Here’s what I’m using for Amiga development in various platforms and languages. This will be continuously updated.

Pimiga

I’m using a Pimiga as my very convenient emulated setup.

Hardware

• Raspberry Pi 400

Software

• Pimiga 1.5
• Amiga Forever Essentials
  • I just need the ROMs
• TuiTED
  • Set that editor font to XCourier!

Languages

Any

• https://datassette.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/livros/amiga_programmers_quick_reference.pdf

C

• SAS/C 6.5.8
  • SAS/C 6.5.0 in TOSEC crashes on Pimiga, but 6.5.8 works great
  • https://archive.org/stream/sasc-650-vol1/sasc-650-vol1_djvu.txt

Guides & Tutorials

• http://www.pjhutchison.org/tutorial/amiga_c.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1_gZAsiaw0
  • https://github.com/weiju/amiga_hardware_in_c

SAS/C Notes

• Use far on an struct if you get link errors about data > 32768
  • The Custom struct seems to trigger that
• Data types
  • uint8_t is unsigned char*
  • BOOL is int

vbcc notes

• For some reason I got this working a lot easier the second time around on Pimiga

AMOS

• AMOS Professional 1.12

Amiga 1200

Hardware

• An Amiga 1200
• A Gotek drive
• An ACA 68030 accelerator with 128MB of Fast RAM

Mouse

• I got an Amiga <-> USB adapter and it taked a few minutes and a bunch of right clicks for Paula or the CIA to “warm up” to the right clicks.

Gotek

• Floppy writes in FS-UAE are cached via overlays
• The USB drive needs to be formatted fat16 and you need two files at the root of it
• You use the two buttons to move back and forth between the mounted ADFs
• You can’t put new ADFs into the rotation without a reboot

CF Card in PCMCIA reader

• What worked
  • Transcend PCMCIA -> CF adapter
  • SanDisk 512MB
• What didn’t
  • Verbatim 4GB
• You can’t use an Amiga FFS or similar card in the PCMCIA slot. It has to be FAT16 or FAT32.

Networking

• Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11b card
• prism2.driver
  • Get the prism2v2 so you can get WPA2
  • WirelessManager runs in the background and handles the connection to the network, while MiamiDX does the TCP/IP stuff
• MiamiDX

WPA2-TKIP

• I needed to set up hostapd on a Raspberry Pi to create a slightly downgraded access point that bridged to the rest of my network.

  # hostapd.conf
  
  wpa=2
  wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
  wpa_pairwise=TKIP
  rsn_pairwise=CCMP
  

MiSTer and Minimig

FPGAs are cool.

Hardware

Sending HDFs from FS-UAE to Minimig