ScuzzBlog: Diaries July 2022 Entry 5th July 2022: Post 1: Amiga Portability - AZLINK and the Z88. Amiga Portability - AZLINK and the Z88. I found myself zonking all over the place to cover the feature on Ten Years of the Amiga as presented in May/June of 1995 of AUI. My main interest had been the article on Portability and the AZLINK software for the Z88 as featured in the April edition of AUI. But the later editions had a promotion for the Z88 cable and software and that took me back to the April edition. Not any more clear and I am truly sorry. OK... There is a very splendid article in the May 95 edition of AUI regarding the first ten years of the Amiga. This is further expanded in the June edition of the AUI, and seriously is well worth the read. I include scans of the pages for your purposes. As ever with AUI you get a plethora of games and utilities crammed onto a couple of disks. Sadly the second disk is never a disk you can ADF and so I spent an age de-crunching the disk and making an ADF so I could play on the emulator. Turned out the two games that are featured are quite disappointing and not really worth the effort. The game SNEECH was written using AMOS. The main reason for my interest here was the portability article and the use of other computers to hook up to the Amiga. I was most interested in the AZLINK software and serial cable on offer. The link up lets you copy files over to the Z88 for mostly text based applications like word processors and spreadsheets. One of the biggest problems with the Z88 is the power needed to keep the EPROM populated. It just burns through your batteries if you are truly keen on the portable aspect of the hardware. I will link the blog I have for the z88 as part of this article. I have to say that the AUI magazine is way too busy for its own good. The information comes at you thick and fast. The disks are heavy with utilities and the like. Trouble is , it really is a bit much to take in and the utilities, as useful as they are , are never sufficiently impressive and useful to warrant the disk crunching. The games are just not fun enough, sorry for that. The magazine has historic and reference purposes, but Amiga Computing or Shopper have way more comprehensive articles and software in better organised chunks. Anyhoo, have a read of the Ten Years of the Amiga and if anyone has spare AZLINK serial cable then give me a shout. Amiga Portability - AZLINK and the Z88.

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