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...
Category: Articles
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 review… so I did. ...
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...
Review: The Unarchiver for MacOS X
Unarchives more old skool formats than you can shake a stick at – but is it any good?
Buddha Flash Phoenix Edition for Amiga
The Buddha Flash Phoenix is a cheap, cheerful and available Zorro 2 IDE interface. Is it nirvana, or samsara?
Broadcast Elite (unused by CU)
(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 34MB, 5 GIGAbytes of...