the difference that is no difference makes no difference
In the past year I’ve acquired a few Arduinos (two Uno’s and one Nano). They were cheap chinese clones … and well they have sat in the drawer for most of the year … as I haven’t actually figured out much to do with them … until now.
So I have two Amiga 500s. One is a rev 5 motherboard one from my childhood. Another, I bought recently having a rev 6 motherboard. Both have an extra 512K so a total of 1MB of RAM which is pretty much ‘what you need’ to do most stuff on an A500. My rev 5 one […]
OK, so I still seem to be acquiring more old floppy drives to mod for use in Amigas. I seem to have a acquired a few more panasonic drives, as these seem to work as close as possible to a real Amiga drive. I thought I’d just note some of them down.
As per part 1 , I’ve been trying to find a solution for display output for ‘all’ of these old computers (so far two Amiga 500s, an A600, an A1200, a ZX Spectrum 48K, an Atari 800XL and an Acorn Electron). Basically I wanted a monitor or adapter and monitor that will ‘display any of […]
UPDATE: 20180207. I have added some of the Turbo mods used in PlayUEF, and also described on a few stardot.org.uk forum posts (here and here). More notes in the readme in the tar. freeuef-alsa-R3-0.2.tar.gz freeuef-alsa is a modded version of the UNIX version of freeuef (for loading tape images into an Acorn Electron). I’m […]
So with all these Amigas, it’s been a bit hit and miss having working floppy drives. My A500 from my teenage years seemed to have a completely dead internal drive, the 2nd A500 I bought cheap had a very marginal internal drive, the A600 had a very dead internal drive, and the new A1200 looked […]
So I recently bought an old Amiga 600 off ebay. It’s probably an odd purchase given I already have two Amiga 500’s and if anything “I always wanted an Amiga 1200, not a 600”. But I guess my son’s interest in more ‘kid size’ computers got the better of me, and I thought a 600 […]
So continuing on with my current binge in retro computing, I recently bought a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K. It was in quite good condition. It came with power supply, original box and manuals as well as tape cables and a cassette player with some original commercial games on tape. The keyboard still worked. Unlike all […]
If you have any old 80s computers that were originally beige in colour, it’s highly likely that (after 30 years) they have gone a rather yucky yellowy colour. I guess a lot of people must have thought ; the plastic is exposed to UV light during its lifetime and gradually the plastic fades or something […]
So while I was pretty happy with being able to get ADF’s into readable floppies using ADTWin, I had actually ordered a gotek floppy drive on Aliexpress. There are quite a few places selling these. I paid about $25. The gotek has a STM32 microcontroller running some firmware that can read disk image files off […]
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