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Kickstart 1 – UK Amiga Show

So the UK has finally got an Amiga event! Ever since the last World of Amiga show ended, there has been a bit of lack of a big Amiga show in the UK, apart from a few anniversary events and of course loads of User Group meetings, Amiga shows in the UK have been very…
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Ai Is here?

Not strictly about the Amiga, but its scary to think that Ai I think has finally really arrived, yes it kinda been improving over decades, but over the past year with image being able to be made from text entry and now we have open ai Chat Bot, which ask it question it will spit…
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NWAG & CAGA

So finally after I think 3 years, if not a bit longer, got to go to a mini Amiga show/meeting. North West Amiga Group (NWAG) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1069238386454280/ Based in the UK, I joined this group when it was first founded and it’s nice to see that the group has now grown to 200+ members. In…
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Which Project?

So recently I’ve been thinking that I should really spend some time on just one project and see what I could get done/achieve the rest of the year. My problem I feel at the moment is I’m just dipping my toe in each and not really getting anything done in the time I have recently.…
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A500 Mini Review

So I thought I’d do a quick review of the system, basically it what you expect really, it’s a well built mini replica of the Amiga A500, but missing one crucial thing out of the box, that is the  A500 was A COMPUTER!!!  Not just any computer but one of the best home computers, this…
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AmigaONE X1000 10 Year Anniversary Thoughts

So just over 10 years ago, I bought a new Amiga, the AmigaOne x1000. It had a lot of promises, to push the Amiga platform to the next generation of computing. Dual core support, 64bit, cpu and this weird custom chip, Xmos. It all sounded very exciting, os4 also got Firefox port at this time…
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Cloanto should be doing more

Update2: Some of the information and suggestion in this Blog Post actually apply to Amiga Corp and not Cloanto, so to call it “Cloanto should be doing more” might of been a mistake. I was lucky enough to discussion some of these point with CEO of both companies, Mike Battilan at Kickstart 1 Uk Amiga…
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Easiest way to run Amiga Games

So this time next year we will have a product on the market that will likely be the easiest way to run Amiga games (the A500 mini), but before it arrives I thought Id show off some of the easiest ways to run Amiga Games Today! Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_amiga_games A huge collection of Amiga software…
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A500 Mini – Amiga Return to the High Street!

So recently in the Amiga world we had the exiting news that finally Amiga will be back on the high street, maybe not as a brand new Next Generation Amiga able to show PC & Mac users how computing should be done as some of us dream about, but as a Mini Amiga 500 computer…
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AmigaOS4 & PPC Future?

It is a shame about what’s happened to AmigaOS4 and AmigaONE market, I feel for the size of the market, the level of investment it had its kind of amazing by what has been achieved. Just think we had Eyetech dodgy development boards, OS4 lawsuit, PowerPC AIM ending (arguably the ending of true PowerPC consumer…
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