Articles 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, […] -
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 […] -
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 […] -
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 […] -
Emulating the Amiga on Non-Windows Platforms
Posted on April 12, 2012 | 2 CommentsAs 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 […] -
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 […]