====== Amiga 1200 Motherboard Fixes ======
These are various fixes for different versions of the Amiga 1200 (Escom and Commodore) that will make the Amiga work better with an accelerator card from brands lik... inouts ======
This pinout is consistent with the Amiga A500, A600 and A1200.
Commodore was never consis
====== About ======
The Amiga can be conveniently controlled via a WeMoS D1 Mini board in order to either pull data from the Amiga (such as CPU temperature) or turn the Amiga on or off via triggers such as Amazon Alexa.
The [[iot/desi... tself.
The following modification to a towerized Amiga 1200 will consist in the following steps:
* mod
====== About ======
One of the more difficult Amiga 1200 modifications to perform is to get a [[http://w... MK-II Cr2 graphics card]] inside the traditional Amiga wedge case. The problem stems from the fact that ... top of Alice but extends to the RAM chips on the Amiga 1200 board.
Elbox, the producer of FastATA, offi... you to keep the original wedge-shaped case of the Amiga 1200.
====== Alternative Modifications ======
O
operating system just like a physical drive. All Amiga versions create a RAM drive on the Workbench that... uch as ''~/Downloads'' for temporary storage, the Amiga includes working with a volatile RAM drive in the daily workflow. On the Amiga, it is taken for granted: all the work takes plac... age.
===== Persistent RAM Drive (RAD) =====
The Amiga supports the creation of a (semi-)non-volatile RA
o the Workbench menu and tick "Backdrop" (or <key>AMIGA-B</key>). Then, to make the setting persist acros... ch NT Q -LoadSeg
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====== Amiga CapsLock Key-Codes ======
* One blink: Keyboar... een two lines or the special control keys.
Every Amiga keyboard blinks once when switched on.
====== Amiga Screen Codes ======
* Red: An error was found in
====== About ======
A vanilla Amiga does not reach its full potential when first being acquired. The cla... w fast Workbench icons are rendered, how fast the Amiga feels when moving windows around on the Workbench... t 3.9 ======
Updating the kickstart when running Amiga OS 3.9 is performed by the tool ''SetPatch'' that is called at the very beginning of the Amiga startup sequence (''S:startup-sequence''). When '
====== About ======
The Amiga Mediator produced by Elbox accepts diverse PCI cards except for the USB ca... ows you to spare USD60 and add an USB card to the Amiga Mediator.
* An USB 2.0 PCI card - a NEC based ... the Spider USB card. These go for about USD5.
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* ''CH341A'' EPROM programmer - can be
====== Foreword ======
This Amiga ARexx manual carries the copyright:
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Copyright (c) 2012, 2013, ... om the Internet.
====== About ======
ARexx, the Amiga counterpart of the IBM REXX programming language,... reference section of ARexx commands.
* [[fuss/amiga/arexx/manual/introducing_arexx|Chapter 1. Introdu... r gives an overview of ARexx, how it works on the Amiga, and the basic features of the programming langua
====== About ======
Amiga's last operating system is OS3.9 (the development now focus on OS4 which has little to do with the Amiga) with two official boing-bags and two user-contri... ted boing-bags. OS3.9 can be run on a traditional Amiga with the help of few updates that patch the Kicks... == Requirements ======
===== Hardware =====
* Amiga 1200
* Kickstart 3.1
* OS3.9
===== Software
====== About ======
All Amiga models have two ports running along the back of the machine that allow plu... e a second controller to be plugged in. Since the Amiga has just two ports, a mouse port and a joystick p... of mouse and joystick switchers available for the Amiga but they all have flaws that are sometimes a show... switchers are external devices and connect to the Amiga with a short wire running to the mouse port and a
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Even with the new Mediator 1200 TX, the Amiga still does not receive the correct amount of powe... er to the motherboard instead. Unfortunately, the Amiga motherboard does need the $-12V$ line to be power... a P9 for which we have the following pinouts:
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Since the P9 AT connector does n
a Compact Flash (CF) card to be used with a real Amiga (in our case, Amiga 1200).
====== Requirements ======
===== Hardware =====
The hardware requirements are rather straight-forward:
* An Amiga A1200 or A600.
* A CF to USB adaptor that will ... ows (XP, preferably Windows 7).
* The Universal Amiga Emulator [[http://www.winuae.net/|WinUAE]].
* [
torial is about creating a cross compiler for the Amiga 68k on OSX. We are going to compile and use ''vbcc'' along with the Amiga ''NDK'' version ''3.9''.
====== Compile Cross As... ==
The system headers and libraries for the m68k Amiga platform must be downloaded as well as the standa... pb-owl.de/~frank/vbcc/2011-08-05/vbcc_target_m68k-amigaos.lha|vbcc_target_m68k-amigaos.lha]]
* [[http:/
ckstart ROMs can be burnt in order to replace the Amiga chips. One reason to do this is to upgrade a classic Amiga to newer AmigaOS versions without having to patch the ROM at runtime via ''LoadModule'', ''LoadResident'... d how to operate a TL866 Pro in order to burn two Amiga ROM chips with kickstart 3.1.4.
====== Requireme
o is ARexx For? ======
You do not need extensive Amiga experience to use ARexx programs and scripts, but... need to know how:
* To open a Shell and enter AmigaDOS commands
* To use a text editor, such as Not... you should have a basic understanding of both the Amiga Workbench and AmigaDOS environments. Experienced Amiga users may find ARexx easier and more powerful tha