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  • Four new Amiga products for September 2024

    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 of these throughout September. I managed to achieve this, so I figured I should talk about what I have launched. Read more

  • Repairing an Amiga that caught on fire!

    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 Amiga 600 motherboard he acquired, smoke and a small flame came out of the motherboard! Read more

  • Fixing a reproduction Amiga 500 Plus motherboard

    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 blog post because the repair was weird. Read more

  • Building my ideal 486 laptop

    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. I originally purchased a Latitude XP 450C (a 486 DX2 50MHz with a passive matrix display) and ended up making a 4100T (486 DX4 100MHz with a TFT display). This is the journey. Read more

  • Restoration of a special Amiga 4000 motherboard

    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 pre-planned to take in several Amiga motherboards to repair and recap whilst there, and among them was a special Amiga 4000 motherboard. Special because it belongs to Mike Dailly of DMA Design fame. It also… Read more

  • An Amiga 1200 fighting me the whole way

    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 was simple, and not worth a blog post, but the Amiga 1200 has had so many weird issues, it is definitely worthy of talking about. Read more