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Have completed my small write up of my ZX Spectrum 128k +2 which can be found here:

So since having the Iomega Zip drive I’ve had one missing component. A PC with a parallel port! Nothing modern comes with them anymore and it appears that PCI-E parallel cards just don’t like the Zip Drive. I have tried running VM’s etc but no matter what I did I couldn’t get it working. I […]

If you want to keep informed about what retro related stuff I am buying or playing with then I have added the option to subscribe for e-mail alerts. With these enabled any time I add new content to the site you will get an e-mail alert letting you know whats going on so you can […]

So I remember wanting one of these so badly when I was younger but couldn’t afford it. I am fully aware now that the game is most likely terrible, but the advert at the time was awesome!! Anyway someone offered me one of them fully boxed and complete so I just couldn’t resist. It’s finally […]

I have just done a write up of how to connect an Iomega Zip Drive up the Atari Portfolio. Read more here:

It’s 1994 and I am fed up splitting files across 1.44mb floppy disks to transfer them between PCs. There has to be a better way? Well here it is! The Iomega ZIP drive. 100MB of storage on a single disk! Now I never had one of these back in the day as they cost a […]

I have just added the first page under the modifications section of the site. I hope to fill this section with guides about how to do some of the hardware modifications I have done to the consoles and computers in my collection. My first guide is the menu system I created using a Raspberry Pi […]

I backed this little (and I do mean little!) device on Kickstarter a while back and today they delivered! This small hand held measures just 4.5×4.5×1.5 cm and yet still manages to emulate systems up to and including the orignal Playstation. Now this is obviously not going to be your main emualtion device but its […]

Another one for the collection. The Psion Series 3 personal digital assistant. This little device containes all the basic functionality you would expect from a PDA of that era. It also had it’s own built in programming language. I have got a serial cable on it’s way for this so will try and get it […]

I have seen a few YouTube videos about this little device. It is an adapter board that plugs into the original Denise chip socket on the Amiga 500 and then has a raspberry pi zero connected into it. This then allows the Digital RGB signal directly from the Amiga to be output via the HDMI […]

I am of the age that at school we had these beauties in our classrooms. I remember designing many circuit boards on one of these in our Design and Technology classes. Well finally I now have on in my collection. I have already replaced the power supply capacitors which were ready to explode (This is […]

After many months of waiting and monitoring eBay. I finally managed to acquire a serial interface for my Atari Portfolio 🙂 So now along with plugging it into cash machines to take out as much money as I want, and breaking into the secure areas of Cyberdyne Systems, I can also connect up to my […]