Good omens?
One 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 humour and wit there...
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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, is set in a...
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 older. Yellowing, or full...
Modelling the Amiga: Amiga 1000 front flap for modification
After 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 need, but can’t find…...
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 thought I might as...
New Kickstart! (For me, not the Amiga)
I 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 articles on this site,...
Tabby Graphics tablet Amiga Driver
Back 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 to computing, and specifically...
Bad Influence and the Amiga 1200
Remember 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 worst blaming computer games...
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 astonishing in the acceleration...
PUAE 2.4.2 Beta 26/9/2012 for Mac OS X
Well, 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 fixing the build errors...
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 steam trains did for...