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Amiga 1000 Restoration: Floppy Drive and WCS Failure?
As part of restoring my Amiga 1000 into the beautiful machine it once was, I wanted to be able to use the floppy drive without having to use a USB stick in the hole to eject it. And here my adventure starts… Read more

An Amiga 1000
Over the last couple of years I’ve slowly been building up a collection of every 16bit Amiga model. The most recent of these turned up this week, an Amiga 1000! Read more

Soldering Workbench Tour Update
A few months ago I gave a tour of my soldering workbench for anyone who might find it useful. All the money I make from manufacturing Amiga parts either goes to more R&D or upgrading my workshop so I can make more complicated projects faster/easier. Since then I have invested in some upgrades and new Read more

PiStorm in the MiniMig
The MiniMig is a board which is a hardware reimplmentation of the Amiga custom chips in FPGA which connects to a real 68000 CPU to provide a very accurate replication of an OCS/ECS Amiga. It was the starting point for the Amiga MiSTer core. The project has been around for at least 15 years now Read more

Amiga RAMesses
I recently developed a popular board called RAMesses, which upgrades an Amiga 500 / 2000 / Commodore CDTV to 2MB of Chip RAM without any soldering / cutting of the motherboard. I figured I would post more about what it is and why I developed it. Read more

Review: Framework Laptop
For many years I have been known as the “ThinkPad guy”. I’ve always used IBM / Lenovo ThinkPad laptops where possible. To the extent that a few years ago I had a lengthy chat with JFK airport security about why I had four ThinkPads in my hand luggage. I’ve been using a high-spec ThinkPad T495 Read more
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