The modern retro gamer has a number of options when it comes to the Commodore 64. The emulators available are very mature. The ultimate emulation option as of now would have to be the ‘C64 Maxi’, which is basically a single board computer running an emulator inside a reproduction C64 breadbin case. There are a couple of ‘brand new machine’ options. The C64 Reloaded is essentially a modern copy of the C64 main board, needing only the custom C64 chips…
Something I wasn’t aware of at the time was that I was very much behind the curve when it came to my childhood computers. The Commodore VIC-20, my first machine, which I would guess I got my hands on around 1986/1987, was launched in 1980, a year before I was born. The VIC-20 made quite a splash on release for many reasons, not least of which was affordability, but it was already out of date by 1982 when it’s successor,…
So to recap, I have bought an A500++ PCB with the intention of making a brand new Amiga. I have been working on this project for a while, and have been motivated to document my progress on this blog, in a series of posts which due to a moment of stupidity and inadequate backup procedures, are now lost for all time. They were great, by the way: amongst humanity’s finest works of literature. The thought of immediately rewriting those posts…
This is a post which I have written before. Unfortunately, due to stupidity I have lost all of my posts to date and so I am starting from scratch. The time for self-flagellation has passed and the time for the rewrites is at hand. I started this blog to document for my own satisfaction a few interesting projects I am undertaking. Let me start with the motivation for those projects. When I was a child, of age around 6-7 I…
A cursory inspection reveals it to be really easy, huh? Well, shit.
Once there was a man who, having been burned many times in the past, was vigilant about maintaining backups of his personal data. He had the home RAID. He maintained both the cloud backup and the separate, personally managed offsite backup. Whenever a friend or family member suffered a data loss due to lack of backups, he was quite the condescending prick when delivering his platitudes. In late 2019, this man started a WordPress blog using one of the Raspberry…