Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Amiga

Expansion hardware

I think it'd be nice task to try to cover at least the most popular Amiga expansion hardware.

I find the following stuff specially interesting:

• Phase5 Accelerator boards. The 1230/1240/1260 blizzards and the PPC boards.
• Popular sound and video cards.
• x86 bridgeboards.
• PCI interface boards.

Article tagging

For now, I've tagged every article and category (as well as subcategories of these categories) in Category:Commodore Amiga, with the following exceptions:

• Action Replay - This article has plenty of coverage from modern video game enthusiasts. If you feel that the Amiga aspect of this is important enough to merit this being included in the project anyway, feel free to tag it.
• Genlock - Based on the article's talk page, this appears to have nothing to do with Amiga.

Most of the articles in the subcategories should probably be tagged, but what about the games? --Anivron 06:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I have tagged every Amiga article (hardware, software, companies, OS4 games etc) that I could find, except all Amiga games, there are many more to tag in Category:Amiga games. --Marko75 (talk) 16:26, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

But what about the games? Should all Amiga games be included in this project, it can be many. Maybe too many to focus on, or? --Marko75 (talk) 22:49, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Genlock: Amiga Video Connector generated natively genlocked signal. It is a common hardware Amiga fact. External devices were just used to add an incoming TV signal, and output the mixed signal directed to any VCR, or TV broadcast device. The user could also use the external device to trimmer the intensity of one of the two input signals (TV or Amiga) and output it with various intensities of visibility. I think that genlock article deserves to be categorized with Amiga too, but only if someone will create into it a section dedicated to Amiga Hardware native feature of Genlock Techology, and I am not very skilled with professional terminology of TV signals and genlocking. Sincerely, --Raffaele Megabyte (talk) 20:49, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Project Page Content and Style

To any participants, feel free to make the project page and policies more closely resemble the WikiProjects of other computing platforms. Wikipedia:WikiProject Macintosh's page has many nice elements and policies, for example. --Anivron 06:41, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Article talk page template

Just a quick point, the Amiga logo is unlikely to be fair use for the talk page template. You'd be better off using a freely licenced image of an actual Amiga (there are several on the commons [1]) Alexj2002 15:13, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Feel free to use this Template:User Amiga and Template:User AmigaOS --Marko75 (talk) 01:18, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Wrong sourcecode on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_User_Interface

Strange to not be able to add a discussion message on the topic site itself, so I have to place it here. The source code from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_User_Interface is not working to compile properly. It says it is a complete example but compiling with 'gcc -o example example.c' only gives: example.c:6: parse error before string constant.

92.195.108.134 (talk) 09:46, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

World of Amiga

I have just created an article for the World of Commodore (later World of Amiga) series of expos. It seems to me that this topic is of prime importance to this WikiProject—these shows were where Commodore (and later Amiga Technologies) made most of its product announcements and releases. The shows attracted significant coverage in most major Commodore- and Amiga-themed magazines, and this coverage is the main source of Amiga history.

My area of expertise is in Commodore's 8-bit line, so I'm not really in a position to make sure the article appropriately covers all the Amiga news. (News reporting on the expos is chock full of references to Amiga companies and Amiga products, but I am not familiar enough with the technology or the names to know who or what is important.) It would be great if someone more knowledgeable with things Amiga could expand the article with coverage of the World of Amiga expos which took place from 1995 to 2002, and maybe also check the sources against what I've already written to make sure I haven't left out anything important. —Psychonaut (talk) 23:48, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Portal

Hello all. I have just created the Amiga Portal and have the basic skeleton up. Any contributors are welcome to add material there (do remember that on Portals all media must be free, not fair use). I'll be trying to spiff it up over the next week or two. H.dryad (talk) 13:07, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Defunct

Adding this to the list of defunct WikiProjects. Have tried to contact all of the active members and none replied and most have not posted anything in at least six months. Retiring this project for now. Would be willing to help if anyone is interested in getting it going again. Cheers. H.dryad (talk) 14:45, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Note not all of us are checking Wikipedia daily (eg. Marko75 edited not even 2 months ago and usualy has several months gap between edits). Sure, project is not very active, undead like Amiga... There are still some other more or less regular editors (like myelf) caring for Amiga articles without formal affiliation to project.Pavlor (talk) 07:09, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Glad to hear that. I just started editing the articles a few weeks ago and did not see that much activity but glad to see that some people are still at it. H.dryad (talk) 23:55, 9 April 2016 (UTC)