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September 19, 2021

Bare-Metal Amiga Programming

Paperback now available on Amazon . The second book in my "Amiga Programming" series has just been published. Where my previous book concentrated mainly on using the functionality provided by AmigaOS, this book is about programming the hardware...

January 29, 2021

Indivision AGA MK3 (part 2)

In a previous post I wrote about the Indivision AGA MK3 and how it allowed me to use my old Amiga 1200 with a modern flat panel monitor. The post described the image quality produced but was lacking on details on how the Indivision was actually...

November 21, 2020

Happy Birthday, book!

This post is titled 'Happy birthday, book' since I'm writing this a year after self-publishing my first book on Amazon . The writing of it was always more of a hobby project for me and I did not expect to sell a large quantity of these books. I...

September 6, 2020

Indivision AGA MK3 (part 1)

Back in the day I used my Amiga with my Commodore 1084S monitor. I originally bought the 1084S for my Amiga 500 and when that got replaced with the Amiga 1200 the monitor stayed on the desk with the 1200 while the 500 went back in its box to...

July 25, 2020

The Maycom Digicorder

The first solid state portable audio recorder? When trawling through an old backup of the hard drive of my Amiga 1200 I found a couple of audio files that took me straight back to the 90's, back to the time when I was a student and working as a...

November 21, 2019

Finally Published!

Paperback now available on Amazon . The days of researching, writing, editing and reading it all again and again are now over. The book is finished and is now available to be ordered from Amazon. The proof of puddings is in the eating, the...