Streaming- / recording-setup
Flylink HD > HDMI splitter > USB 3.0 HDMI capture-dongle. Allowing for FHD (1080p/60Hz) streaming / recording. Hidden on the lower shelf of the top bench with the joyboards and dustcover.
Arcade Evolution Amiga joy-boards
DB9-connected arcade-sticks for the Amiga computers.
Commodore Amiga 500Rev 6a
Upgraded from OCS to ECS (relative to 500+ specs, HiRes Denise + Fatter Agnus), 1MB chipram and a FlashFloppy USB floppy-emulator board (replacing the 3.5" floppy-drive).
ACA500plus accelerator side-cart
With dual CF-card reader and 7MB fastram allowing the use of Workbench v1.3, v2.1 and v3.1 (/v3.1.4 by Hyperion) and GUI-launching of HDD-installed games with WHDLoad.
Competition Pro + ZipStik Joysticks for the Amiga computers.
30 year-old controllers have limited usability, I am fully aware of this... but I didn't think newly re-fitted joysticks would give up after only 2-3 months of use.
They did...
Then again, I am not a little kid anymore. These were built for kids, and surely not anticipated to last for 30+ years.
Guess I'll have to order some arcade-quality joystick-boards. Boards because I really like these kinds of controllers to have a solid base, keeping it from jiggling around in-use. And arcade-quality to ensure they outlast my Amiga-computer for sure.
I am finally an Amigan again! Not that emulation hasn't worked the last 10-11 years 😛 almost native speed these days (with input-lag of course).
I have to admit though, having the original hardware cannot be beat.
Original Amiga 500 - Norwegian keyboard version.
512 KB memory-expansion PCB.
RGB>SCART converter cable with L/R RCA sound-plugs.
Getting an Amiga to display (correctly) on a big screen LCD TV (40-60" with decent built-in scaler), requires an RGB + RCA (stereo sound) > SCART adapter-cable, as shown in the picture above. The scaler in the TV also has to support sub-480p resolutions, as the Amiga outputs from 320×256 (mainly used for games) to 640×512 for PAL (704×576 with over-scan).
The video below shows the picture-output in 16:9-format, which is incorrect.
Video of the game "Jumping Jack 'Son", loading a "cracktro"
The video above (excuse the quality, I used my Google Pixel XL to record it 😛 I don't own any fancy capture-equipment / -cards) depicts what was (at the time) a very normal sight.
Back in the day (late 80s / early 90s) cracking crews left a "business card" on their cracked software distributions (3.5" diskettes).
Diskettes loading what is now called a "cracktro" (or "crack intro").
"A small introduction sequence added to cracked software. It aims to inform the user which "cracking crew" or individual cracker removed the software's copy protection and distributed the crack. Such intros grew very complex, sometimes exceeding the size and complexity of the software itself." (ref. wikipedia).
"Crack intros only became more sophisticated on more advanced systems such as the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, and some IBM PC clone systems with sound cards. These intros feature big, colorful effects, music, and scrollers."
Kickstart v1.3 ROM installed.
Thank the powers that be for aspect-ratio control 😊 running the Amiga 500 at 16:9 did NOT look good (just look at the cracktro-video above for an example), 4:3 please! Thank you Sony!
"Cable-management"
Video of the game "Turrican II" loading + title-music
Video of the game "Golden Axe" loading + title-music
Video of the game "Mortal Kombat" loading + title-music + player-select
Although... we actually don't host Linux Presentation Day here in Norway, I'd like to make people aware of this event however possible. So to the few who actually reads this blog, you're welcome ;) :P
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