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So I had a small space on one of my units where a speaker used to sit. It wasn’t a big space so fitting a full-size computer in there wasn’t an option. The space was also longer than it was deep. So the solution? Fill it with a C64 Mini! The fact I had some […]

I’m not a collector of software usually as with the number of systems I own that would become a very expensive hobby. But there was no way I could pass on grabbing these original Sam Coupé titles. With not much Sam software being released I hopefully won’t go bankrupt trying to get a complete set! […]

My old Shuttle xPC Windows XP PC has needed a little more grunt for a while. The motherboard has an 8x AGP slot so my choice of cards was slightly limited. After a bit of research I found the best AGP 8x card available and then discovered they fetch £150+ on eBay. So i started […]

Another small delivery today. Since I only had a few zip disks I figured it would be best to have a little bit of stock. They seem pretty easy to obtain still at the moment but the same could be said about 720k Double Density floppy disks a few years back and now they are […]

The Atari ST has been on obvious omission from my collection for a while and it was time to address that issue. I’ve been looking around for one for some time but wasn’t really in any rush as I don’t have a space to set it up at the moment and building a new display […]

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 […]