the difference that is no difference makes no difference
I spend a bit of time looking at ebay.co.uk in the ‘Vintage’ computer sections. The UK was really the centre of interesting 80s home computers … so there is a lot of variety. However I recently came across www.sellmyretro.com which is an auction site purely for the retro computing community. Not only are their old […]
So not only did I retrieve a 5 1/4″ floppy drive from my parents recently, but I also grabbed the family Colecovision and my brothers old Acorn Electron. Since this was all fitting in my luggage going from Australia to NZ, the Colecovision was mostly disassembled to bring back. In fact I only bought back […]
So, all Amigas came with 3 1/2″ floppy drives back in the 1980s/90s. Initially when the Amiga 1000 came out 3 1/2″ diskettes were quite expensive compared to the then older 5 1/4″ diskettes. I had two older brothers with Amiga 1000’s, and I later bought my A500 in 1988. Given that we were all […]
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 […]
OK, maybe I do have a problem; two Amiga 500’s, an Amiga 600, and now an Amiga 1200. Surely one can have too many Amigas 😉 Well I always wanted an Amiga 1200. I remember in the early 90s, here I was a very enthusiastic Amiga 500 user, and the 1200 came out around the […]
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