No carrier, ATDT, ATZ, ZModem, XModem, Kermit, Door games, FidoNet, and SysOps. Ring a bell?
For those who never got to experience Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) back in the day, they were the pre-internet method for spreading software, chatting, playing online gaming, chatting on Forums, and a lot more too.
This week saw the arrival of my replacement Amiga 600 computer, recapped and resprayed in a beautiful dual tone paint job!
The computer was purchased from Ami64.com, who sold it as a one-off build computer. They can do these resprays on A600 and A1200 systems.
I finally got around to installing my new Vampire 1200 v2 accelerator into my Amiga 1200 and it works great! A Vampire that actually works for me, finally!
It's 2021, and it seems I have gone back 30 years! There are so many new release games on Amiga and Commodore 64 in the past few years and I wanted to highlight some of these new games.
A short blog post today. I purchased this USB to Amiga mouse port adapter, as part of the order with the PiStorm from Amigastore.eu.
Ever since I saw this rather cool and uncommon Sony Vaio computer while working in Japan in the mid 2000's, I knew I had to get one. Now finally, I have one - a PCV-W121!
Today I am taking a look at the PiStorm accelerator with RTG support on my Amiga 500, which is installed in a Checkmate A1500Plus case.
When I was working for a global company in the mid 2000's, I travelled a lot across the Asia Pacific region (APAC) and also globally as the APAC IT Manager. I was rarely at home - maybe 2 months in a year for 4-5 years.
Finally the latest AmigaOS 3.2 from Hyperion Entertainment has arrived in the post for me this week! I decided to try it out on my Amiga 1200 first!
Recently I have been working on an upgrade and rebuild project on my Dad's last ever PC, an Alienware Aurora R7. Specifically, this Aurora R7:
