RobSmithDev

A while back I came across the Mamba, an after marker Amiga A520 alternative. The A520 is a TV modulator that allows you to connect your Amiga to a TV via its RF or Composite video output.

The A520 was very reliable, so why were there aftermarket alternatives made? In this video, we'll take a look.

Following on from the last video about dual format videos, I thought I'd take a look at the triple format floppy disks. These include content for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC all on the same disk.

In this video I'm going to take a deep dive, deep deep down into the weeds, into how the dual format disks worked that came with the ST-Amiga Format mag back in the day.

I'm currently working on an update to DiskFlashback and I wanted to add support for the Amiga DiskSpare.device disk format and so while investigating how it worked I thought I'd share my findings.

For something that I'm working on I'll need a level editor, so I decided to build one, and because its a useful topic I've decided to show you how a basic level designer could be built. This will be the bases for the level editor I need.

Back when I was much younger (I'm older than I look) and before owning an Amiga I was really into electronics. My parents bought me several of these electronics kits over the years and this is one of the ones I received..

In this video I'll take a small journey down memory lane for me and have a quick play with this kit.

I'm going to tell you a story about playing a small prank on a coder and a self proclaimed greedy musician and it all started on the 22nd of January, listing to Unstable Radio on djh0ffmans twitch channel.

Towards the end, he played one of his songs, Shipping Forecast, and what he said gave me an idea....

A while back I had a thought. There's magnets on the back of the iPhone used as part of the "MagSafe" charging, and I wondered if they were strong enough to actually damage the data on a floppy disk.

Admittedly this would have been more of an issue when you might regularly carry one of these around with you, but its still an interesting question.

Rather than just test the iPhone I'll test several different magnets after measuring their strength, and then we'll review the results.

If you've been following my Amiga 2000 series you'll have seen all kinda of changes to it over time, but I've always wanted to add an accelerator to it.

I've already got a Pistorm in my Amiga 1200, and this time, I'd like to keep it real, so, I ordered a Dicke Olga, which includes an MC68030 CPU running at 50Mhz with 128MB of fast ram, quite the upgrade!

In this video I go through the steps of installing it, and configuring it with a new M.2 drive, as well as an FPU and a CD-ROM too!

In the previous video I showed how I write the code to run the disk cleaning machine, but I never actually tested if it was actually effective.

In this video I'm going to attempt to clean and repair 16 floppy disks, testing their state before and after, and using Isopropanol and Washing Up Liquid, I'll also put my machine to the test by comparing it to a manual hand cleaning.