Questions tagged [amiga]
For questions related to the Commodore Amiga family of personal computers.
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Why are there two, different, Kickstart 1.3 ROMs with the same 34.5 version number?
The Kickstart 1.3 ROM file that is supplied with Cloanto's Amiga Forever (amiga-os-130.rom) is very slightly different to that which you'd get by dumping a real 1.3 ROM from an Amiga 500.
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How was 8-channel audio achieved on Amiga?
Oktalyzer was a Tracker style program for Amiga, that allowed composing and playing music with 8 channels instead of the "hardware-natural" 4.
So far I learned it achieved that by splitting the 4 8-...
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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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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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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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How did programs/patches stopping Amiga idle floppy drive noise work?
The Amiga computers would by default automatically detect a disk being inserted and respond by reading from it and displaying its icon.
Polling the drive(s) for a new disk would produce a clicking ...
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Booting an Amiga 1000 directly to the hard drive without Kickstart floppy
The Amiga computers such as the Amiga 1000 required a Kickstart floppy to be able to boot directly into a hard drive. I have a Amiga 1000 as well but missing the Kickstart floppy. I would like to ...
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What information is encoded in the 22-digit barcodes on the Amiga's case?
What information is encoded in Amiga's 22-digit barcodes?
For example: 0103791363642010121234
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What were the differences in floppy disk formats between Amiga and IBM/PC compatible computers?
The capacity in Amiga Old File System format (OFS, OS version 1.x) was 840KB, with the Fast File System ("FFS" (!)) introduced for OS 2.x onwards able to store 880KB. The PC format stored 720KB on the ...
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What size screws were used in the Amiga desktop cases?
On the Amiga 500, 500+, 600, and 1200, what size screws were used to hold the chassis together? Is it the same size screw for all, different screws per machine, different screws front and rear, or ...
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Did any Amiga 500 games or programs (apart from paint programs) use more than 32 colours?
While the Original Chip Set (OCS) and Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) Amiga computers had the 32 x 2 colour EHB (Extra Half-Brite) and 4096 colour HAM (Hold And Mofify) screen modes, where these ever used ...
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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 modification is required from a PC floppy for use in Amiga?
Around the end of the time of Amiga popularity, obtaining a replacement Amiga floppy drive was a nuisance, while PC drives were ubiquitous and cheap. One could install a PC drive in Amiga after ...
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How to obtain 256 arbitrary colors with limitation of 64 per line in Amiga (ECS)?
The game Universe for Amiga boasted ability of use of 256 different Amiga colors available through the ECS chips, with only limitation of 64 colors in halfbrite palette (32 arbitrary + 32 at half ...
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How to convert Amiga DMS to ADF?
Our demoscene group managed to release only one demo before it fell apart, but these being the early days of the Internet in my country, and me getting lucky with obtaining access to it and creating ...
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What should I do when some of the keys of my Amiga 600 have stopped working?
I opened up an Amiga 600 to install a hard drive, and after reconnecting the keyboard ribbon and powering the computer up, at least one column of keys no longer works. What did I do wrong and what ...
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