The ARMiga Project – Amiga 500 Retro Gaming Console

http://www.armigaproject.com/

by nallerooth • 11 years ago

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zantana• 11 years ago

Interesting project.

I tried to boot my old A500 a couple of weeks ago, but the add-on hard drive, not surprisingly given its age, had some problems reading the disk.

For me the joy of reliving the heyday of the Amiga is lined to the aesthetic of the keyboard, mouse and CRT, so I was looking at something more along the lines of a floppy emulator like https://cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com/ as I still have the original hardware.

bwldrbst• 11 years ago

Forget about old mechanical hard drives. I installed one of these in an Amiga 2000 a couple of weeks ago: http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=SCSI2SD. It lets me use an SD card as a HD. It's not the fastest but works perfectly even with my really ancient SCSI controller. It's also cheaper than finding an IDE controller for these machines or a SCSI to IDE adapter. I installed some 3.1 ROMS a few days ago, now I just need a 68030 or 040 card for it :]

bane• 11 years ago

For people on Windows machines, a group called "the Company" builds self-contained emulator+kickstart+games.

http://thecompany.pl/

kyberias• 11 years ago

Are they or were they? The latest news (recruitment) is from 2014.

dkx• 11 years ago

I would luv for it to also support the A1200 spec and AGA games.

Still, it's a great idea and I'm seriously considering ordering one.

nallerooth• 11 years ago

+1 for A1200/Kickstart 3.1 support. It would be nice to have a bootloader/hardware switch allowing the user to select which to use.

zak_mc_kracken• 11 years ago

Kickstart 1.3? What year is this, 1988?

At least use a Kickstart 3.0.

LeoPanthera• 11 years ago

It's specifically for games. Plenty of Amiga 500 games won't boot on Kickstart 3. 1.3 is the most compatible version.

kenjackson• 11 years ago

I have a bunch of old Amiga disks. I've always wanted to get the data off of it (mostly old programs I wrote). Can this project read old disks (and ideally allow me to get the data to my PC)?

pizza234• 11 years ago

Yes:

"The controller allows to make dumps of your unprotected disks directly to ADF images"

kstenerud• 11 years ago

You can also use disk2fdi, which works on PC as long as you have two floppy drives and are willing to modify a floppy cable (or buy a pre-modified one).

http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi

zokier• 11 years ago

I checked the review that was linked on their blog; it looks like this is basically Cubieboard2 (i.e. Allwinner A20 SBC) with custom(?) Linux based Amiga emulator. Not really sure if it is really any improvement over existing PC based emulators (e.g. UAE).

edit: the comments in that review mention MiST which seems very interesting project. The board is bit more expensive, but it has an FPGA which can be configured to be an Atari or Amiga or some other retro hardware. Here is the Amiga version: http://somuch.guru/minimig/minimig-mist/

franzpeterstein• 11 years ago

SNES controller in gamepad control info? For a pure retro gamer a horrible screenshot. Sorry.

shmerl• 11 years ago

Fun, but I just use fs-uae for that :) Cinemaware started selling some old Amiga games on GOG for the reference. Once you unpack them, they work in fs-uae pretty well.

I tried it with Aros ROMs[1] (which are open), but games were stuttering. Using closed ROMs shipped with those games (I think it's 1.2) works much better.

1. http://aros.sourceforge.net/nightly.php

UPDATE:

Hm. Looks like amiga-m68k-boot is gone from there. Not sure what happened to it.

UPDATE2: It was moved. See

http://aros.sourceforge.net/download.php

http://www.natami-news.de/html/distribution_download.html

The ARMiga Project – Amiga 500 Retro Gaming Console

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