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Nate Craddock

Media Creator, Electronics Hobbyist, Developer, Leader, and Speaker

I've been messing around with my old Amiga. I got it working using its native 68000 CPU, built-in 1.3 ROM, and Workbench 1.3.  

It worked great, but I wanted to do something to make it a little easier to work with. First, I hadn't gotten around to building a cable to go from the Amiga RGB to my non-standard connector Sony display. Second, while Workbench 1.3 is cool from a historical perspective, I'd prefer to have something a little less old since I have some plans for some projects using older graphics software and drawing tablets.

There have been many neat projects for Amigas and retro computers using Raspberry Pi (in my case, Pi Zero) to upgrade these retro computers. I've only begun to play around with these, but I've got a piStorm doing simulating a much faster 68000 chip and the rgb2hdmi to give out HDMI from the Amiga. Pretty neat! I can't wait to play around with this more.

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