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Four new Amiga products for September 2024

Since the June Amiga Expo, I have been developing some new Amiga related products. I challenged myself to launch four…

2 months ago

Repairing an Amiga that caught on fire!

Karl at Retro32 likes to challenge me, and this time he had an interesting one. When he turned on an…

2 months ago

Fixing a reproduction Amiga 500 Plus motherboard

I've had several customer machines on my bench lately, there is one in particular I think is worthy of a…

3 months ago

Building my ideal 486 laptop

Over the past few weeks, I've learned far more than I initially wanted to about the Dell Latitude XP series.…

4 months ago

Restoration of a special Amiga 4000 motherboard

Earlier this month was the Kickstart Amiga Expo, and my Amiga business, Retro Supplies, had a stand there. I had…

4 months ago

An Amiga 1200 fighting me the whole way

On my repair list have been two motherboards from Retro32. An Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200. The Amiga 600 repair…

4 months ago

Weird Amiga 600 Fault Repair

I have a lot of customer repairs in right now, and most are awaiting new parts (mostly SMD PLCC sockets,…

5 months ago

Kickstart Amiga Expo and My New Products

Last weekend I was at the second Kickstart Amiga Expo, where I had a table under my "Retro Supplies" brand,…

5 months ago

Amiga 1000 Repair

I was at the Norwich Games Festival last week, along with six of Amigas and a BBC Master 128 with…

6 months ago

Amiga RPT-75B PSU: Testing and enhancements

In my previous blog post, I showed how to make a new, high-spec power supply for Amiga 500 / 600…

6 months ago