Where can I find details and history of the Amiga hardware?

[Amigoid1]

Here is another site that might help

http://amiga.emugaming.com/index.html


Cheers....

[Iggy_Drougge]

Actually, isn't Alice the graphics one?

It's not really that simple. All Amiga custom chips had additional functions. The Paula, for example, is known as the sound chip, but the U in its name means UART, and it is the floppy controller as well.
Alice is the name of the AGA version of Agnus, and Agnus is a DMA controller as well as handling parts of the graphic system.

[mikeymike]

I've just realised something the Amiga community needs.  An old man at a campfire somewhere where people can go sit and listen about the lost tales of Amiga.  A bit like the start of Monkey Island 2, though that was with two pirates rather than an old man.

Oh yeah, and the old man must be good at avoiding flamebait.

[bloodline]

Gaidheal wrote:
Cheers mate!  Muchly appreciated.

@ Alx.. umm, yeah probably I am too tired to think.  But I suspect I will need to tweak that aspect anyway rather than straight emulation.  Actually, isn't Alice the graphics one?  Oh bugger.  Anyway.

So, yeah, thanks again Matt, probably get on it over the next couple of day (I am bored at the minute) and see where it goes.  The fun is going to be setting up a working Java IDE again (I buggered up the MS one I was using ages ago - I don't do Java as a rule and it was a specifically MS project, i.e. extensions)  But if all fails I'll use notepad and the Sun SDK LOL

John

I hope you can get it to do something usefull (like run amiga software :-) ).. the Java ST emulator often just boots to the desktop and sometimes I can't get the mouse to work and other bugs too.

[Iggy_Drougge]

I hope you can get it to do something usefull (like run amiga software  ).. the Java ST emulator often just boots to the desktop and sometimes I can't get the mouse to work and other bugs too.

Hehe, that sounds just like the STEmulator found on one of the early Fish disks.
Of course, that was the entire purpose of that emulator, stemming from the days of bitter feud between the two camps.

[Gaidheal]

Hello again all!  I return from the land of "Hangover" (too much Hoegaarden) with fresh enthusiasm for hobby software projects.  I remember what (who?) Alice is shortly after posting, but thanks for the posted info.  Any version publicly released will definitely be able to do a lot more than boot to a desktop and wiggle a mouse pointer, I assure you.  Howver, before excitement reaches fever pitch (as if!) I should point out that any public release is months away, at least.  Indeed currently there is no code at all and the design specs and docs are in my favourite top security storage repository (which recently suffered minor Hoegaarden damage...)

Matt - I grabbed your AROS build for i386, by the way, and it worked nicely once I disabled USB in the BIOS.  Would not respond to keyboard or mouse until I did though.  My setup is an RF keyboard and mouse, with the mouse on a USB port the keyboard PS/2, just in case that is of use to you.  Looking forward to the fully functional version and any future releases.

If anyone is interested in supporting my hobby emulator (in any fashion), by the way, drop me a line at gaidheal@ntlworld.com and we'll chat some :¬)

So we are clear, it will be totally free, supported only the extent that I can be bothered, though probably open source anyway (i.e. support it yourself!  Damn it!)  and designed to give cycle-exact emulation of every Amiga model that was released, as well as allowing settings to then be tweaked so as to create a "Super 1200, Super 500+" etc.  Test games include "Hired Guns" and "Space Crusade" (though my version of latter seems to be messed up..

Anyway, enough ramble..  John