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Author: Croccy22
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!
Blaze Evercade
Even though I have loads of handheld emulation devices, for some reason I couldn’t say no to this. I really like the idea of the game collections like we used to get back in the Spectrum days.
I have also backed a kickstarter campaign for the Fusion Annual 2020 and one of the perks is a signed Oliver Twins collection for the Evercade. That was simply too good to turn down 🙂
Amiga CD32 is here!
Finally I have got a excellent condition Amiga CD32 to add to my collection. Along with the Terrible Fire 330 accelerator card :). I will do a write up on this shortly once I have had chance to have a play!
Xperia Play delivery :)
I managed to locate my old Xperia play a couple of weeks ago but it needs a lot of attention. So picked up a reconditioned one from aliexpress for £52. It arrived yesterday and here it is 🙂
I will do a write up of it in the not too distant future 🙂
Spectrum Next Developer Board article completed
On a roll tonight, but think it’s time for bed now!
Think I will do the 128K +2 article next to complete the computer section of the site for now 🙂
Playstation article completed
Been a bit of delay since the last article I wrote due to house DIY. But here we go, my memories of the Sony Playstaion: