I took a break from some Amiga assembler programming to draw this piece. I had seen a picture from an advertisement of a knight attacking an Amiga 500, so I redrew it featuring Topaz, and gave Topaz a good reason to want to attack the Amiga. Enjoy!

Topaz Rabbit walks through building a simple bsdsocket.library based server for the Commodore Amiga using the C programming language. You’ll learn about development environment setup, waiting for socket connections & other signals, and reading and printing client data to the console.

References

Code

• Server code on Hackerbun Gitea (https://code.hackerbun.dev/TheIndustriousRabbit/amiga-bsdsocket-coding/src/branch/main/server_in_c)
  • Grab the code and follow along!

Documentation

• AROS bsdsocket.library notes (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aros/Developer/Docs/Libraries/BSDsocket#Usage)
  • Covers a lot of the Amiga-specific basics
• NetBSD socket programming (https://wiki.netbsd.org/examples/socket_programming/)
  • Guide to using sockets on a BSD-based system
• Amiga bsdsocket.library autodocs (https://wiki.amigaos.net/amiga/autodocs/bsdsocket.doc.txt)
  • Amiga function names and usage details
• SO_REUSEADDR example (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24194961/how-do-i-use-setsockoptso-reuseaddr)
  • Note that you don’t get SO_REUSEPORT or SO_LINGER on the Amiga!

Setup

• AmiTCP 4.3 SDK (http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/AmiTCP-SDK-4.3)
  • You’ll need this (or an equivalent) to compile this code
• Setting up the SDK (https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=1294161)
  • Forum post showing SAS/C and AmiTCP SDK setup

Credits

Music

• “Industrious Ferret” by Kevin MacLeod
  • https://incompetech.com
  • CC-BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Having trouble getting MiSTerFS to work on the AO486 core? Topaz Rabbit walks you through a workaround you can do on the Linux side of the MiSTer, then describes how that workaround works.

Thanks to Tyrel (@tyrel@social.tyrel.dev), Jim (@ijimkoz@mastodon.social)!

References

• losetup (https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/losetup.8.html)
  • Details on the losetup command

Credits

• “Industrious Ferret” by Kevin MacLeod
  • https://incompetech.com
  • CC-BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Topaz Rabbit walks us through writing a pizza timer app in C on the Commodore Amiga. Follow along and learn about Intuition, GadTools, devices, message ports, IO, and even signals!

Thanks to Tyrel (@tyrel@social.tyrel.dev)!

References

Amiga documentation and tools

• Elowar (http://amigadev.elowar.com/)
• d0.se (https://d0.se/docs)
• CodeWatcher (http://aminet.net/package/dev/debug/CodeWatcher)

C tutorials

• P.J. Hutchison’s Amiga C tutorials, where I got started with Amiga C (http://www.pjhutchison.org/tutorial/amiga_c.html)

Source code

• Pizza timer on hackerbun (https://code.hackerbun.dev/TheIndustriousRabbit/topaz-pizza-timer-amigaos-204/)

Credits

Music

• “Itty Bitty 8-bit” & “Industrious Ferret” by Kevin MacLeod
  • https://incompetech.com
  • CC-BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
• “Bells” by Nihilore
  • https://nihilore.com
  • CC-BY-NC 3.0 (https://www.nihilore.com/license)

Sound Effects

• “Reception Bell” by cdrk
  • https://freesound.org/people/cdrk/sounds/264594/
  • CC-BY 4.0
• “d-von request, A UFO Abducting 02, Remastered.wav” by MATRIXXX_
  • https://freesound.org/people/MATRIXXX_/sounds/659542/
  • CC-0
• “Explosion” by FlashTrauma
  • https://freesound.org/people/FlashTrauma/sounds/398283/
  • CC-0

I had two pieces in the Amiga Art Contest 2022, one of which I drew in Disney Presents: The Animation Studio, and the other I did in True Brilliance 2.0. There was a lot of amazing art and animation in the show this year, and you should check out all the entries.

Now that I know what I’m doing on the platform, I’ll be ready to make an even more impressive showing in 2023!

I wanted to store my completed AjSTer AIO MiSTer computer vertically when not in use. Inspired by some stands for other all-in-one computers, I designed this particular stand which seems to work pretty well.

You can get the STL from Thingiverse. Enjoy!