Ever since I picked up my Blizzard 1230 MkIV card last year I’ve been hankering after the SCSI expansion for it. The Squirrel SCSI system I’ve been using for the past six months certainly works great but I really wanted to free up...
A blog about Commodore 8-bit & 16-bit computers, retro tech and the odd gadget or two…
Modding Amiga 500 Floppy LED to Display IDE Activity
Introduction Unlike the Amiga 1200, the A500 was never designed to allow the fitment of an IDE Hard Disk Drive (HDD) inside it so...
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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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Commodore 64GS Gamepad Review
A Little History Back in the twilight period of the C64’s life, Commodore released the C64 Games System or C64GS. It was a...
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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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Amiga CD32 TerribleFire 330 – Game Compatibility List
This ‘compatibility list’ features all the games that I have played on an Amiga CD32 with a TerribleFire 330 card...
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Commodore 64 Joyswitcher Review
If you have two joysticks permanently plugged into your Commodore 64 then you would probably have no use for the Joyswitcher...
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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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Well this is something I would never have envisaged happening a couple of years ago… the return of a printed Zzap! 64 magazine! This is an A5 sized publication produced by the same guys who make Fusion magazine, Fusion Retro Books...
As a fully certified computer nerd I spent an inordinate amount of time in my teenage years typing away on my VIC20 and C64 entering BASIC programs from books and magazines. I found the process fascinating, witnessing a program gradually...
Who would have thought that the beginning of 2021 would see the launch a brand new monthly UK Amiga magazine? But that’s exactly what has happened with the publication of ‘Amiga Addict’ magazine. Of course there are quite a...
This Commodore 64 IRQ LED mod is a fun little hack that I spotted on eBay last year. Since my C64 mainboard has just come back from being re-capped I finally took the opportunity to fit this whilst I had the case open. It’s a very simple...
It’s winter here in the UK so recently I decided to spend a particularly cold and rainy afternoon on a little VIC20 game box preservation project I’ve been meaning to do for some time. Why did I want to do this? Unfortunately...
Just picked up an iNNEXT USB Game Controller off Amazon to use with my TheC64 Mini and Maxi consoles. Why? Well unfortunately after almost 40 years of faithful service my C64C has started to act up. It’s been crashing and freezing whilst...
I spotted this little USB Cassette hub on social media over Christmas and thought it looked cool so had a look around to pick one up for myself. After some searching I found one on Amazon and for the price I couldn’t resist taking a punt...
In this post I’m going to explain just how you can use an Iomega Zip 100 Drive with an Amiga 1200. The software side of this will be applicable to other Amiga models too but the hardware required is specific to the Amiga 600/1200 series...
In parts 1 through 4 of this guide I covered everything needed to install Amiga OS 3.1.4 on an Amiga 1200 from scratch. However there are still a few things that can be done to improve the installation. I’m afraid this post ended up a lot...
Having created the physical floppy disks in Part 1, installed the 8GB CF card and ROMs in Part 2 and partitioned the CF card in Part 3 it is now time to look at installing Workbench 3.1.4. The first thing to do is boot up the Amiga using the 3...
Having created the physical floppy disks in Part 1 and installed the 8GB CF card and ROMs in Part 2 it is now time to set about partitioning and formatting the compact flash card so we can install Workbench 3.1.4 on it (in Part 4). To start the...