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The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Is PHP actually ported to AmigaOS?

I have long had the thought about what it would be like to have PHP running on an Amiga (I mean a real one), and have tried to search and ask about this. It's ambiguous as to whether or not it really ...
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Reading data from a 23 year old IDE harddrive

I have a 200 MB Western Digital 2.5" IDE drive, originally from an Amiga 1200, that I would like to try to get an image file of, so I can keep the data that is on it. Since the drive is very old, and ...
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Can I use my Amiga2000 Keyboard with a modern PC

As the title asks, is it possible to use an Amiga 2000 keyboard with a modern computer. The keyboard in question uses an old plug (A2000 if I remember correctly), not PS/2, or USB. I currently do ...
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How do I install AmigaOS 4.1 on a standard x86 system?

The AmigaOS may just be remembered as an operating system from the 80's and 90's, but it is still alive, and has evolved into a modern OS, the latest release being 4.1 in Dec. 2014, with a modern UI ...
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Bulk copy files from CD, and rename disallowed filenames along the way

I have an old CD with Amiga files on that I want to copy to my modern Windows 7 PC. Most files are read fine, but when Windows finds a file with a problematic filename, it only allows you to skip ...
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Convert Amiga Oktalyzer format to MIDI

I have some very old audio files from an old DOS game, which are in oktalyzer (.okt) format. I don't know much about the octalyzer format so I'm not sure what these are based on, though, when played ...
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How to prevent sound being sporadically choppy when playing Amiga games on WinUAE?

I find that when playing Amiga games in WinUAE, the sound goes choppy for no apparent reason. Sometimes this happens right away when starting emulation, other times sound is fine for a while then ...
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Software for copy file to an Amiga floppy

I need to copy a program to an Amiga floppy (Twin Express) but I cannot find a method how to copy it to an amiga disk, the target Amiga is an Amiga 1200 which has a workbench 3.0 system. Any program ...
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Copy all contents of an Amiga harddrive to a PC

I have an old Amiga hard disk drive (CP2088 Conner drive). It is a 2.5" IDE drive (see bottom). How can I connect this to a PC, what software is needed, and how can I convert the entire disk to a ...
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WinUAE telnet from serial.device

I want to "call" a telnet BBS from my NComm running on WinUAE. Have someone achieved this and if so - how ?
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Best UAE for OSX? [closed]

What is the best UAE version for OSX? I have tried E-UAE and there was something weird going on with the emulated screen. It didn't seem solid at all. I tried PUAE too, and it seemed much better, ...
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Problem with Amiga 1200 accelerator board

I just recently walked past a dump, where in the corner of my eye I spotted something that looked like a huge keyboard. I went to take a closer look, and found out that it was an Amiga 1200 with a 030 ...
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Is there a modern monitor that works with original amigas?

I realise that I'll need a scandoubler, but that will still mean a monitor that can sync to a 31kHz horizontal signal. Is there anyone actually using a currently-available LCD monitor in such a way? ...
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Amiga 1200 Kickstart ROM upgrade, white screen

My towerised Amiga 1200 came out of storage recently and I've been messing around with it a bit. I decided to give it an OS upgrade so I purchased Kickstart 3.1 ROMs and Workbench 3.1 disks. I ...
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Internet Connection Sharing via SLIP

I'm trying to get my Amiga 2000 online with a serial cable connected to a PC running Windows XP. I'm following these instructions, which glance over how exactly to configure Internet Connection ...
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Is there a usable Amiga CD32 Emulator? [closed]

I know that UAE is a pretty good Amiga Emulator, but it seems aimed to emulatr an Amiga 500 or a 1200. While the CD32 is similar to the Amiga 1200 - 68EC020 CPU, 2 MB ChipRAM, AGA - it has a special ...
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