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Demoparty: Results of the Revision 2025 (21. Apr. 2025)
This year's edition of the Revision demo party took place in Saarbrücken over the Easter weekend. In two YouTube videos you can watch the competition entries in the categories Amiga Intro and Amiga Demo. The winners are: Amiga Intro 1st place: 6...

Easter game: Noisy Rabbit (21. Apr. 2025)
After 2023 with "Hop to the Top!" and 2024 with "Bunnys Boing Ball Bounty", Robert Smith has also released an Easter game this year: in "Noisy Rabbit" (video), you have to collect large and small eggs in Pacman style. However, these are difficult to recog...

Video: Floppy emulator Big Box Amiga GoDRIvE (13. Apr. 2025)
The floppy emulator GoDRIvE was initially only available for keyboard case Amigas (amiga-news.de reported). DigitalRetroBay now also offers it for the Amiga 2000 and Amiga 4000. In contrast to the traditional Gotek disk emulators, the GoDrivE...

Video: The AlgoMusic music program (17. Mar. 2025)
AlgoMusic is a complex music program that randomly generates and plays a song from a series of algorithms in a techno/house style. In his latest video, Robert Smith explores the program, which was written by Thomas Schürger in 1995, and takes a look at hi...

Project introduction: Floppy disk reader for AmigaOS 4 (10. Mar. 2025)
Andrea 'afxgroup' Palmatè has adapted Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (amiga-news.de reported) for reading Amiga floppy disks with the help of an Arduino board so that it can now also be used under AmigaOS 4 (GitHub project page). Above all, he had to...

Video: Feeding the audio signal into an RGB2HDMI adapter (05. Mar. 2025)
In the video at the title link, Robert Smith demonstrates how he installs an HDMI audio embedder in his Amiga 500 in order to output also sound via an RGB2HDMI adapter....

Video: How the diskspare.device stores 984KB on a DD disc (14. Oct. 2024)
Robert Smith is currently working on an update of DiskFlashback (amiga-news.de reported) and is currently working on support for the diskspare.device (Aminet link), which is a supplement or replacement for the trackdisk.device, which can be used to format...

Video: Building Your Own Level/Map Editor in AMOS (02. Oct. 2024)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how to build a simple level editor in AMOS....

Video: Can the iPhone magnet damage the data on a disc? (23. Aug. 2024)
In his latest video, Robert Smith explores the question of whether the magnets on the back of the iPhone, which act as part of the charging system, are strong enough to damage data on a disc....

Easter game: Bunny's "Boing Ball" Bounty (24. Mar. 2024)
After "Hop to the Top!" last year, Robert Smith has also released a game for this year's Easter: in Bunny's "Boing Ball" Bounty, you (as a bunny) have to collect as many eggs as possible in the shortest possible time (YouTube-Video). The game requires 1MB...

Video: Review of the PowerShark (17. Mar. 2024)
In a detailed video report, Robert Smith tests the "PowerShark", a USB-C-based power supply for the Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 keyboard cases (amiga-news.de reported)....

Video: Internet-enabled without PlipBox adapter (11. Mar. 2024)
In his last video, Robert Smith showed how he builds his own PlipBox adapter for his Amiga 2000 in order to make the Amiga Internet-capable with its help. In the current video this adapter is removed again, but surprisingly the Amiga can still access the ...

Puzzle game: AmiWordle 1.1 (11. Mar. 2024)
Following conversions of the puzzle letter game Wordle by Robert Smith in AMOS and Marcus 'ALB42' Sackrow in Pascal, 'Macetze' has now named his version AmiWordle and written it with Blitz Basic. It can be played with German and English words....

Video: Building a PlipBox adapter (19. Feb. 2024)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he builds his own PlipBox adapter for his Amiga 2000 in order to use it to get connected to the Internet....

Video: Upgrading a A2000 to 2MB Chip RAM and ECS (07. Feb. 2024)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he not only added 1MB of Chip RAM to his Amiga 2000, but also completed the upgrade to a full ECS system....

Video: Status update on DrawBridge for MiSTer (22. Jan. 2024)
Following on from his video from August last year (amiga-news.de reported), Robert Smith shows the current status of the implementation of his "DrawBridge" project - standard PC floppy drives can be used to read and write Amiga floppies - for the FPGA Ami...

Hardware: Bass mixing with "BassMX" (20. Jan. 2024)
As Edwin van den Oosterkamp writes under the title link, one of the things he always enjoyed on his Amiga was watching demos, especially when using a hi-fi system with proper speakers instead of the small speakers in the 1084S monitor. However, the Amiga'...

Video: Repairing an Amiga 2000, part 2 (13. Dec. 2023)
A fortnight ago, Robert Smith showed in a first video how he got a donated and non-functioning Amiga 2000 up and running again. In the second part he introduces some upgrades such as BlueSCSI and takes care of the yellowed case....

Video: Repairing an Amiga 2000 (29. Nov. 2023)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how he gets a non-working Amiga 2000, which he received for his birthday, up and running again....

Rogue-like: Hop to the Top - Bunny's Revenge (28. Oct. 2023)
As announced a few days ago, Robert Smith has released his game "Hop to the Top - Bunny's Revenge", as a follow-up to his Easter game "Hop to the Top!". ...