but buy it?
Join me as I talk a bit about my Apple experience in the past and we learn about the Apple IIe series of computers... and we see if this old girl works!
Huge thanks to my patron George for meeting me in Tucson!
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am reviewing the wonderful DigiView Gold from Newtek! Join me as we capture some fun images and go over how this marvelous device worked. Thanks to my friends from Pintz and Amiga for the gift!
And yes, I am aware that the images were all captured at 16:9 aspect ratio. That is what this capture card does, and I can't seem to change it. I may go back to an old one, as I think it captured in 4:3 OK.
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This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am reviewing and installing the RAMesses 2MB CHIP RAM board from Andrew Hutchings AKA @Linuxjedi . Join me as we cover installation and use of this wonderful and economical device. Bring your own 8375 AGNUS chip, please!
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am looking at the Amiga A1020 5.25" Floppy Drive I purchased at AmiWest in 2021. This handsome little guy is really made to be used with an Amiga Bridgeboard like the A2088, A2286 or A2386 as an external PC drive, but also works just fine as a 440KB Amiga Floppy drive! Join me as I show you how to connect one to your Amiga using the Mountlist options and we fix it and get it working!
Here are the scripts you need for Amiga OS 1.x Mountlist, or Amiga OS 2.x and 3.x in the DEVS:/DOSDRIVERS folder.
Mountlist sample (1.3 style)
/* Mount a 5.25" disk drive to be mounted as DF1: */
DF1: Device = trackdisk.device
Unit = 1 /* first external unit */
Flags = 1 /* important ! */
Surfaces = 2
BlocksPerTrack = 11
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 39
Buffers = 20
BufMemType = 1 /* or 3 if you run OS 1.x */
#
Dosdriver form (2.x/3.x style)
Device = trackdisk.device
Unit = 1 /* first external unit */
Flags = 1 /* important ! */
Surfaces = 2
BlocksPerTrack = 11
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 39
Buffers = 20
BufMemType = 1 /* or 3 if you run OS 1.x */
Simply save it as DF1 (or A1020 if you prefer) in your Dosdrivers directory (generally in Sys:storage). Open a shell and try mount df1: (or A1020:) !
According to (french programmer) Etienne Vogt, the important thing is to set Flags=1 (tells the trackdisk.device that you really want to mount a 40 track drive, else it will ignore it)
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am doing a quick (honest! Under 10 Minutes) review of a cool USB mouse adapter for our Amiga Computers! Join me as I check out this little doo-dad and see if she is worth it!
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am reviewing the new Accelerator for the Amiga 600 - The A630.
This nice 68030/50 Mhz card has 64 MB of RAM and is fully compatible with the PCMCIA Slot and works with all of the CF and SD cards I tried it with! Do we have competition for the Furia here?
This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am reviewing the new converter from our friends at RetroBargains and Trumouse.com that lets us use the Nintendo Wii Nunchuck as a two button joystick! This cool little device also works on Commodore 64 and other 9 pin joystick port computers.
