Questions tagged [amiga]
For questions related to the Commodore Amiga family of personal computers.
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Was it possible to get more than 8 sprites per scanline on an Amiga with the copper list?
I've read in the past that it was possible to overcome the 8 sprites per scanline on the Amiga (OCS) using the copper list. However, I can't seem to find any actual references to what may have used ...
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What happens when a floppy track contains multiple sync words?
This question is specifically aimed to the Amiga hardware.
Let's assume a floppy track is read via DMA using sync word to trigger the start.
Let's also assume the track contains the sync word ...
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How are Amiga libraries structured?
In this Crash course to Amiga assembly programming, the author loads A6 with a constant, and then regularly jumps to offsets from that constant. He explains: All functions within that library can be ...
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Replacing Amiga 9 pin D-Sub mouse cable
I have an original Amiga "tank" mouse, the PCBs are good, but the cable is clearly faulty as the Y axis and left mouse click doesn't work when it is tilted to the right.
I need to replace the cable ...
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Official explanation for offering both BOOPSI and GadTools?
Was there ever an official explanation on why AmigaOS 2.0 offered two similar GUI gadget toolkits, in the form of BOOPSI and GadTools?
Or, to put it in another way, why were not GadTools gadgets ...
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Can a modern 1.44MB floppy drive work with an Amiga 2000? [duplicate]
Can an Amiga 2000 (or even A500) be made to easily work with modern 1.44 MB drives? Meaning, is it just a matter of pin mappings or are the drives just too incompatible?
I realize there are other ...
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I've taken my Amiga computer out of storage after several years and it doesn't work. What's the likely cause?
I've had an Amiga on a shelf for a long time. Today I took it down and tried to use it but it's not working. There's some basic activity - the power LED illuminates, and there is a video signal - but ...
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Is there a Linux client for Amiga Explorer?
I have some Amigas that I would like to be able to transfer files to/from using my primary desktop machine, a PC running Linux.
My Amigas do have CrossDOS installed, but transferring things in 720K ...
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How do I add multiple internal drives to an Amiga 2000?
The default configuration of an Amiga 2000 has a single internal floppy drive. Can I add a second internal floppy drive? Can I add a third or fourth drive too?
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Why would a PAL Amiga sometimes start up in NTSC display mode?
For an OCS Amiga (Workbench 1.2 or 1.3) I remember sometimes after a Guru Meditation/software failure reboot, Workbench would be restricted to NTSC size displays (200 non-interlaced vertical lines in ...
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What advantages are there to replacing Kickstart 3.0 with Kickstart 3.1?
I have an Amiga that has the Kickstart 3.0 ROMs installed. What advantages are there to replacing the Kickstart ROMs with 3.1? Is there any software that requires Kickstart 3.1 to function?
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How did the Amiga 1000 WCS (write controlled store) for Kickstart work?
Most Amiga computers have Kickstart (the core of the operating system) on ROM. But the original Amiga 1000 instead loaded Kickstart from disk. It had boot ROM that would run some self tests and then ...
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What does Personal Paint documentation actually refer to by "unmaskable interrupt" for its "crash protection feature"?
Personal Paint was a gfx program for Amiga that introduced many novel concepts, some quite ingenious, some... controversial. Among all, it had a "crash protection" feature, that was meant to enable ...
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Change Amiga Shell keyboard layout in Workbench 1.3
I'm using Workbench 1.3 in Amiga 500.
I managed to change the Spanish keyboard in "SetMap", as shown in the following figure:
And I can write text with special spanish characters (ñ,ç,ó,á,...) from ...
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What did disk-validator do?
...besides relabelling the disk to 'Lazarus' and helping the Saddam virus spread?
I know it was supposed to 'fix' corrupted disks that were ejected during a write operation. I don't think I've seen a ...
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How could Amiga computers play 14 bit sound?
The "Paula" chip used for sound output in all Amiga computers had 4 8bit sound channels (arguably comparable to 9bit stereo).
There were programs/libraries which could play 14bit stereo on the Amiga ...
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