Amiga Quiz - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Nov 2006

 --- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
...
  wrote: 
 aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
  I got all the A600 related questions right,
 which is good as I own two :)  
 Out of interest, why was the answer to the "Only
 Amiga makes it possible"
 advertising slogan question "because it can
 multi-task and run a second OS" 
I have no idea. I knew it was either that one
or the "it can have 4096 colours on a screen".
I guess it depends how you define "multi-tasking".
As an Amiga owner with a A600 (with 2MB) it
can run say up to 10 applications at once
(depending how much memory they eat up)
 theoretically. Whether it can or not I don't
know, since I generally only have 2 or 3 things
running at once (eg. Workbench, a music
program and AMOS Pro).

...
  (or words to that effect) - surely plenty of syste
ms
...
  had existed before the
 Amiga which could do just that. They might have be en
...
  big and expensive, but
 I'm sure it wasn't a new concept.

 Gawd, extra-halfbrite mode. That takes me back...

 I got 11 out of 30. I suck. :-)

 What's the state of play with Amiga emulators thes e
...
  days - are they any good
 (and complete)? What's archived, on-line software
 availability like? I think 

Firstly I apologise if the next bit seems like
free advertising, but it's all relevant :)

Amiga Hardware
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Various "new projects" in the pipeline, 
including a PPC based machine and Amy '05.
New "Amiga's" since Commodore went under
include The Pegasos and the AmigaOne.

There are 2 sites I can point you to for a
pretty near complete (if not complete)
archive of info about Amiga hardware.
The first is Commodore Amiga Retro
( http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com )
and includes loads of decent sized pictures
of all the various Amiga's, and other retro
computers.

The other one is known as the Big Book Of
Hardware. Sorry, I don't have an URL for it
as I have never visited it. But from what I
have heard about it, it has a complete
archive of all Amiga hardware, including
pripherals.

Amiga emulators
-----------------

Don't really know much about them. There are
a few out there. UAE is one of them, but I
forget what it stands for.

Amiga software
----------------

http://www.lemonamiga.com has a huge archive
of info about loads of Amiga games, some
movie clips and some interviews with famous
Amiga people.

http://www.aminet.net is a huuuuge online
database of games, utilities, tools, libraries
and other Amiga stuff developed by bedroom
(aka homebrew) coders. There are atleast
6 mirror sites based all over Europe and in
the US.
Ownership of Aminet recently changed hands
(either this year, or last year) and so should
be around for quite a while yet.
I recently bought a modem for my A600 so I
could upload my stuff onto there, but before
I could do so I ran into problems (my original
Amiga 600 died).

Amiga magazines
-----------------

There are only 2 magazines that I know of:

Amiga Forever is a Germany-based magazine
which AFAIK is in English. There are special
issues available that come with CD's/DVD's
full of software, video's and other stuff.

Total Amiga is a UK-based magazine which
comes out quarterly, and is the one I buy.
Due to high demand in Europe and the US it
is professionally printed in the UK and in
Canada. It includes a round-up of the latest
Amiga news, the latest info about OS4,
interviews with people such as Eric Schwartz
and Dave Haynie.

Acquiring Hardware/Software
----------------------------

There are also various online shops to buy
Amiga software and hardware including:

http://www.amikit.com
http://www.amigadeals.co.uk

and an online advertising board for buying /
selling Amiga kit:

http://www.amibench.org (or .net , both work)

Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk

PS. Sorry if that was too long, or if anyone
fell asleep!