Bernie

Why was the Kickstart 1.x "Insert floppy" graphic so bad?
reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/lz

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Bernie

Chilling out after work with the latest 8-Bit Show And Tell episode, on 6502 assembly :commodore:

Robin's calm exposition and one-handed typing are so... soothing. The nerd equivalent of a knitting show 😌

youtube.com/watch?v=utb6dPUNw4

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Bernie

This composer on SoundCloud sounded very familiar...

Turns out his tunes are used as soundtracks in The 8-Bit Guy's videos.

soundcloud.com/eox-studios/pop

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Bernie

This time Robin got a mystery VIC 20 expansion box with knobs, switches, and unlabeled buttons.
youtube.com/watch?v=uLGkqpPZ60

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Bernie

The 8-Bit Guy is getting a ton of shit for being careless in restoring some weird IBM 7496 PCs found in a vintage computer warehouse...

Personally, I think all the decisions were reasonable for yet-another PC model that didn't become a success. Rarity alone doesn't automatically make things valuable.

vice.com/en/article/889zga/8-b

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Bernie

At 2:40, the presenter casually drags an Intuition screen of a different resolution and palette over the Workbench screen, probably unaware of how unique and marvelous this was in 1985, or even 10 years later.

wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Classic_

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Bernie

The Amiga in 1985 was so ahead of its time that the presenter had to explain the concepts of windows, mouse, multitasking and digital sound.

youtube.com/watch?v=nSONKMisWi

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Bernie

was my first unix, btw. I used it on an Amiga 4000 with a 25MHz CPU.

I had just enough ram to start X11 and a few applications OR compile the kernel... but not both at the same time 😂

To make things worse, building the kernel from sources would take about 2 days (or was that for the entire userland? I don't remember well)

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Bernie

While Linux distros are switching from X11 to Wayland...
phoronix.com/scan.php?page=new

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Bernie

omg, a remake of Turrican just got announced at Gamescom 2020
😄🕹️

youtube.com/watch?v=JcBLZ5QTiW

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Bernie

You MUST replace volume
Lazarus
in device DF0 !!

:amiga:

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Bernie

The format is trivial... I think it's 2 bytes of load address followed by the raw data. No checksum. But how did people save their asm code without an emulator?

I guess I could write a BASIC program which calls OPEN and PRINT# to dump the memory into a file, but it there must be an easier way... right?

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Bernie

I have a asm programming question.

A few years ago, I used VICE's monitor to write some asm code directly in memory at $C000, and then I "saved" it into a snapshot.

I was able to re-install that particular VICE version and reload the snapshot, but now... how do I save it into a proper PRG file?

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Bernie

Turbo Imploder is an executable cruncher for AmigaOS.

It wasn't particularly fast nor had a good compression ration, but, boy, it came an amazing soundtrack and and even VU meters with rasterbars! :amiga:

(someone should make a new video capture where compression doesn't fail, so we could hear the "save file" tune)

youtube.com/watch?v=NFkCbs7K7R

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Bernie

Retro Arcade
Playlist of 80's tunes for coding
open.spotify.com/playlist/6nXI

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Bernie

Did you know that Satoru Iwata (the legendary CEO of Nintendo) was an unpaid intern at Commodore Japan in Akihabara and wrote a videogame for the VIC20?

youtube.com/watch?v=QJCwsi6O5x

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Bernie

But this project is much cooler:
youtube.com/watch?v=_kDhpFaf4E

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Bernie

Literally "chip" music 😮

youtube.com/watch?time_continu

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Bernie

Listening to Reformation 3 🎧👍

c64audio.com/pages/reformation

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Bernie

Making of Prince of Persia (1989)

reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/

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