Show HN: A Commodore Amiga Workbench Style Smart Watch with Mod and Say Support

_b8r0 | 122 points

In case anyone's interested, the source for the watch and all of the bike shedding along the way like the raytracer and emulator is here: https://github.com/stevelord/AWatch/

I'm waiting for the 2020 edition of the TTGO T-Watch, then I'll do another rewrite from the ground up with better code and hopefully support for external apps.

_b8r0 | 4 years ago

Considering the Vultures who own the trademarks are still exploiting AmigaOS and have no plans on open sourcing anything, I wouldn't be surprised if you got a not-so-kind letter from a lawyer.

snvzz | 4 years ago

Ok. This is one of the more awesome things I saw on HN ( even when nostalgia is factored in ).

I haven't worn a watch in forever and now I kinda want to..

A4ET8a8uTh0 | 4 years ago

I really love these hacker projects. Also your enthusiasm. I usually order the parts but after the some failures I give up and the land in a box. Ok, in most of the cases the project have no real life use, so there's not too much motivation.

However, the most important question : is your partner using the watch or ordered one?

tibu | 4 years ago

Commodore went bankrupt but the IP kept being bought out and Hyperion makes AmigaOS now: https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/

If you don't have an Amiga you can use AROS on your PC or in a VM that is the open-source version of AmigaOS 3.1 rewritten: https://aros.sourceforge.io/

orionblastar | 4 years ago

I'm part-way through porting Oricutron to the PineTime developer watch. I just have to work out how to solve the keyboard issue, and then I'll be sporting Oric Atmos as a time piece.

Also, the Oscilloscope Watch is supposed to be shipping now, finally. That's gonna be a hard watch to not add a synthesiser module to.

fit2rule | 4 years ago

This is beautiful! I'm glad they got the job done - but also now I really want an Amiga watch: if you could make the casing look like an Amiga500 (or C64, or ZX Spectrum, or Apple //) I'd throw money at it!

mrspeaker | 4 years ago

This is positively fantastic, thank you for showing this.

While I'm not big on the 1.X color scheme and UI, it should be easy to go from this to 2.X style.

krige | 4 years ago