Sunday, September 25, 2022

Amiga Floppy Drive Swapper from AmigaKit Review

 This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast, I am reviewing the new Floppy Drive Swapper from AmigaKit. This little guy can be used to turn your external drive into DF0: just by holding down Amiga-Amiga-Ctrl for six seconds. 

Want to buy one?  AmigaKit sells them!

https://amigakit.amiga.store/switchless-floppy-drive-boot-selector-a500-a2000-p-91294.html

How about The Ultimate Floppy Emulator? Hopefully Edu Arana will make more!

https://www.arananet.net/pedidos/product/ultimate-floppy-emulator-preorder

How about that Awesome Scramble conversion? Get it here!

https://jotd666.itch.io/scramble-500

And River Raid Reloaded? It's the best!

https://matze1887.itch.io/riverraidreloaded

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Commodore Amiga CDTV Upgrade Extravaganza

 This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am upgrading my #Amiga #CDTV with some awesome goodies. Join me as we add memory, Keyboard, Mouse and a SCSI Hard drive to my fantastic CDTV that I got a while back. 

#CDTV #Amiga 

Adeee2007 is the eBay seller for the SCSI and RAM solutions:

SCSI Interface: https://www.ebay.com/itm/325247259461

RAM Interface: https://www.ebay.com/itm/325296369820

24mata is the eBay seller for the Joystick/Mouse adapter and Keyboard Adapter:

Joystick/Mouse adapter: https://www.ebay.com/itm/185573031681

Keyboard adapter: https://www.ebay.com/itm/185285757348

Both are trusted eBay sellers that I have purchased from in the past. 

The external scsi2SC can be purchased from www.inertialcomputing.com

The RGB to Component adapter can be purchased from https://www.retronicdesign.com

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Sunday, September 4, 2022

Elbox FastATA MK-V Hard Drive Controller for the Amiga 1200 Review - working with AmigaOS 3.21

 I am happy to be back! Thanks for all the well wishes, everyone. This week I am reviewing the Elbox FastATA MK-V hard drive accelerator for the #amiga1200   - This fine device unleashes the hidden power of your IDE controller! Or some such nonsense... Join me as I cover installation, work through the bugs in the software, and ultimately get it to work on a modern #AmigaOS 3.2.1 Installation!

Want to order one for yourself? Several vendors stock it, but I got mine from:

https://amigastore.eu

How about that cool ROM Tower from Amigakit?

https://amigakit.amiga.store/angled-kickstart-riser-socket-adapter-p-1295.html

Want a cool Checkmate 1500 Case for your #amiga ?

https://checkmate1500plus.com/

Big thanks to whoever created this list of Amiga Hints and Tips! You got my FastATA working on my Amiga!

https://grimore.org/fuss/amiga

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

The Commodore Amiga CDTV Review - Episode 132

This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast, we are welcoming a new friend into the lab! A shiny Commodore CDTV! Join me as I tell you it's story and how I got her working well again, and we will explore what she can do and take a peek at some of the software. And guess what. It is NOT an Amiga 500 with a CD-ROM...

#Commodore #Amiga #AmigaCDTV #CDTV 

Take a peek at Neil From RMC's nice video about the CDTV, with an interview with Gail Wellington!

https://youtu.be/BJMADu4eo3o

 Our Pal (Oh... sorry... NTSC) Chris Edwards has been exploring the CDTV, too.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWHevKbRJhRkfNrVZ96D8DOfZ-xgcbzGX

Want to check out Joe Jencks awesome music? Sure you do!

https://joejencks.com/


Degrader is a useful utility to force old programs to work, and can shift Kickstart 1.3 machines into PAL or MTSC modes (With the 1MB Agnus)

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A PAL Commodore 64C Arrives at the 10MARC Labs

This week on The ChickenHead Chronicles, I am welcoming a nice PAL Commodore 64C into the studio! This lovely machine was a trade with my good friend Tim Drew AKA Sanxion. Join me as we compare NTSC and PAL games and see what this little guy can do!

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https://twitter.com/sanxion

Tim is a Co-Host of Pixel Gaiden Podcast. Check them out!

https://pixelgaiden.podbean.com/

https://twitter.com/Pixel_Gaiden


Need an awesome RetroTink for your Retro Stuff?

https://www.retrotink.com/

https://twitter.com/retrotink2

How about those games from Sarah Jane Avory? ZetaWIng and Soul Force? 

Buy them here!

https://sarahjaneavory.itch.io/

https://www.protovision.games/games/soulforce.php?language=en


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Amiga 1200 Playing back the #AmigaArtContest 2022 video! (Using AGABlaster)

 I use the awesome AGAconv and AGABlaster software to play back the #AmigaArtContest intro video. This is on my Amiga 1200 with my Blizzard 040 card, but it plays back just great on a 68030 too. 

Only Amiga makes it possible!

Here is my original AGABlaster review and tutorial. I need to update it!

https://youtu.be/d44BZ07YQ-c

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Amiga Art Contest 2022 Prizes and Sponsors

This week on 10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast I am revealing the sponsors and prizes for #AmigaArtContest 2022! We have some awesome stuff to win this year!

And now a word from our sponsors...

Retro Games - Maker of the C64/Mini and A500 Mini

https://retrogames.biz/

Retro Ready is ready to Retro you!

https://retroready.one

Retro Rewind is hands down the best North American dealer in all of... well.. North America!

https://www.retrorewind.ca

Please learn more about Amiga Art Contest right here!

https://www.amigaartwork.com

Submissions can be sent to:

art@amigaartwork.com

Take a look at the past Amiga art Contest videos!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE9RAR6jyAQ_tvOI3bjvvDab0wOxfTMbn

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