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A600GS & A1200NG / Re: Amiga game selector
« Last post by janikosk78 on January 02, 2026, 07:04:02 AM »
I finally managed to get AGS to start using the instructions above, but as soon as I try to move around in the AGS menu, it returns back to the A600GS main menu. The same thing happens with the keyboard, a USB gamepad, and an Arcade R 9-pin joystick.

EDIT Actually, on the very first launch it seemed to work. I was able to move around in the menu and tried one game, and it worked normally. I shut AGS down, and a little later when I started it again, this issue began: moving in the menu sends it back to the GS startup screen.
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General chat about Amiga topics / Re: Switching to an Amiga as a Daily Driver
« Last post by Spektro on January 02, 2026, 02:05:57 AM »
Hello,
You could consider an AmigaOS 4 machine, with a real PowerPC hardware or emulated one. Ability to complete PDF forms and a modern web browser is missing, but otherwise it should fill your needs.
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General chat about Amiga topics / Switching to an Amiga as a Daily Driver
« Last post by WhereIsTheParadroid on January 02, 2026, 01:29:08 AM »
Hi everyone,

One day I hope to retire. When that happens, I'll no longer need space hogs like VMWare and Visual Studio, so I'd like to downsize my daily-driver from a fancy laptop to a fancy Amiga. Is that possible? I expect PiStorms to be much faster by then, too. And I'd rather stick with my A600, if possible.

I'll need:
  • 1 TB of data
  • Word Processing & Spreadsheets using OpenDocument format
  • Desk Top publishing for invitations and greeting cards
  • Browsing of modern websites.
  • MP3/FLAC
  • Streaming would be extra nice too.
  • Ability to complete PDF Forms
  • IMAP/SMTP client
  • Image editing, as close to GIMP, maybe ImageFX?
Is this possible now, or likely possible in the future?
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A600GS & A1200NG / Re: A600gs black screen
« Last post by janikosk78 on January 01, 2026, 01:24:14 PM »
The issue was fixed?? I restored my gaming TV to factory settings  ::), but interestingly, there was no sound on the other living room TV.
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A600GS & A1200NG / A600gs black screen
« Last post by janikosk78 on January 01, 2026, 01:05:29 PM »
Today when I powered on the device, I only got a black screen. The sound was playing, but there was no picture at all – not even the cursor. I removed the SD card and reinstalled the image that I had previously used successfully, but it didn’t help. The result is still a black screen with only audio playing.

I am using an LG 1080p TV. I moved the device to the living room and connected it to a newer LG QNED TV, and there I was able to get an image (I also updated the device at the same time), but on that TV there was no sound. I tried different HDMI ports on both TVs.

On the living room TV I tried changing resolutions and other display settings, but I still can’t get any picture on the main gaming TV. I also tried a different SD card. The power supply is the official Raspberry Pi power adapter.

EDIT I also tried using a different HDMI cable, but it didn’t help.
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Amiga Software News / Re: 3D Object Converter for AmigaOS 3.x / 4.x
« Last post by KZ_3D on January 01, 2026, 10:59:42 AM »
I released the v1.503 as web update on the last day of the year 2025.

Just use the Help/ Check for updates function to get it.

New modules since v1.502:
Ford Racing *.COD Load
Ford Racing *.RAL Load

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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: A600 glitches after recap
« Last post by Jacksoft on January 01, 2026, 10:45:26 AM »
That via is RGA_3 and looks ok on the multimeter. I also did a direct wire pin2pin from Paula to Agnus and the problem persists.
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Amiga News and Community Announcements / New articles on Obligement
« Last post by Daff on January 01, 2026, 07:51:22 AM »
The following articles have been added to the website of the Amiga magazine Obligement (http://obligement.free.fr) during the last two months:
Please note that the magazine has changed social network and now uses Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@obligement

- News from September/October 2025.
- News: The Quantum Apocalypse - will the Amiga escape it?
- Archive Articles from Génération 4 (Issues 62 to 84): Interview with Sean Griffiths; Comparison: Racing simulations; Feature: Cyberculture; Review: Campaign 2; Review: Liberation: Captive 2 [CD32]; News: Theme Park, a revolution in the making; Feature: The craziest games; Review: Ishar 3: The Seven Gates Of Infinity; Interview with Louis Bertignac; Report: Autumn 1994 European Computer Trade Show; Reviews: Universe; News: The future of micro-computing; Interview: David Braben; Miscellaneous: "Le courrier du Tengnard" (selected excerpts).
- Interview with Frédéric Letellier (webmaster of Abandonware Magazines).
- Interview with Hugues Nouvel (AmigaOS 4 developer).
- Interview with Scott Adams (pioneer of game development).
- Hardware: AmigaOne A1222 Plus.
- DIY: Aminitel.
- DIY: Building an Amiga power supply around an RPT-75B.
- DIY: Testing and improving the Amiga RPT-75B power supply.
- Viewpoint: Small things - a project for new BOOPSI classes for ReAction.
- Feature: Biography of Mehdi Ali.
- Feature: Official Amigas and commercial clones (updated).
- Tutorial: Data transfer between the Amiga and the C64 VC1541 floppy drive.
- Tutorial: Quick start guide for new A1222 users (updated).
- Programming: Assembly - Hardware zoom with BPLXMOD and BPLCON1.
- Special quiz on the A6000.

Rendez-vous on http://obligement.free.fr for this nice reading.
Our Mastodon page: https://mastodon.social/@obligement
Feel free to contribute. Please contact David "Daff" Brunet for more info.
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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: fastata and 4gb devices?
« Last post by Boing-ball on December 31, 2025, 08:08:00 PM »
Quote from: Michael_D on December 30, 2025, 10:42:46 PM
Hi,
did you try other filesystems like PFS3? (Aminet)
PFS3 can use "DirectSCSI"-commands in NO SPLIT-mode for handling partitions/hdd >4GB (PDS\0 as DosType).

Code: [Select]
FastATA'99 offers you the following support for HDD > 4GB:

1. SPLIT: dividing a HDD into logical units > 4 GB,
2. NO SPLIT:  FastATA'99 supports the following:
                 NSD (New Style Device  - OS3.5),
                 TD64 (TrackDisk 64)
                 DirectSCSI commands.

It’s the FastATA preferences that cause the split options to appear. Unfortunately the older software has issues when you try NOT to use the split options.
You can’t use the newer versions as they refuse to work with older models. You can thank Elbox for that.
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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / New here, looking for suggestions to revive old A500
« Last post by silvrax on December 31, 2025, 05:17:51 PM »
Hi all, new user here, with an old Amiga A500, looking for suggestions on how to revive it.

So, I dug out my trusty old A500 today to see if it still works. It did, sort of. But now I'm a bit lost where to go next and looking for some suggestions.

What I have is an original A500, rev 6a, with a 512KB memory expansion and upgraded kickstart 2.x.
(I have some other peripherals like an external disk drive, and a hard drive / memory expansion unit as well, but have not tried those yet.)

I bought a new power supply as I did not trust the old one. The system hasn't been powered on for many years.
Years ago I did remove the battery from the memory expansion as it was starting to show some sign of leaking, but there was no visible damage yet.

Today I blew out the dust, and hooked it up to an older LCD TV using a SCART cable I still had from back in the day. That cable has been used in the past with this Amiga, but not with this TV.
The screen flickers a bit on startup but then stays white. From some google searching, I suspect there are some resistors missing from this cable. So then I tried with the monochrome output, and got to a working kickstart screen!
I popped in an old demo disk and confirmed that the b/w image looks okay, and also both sound channels are working. Not too bad.

I then noticed that using Ctrl+both Amiga keys did not trigger a reset.

I powered off and on, and tried to load a workbench disk. It did work, but the floppy drive does seem to behave a bit strange. Sometimes I see the drive led coming on but hear no disk noise, and I think I also had cases where there was noise, but the led was off. I also noticed that sometimes it takes several drive clicks before kickstart notices a disk and tries to boot. And I had some random read failures with pop ups saying you have to replace disk X, which mostly seemed to go away with pressing retry. I guess some of this is to be expected as the disks might be bad.

I was able to confirm that all keyboard keys seem to work, except for the two Amiga keys. Other keys like shift and control keys etc. work fine.

So, that's where I'm at now. I'd like to try and get the machine back into a usable state. Mostly to play some games, but possibly also to try and do some coding again. (Did some assembly/demo stuff back in the day.)
But I'm a getting a bit lost with where to start, which is why I decided to post here. Been looking at rgb2hdmi, PiStorm, gotek, etc. But I'm not sure how usable some of those upgrades are if I don't know how well the machine itself still works. Right now I used it on the living room TV, and maybe with a correct SCART cable that would work, but it's not very convenient. The computer monitor I have only has VGA, DVI and displayport connections. I do have an HDMI to VGA adapter that I use with a raspberry pi on the VGA input, so I'm guessing that might work with an rgb2hdmi upgrade? Not sure what to do about the keyboard, try to fix? Or maybe there is a way to use a modern USB keyboard? Eventually using something like a gotek to not rely on floppy disks would be nice. But it would also be cool to see what I can still rescue off of my old collection of floppy's.

This post is probably already way too long, sorry! But yeah, I would really appreciate any suggestions and help on what to do next!

Happy new year!
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