It had a feeling. In a dark room my best mate, who owned an A500, put the disk in, and the sound (on a fairly good speaker) went on, then the animation started (f.e. Platoon). Goosebumps, man. Like a cinematic trailer. My next machine that could reach NEARLY the same effect, was an Xbox 360. But still, that wasn't unique. The Amiga was 'the one', like Neo in Matrix.

I was always afraid of using Amiga assembly language 😱... (and used blitz basic)... It's probably why i started assembly on C128 few months back... 😁

The Amiga was the first multimedia machine, before the concept really existed. If the internet had been available/affordable a few years earlier, or indeed if CD-ROM drives had hit the market just a few years earlier, then in both cases the Amiga would likely have been the best-placed machine to take advantage.

Amiga propaganda still lives strong today

did you have to change any OSSC settings to get it to work on your LCD? is your display a consumer tv or a computer monitor?

anyone got any links to where i can find this power supply in the uk

Thanks for disclosing this power supply, I used such a power supply with a 1541 II some time ago, after a while the drive stopped working, both the power LED and the drive LED lit up, switching the drive off and on didn't help, the LEDs both lit up, the drive was unresponsive until I connected a real 12V power supply to the 1541 II and it worked correctly again, I advise against this purchase. I'd rather have a normal new power supply for the C64 and a new real 12v power supply for the drive.

Amiga was best, until the processor speed just could not cope with vector graphics. Maybe it was the main flaw that sank the capitol ship.

A simple resistor divider should be enough to reduce the voltage going to the TV 👍

They FAILED by not putting an audio channel or two, dedicated for SFX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lik'd and Sub'd great video!

I think the overly complex hardware was its achilles heel in the end. The one feature I seriously think was important was the multitasking. The sound chip is a nice example of how an early idea ended up being a hurdle. We had a Mac, and all it had was 22kHz 8-bit sample sound in mono, and a bit later it became 44kHz stereo, but the positive thing was it triggered software synthesis. I found the fixed 2 channel left 2 channel right sound of the Amiga highly annoying, especially as tons of games struggled with keeping the sound running (Xenon Megablast had no music on the Amiga), or those nasty left-only explosions and such. Same thing with display. My SE/30 had no fancy blitters, just a 512kB display buffer VGA card that could do 640x480 in 256 colours (paletted), or 1024x768 in 16 colours, but it made the OS look way better, I could upgrade that Mac to OS 8.1, which brought very advanced stuff like video-codes, True Type, PostScript, Colorsync and software MIDI. The Mac was not the best gaming machine, although Beyond Dark Castle holds up very well in B&W, and Prince of Persia is still the best version of the game today, but on the other hand, the NES was better at that than the Amiga (including music), and the PC Engine in 1987 was totally overpowering the Amiga when it came to games with tons of massive sprites, and one of the finest 6 channel wavetable sound chips with stereo pans ever made.

Dang!!! This is so helpful. I still have my original 2000 I bought when they first came out. Even back then I only kinda sorta knew what I was doing as I pretty much just played games. I would actually have been better served by an Amiga 500. Didnt realize how expensive it was gonna be to really "trick out" my 2000. Then along came the PC clone surge and the 2000 went back into its box! Now that Im back into Amiga's and have acquired several 2000's, 1000's, and 500's this refresher course is just what I need.

i already replace all caps but still not work. what do i miss

What made the Amiga so Awesome, well 1st of all it was 1000 times better then what DOS could do back then, plus if you needed to run programs MS programs when the A1000 first came out it could do it without costing you an Arm, Leg and butt to buy it. I paid 1495 for everything I needed to run not only Amiga Stuff but the Transformer to run Lotus 123, Dbase II and III, etc. and it got me through since I was a Lotus 123 and Dbase programmer. plus it plalyed games, videos etc. Look what MS is doing today, I kicked MS out the door 2 years ago, and I am doing completly great without it.

Can we get an update? Did it re yellow since 2 years ago?

HI. I am in progress of SD card preparation for my real 1200 and tf1260. Tried to use IMG of the SD card available online, tried many SD cards, all ok under winuae, but none of them bootable in real amiga... So trying your method - the only thing i've noticed is - after when you add hardrive and want to click "properties" then "full drive RDB mode" is not available in newer versions of Winuae... tried 5, 4.10, and finally one 4.4 which has been used by you here...

One note about the sprites: there were only 8 of them. But that is per scan line. You could use the same sprite again and again down the screen, often using the copper to set the hardware registers, so that the CPU put the different positions into the copper list, instead of directly into the hardware register. The copper is a very simple co processor that could do only two things: wait or store a value to a register. The same goes for color. If you use only 16 colors, you are free to modify the palette as often as you want. It was common to use the copper to modify the palette for different positions on the screen and make bakground color different from line to line by changing the background color one per line. It as an amazing computer with well designed and "balanced" hardware. To bad Commodore did so bad job owning it. The next gen chipset should have been out in 1987, and development should just continued. With backwards compatibility it would have developed gradualy and probably still been here today.

Wasn't as awesome as the Atari ST! 😁

I had the same exact issue, I immediately suspected the power switch and remembered that I had a spare switch. I changed it and still the same issue! I checked the schematic and started probing with a multimeter. Then I watched your video and thought: Could it be that my spare power switch had the same issue? I then found an old Nokia modem that had the same power switch but red instead of blue. I soldered it to my C64 and the issue went away! So it was the power switch after all. I wonder if it's possible to clean these power switches to get them working again?

I think turrican 1 last level (the tower that need to be ascended to reach the boss) is much better and exciting than the alien like 5th level in Turrican II

i am using Dream102 ( a Dragon 32 emulator emulation program for the Amiga 1200 )... but it wont start off of a hard disc drive (floppy drive only) can some1 look into this how it could be started off of a hard disc rather than a floppy disc only? thanks.............

I have never managed to find the correct floppy disk drive to use with mine, unfortunately.

with this Devpac 2 or 3 can u program the Amiga (a big game or program) software etc? thanks..........

Tha amiga was far ahead of it's time, but also did the price, too expensive by the time.😅 Not everyone could afford one. But I could afford a ZX Spectrum 😂. The amiga was the Neo Geo for computers then.

My Amiga 600 seems to get no audio on the red channel and on the white channel you can barely hear anything. Is that what you were experiencing and why you replaced those two caps? Those are 22uf at 34 volts, right? I might try and replace them without removing the keyboard connector (I have a plan that should work).

Back in the early 90s, when I'd look at gaming magazines, an Amiga was some far off untouchable machine that produced unbelievable graphics.

Can't I just wire a 12v DC input straight in?

I loved this program back in the 90's on my Amiga 500 with a homeade MIDI interface going to a Roland PMA-5 sound module and recording to a Tascam 4 track cassette deck! Switching from Workbench to Windows XP, I went with FruityLoops around the first or second version, and the interface still hasn't changed much, hench I still use FL because I was raised on Bars and Pipes for MIDI composition transferable to current VST, as opposed to someone using a modular rig approach for live performance modes. But back then, Trackers that wrote MED and MOD files with embedded audio clips and demo scene music was widely popular, and a lot of people were using an early version of ProTools for Mac being the standard at the time. Nostalgia

I was wondering if you had tried any of the more modern dungeon crawlers along the lines of Krynn or Beholder. I tried to get into Krynn one day last week but I just couldn't. It was just too crusty, I'm sorry to say. Is there anything out there endowed with the pleasantries of modern gaming and none of the frustrations of the old days, which might also be considered seminal? Something called Neon Abyss often gets mentioned but it looks more like a 2D platformer to me.

Really Enjoyed this ! Great work fella! :)

I will force my sons to complete this game with me!! Never got very far when I was a kid myself. Great analysis!

Commodores marketing and game piracy on Amiga heavily contributed to its downfall, I'm part of the latter. Still have my Amiga 2000, 1200 & 4000, though and God knows how many floppys(A few thousand)

I setup SAS/C on my WB1.3 HDD install on my A500 as well as my 3.2 install on my A1200. I've been coding in Linux so long that I had to add a few quality of life improvements. VIM and an alias from smake -> make etc. Fun to finally do dev work on my A500. When I was last properly using it, I was in college but had no C or Pascal compilers for it and no HDD. I must give Devpac a go too

Amiga computers may have been good computers, but Amiga fanboys back in the day were insufferable. 🙄

I think the assign in the user-startup and the absolute reference to the header-file make more sense than your new solution. With the way you have set it up now, the header file always has to be in the parent folder of your working directory you are working in. So every time you set up a new project in its own directory, you have to re-point the software to the correct location of the header-file. Unless you are happy to create all your projects in subfolders of the devpac directory. Similar for your Include-Folder: You have located it in the "parent of parent" directory with the //, so again you will have to update the setting for each new project, probably. So having an assign to an "Include-2.0:" Volume makes sense if you want to begin to regularly work on new projects. Or even use something compatible with the NDK like "vincludeos3:"

I found the reason how it could find those .i files even though they are not on my hard drive, and how to get this install working easier (and correctly). It's covered in the follow up video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqjaoaR7g7yIibs

the sound is sooooooooooo good

Well, well, well, if it isn't Mr Amiga himself. Last night I got a couple of cans in, some snacks, all the neighbours crammed in for a watch party (okay, I'm exaggerating horrifically)...but no livestream. But that's okay! To drown my sorrows I watched bits of some of your older ones. I was surprised to see that, until perhaps 9 or 10 months ago, not a single one of today's regular livestream viewers were about. At least if they were, I didn't see them. It's almost like a travelling entertainer of old, passing through town after town for a night or two before moving on again, except it's the viewers who pass through. It's almost poetic. See you next time, when ever that may be.

Regarding the mystery include files: Try to just type "assign" in a shell, and maybe you will find that some other installation has already given you an artificial "include:" directory that devpac is just happily using.

There is someone still selling devpac. Do you have the ndk installed?

34:22 It is exactly what that error code means. You ran out of screen

10:30 root is : and btw you do not have to use cd to navigate paths :)

Loved Devpac 2/3 and TT on my Atari ST and TT. Great environment. Also loved HiSoft's X-Debug.

in many ways I like the 8580 more as it's clearer with more headroom, but the grimy sound of the 6581 really shines on more bass driven sounds imo, and the swinSID.... wtf... 😖

now that I think about it you probably used way too little vanish for it to have any effect - you only added one scoop to a liter of water. sodium percarbonate is only around 30% hydrogen peroxide so you only got like less than 20 grams of H2O2 at best so it was less than 2% solution. the problem with using powder stain removers is that they create a lot of sodium carbonate (soda ash) which makes the water very cloudy and foamy which probably doesn't help UV light to go through. liquid and gel cleaners seem to be working just fine, I used them to whiten an old router

I think the settings in the "Amiga Early Startup Control" also apply if the operating system routines are bypassed, because they are applied before the disk boots. Many old disk routines doesn't accept a CPU-cache in any form. Nevertheless, a fast 68000 Amiga (40 MHz ACA500, 80 MHz emulator) does not cause any problems with most games, as they are not synchronized directly with the CPU as with modern computers. Older, most 8 Bit computers/consoles doesn't work (or it runs proportionaly faster/slower) if the clock rate is changed. You can test it also on the emulator, try 1.1 MHz (must be above 1MHz to accept), you will be wonder how many 2D-games will still run better than expected (because of the custom chips), and 80 MHz doesn't matter. The 7MHz CPU ist over powered on most games:)