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Formula One Grand Prix (known as World Circuit in the United States) is a racing simulator released in 1991 by MicroProse for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC created by game designer Geoff Crammond. It is often referred to as Grand Prix 1, MicroProse Grand Prix, or just F1GP. (Wikipedia)

Hi,

Can somebody please point me in the right direction for instructions on using diagrom, I'm trying to resurrect a B2000-CR 4.3, Kickstart 3.1 comes up, OS 3.1 install silently fails, diagrom gives no on screen menus, its pretty confusing, I think maybe i need a serial console setup?

I don't see any battery leakage or damaged traces, there is the inevitable oxidation and cleaning and reseating got me to kickstart, I suspect RAM as there is that cluster of like 32 RAM chips and RAM might explain how its acting. I do have a donor -CR that I've been scavenging from. I could desolder all the sockets and put machined ones on there.

I'm going through an OSSC, I need to wire up a DB9 to the Bruktmoped mouse adapter.

Maybe diagrom only works on composite, not sure, should I pickup a newer diagrom?

Stupid Google Search AI is making things way harder, Google keeps giving me crap results and luring me into AI where is proceeds to hallucinate a bunch. Are there schematics for this board?

Thanks.

Vague memory of a game I played many moons ago. You would pick from various helicopters or planes and armaments to complete missions. I’m pretty sure a VTOL plane like the Harrier Jump-Jet was an option. You would fly sideways over terrains, bomb a target or drop supplies (I think) and then try to safely land again.

Has Amiga's future just changed? Are the Amiga legal battles over? Amiga Corporation's Mike Battilana explains what the new agreements with Hyperion and Commodore actually mean, agreements with Retro Games, Ltd and their THE A1200 and what Amiga's future could look like. The goal isn't merely to settle the past — it's to remove the legal uncertainty that has prevented new people and companies from building for Amiga. This isn't just another "Amiga legal news" video. It's a conversation about whether Amiga can finally move forward.
Mike goes into unprecedented detail about the agreements, the history behind them, what has now been resolved, and where Amiga goes from here.
We also dive deep into AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, Hyperion, 68K, future CPUs, Commodore, the upcoming THE A1200 from Retro Games, RTG, Amiga preservation, software licensing, free OS upgrades, potential future Amiga hardware, and possible Apollo/Vampire collaborations.
We open the floor to the Amiga community for an extensive LIVE audience Q&A!

I was wondering, if im composing for a game are there any particular things id need to do differently vs making music for its own sake? how much memory does the game code usually take up? do i need to leave channels open for sound fx or can the game sort out the voice stealing automatically?

I recently bought an Amiga 500 on eBay and have been having an unreasonable amount of fun cleaning it up, retrobrighting it, and generally behaving like I'm 12 again.

There is one particular part of the Amiga experience that I never really got to have as a kid, though.

I grew up with an A500 and Kickstart 1.3. A friend who lived nearby had an Amiga 600 with a hard drive, Kickstart 2.x, WHDLoad, and a properly organized Workbench. Games, demos, utilities, applications, everything neatly arranged on the hard drive.

To me, that machine might as well have been from the future.

I always imagined that one day I would have an A600 or A1200 of my own, with the "fancy" Workbench, a hard drive, lots of software installed, and the whole machine set up as a mature system rather than booting almost everything from floppy.

That never happened. I stayed with my A500 for years, which I absolutely loved. It was also the machine on which I made my first attempts at programming. I'm a Principal Software Architect today, so the little beige box certainly did its job.

Now I'm in my 40s, I have a young child of my own, and I have finally bought another A500. I also have a PiStorm on the way. I know PiStorm has its fans and detractors, but for me the exciting part is that it may finally let me build the Amiga I imagined having all those years ago.

So my question is: does the community know of a good pre-built hard drive image that I could start with?

Ideally, I am looking for something along these lines:

* Workbench 2.x, 3.x, or perhaps even 3.2

* WHDLoad already installed and configured

* A good collection of games and demos

* Useful utilities and productivity software

* Sensible directory organization

* Workbench configured nicely rather than being a completely stock installation

* Something intended to be explored and used, rather than just a giant dump of files

Basically, I would love to boot the machine and get that feeling of sitting down in front of my friend's well-organized Amiga that somebody has already taken the time to set up properly.

I realize that building the system yourself is part of the fun for many people. I also know myself well enough to admit that if I start from a completely blank disk, my ADHD will probably turn "set up Workbench" into a years-long project involving twenty unrelated side quests.

I have searched around Archive.org and elsewhere, but I have not yet found quite what I am describing.

Does something like this already exist? Perhaps a commonly used HDF image, a community build, an Archive.org collection, or some other starting point that people here would recommend?

I would be extremely grateful for any pointers.

Today I take a retrospective look at the Running Man across all formats. Share your thoughts and memories if you ever played this game.

Attached is the redip cia fpga replacement for the amiga. I thought there was only one for the c64 until I checked again. Fpga solutions is something I definitely should be getting into for all of my vintage computers but I would also be interested in your thoughts and experiences with this product?. How well does it work in your amiga?. Are there any other fpga solutions that I should consider?.

Hello, I am very new to this, so please be patient.

I am looking forward to using these old pieces of software, but through hours of trying to get them to run I'm in a blindspot. I used WinUAE with the 3.1 kickstart and the original .adf files, which yields no results. Now I'm trying to install Workbench on an external drive and try though the OS, but I reckon that wouldn't work aswell.

Could someone walk me through this or tell me if it's even possible? Is there an emulator for the Video Toaster hardware?

I am going on my first cross country move (yay) but that also means Packing the Amiga 2000 (boo) to be put in one of those pods things. The Amiga is the only real thing I'm worried about. My CRT could survive a nuclear bomb, my Commodore 64 still has the manufacturers packaging, my PET... Nah I wish I had a PET and a VIC-20. I Dont really own anything else of value other than a gaming pc and a cheap monitor, that being said, how would y'all go about packing and moving an AMIGA cross country as my most prized possession? It's basically stock, aside from scart-vga adapter, joystick to USB mouse adapters and so on and so forth, and a gotek that doesn't have mounting hardware, all of which will be removed before the move. I'd like to avoid denting the metal at all if possible, it's not exactly in perfect cosmetic condition but Ivr been looking forward to a restoration project.