Now, this is how I’d like to have a wall painted in my home-office, if it was large enough, and wasn’t already bulging with shelves and posters. Patrick Nance posted this photo of his nerd room on this Commodore 64/128 group on Facebook recently, and it was very well received.
Music
Building the MP3mobile
Apart from hoarding driver CDs and diskettes in 1999 I also printed out a huge number of pro-Linux news articles. One of those was this page on building an MP3 player for a car called The MP3mobile. Over the years I had grappled with the idea of adding an MP3 […]
Tech
Bye Bye Relics of 1999
It’s about time I dumped some of this stuff. Two of my machines have a CDROM drive but I don’t use either of them. I haven’t had a 1.44MB floppy drive in well over a decade, or more likely fifteen years! I recently found the binder with these items, the […]
Games
“Hello World” on the BBC Micro
You too can create a simple “HELLO WORLD” loop on the BBC Micro by visiting the Virtualbeeb website. You can also play a selection of games! I used to play Elite on the C64 and that’s where I got my demoscene handle from but I had never played it on […]
Amiga
PiMIGA: Amiga on the Pi
UPDATE in December 2021! Chris released version 2.0 of PiMIGA. There’s only one version this time and it comes in a huge 23GB 7z file. You can grab a torrent to download PiMIGA 2.0 from his video here: This version runs on a 64bit version of Linux and feels faster. […]
C64
New C64 Adventures
It’s no secret that I’ve been a fan of the Commodore 64 for many years. It was my family’s third computer, after a Vic20 and 48K ZX Spectrum. I don’t count the Telesport, I couldn’t program that! The C64 was my main computer from 1989 to about 1994 and I […]
C64
Retro Reading in 2019
You can be nostalgic about something for a lot longer than that thing was current. So it is with the Commodore 64, the Speccy and early computers in general. I had a rubber keyed Spectrum 48K for a couple of years followed by a C64 that I used every day […]
Games
I found my first computer: Telesport SD 050C
Many years ago I mentioned the first computer system that came into my family home. I couldn’t remember what it was called and it had been thrown out years before. I had searched retro console sites, looking through “history of computing” Youtube videos, and more but I couldn’t find it […]
Tech
Building the BBC Micro
I never used the BBC Micro much but it was a prominent feature of schools across Ireland the UK in the 80s and early 90s. I love that Professor Steve Furber’s admitted they didn’t know why certain chips worked or the work arounds they needed to get other bits working!