leimon @leimon@librem.one

So I stumbled across this video for #amiga fans recently about this board called the #amicube . It looks like it will basically be a #minimig but with AGA support. According to the video, there should be a bigger announcement in a couple of weeks.

https://youtu.be/HsjiMXMYqrU

@1Bit Hey I enjoyed your video, thanks for posting it. When you get a chance I'd love to see another video about your thoughts on the 256K as you've owned one for a time. I'd be interested to know what you like, what you don't like, what has improved since you got it and all that other stuff. Finally, maybe where you'd like to see it go as well.

Also, those Atari-style controller ports on it, do they work with Sega genesis controllers, or only with joysticks? Thanks in advance!

@dosnostalgic I've never heard of this before, but with those tiny sprites I'm wondering if this is perhaps a lemmings knock off...

@samf It's been over a year since you asked and maybe you don't care anymore, but just in case you do, there is an app nowadays called Tuba that's pretty great:

https://flathub.org/apps/dev.geopjr.Tuba

Hope this helps.

@martijnbraam Wow! It really came a long way.

@amigalove Who knew that petscii art could be so hot!? Thanks for sharing.

@janbeta Should you happen to enjoy anime, there is a great coming of age story about a high school kid falling in love with jazz. If I recall correctly, Moanin' was featured in the first couple of episodes:

https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GY3VW4PXR/kids-on-the-slope

While I'm far more partial to the design of the #CommanderX16, I must admit that I am a bit excited by any sort new retro-computing, retro console device.

With that in mind, allow me to present to you, this video on the #Agon #Console8:

https://youtu.be/3NqbouGTTqs

@mos_8502 That is a nice looking interface, for sure.

@thomholwerda Oh cool! Is that a reform and if so, which CPU did you go with?

@kyle Towards this end, I recently used #tic80 for my oldest (a fantasy console). It supports a bunch of languages to write code with, but of those, I'd either go with Lua or Python.

https://tic80.com/

I write retro games as hobby myself, and I have found that a fantasy console like tic80 allows me to prototype out a game idea about 10x faster than using a modern game engine such as Godot.

Hope this helps.

@soller I was looking closely at the MiSTer for a while, but what I determined I was most interested in was the #Amiga platform along with the #CommanderX16 platform.

Since what I really want to do is develop new 8/16 bit games, I pre-ordered the latest Commander X16 dev board. I'm also planning to get #TheA500 mini and/or the #V4SA.

Links in case you're interested:

https://www.commanderx16.com/

https://retrogames.biz/products/thea500-mini/

http://www.apollo-computer.com/

@Vyothric Crazy stuff. I think I still have a copy of this game. Don't think I kept the box though.

@tschak Sounds like great progress. Now I suppose those three implementations are roughly at parity with each other. What will you be working on next? More software to run on the aforementioned platforms, or will you work on supporting another platform, or will it be some some sort of tangential upgrade to the networked resources accessed by FujiNet?