Reviews Archive
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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, […] -
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 […] -
AORM (CU Amiga July 1994)
Posted on November 15, 2011 | No Comments(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 […] -
HTML Howto, Amiga Computing 87, June 1995
Posted on November 15, 2011 | No Comments(Editor’s note: this was published in June 1995. Things have changed a lot!) By now, you’d have had to be completely cut off from the world not to have noticed […] -
Review: The Unarchiver for MacOS X
Posted on May 11, 2011 | No CommentsUnarchives more old skool formats than you can shake a stick at - but is it any good? -
Buddha Flash Phoenix Edition for Amiga
Posted on March 16, 2011 | No CommentsThe Buddha Flash Phoenix is a cheap, cheerful and available Zorro 2 IDE interface. Is it nirvana, or samsara? -
Broadcast Elite (unused by CU)
Posted on February 14, 2011 | No Comments(following on from the OpalVision Roaster article) Tucked into another corner of the room with its twenty one inch multisync monitor and smaller video monitor is another 4000 equipped with […] -
AmiFileSafe (Amiga Computing 91 – Oct 1995)
Posted on February 14, 2011 | No CommentsExciting! Interesting! Words never yet used to describe a file system review... And I continue that tradition here. -
CyberStorm 060 + Cybervision 64 (CU Amiga August 1995)
Posted on February 8, 2011 | No CommentsSummer 1995 saw the launch of Phase 5's CyberStorm and CyberVision. Were they any good? Read on, brave reader... -
3D Spectacular (CU Amiga December 1994)
Posted on February 7, 2011 | 1 Comment(Editor’s note: this article appeared in the December 1994 issue of CU Amiga, and ran over 4 pages) Cast your mind back to late 1986. In computer shops around the […]