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#4: What’s an NDK when it’s at home?

Developers are used to the term SDK or more recently Framework when it comes to interfacing your code with outside code, whether that be the operating system or some third-part “widget” that does something for you, saving you time and

mrgadget October 16, 2021 Amiga Read more

#3: Installing Amiga OS

On the first Amiga the entire OS consumed only around 1.1 MB of storage in two pieces. Kickstart and Workbench. Kickstart is the Amiga equivalent of a BIOS but it is so much more. A fair amount of the system

mrgadget October 15, 2021January 31, 2026 Amiga Read more

#2: A tale of two cities… or?

Two development environments? It would be all too easy to show off running via Amiga Forever and pre-built system images but I don’t want to follow this route for a number of reasons. Pre-built systems can easily be overwritten if

mrgadget October 14, 2021January 31, 2026 Amiga Read more

#1: Amiga… for always…

One machine I am excited to “re-learn” is the Commodore Amiga. I bought my first Amiga (the first computer I ever bought for myself) in December of 1989. I’d known about the Amiga for a while but I never expected

mrgadget October 13, 2021 Amiga Read more

#0: The attraction of retro programming

The first actual computer I ever owned “booted” to a very underwhelming screen… OK, technically this is a MASSIVE cheat, partly as it is an emulator but also because this was grabbed from an emulation of the second model of

mrgadget October 12, 2021January 31, 2026 ZX Read more
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