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Moving to posthaven

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I have opted to go with Posthaven for my blog space instead. I figure its better to do the move early in the life time of the blog before things get too crazy.

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Hardware: Joystick compatibility

There is a bewildering array of joystick and gamepads out there that are intended for the Amiga or…

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Making sense of Amiga OS versions and components

One of the challenges that tends to crop up with retro-computing in the 16 bit era is operating system versions, so what I thought I would do is talk very briefly about the main versions and offer a bit of guidance as to what is what.

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Hardware: Picking a mouse

The Amiga is of course famous for having a graphical interface and that means using a mouse to interact with the…

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Games: Space Crusade

Spurred by a post on EAB, I wanted to talk about a game that I both played to death as a teenager and still play regularly…

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Hardware: The Gravis Gamepad

For retro gamers in general, the Gravis Gamepad probably does not require a lot of introduction: Many DOS PC…

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History: The cover disk

Odds are if you were a UK Amiga fan, you have very fond memories of the cover disk: That little bundle of joy…

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The Gotek drive

Yesterday, we talked about floppy disks so let’s talk about one of the solutions to dealing with them: The Gotek.

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Gaming: Multiple floppy disk games

Other than the simplest games, most games come on more than one floppy disk. Some came on quite a few disks: The most I owned was Historyline 1914–18 which came on 7 disks and my friend’s copy of Beneath a Steel Sky had a huge stack of them.

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History: The Amiga 500

Today, I want to talk about the Amiga 500 and how it pertains to you as a potential collector. The A500 is a system…

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