====== 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
====== Amiga Highlights ======
Here are a few subjective, some objective highlights of the Commodore Amiga and why this antiquated retro-machine is still actual.
===== Workbench =====
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The Amiga series of computers counts itself amongst the first personal
====== 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
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
====== 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
eamlessly, it becomes interesting to plug-in real Amiga hardware game controllers in order for MorphOS to become a complete substitute for an Amiga. MorphOS benefits from an USB stack, implemented ... , the same software that provides USB to the real Amiga. Many game controllers are thus compatible, rangi... DB9 connector, one that is to be found on a real Amiga and that allows plugging in mice and joysticks, s
ared space inhabited by MorphOS while Trance maps Amiga primitives to MorphOS. In other words, Trance is ... s of the target platform.
For example, while [[/amiga/hunt_and_gather|Hunt and Gather]] runs flawlessly... absolute guarantee that it would run on a native Amiga.
Other possible applications would include testi... ing system.
====== Demonstration ======
{{video:amiga_morphos_containerizing_applications_demonstration
====== 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
====== 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 '
====== 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 ======
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]].
* [
====== 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
s are installed.
The solution is to use [[/fuss/amiga/installer#using_the_proper_commodore_amiga_installer|the original Commodore Amiga installer]] and given that MorphOS is able to run m68k code direc... he bundled Trance emulator the original Commodore Amiga installer will work perfectly fine.
In order to
