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Video: Repairing an A590, part 5 (20. Sep. 2023)
In the fifth part of his video series about the repair of an A590 (amiga-news.de reported) Robert Smith had a look at an example that he could get hold of in the original case design and that still has the original Epson hard disk....

Video: Disk Backup Station (24. Aug. 2023)
In his latest video Robert Smith introduces his "Disk Backup Station" which he presented at the Kickstart 01. He will make or sell these for people, it's purely a one off, although there is the possibility that he may release all the design files for it i...

Video: Status update on DrawBridge for MiSTer (07. Aug. 2023)
Since last year Robert Smith has been working on a realisation of his "DrawBridge" project - standard PC disk drives can be used to read and write Amiga disks - for the FPGA Amiga clone MISTer (amiga-news.de reported). In his latest video he summarises th...

Video: Repairing an A590 Rev.6, part 3 and 4 (24. Jul. 2023)
In the first part of his video series on repairing an A590, Robert Smith looked at the functionality in detail and the onboard Fast RAM, the second partsecond part is all about the hard disk. In the third part (YouTube video) of the series, a Blue SCSI V2...

Video: Repairing an A590 Rev.6, part 2 (12. Jun. 2023)
In the first part of his video series about the repair of an A590, Robert Smith dealt with the functionality in detail and the onboard Fast RAM (amiga-news.de reported). In this second part, everything revolves around the hard disk....

Video: Repairing an Amiga A590 Rev.6, part 1 (29. May. 2023)
In a new video series Robert Smith deals with the revision 6 of an A590: Commodore's external hard disk for the Amiga 500 or 500 Plus, which is connected to the expansion port and can also serve as a memory expansion. The first part of the series is about...

Video: Building a levitating Amiga ball (01. May. 2023)
In his latest video, Robert Smith shows how to build a levitating Amiga boing ball using a 3D printer and various tools....

Amiga disks on PC: FloppyBridge 1.4 (06. Apr. 2023)
Using Robert Smith's plugin FloppyBridge (video on how it works), emulators like WinUAE and Amiberry can work in real time with real floppy disks. Today he has released version 1.4. Changes since our last news item: Version 1.4 Fixed issues with s...

Platform game: Video tutorial and download for AMOS game "Hop to the Top!" (03. Apr. 2023)
To mark the upcoming Easter, Robert Smith - we reported on his various projects such as DrawBridge - wanted to create a platform game in AMOS about rabbits and chocolate eggs that could be controlled with a joystick or keyboard. In his video tutorial...

Video: Chemical Free Retrobrighting Alternatives (13. Feb. 2023)
In his latest video, Robert Smith uses theoretical considerations and practical experiments to address the question of how to brighten up yellowed keyboards and cases of retro computers without the usual hydrogen peroxide. He has found two successful alte...

Website launch: retro.directory (17. Jan. 2023)
Robert Smith, previously known for his DrawBridge or FloppyBridge project and various video releases, has put online "retro.directory", a first version of his website for searching and finding museums, magazines, clubs and groups, events, podcasts, Youtub...

Advent Calendar: Door 20 - Robert Smith (20. Dec. 2022)
It's getting close to Christmas and we open the 20th door with an anecdote from Robert Smith. The developer is probably best known for his project, initially called "Arduino Amiga Floppy Disk Reader/Writer": this uses a microcontroller - in this case...

Video tutorial: Programming "Santa's Present Drop 2" in AMOS (19. Dec. 2022)
Last year, Robert Smith showed how he ported a game from HTML 5 to AMOS in a four-part video series. The result was "Santa's Present Drop". In his latest video, he shows how he programmed the second part of the game in AMOS....

Video: Lets Make a Halloween Game in AMOS (25. Oct. 2022)
In his latest video, Robert Smith explains how to program a fun Halloween themed puzzle game in AMOS....

Video tutorial: Configuration of DrawBridge under WinUAE (30. Sep. 2022)
Robert Smith's project "DrawBridge" (Disk Reader and Writer Bridge) uses like the similar ADF Drive a microcontroller - in this case an Arduino board - to read and write Amiga floppies with a connected standard PC floppy drive. By means of the plugin Flop...

Floppy disk drive for WinUAE: Waffle (25. Sep. 2022)
Based on Robert Smith's FloppyBridge, Retrogiovedi.it offers at the title link a floppy disk drive in Amiga-inspired design called Waffle for use with the emulator WinUAE, with which ADF files can be created or written....

Video: What is DMA? (16. Sep. 2022)
In his latest video Robert Smith explains Direct Memory Access (DMA) and among other things also the interleaved mode of the Amiga....

Event: Voting for the Community Award of the Amiga37 (07. Sep. 2022)
On October 15/16 the Amiga37 will take place in Mönchengladbach (amiga-news.de reported). It is now possible to vote for the award recipients of the "Community Award" under the title link. For this a registration via e-mail address is necessary (if not al...

Video: How FloppyBridge works (29. Aug. 2022)
In his latest video Robert Smith explains how his project FloppyBridge (amiga-news.de reported) works exactly, by which the emulators WinUAE and Amiberry can work with real floppy disks. You can support the developer, for example, on his Patreon page....

Video: The World of Amiga Tracker Music (15. Aug. 2022)
In his latest video, Robert Smith goes back in time to the 1980s to explore the origins of Amiga Music: the Tracker, and The MOD file. He looks at how these mod files are put together, how a Protracker module works, and why the files are so small even t...