I'd forgotten how hard some of these games were. My eldest gets bored when she can't get some momentum in a game, which at 4 is fair enough.

To the best of your memory/knowledge, are there any colourful, fun and forgiving games I might introduce her to? Something like a Superfrog or Parasol Stars but with a "no death" mode / super super easy mode? Or frankly, any fun game that has an ultra easy mode?

Mostly looking for something (1) fun (2) will train hand eye coordination (3) pass the time while in COVID iso.

GameTime is hosting an online tournament for Dynablaster using AmigaLive tonight on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/amigalive at 7 PM UK time (check what time that is for you here: https://everytimezone.com/s/72473fdc).

If you'd like to join future tournaments check out the schedule at https://amigalive.com/gametime/events - there might be a spot for you even tonight if there are cancellations! GameTime holds a tournament every month. June's game will be announced on the stream tonight and May's game is Micromachines!

With the advent and proliferation of Linux distros, I haven't used / needed use Windows for several years. If Chromebooks show us anything, it's that for the average user, were probably at the stage that the OS matters less than the apps it can run.

Which got me to wondering - to anyone that runs the later iterations of AmigaOS (4.1 was the latest?), are you able to do your day to day computing with it comfortably?

Tasks like browsing web, media playback, word processing etc?

IIRC, AmigaOS is tiny and I'm willing to bet lightning fast on more powerful machines (PPC only?). But is it useful in 2022 for day to day work?

I'm finding conflicting results in Google searches. Had the idea that it might be amusing to run it on an old white Asus 701 EEEPc for a true "mini Amiga laptop". Is that possible / viable?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC

In my brain - and mostly because of the Amiga mags I read back in the day - I had the idea that Amigas were a British invention. Apparently not.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_computers

That makes the whole "popular in Europe, ignored in US" thing even more interesting to me, given Commodore International was (apparently) founded in Canada, did its finances in the Bahamas, prototyped in Pennsylvania and distributed out of Germany.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International

Crazy to think they were doing over a billion dollars (US) of sales in 1983, only to go up in a cloud of smoke ten years later.

Anyway, TIL.

In my brain - and mostly because of the Amiga mags back in the day - I had the idea that Amigas were a British invention. Apparently not.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_computers

That makes the whole "popular in Europe, ignored in US" thing even more interesting to me, given Commodore international was (apparently) founded in Canada, did its finances in the Bahamas, prototyped in Pennsylvania and distributed out of Germany.

Hi all.

Premise: I'm not the biggest tech guy, just your average nostalgic fan who grew up with an Amiga 500 (in a place where very few people owned one). I decided to buy an a500 mini for a quick nostalgic trip. To make it short, one of my favorite game was Rodland and I was eager to play it. I know that it's expected to have few emulation problems with these things, but, weirdly, I was able to boot and play the game smoothly. Then, on the high score screen, the game sorta froze after I inserted my name. I relaunched it and after that, no matter what, I always got an error at the start. Even deleting everything and downloading the .lha from scratches didn't work. I usually give up when something just doesn't work, but what leaves me puzzled is that I was able to play it normally for a game so I wanted to ask if anyone here has any idea of what could have been the issue. I took the .lha from GamesNostalgia and it's RodLand_v1.4_1509.lha.

This is the error: https://imgur.com/a/ct8zRuF

Many thanks to whoever is willing to help.

Came across this, in case of interest to anyone

This is what I've found out about the A500 so far, in semi-random order - >updated as I go:

• Hardware:
• H6 SoC (SUN50IW6P1)
• 512MB of DDR3 memory (instead of LPDDR3 that most SBC's seem to >use)
• 256MB (2Gb) NAND - no eMMC unfortunately
• NAND ID is 98 da 90 15 76 16 08 00
• The UART serial port is the one with the filled-in pads behind the right-most >USB port (looking at the PCB to the USB/HDMI/power ports)
• FEL mode can be achieved by:
• Keeping '2' pressed in an UART sessionwhen powering on
• Keeping the UBoot button pressed when powering on

• The OTG/FEL port is the first USB A port, next to the HDMI connector

• U-Boot:

• Can be interrupted by holding the 'S' key in an UART session

• Supports bootm, boota but not bootz

• Can read but not write from USB

• UART communication is a bit weird, the last character typed is ignored until >another character is input - not sure if this is just with my A500 and serial2USB converter

• Kernel: Linux version 3.10.65 (chris@puck) (gcc version 4.9.3 20150113
  (prerelease) (Linaro GCC 4.9-2015.01-3) ) #32 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 12 >10:48:03 GMT 2021 64-bit aarch64 The initrd ramdisk init has been modified to ignore console settings and
  ignore the ramfs parameter, so no easy way to get into the initrd shell by >adding ramfs to to the kernel bootargs or dropping into a login shell by >providing a non-existent rootfs parameter

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What languages did developers use to design apps & games in the 80’s for the Amiga 1000 & 500? Since Amiga supported multitasking, I’m guessing assembly language (for M68000) & maybe C?

Hi,

I recently relocated to Vienna, Austria.
I would like to organize a meet with some retro computing enthusiasts.

Anyone in?