RobSmithDev

I'm currently working on an update to DiskFlashback and I wanted to add support for the Amiga DiskSpare.device disk format and so while investigating how it worked I thought I'd share my findings.

For something that I'm working on I'll need a level editor, so I decided to build one, and because its a useful topic I've decided to show you how a basic level designer could be built. This will be the bases for the level editor I need.

Back when I was much younger (I'm older than I look) and before owning an Amiga I was really into electronics. My parents bought me several of these electronics kits over the years and this is one of the ones I received..

In this video I'll take a small journey down memory lane for me and have a quick play with this kit.

I'm going to tell you a story about playing a small prank on a coder and a self proclaimed greedy musician and it all started on the 22nd of January, listing to Unstable Radio on djh0ffmans twitch channel.

Towards the end, he played one of his songs, Shipping Forecast, and what he said gave me an idea....

A while back I had a thought. There's magnets on the back of the iPhone used as part of the "MagSafe" charging, and I wondered if they were strong enough to actually damage the data on a floppy disk.

Admittedly this would have been more of an issue when you might regularly carry one of these around with you, but its still an interesting question.

Rather than just test the iPhone I'll test several different magnets after measuring their strength, and then we'll review the results.

If you've been following my Amiga 2000 series you'll have seen all kinda of changes to it over time, but I've always wanted to add an accelerator to it.

I've already got a Pistorm in my Amiga 1200, and this time, I'd like to keep it real, so, I ordered a Dicke Olga, which includes an MC68030 CPU running at 50Mhz with 128MB of fast ram, quite the upgrade!

In this video I go through the steps of installing it, and configuring it with a new M.2 drive, as well as an FPU and a CD-ROM too!

In the previous video I showed how I write the code to run the disk cleaning machine, but I never actually tested if it was actually effective.

In this video I'm going to attempt to clean and repair 16 floppy disks, testing their state before and after, and using Isopropanol and Washing Up Liquid, I'll also put my machine to the test by comparing it to a manual hand cleaning.

In the last video I showed you the design and build for my craziest of things yet. It's suppose to clean floppy disks, but why just do that when you can make it fun? I added speakers and LEDs all over it.

In this video I'll show you how I programmed both of the Arduinos and finally I'll show you the thing running...

After the Kickstart event last year I decided I wanted to create something to clean floppy disks. Sometimes they wont read because the magnetic material has come off the disk, however sometimes there's a layer of mold.

Now I could just make something simple, but why not have some fun... so I've designed the most crazy of contraptions to achieve this task.

In the previous video I experimented with the Action Replay MK III for the Amiga 2000. However it only worked with kickstart 1.3 and its a real pain to get to where the kickstart chip is.

In this video we're going to install a Kickstart switcher, but then mod it so it will disable the action replay when kickstart 3.1 is selected.