My copy of Zzap! Amiga Issue #13 arrived in the post this morning. A Look Inside Here’s a quick peek at the contents page and a handful of the 60 pages within this edition. At £4.99 plus postage...
A blog about Commodore 8-bit & 16-bit computers, retro tech and the odd gadget or two…
How to access a network share on the Amiga
After getting it online this has to be the next best thing your can do with your Amiga. Being able to access a network share on...
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Indivision AGA Mk3 Flicker-Fixer
I’ve wanted an Indivision AGA Mk3 flicker-fixer for quite some time but have been stymied by a combination of Brexit and...
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Pi1541 Disk Drive
Little bit of background I’ve been aware of the Pi1541 disk drive or Pi1541 ‘hats’ for several months now. This...
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Wireless Amiga and C64 Gamepad Review
I spotted this wireless Amiga gamepad in an advert in the latest issue of Amiga Future magazine and ordered myself one...
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Andy’s Utility Cart Review
In this post I’ll be taking a look at ‘Andy’s Utility Cart’, a collection of 12 utilities (and one music...
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Commodore 64 FM Radio Module
If you’ve ever wanted to have an FM radio built into your C64 then your dreams have just come true. I spotted this cool...
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The Valley – C64 Cartridge Review
Recently Tim Harris was kind enough to lend me a new cartridge based game called ‘The Valley’ for the Commodore 64 to...
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Here’s the latest issue of Amiga Addict magazine, number 25, a bonafide Christmas Special no less, sporting a super Robocod cover. This months coverdisk features a playable demo of AmigaBill’s Boom! platform game...
The latest issue of Amiga Future (Amiga Future #165) for subscribers has arrived. It features artwork from Reshoot Proxima 3 (an awesome shoot-em-up) on the front cover. The Coverdisk The main event on this months cover CD is ‘Silk...
Here’s a quick look at my copy of Zzap! 64, Issue 16, that arrived in the post today. The magazine is packed with content spanning 60 pages, including news, game reviews and insightful articles about the past, present and...
Here’s the latest issue of Amiga Addict magazine, number 24. This edition is a corker and marks the 30th Anniversary of the CD32 console and as such is absolutely jam-packed with content for Commodores swansong console. If you have a soft...
Zzap! Amiga Issue #12 is now available. A Look Inside Here’s a quick peek at the contents page and a handful of the 60 pages within this edition. At £4.99 plus postage for 60 pages of Amiga...
Issue 63 of Freeze 64 has just arrived. Here’s a shot of the contents page so you can get an idea of what’s in this issue. I’ve been getting Freeze 64 for many years now and Vinny continues to make...
Unbelievably I had yet another retro mag, Amiga Addict, delivered this morning. Don’t think I’ve ever had a four magazines arrive in the same week before, never mind on 4 consecutive days! Amiga Addict has been running for over 2...
Wouldn’t you just know it, like buses, you wait months for the next editions of your favourite retro gaming magazines to arrive and then they all come at once! Yep today my postie delivered Zzap! 64 to join yesterdays Zzap! Amiga and...
My weekend reading material is looking pretty good this week, what with with Freeze 64 arriving yesterday and now Zzap! Amiga Issue #11 dropping through my letterbox too. This magazine, published by Fusion Retro Books, has been running for a...
It’s been a long time since I made a post about a new edition of Freeze 64 arriving. It’s certainly not because I’ve stopped reading it, but a few years ago I made the decision to make these sort of quick news type posts on...
When I am not tinkering around with my old Commodores my ‘daily driver’ computer is a Windows PC and lately the mouse I use with it has been driving me crazy. It’s a wireless Razer Basilisk Ultimate that I bought three years...