Amiga on Ian's Projects

Amiycoders

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AmiyCoders contains a yEnc encoder (AmiyEnc) and a yEnc decoder (AmiyDec) for the Amiga. At the time it was written, it was the only natively available encoder and decoder for AmigaOS, although that’s probably changed since. It is able to handle single part and multi part encodings, with or without CRC32 checksums and whether or not the encoding is embedded. yEnc is an encoding method which offers efficient and proper transmission of binaries over Usenet, Email and similar media. It is similar in principle to Base64 or UUencode but is usually more efficient because of various tricks it employs.

Disk Thermometer

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Thermometer is a small command line program for the Amiga, which is capable of reading the temperature of SCSI hard disks which have sensors. It supports all three temperature readings which hard disks use: Current Temperature, Reference Temperature, Most Recent Temperature Reading.

Downloads

Download	Version	Description
thermometer.lha	v0.3	AmigaOS Binaries & Installer (Released: ~2005)
thermometer_src.zip	v0.3	Amiga E Source Code (requires Q-Devices source)

Go Fetch!

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Go Fetch! was a download manager for the Amiga, written before the term was really coined. It attempts to automatically download files for the user in a ‘fire & forget’ manner using HTTP or FTP. It has an extensive AREXX scripting interface, which allows it to be integrated with almost any application, such as web browsers, email clients, irc clients etc. Various prebuilt AREXX scripts are supplied to integrate Go Fetch! with other software.

Go Portscan!

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Go Portscan! is a network portscanner for the Amiga. It supports both TCP and UDP portscans and includes an extensive service table to help identify what service or program is running on the open ports. Go Portscan! also supports pinging (UDP and ICMP), traceroute (UDP and ICMP), ping sweeping, DNS resolution and ICMP reporting.

Feature Summary

GUI based upon the MUI toolkit
Localisation support
TCP & UDP port scans with flexible port selections
Logging of port output from scans
Configurable timeout and delay
Service lookups using the internal table, or the TCP/IP stack’s table
Service lookup queries
Bookmarks manager
Telnet, ftp or http to open ports
DNS resolution
Ping facility (UDP & ICMP) with broadcast support
Ping sweeping with DNS resolution and ICMP message reporting
Traceroute facility (UDP & ICMP)
Bubble help and context sensitive online help

Downloads

Download	Version	Description
GoPortscan.lha	v1.1	AmigaOS Binaries & Installer (Released: ~2003)
GoPortscan_src.lha	v1.1	Amiga E Source Code

MAX'S BBS Doors

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

MAX’s BBS was very popular dial-up bulletin board software largely in use before the internet became so ubiquitous. Bulletin Boards were online services accessed via a telephone number using a modem. The user was presented with a menu system based around ANSI or occasionally RIP graphics and could download files, play games, read mail or chat with other users. For a more in depth explanation see the BBS definition on Wikipedia. During the 90s I ran a BBS called “The Jelly Zone” which originally ran on MAX’s BBS but later changed to running Zeus. In that time I wrote several doors for MAX’s to extend its functionality. Most of the doors are written in Amiga E or AMOS Basic. I wrote many more than are presented here, but unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately!) they’ve suffered from bit-rot and vanished.

Mount Winchester FL16

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A full length 16bit ISA Hard Card for mounting and powering drives from an ISA slot

Features

Make use of those ISA slots by mounting up to 2 x 3.5" drives or 3 x 2.5" drives (or a combination)
Hard drives can be powered directly from the card, or from the power supply.
5 power points for attaching up to 5 power cables which can be either Molex or SATA
Power LED

BOM (THT)

1 x 330 Ohm Resistor
1 x 3mm LED
Up to 5 x Molex or SATA power connector cables (optional)

Q-Device!

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Q-Device! is a tool for querying and controlling devices attached to SCSI or IDE buses for the Amiga. SCSI and IDE devices contain pages of information which describes the device’s features, modes of operation and diagnostic status. In many cases these pages are configurable to allow the user or the manufacturer to tweak the device’s operation. Q-Device! is capable of decoding much of this information and presenting it to the user. Experimental support was written for a pseudo-device driver which allowed Q-Device to directly query SCSI/IDE devices of other machines on the network. It requires the qdd daemon which I wrote in C, to be running on the remote machine. Support was written for both Linux and Solaris and although it worked, it never really went beyond the experimental stage. It’s primary use was to allow me to test q-device against many more devices without having to physically connect and disconnect them from the Amiga.

RebootPatch

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Rebootpatch has little practical use but was really written to understand how to patch system functions on the Amiga. It patches the ColdReboot() function to open a requester asking the user whether they want to allow or deny the reboot. Unfortunately it cannot trap reboots triggered by the keyboard or reset button as these are hardware resets, which probably helps to make it even less useful. :)

Downloads

Download	Version	Description
rebootpatch.lha	v1.0	AmigaOS Binaries (Released: 1997)
rebootpatchsrc.lha	v1.0	Amiga E Source Code

TwinkleBlanker

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

TwinkleBlanker is a module for the screensaver suite called MadHouse for the Amiga. It displays twinkling stars in various colours.

Downloads

Download	Version	Description
twinkle.lha	v1.2	AmigaOS Binaries & Installer (Released: ~1999)
twinkle_src.lha	v1.2	Amiga E Source Code

Amiga on Ian's Projects

Amiycoders

Disk Thermometer

Downloads

Go Fetch!

Go Portscan!

Feature Summary

Links

Downloads

MAX'S BBS Doors

Mount Winchester FL16

Links

BOM (THT)

Q-Device!

RebootPatch

Downloads

TwinkleBlanker

Downloads