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commodore amiga a600

Amiga A600 (and a Horrible Surprise)

Booted my A600 to a red screen of doom!

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The Spectrum

The Spectrum – Modern Recreation of the 1980s Rubber-Keyed Classic

I finally got a minute to fire up my new 'The Spectrum' that my wife bought me as a gift for Christmas.

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HP 100LX

HP 100LX for DOSCember – My Pocket DOS 5.0 PC

HP 100LX - a pocket sized IBM XT compatible from Hewlett Packard.

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BBC Micro

BBC Micro – The Ancestor to a Device You Are Guaranteed to Own

Meet my BBC Master, plus 5 1/4" floppy disk drive, and three-button mouse

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Atari ST Upgrades: Retro Computer Adventures with the Atari 520 STFM

I thought I would cover the upgrades I have been making to my favourite Atari computer – the Atari ST series of machines. Well, I say machine(s) plural, but lately I have been focusing on my Atari 520STFM, the successor to the original Atari 520 ST, and I will explain why as we go.

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Sinden Light Gun Review

In this Sinden Lightgun review we look at a crowd-sourced PC light gun intended to allow modern monitor/television users to experience the lightgun games we know and love

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Retro Computer Development in 2022: Bringing My Retro Dev Machines Up to Date

While on unexpected leave from work due to a bereavement, I found myself with time on my hands but not the emotional capacity to do anything challenging. This meant I had to occupy myself with “housekeeping” style tasks, which brought me to doing a bunch of software updates. It seems strange considering we are talking …

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Commodore 64 + WiFi

Commodore 64 + WiFi (C64 Electronics Part 5)

Connect your Commodore 64 to the internet for under $10? Let's see how!

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c64-arduino

Commodore 64 + Arduino (C64 Electronics Part 4)

In Part 1 we blinked an LED using the Commodore 64 User Port, in Part 2 and Part 3 we got input from the user port and analog signals from the control ports. Now let's kick things up a notch and integrate our C64 with Arduino!

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