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Back in the days of DOS-based games and mainly point-and-click adventures, when you set up a game you had to choose your soundcard. Most people had a Soundblaster Compatible, some had the Adlib soundcard. However, there was also an option of the MT-32 or MPU401. I didn’t know anyone who had one of these and […]

One issue people have these days is writing floppy images back to 3.5inch floppy disks so they can be used in retro computers such as the Amiga, Sam and Atari ST etc. The first mistake people make is they just go out and buy a USB floppy drive. The problem is these devices don’t give […]

I got bored so broke out Sketchup and drew this model of the Spectrum Dizzy sprite. It prints in two parts, the black part has cutouts so the white parts can push fit inside it (or in my case I used a hammer! I guess I still need to calibrate my printer a bit more). […]

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 […]

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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 […]