Tag: amiga

The emulated Amiga gets a mouse, opens a window, and then boots Turrican II - whose custom trackloader refused to work until the floppy drive learned to actually spin.

One evening after the 68000 passed its cycle budget, the emulated Amiga boots a real Workbench 1.3 floppy to the desktop. The chipset, the floppy, and the three bugs that stood between a spinning motor and the blue screen.

First hardware numbers for the Amiga 500 programme: a real Kickstart 1.3 ROM executing deterministically on the STM32H753, with a p99 of 2.51M cycles per PAL frame against a 3.35M gate.