So I recently bought an ntsc amiga 500 and monitor. I need some insight on what to do next?

I have a collection of tested and new original boxed floppy games that I want to play in the original way, which has worked for mutiple floppy based machines so far but I would occasionally want to install games onto a hard drive, back up games or transfer the files from a backed up or online source if needed esp if there are many disks that need to be constantly accessed or the disks are worn or rare.

Have some questions for the following:

(I want to keep it old school when possible with some exceptions )

Hard drives:

1.There are new old stock vintage standard size metallic size hard drives. Will these work on a Amiga 500? They look like pc ones and quite big. Are there older laptop sized models that will fit? How long to new old stock Amiga hdd drives last?

1. Official 590 amiga external drive. These work with a500? Can the insides be replaced ? Heard they are pricey any alternatives ?

Transferring software, programs from pc, backups:

1.Which is easier and overall better, greasewesel or drawbridge ?

1. Where to get new old stock blank Amiga disks?

Other:

1.Any official whdload disks ?

2.How is it transferred?

3.Any old program that gives you the option of save states like game wizard on dos ?

4.Anything old program that facilitates copying games to hard drive ?

5.Any old school copying software that can bypass copy protection ?

6.Best disk error checker?

1. Any way to play unsupported pal games with the right speed and screen on older 1084 that supposedly won’t show then or show them correctly ?

So I recently bought an ntsc amiga 500 and monitor. I need some insight on what to do next?

I have a collection of tested and new original boxed floppy games that I want to play in the original way, which has worked for mutiple floppy based machines so far but I would occasionally want to install games onto a hard drive, back up games or transfer the files from a backed up or online source if needed esp if there are many disks that need to be constantly accessed or the disks are worn or rare.

Have some questions for the following:

(I want to keep it old school when possible with some exceptions )

Hard drives:

1.There are new old stock vintage standard size metallic size hard drives. Will these work on a Amiga 500? They look like pc ones and quite big. Are there older laptop sized models that will fit? How long to new old stock Amiga hdd drives last?

1. Official 590 amiga external drive. These work with a500? Can the insides be replaced ? Heard they are pricey any alternatives ?

Transferring software, programs from pc, backups:

1.Which is easier and overall better, greasewesel or drawbridge ?

1. Where to get new old stock blank Amiga disks?

Other:

1.Any official whdload disks ?

2.How is it transferred?

3.Any old program that gives you the option of save states like game wizard on dos ?

4.Anything old program that facilitates copying games to hard drive ?

5.Any old school copying software that can bypass copy protection ?

6.Best disk error checker?

1. Any way to play unsupported pal games with the right speed and screen on older 1084 that supposedly won’t show then or show them correctly ?

If you don't mind reading an online magazine presented in AmigaGuide format, check it out:

http://www.whatiff.info

Because it's in AmigaGuide format, there aren't any photos or pictures. But the magazine has that cozy pioneer-type charm to it. And a couple of the writers are YouTubers well known in the Amiga community: Ms Mad Lemon and Pixel Vixen.

The magazine has just reached its first anniversary!

Greetings!

Someone of you may already know me. I'm the author of Through the Moongate: the story of Richard Garriott, Origin Systems Inc and Ultima.

This is the first book of my new series: Video Games: The People, Games, and Companies. The first part (named Stage one) is about the video game history from its origin to 1979. From the second book onward, a five-year period will be covered: 1980 to 1984, 1985 to 1989, and so on until 1999.

Stage One and Stage Two are already published in Italy. Right now I'm working on Stage Three. Of course, Amiga has a very special part for the 3th book of the series (covering 1985 to 1989), in fact there's an Amiga on the cover ;)

If you know TTM, you know how I research and write my books: I like to let the protagonists talk about themselves and explain in their own words how it went. Video Games is very much like TTM, only less focused on Ultima.

Like the TTM Kickstarter campaign, I managed to contact a well-known artist. His name is Paul Stinson and you should probably know him for his great Ultima II artwork or for the Wizard and the Princess, by Sierra On-Line. He already created new artwork for my book and this campaign. I'm very excited and I hope you'll like this new book. For those who missed TTM Kickstarter, I'll add as an optional add-on the last few TTM KS edition books with a little discount (I need to free some space in my small warehouse). There's also my personal Akalabeth For Vectrex!

In addition to the book (that it the main reward of course), in this Kickstarter you can get a copy of The Sumerian Game. It's a very early computer game designed in 1963, programmed in FORTRAN, and stored on punched cards. It was a learning game to teach economics, math and history but later was used as an inspiration to create Hamurabi and Santa Paravia. The latter is the very first city-building game with graphic interface and grandparent of modern-day games as Sim City.

The Sumerian Game source code was lost but we managed to rebuild it from notes and text outputs (it was played on teletype terminals and print on paper). We reprogrammed it in Basic for Apple II and Commodore 64 and you can get it now :) It is no very fun but it's one of the earlier games ever and it's not lost anymore :)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'll do my best to answer.

KS Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1108065491/the-inside-story-of-the-birth-of-microcomputer-games?ref=egzzlh

Official Home Page of the book ( https://www.retro-game.it/video-games-the-people-games-and-companies/ ). You'll find all the information about the book and you will be able to download and read the preview chapter.

My official page (www.andreacontato.com). On GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19224886.Andrea_Contato

Kickstarter is coming to its end. Just 35 hours left and we are trying to get some stretch goal done :)

I’m looking for an A500 for a reasonable. Here in the UK it’s basically impossible to win one because all of them are on bidding with the exception of some that are on for like £200+.

Is there a ranking of the Amiga's popularity by country in its time?

Iconography and should you?

Hey Amiga peeps,

I have been messing around with PT1210 and Octamed on two A600s that I managed to find for a good price. Absolutely loving the 8-Bit 4Ch sound and what can be done with it!

In my noobish delight, I had a thought that wouldn't leave me alone: Circuit Bending an Amiga (600)

I'm not even sure that would be the correct term. Basically what I envision would be an Amiga with an array of extra Nobs and Buttons on top, wired in such a way to slow down / speed up the CPU clock at will, or distort / mess with the audio circuitry of the Paula chip.

I am aware that Bus and Slew Timings would probably desync and cause a crash, or other more technical things I am unaware of. I couldn't find anything on this either, so I assume it's not possible? Would be really cool, hope someones curiosity is peaked by this at least.

What is the FOSS scene like on the Amiga these days?

This popped up in my recommended viewing yesterday. It's Amiga adjacent but it might be of some interest

https://youtu.be/iUKQhCGUHWc

Same background as most of you here I suppose. Grew up in the 90s with my Amiga 500 and until the dawn of 3D game consoles like the Playstation, my Amiga was my favourite thing in life. SO much happy nostalgia thinking of those days. Nostalgia which has now mostly been shat on.

Firstly, the controller is just awful. REALLY AWFUL. Who even remembers playing their Amiga with a controller back in the day? Anyone? It was joysticks all the way, boys and girls. The controller has been put back into its box and thrown to the back of the cupboard where I will hopefully never see it again. The direction buttons are way too far apart and make games like Speedball 2 genuinely painful to play.

Thankfully the PS4 controller works with the machine so thats what I'll use.

The fact that the controllers and mouse are wired is, in itself, embarrassing. Its 2022, I dont want to have to sit on the floor, two feet from my screen, the sofa is across the room and thats where my ass likes it best.

Then there's the games. By far my biggest gripe. Id say almost 80% of the ROMs Ive downloaded just dont work, and if they do work there will still be something else that makes it unplayable. Case in point, this morning I tried to play Robin Hood, an old point and click adventure Id spent way too much time on as a child. I am unable to play the game because a keyboard is needed to press a number to select the language, except the keyboard on the machine is fake, and the 'Home' button which brings up a digital keyboard only works some of the time.

Then theres the fact that the Amiga only recognises and runs certain types of file, so the one single seemingly playable copy of Sensible World of Soccer that Ive found online cannot be used. I've found many other SWOS roms of course, fucking none of them were any use.

Has anyone found a site with files that actually work? I've given up and stopped trying now, like I say, 80% of them are unplayable.

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On a slightly unrelated sidenote - Does anyone know how to get the goalkeeper to control himself in Speedball 2? Or was having to control the goalkeeper always the way? I suck at being goalie and getting my ass kicked is even less fun than downloading a hoarde of ROMS just to find out theyre all unusable.

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