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...
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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 thought I might as...
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...
HTML Howto, Amiga Computing 87, June 1995
(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 that the World Wide...
Howto: DTP Dilemma (Amiga Computing 89 August 1995)
There comes a time in everybody’s life when, despite their best efforts to avoid such a thing, they find themselves needing to do something horrendous such as producing a (dare I say it) graph...
SCSI on the Amiga (CU Amiga Feb 1995)
A SCSI-howto article from 1995 for CU Amiga… Now a little outdated!
Howto: DIL IC leg repair
So… You’ve got an IC that you’ve been working on, and you’ve managed to snap a leg off. At this point, you can: Fly into a rage because you’ve just broken something that is...
Archaeology: MFM / ST-506 Interface Reference
The ST-506 from Shugart Associates, later Seagate, was the first de facto standard for hard drive interfacing. It was crude by modern standards, but showed that manufacturers could choose to ride on the wave of standard interfaces…