Strykers Run and Codename Droid were and are in my BBC top 5. Along with Elite, UIM, Repton 3, Castle Quest, Citadel, Imogen, and Exile. Thats roughly 5. Also this had excellent music that definitely wasn't just ripped off airwolf. Oh and Impossible Mission. And a motorbike racing game i cant remember the name of.
@@linuxjedivideo yes you're right. Crazee Rider. That was tough as nails when I was a kid but seems so simple now. I think I had all of these as part of play it again Sam collections.
Unfortunately not. Several Unix systems used it and some arcade boards. I suspect at the time that the cost vs benefit wasn't worth it. As for the CD-i, that was an SCC68070 which was 68010-like but had a bunch of extra things to make it more of a microcontroller.
I would recommend a 3A+ for Amiga 500/600/1000/CDTV, 3B+ for Amiga 2000 and Pi 4 or CM4 with adaptor for Amiga 1200. Pi 4 is only supported on the PiStorm32-Lite. Pi 3B+ will only fit without modification on the A2000 and A1200. The PiStorm32-Lite supports Pi 3 series and 4.
@@linuxjedivideo awesome thanks for the response. I ended up getting a 3A+ for my A500. Im considering trying the Lazarustorm too, but people have said it could cause issues.
@@TwickenStep I am not keen on Lazarustorm myself. The key reason is the E clock (a clock for the CIAs generated by the CPU) for the internal CPU and PiStorm are sharing a trace. This is bad for a number of reasons and I'm more surprised it works at all. That being said, I've heard of people being able to use it.
great video, just installed a Pistorm 32 in my 1200 not worked how to get it working on my monitor but more than happy with it, cant wait for the "Amiga native injection device" (ANID) then I just have to keep one screen.
I've seen recently some videos where people are using a Pi4B with the original PiStorm on an Amiga 500. How are they doing this given the GitHub repo readme states that Pi4 is not supported on the original PiStorm?
Luck, basically. It sometimes works, but is definitely isn't supported for now. It operates at a speed out of spec for the GPIO in a Pi4. In general, as new Pis come out, the GPIO latency increases (Pi5 will always be unusable for PiStorm). We have an idea for new firmware to solve that in the original PiStorm, but it is lower priority than other things.
@@linuxjedivideo Thanks for letting me know. I thought there may be a new version of the CPLD firmware locked behind the Discord wall. As someone who cannot join Discord (I've tried), it is distressing to see more and more open source projects getting locked into megacorp walled gardens.
@@ffsireallydontcare with PiStorm, most discussion happens in Discord, but all firmware/software/hardware is on GitHub. I didn't decide where the community was created, but it is where people have gravitated to.
@@linuxjedivideo I get it, but it's still concerning as I won't have anything to do with Zuckerbot, and Discord bans me just after the application process but right before the account landing page finishes loading. Why? "Trust and Safety" won't tell me. Odd given the longest I've been able to spend on Discord was 2 weeks, and that only involved a brief chat with both Michal and Claude about the possibility of using the PCIe lane instead of the GPIO for the Pi4 to Amiga communications channel. Progress! I have noticed that some of the related Discord servers are bridged with IRC, which is nice. Now to get everyone to move to a newsgroup and/or a public forum. Thanks again.
After all, here the Amiga is doing as a passive “spectator”, because all the work is done by PiStorm. It's like putting components from a PC into an Amiga chassis and running Quake xd
Not really, no. The entire chipset is still in use, especially for the AGA version. That is no more true than saying that an 030 accelerator with an RTG makes an Amiga a passive spectator.
Didnt use mine for a while as it had a lot of issues, I recently put it back in my A500 and I'm amazed, choice of coffin or caffeine os, now with wifi, I'm blown away.
If you say any sentence without the word "essentially" at the beginning it will still work perfectly. People use "essentially" as a tedious decoration in a bid to sound clever. It's redundant.
I used "essentially" here because I was over-simplifying for those who hadn't seen one before. It may not have been the correct word, or I may not have had my words in the correct order, but it was not redundant. It was an unscripted video, I recorded in a small window of spare time, so filtering my use of language was not high on the priority list.
@@linuxjedivideo Precisely. It was unscripted and so your natural word usage was allowed to propagate unfiltered. And your unfiltered use prefixes sentences with "essentially" when it's not needed. Essentially it's a resistive DAC that plugs into your parallel port. Could have been: it's a resistive DAC that plugs into your parallel port. See how you used the word "essentially" to embellish your sentence, trying to sound clever? Guilty as charged!
As of about a month ago, Emu68 added beta WiFi support. The RISC OS Open code would likely not be compatible because the init and driver is entirely on the 68K side talking to the hardware, written using Amiga's libraries.
To be honest, JBC’s battery soldering iron is really not as good as the ordinary 18650 battery soldering iron, such as the Bakon BK210 battery iron. Everyone can see that the visualization part is redundant and accounts for most of the total cost! My ideal cordless battery soldering iron is: large battery capacity, moderate size, maximum power of about 40W, and the handle has real-time temperature control and display, sleep time, temperature settings, etc. The problem is that the current battery capacity is basically not enough to meet the above requirements. Most battery-powered soldering irons cannot achieve high power, capacity, or small size due to the energy density of the battery. Moreover, due to the miniaturization of soldering irons, the heat capacity of the soldering iron tip has become smaller, which requires that the heating device must be very close to the tip of the soldering iron and must withstand large current shocks (because the power supply voltage is small) to meet the requirement of rapid temperature recovery.
I guess it mostly depends on your use case. It is rare that I use the battery iron for work that would require more power than this gives. Ideally I'd like a slightly longer working time, and the second revision that has recently been released gives this. The graph can be useful for power usage more than heat, the heat is going to be almost instant and constant on the smaller cartridges anyway. If I wanted small tip, power for large ground planes, etc... I'd probably reach for my TS-80P, but I'm finding it rare that I need to use that. Usually my regular JBC T245 iron/tips cover everything else.
@@linuxjedivideo That's right. In today's electronics industry, which is advancing by leaps and bounds, tools like soldering irons are becoming more and more popular and intelligent. The only regret is that it is not possible to truly get rid of the shackles of wires. Of course, there are many varieties of soldering irons now, but in the final analysis it is just an ordinary heating tool. One aspect depends on how users use them. I agree with this. I am currently using a Bakon BK210 battery (18650, 3200mAh) iron, and also use the C210 soldering iron bit(≈2Ω), and to sleep and wake up at any time to make the battery more durable. Its only disadvantage is that the battery cannot be replaced more conveniently and the maximum power is only 12W[You see, the actual maximum power may be smaller P=U²/R (≈7W)]. It would be even better if it could reach 20W like JBC's B-Iron 210.
Nice simple explanation that, thank you. Ooh that trapdoor. Can you please share the link to it? Just another quick one, following on from one of the questions asked. What else can the Pistorm32-Lite do, HDMI, WiFi connectivity?
Sure, the trapdoor STL can be found here: www.thingiverse.com/thing:5980829 The Pi from the PiStorm32-Lite adds RAM, disk and HDMI (via an RTG driver) for now. A prototype pass-through video device exists right now to put the Amiga AGA graphics into the Pi's camera port to show on the HDMI too. No WiFi or USB yet, but I do know WiFi is being worked on. It also loads any Kickstart ROM file you want from the SD card to boot from. Michal's Patreon feed covers the software/driver development side quite well: www.patreon.com/michal_schulz
I suspect the biggest issues are: 1. It might need an MMU (Amiga Linux does), and neither PiStorm implementation provides this. Although Musashi can have it with some minor code changes is. 2. It likely needs Unix specific SCSI drivers to talk to the SD card.
Just incredible that a £35 SBC is way more powerful than the best Amiga you could ever build. Essentially, the Amiga just becomes a hardware Amiga emulator plugged into the Pi.
It's not really that surprising - the 68k series stopped evolving architecturally back in 1984 when Motorola decided to refocus their efforts on PowerPC. If we lived in some alternate universe where the 68k architecture got another 3 decades of development as happened with x86 then by now we would have some incredibly fast 68k parts. I wonder what the 68k 64 bit extensions in this parallel universe would look like?
what talk. And only getting 20 minutes, (I can not imagine, what following presentation was, to cut this one short )😞, its as close a getting new a amiga as its been in many year to date, as said in the video, with out any selling body parts, also it let amiga OS, it shine, it always from the start been left wanting in the hardware department, unless money wasn't problem, which was shame as as the same spec. amiga could out per form any mac with the same CPU and ram, cost many times most, the PC where still clunky dos prompts and with graphics, and sound card, a loan would be close to the hole asking price of an a basic amiga system, you did get mush more than dos prompt, and beep, bop sounds like something from the 70's
Unfortunately the way FOSDEM works is that a topic gets a room for either half a day or a full day, they can fit as many or as few talks as they want in it. But to make it fair to everyone, 20-25 minutes is pretty typical for a talk. To be fair, every other talk I saw in the Retrocomputing Devroom was great. Amiga OS is still developed today, which is great. My Amiga 1200 was running the latest 3.2 release.
Thank you. This is actually a cut-down version of a much longer talk I had planned to give at a museum last year (and would be on RU-vid), but things didn't go to plan. Maybe later this year.
I didn't know DOSBox_RTG was a thing, but taking a quick look, it should run extremely well. As for CAMD, I don't think there are plans right now. That isn't to say there is opposition to doing it, but things like WiFi and USB drivers are a higher priority. It is open source, so you are welcome to contribute patches to support this.
I am glad I watched this. Yes, it triggered me but it helped to know that someone else really does know what its like and is brave enough to stand up there and talk about it. The only "good" thing that came out of it for me, is finally getting diagnosed as having an Autistic condition.. it explained so much about my personality after so many years of wondering. Unfortunately, as you say, NHS mental health services are poor - I feel like I've pretty much been given the diagnosis and left to get on with it. I've had no advice on how to cope with it, how to live a "normal" life in "normal" world situations... and now it has cost me my relationship with my partner as well. I can't say I've got through burnout... i still struggle immensely, I havent been able to do any major programming work for over 5 years now... just thinking about it makes me anxious. I feel like I have lost a major part of who I was... if you talk to anyone who knew me in my teens and twenties they will tell you all I EVER talked about was programming. I guess that was the Autism playing a part there, being hyper focussed on one subject. I'm not particularly proud of my career either.. I didn't earn much and don't really feel I achieved much of note. This affects the things I do now, even though it's supposed to only be a hobby, I start designing electronics stuff and lose focus because my brain just starts thinking "whats the point". I think its safe to say though, if it was'nt for Norwich Amiga Group, and The Centre for Computing History, I probably would have given up completely.
After being a bit of a fanboy back then, all these years later I have come to realize, that most Bitmap Brothers games actually suck xD This slow paced, stuttery, static and stiff gameplay with choppy controls. There where obviously terrible games like Gods, where you could only jump for a fixed given distance, which was terrible already years before. But also most of the other games are kind of lame. I think only Speedball 2 was good - and Xenon 2 would have been good, if it wouldn't have had these extreme slowdows.
They were all coded to the lowest common denomination for easy porting. Which made them a bit clunky. I have another video which showed that due to the tight loop memory copy they do with sprites, using a 68010 with Xenon II is much smoother than a 68000.
@@linuxjedivideoInteresting find. As the 68010 is always said to deliver no significant improvement. I actually have an 68010 laying around and planned to put into my A600 using an adapter socket (which I bought for maybe a tiny bit better performance and especially being able to use a quit-key in WHDLoad. I think this adpater would also overclockd to 14MHz IIRC), but could not get around to do so, yet. Looking forward do one day see Xenon II as it should have been :)
@@elmariachi5133 for the most things, the improvement is minimal. There is a tight loop optimisation that is about 50% faster, but it is only in very specific circumstances. Luckily the Bitmap Brothers games hit that state often.
There is a very long answer to that which in summary is "it depends, but that isn't always the case". But, does it really matter? There are very few things the current chip RAM performance impacts. Compatibility has been achieved with pretty much every game and demo that exists now.
as a 50something doctor, this is rampant in medicine- i can't imagine how bad it is in tech- as i see my hospital IT staff suffer a LOT. Management only gives lip service to this, while not addressing staffing, the root cause of overwork. The only thing one can hope to do is extricate oneself into a better position!
I can only imagine. The last 4 years in particular have been a nightmare for anyone working for the NHS unfortunately. The longer it takes to fix, the more everyone suffers. People who can do those jobs with a smile and care for the patients despite everything going on behind the scenes are real heroes.
This is a cut down talk of a much longer one I planned to give at the RMC Cave last year, but it didn't work out. Hopefully we will make that happen soon.
It is definitely possible to do so. But the effort required is high, and the amount of things that really need it is very low (anything other than Linux?). It would also incur a performance hit, but that is true of 68000 MMUs anyway. I doubt it is a high priority for Michal.
HELP! I'm becoming strangely obsessed with microsoldering. I blame my new JBC. PS: you said you use the 1.9mm C245965, but I was told that was a bit small so was just about to buy the 2.3mm C245067 (bent spoon). Which do you think I should get? Cheers
I have no experience of the 2.3mm, so I can't really advise. But I do really like the 1.9mm one. I also primarily use a 2.0mm spoon T210 tip on my JBC B-IRON.
