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Ready Player One?
The film of one of the most unashamedly geeky books has finally come out, and I saw it on its first UK showing. The book, for those that don’t know, […]
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Retro fetish: world’s first portable colour computer – Commodore SX-64
The observant may have noticed a hobby of mine, which is collecting and using stuff from the early days of home computing. The times between 1980 and 2000 were quite […]
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AORM (CU Amiga July 1994)
(Editor’s note: my first review, which came about from me speaking to CU and asking if they’d want to review this new package. They asked me if I’d write the […]
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Howto: Paint your Amiga 500, 1000 for good results
Chances are that if you have an old Amiga, it’s not quite the colour it once was: it’s slowly doing a David Dickinson and getting more tanned as it gets […]
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Howto: flash a Gotek with no programmer
I wanted to mod my Gotek running the Cortex firmware to support a display, and the OLED 128×32 displays seem neat, and cheap, and well supported. Whilst doing that, I […]
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Emulating the Amiga on Non-Windows Platforms
As you might have noticed, I am rather nostalgic for the Commodore Amiga series of computers. They inspired me at an impressionable time in my life, the same way that […]
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Good omens?
Posted on June 12, 2019 | No CommentsOne of my favourite authors, since the mid 80s, has been Terry Pratchett, and looking back on his work, I realise his books have influenced me significantly. Buried in the […] -
Ready Player One?
Posted on March 28, 2018 | No CommentsThe film of one of the most unashamedly geeky books has finally come out, and I saw it on its first UK showing. The book, for those that don’t know, […] -
Howto: Paint your Amiga 500, 1000 for good results
Posted on March 15, 2018 | No CommentsChances are that if you have an old Amiga, it’s not quite the colour it once was: it’s slowly doing a David Dickinson and getting more tanned as it gets […] -
Modelling the Amiga: Amiga 1000 front flap for modification
Posted on March 1, 2018 | No CommentsAfter being tempted for years to tinker with a 3D printer, I took the plunge last Autum. But what am I doing with it? Printing all those bits that you […] -
Howto: flash a Gotek with no programmer
Posted on February 16, 2018 | 3 CommentsI wanted to mod my Gotek running the Cortex firmware to support a display, and the OLED 128×32 displays seem neat, and cheap, and well supported. Whilst doing that, I […] -
New Kickstart! (For me, not the Amiga)
Posted on January 24, 2018 | No CommentsI used to love learning new stuff, trying my hand at new skills. Now, with more than twice the years behind me that I had when I wrote the original […] -
Tabby Graphics tablet Amiga Driver
Posted on October 29, 2015 | No CommentsBack in 1994, I was rather enjoying student life, and to fund this I had a few part time jobs. It’s sad to say that all of them were related […] -
Bad Influence and the Amiga 1200
Posted on October 14, 2015 | No CommentsRemember TV? That thing you used as entertainment before broadband? Back in the 80s and early 90s coverage of anything to do with computing was at best awful, and at […] -
Retro fetish: world’s first portable colour computer – Commodore SX-64
Posted on October 14, 2015 | No CommentsThe observant may have noticed a hobby of mine, which is collecting and using stuff from the early days of home computing. The times between 1980 and 2000 were quite […] -
PUAE 2.4.2 Beta 26/9/2012 for Mac OS X
Posted on September 26, 2012 | 1 CommentWell, it’s taken quite a bit of time for me to get around to this, but once again I’m pleased to provide a build for PUAE. Gnostic has been busy […]