Came across this for sale on the Revival Retro Events facebook page and couldn’t resist.
Lemmings CDrom for the PC signed by Mike Dailly one of the orignal programmers.
Lemmings PC CDROM
Year: 2020
Amstrad NC100 back in my life!
Used to have one of these when I was at school and used it for typing up my notes in class. Well thats what I told the teacher. This little gem however has a great built in feature, hit Function and B and you are dropped into BBC BASIC 😀. Great to have one back in my collection as mine suffered a cracked screen and got binned many years ago during a garage clear out 😪
Gameboy Advance
Another handheld added to the collection. Also got a Supercard from Wish to load the ROMs onto. Great little console to mess around on 🙂
Taking the C64 online in 2020
So I have a few ESP8266 boards kicking around and wondered if there was any cool C64 projects available. Well yes there is! With a bit of soldering and a C64 userport, you can turn one into a WiFi capable Modem for the C64.
I built this up a few nights ago and have since been connecting to some of the many BBS systems still running and usuable from the C64 terminal program CCGMS.
With its colour character based graphics the experience was actually pretty satisfying and there is something really cool about going back in time and seeing the “internet” back as it was in the good old days 🙂
Atari Lynx II
One of my regrets was selling my boxed Atari Lynx II with 8 games many years ago to a local second hand shop. I think I got about half the amount I have just paid out for another one 🙃. But at least it is now back in my collection.
I am currently on a waiting list for an SD card adapter for this and have a few orignal games on their way to keep me entertained so will do a review in the not too distant future.
Amiga CD32 Article completed
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C64 1541 Floppy Drive
What C64 would be complete without a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive to go with this. Purchased this from a charity auction. I was intending on getting a 1541-II so it matched the colour scheme but this was a good price and since all proceeds went to charity it was easy to justify the purchase to my better half 🤣
DIY PacMan Light
Last of my updates for today. Over the weekend I got around to finishing my home made Pacman Light. The base is 3D printed and contains a strip of ws2812 individually addressable LEDS. The Pac and ghosts have been etched and cut out of acrylic using my desktop CNC machine. Then all connected up to an ESP8266 board running the WLED software for control. It is now linked to Alexa to turn it on/off and currently I have Pacman lit of Yellow (not the orange in the piture), and the other ghosts are colour cycling in rainbow mode. I will see about uploading a video of this soon.
Spectrum Next Games arrive :)
So after the sucessful kickstarter for the Spectrum Next I decided to support the community and purchase a couple of the commerical games being released for the platform. After a Long, long, long journey from Greece to the UK via land mail (Due to Covid). The games finally arrived today and have been great fun so far. Warhawk is bloody difficult so I need to get used to that but Baggers is space has kept me hooked 🙂
Commodore 64 added to collection
So for quite some time I have had a C64 case which I put a raspberry pi inside to emulate the C64. That was a fun project but with my collection growing it seemed only right that I had a real C64 in there. So here it is. A C64C complete with the SDIEC adpater for loading games from an SD Card and the Epyx Fastloader to speed up the process :).
Write up coming in the not too distant future!