Some time in the future, as fire rains from the sky and the oceans boil, Earth will experience its last-ever Monday, and Garfield will be well pleased

New old tool in the Beta Lab: #Mitutoyo calipers I randomly found on eBay for little money. Not exactly sure how to date these but the logo appears to be the one used roughly from 1962 to 1965 (according to leftover.engineering/2020/09/06/m...). They are still VERY accurate as far as I can see. <3

An interesting update below for those of you waiting for the Blingboard and indeed the Commodore 64 Ultimate. www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

New video! Making a single chip Amiga Kickstart switcher and trying out a boot selector for the A600 and A1200. YouTube: youtu.be/EJ7AFMgJjdQ PeerTube: makertube.net/w/vmBrgvh5ro... #Amiga #Commodore #A600 #Amiga600 #Kickstart #KickstartSwitcher #BootSelector #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

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A lot of folks missed the live stream and asked to see my opening speech at Amiga 40 Germany, so here it is. Huge thanks to Vitus and Alicia from BBSIndex on YouTube for the recording 🙏 #commodore #commodoreamiga #amiga #Amiga40 #AmigaBill LINK: youtu.be/gNA9SpJADyA

A day late, but it's time to big up those cool little YouTube channels out there: #1: @yesterzine.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/yest...

Here's a handy guide to some electronic components.

Halloween approaches🧙‍♀️, so that must mean my C64 games are on sale!🙂🧹🎃 itch.io/s/165702/sja...

🕹️ Please follow all 👇 👉 go.bsky.app/99ZzF5p #Commodore #Amiga #C64 #Commodore64 #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #C64Reposts

42 years ago today, Texas Instruments gave up on the home computer market. The TI-99/4A sold 2.8 million units but a price war with Commodore rendered it unprofitable. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing dfarq.homeip.net/ti-99-4a-dis...

VALE OF THE LOST GODDESS. Right that's all the location bitmaps done and first pass on all the sprites done too. Stu wrote me a quick editor so i could link up all the rooms and add little descriptions of what you see. #c64

Did anyone see a ZX81 cassette tape and think it was a regular tape with an audio recording of someone reading out the lines of BASIC to type in? Me neither.

Grokipedia = Wikipegida * * probably only some of my German followers will get the "joke", sorry.

New video! Replacing the rechargeable lithium cell on my Blizzard 1230 MK IV Amiga 1200 accelerator card. YouTube: youtu.be/-sdXLAXbpfQ PeerTube: makertube.net/w/qLLGtqax62... #Amiga #A1200 #Amiga1200 #Commodore #Blizzard1230 #Phase5 #Battery #Accelerator #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

Death by Scrolling, my game with @grumpygamer.com, is out! It’s a vertically scrolling arcade roguelite with a sense of humour. Grab it on PC now - with console coming soon!

Started putting together some documentation and tutorials together for the Spectrum Next 3D engine. This is the first of many.

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Daylight Craving Time

I only ever found 3 (contemporary at the time) gaming consoles interesting enough to actually go out and buy them: the original Nintendo Gameboy, the Sony PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo Switch. Happy birthday, PS2. You were a literal game changer (although I admittedly used you mostly to play DVDs).

Seeing lots of Canadian commenters on this episode wishing to attend but would prefer one in Canada: well the first VCF Montreal is a thing this January! vcfed.org/vcf-montreal... Exhibiting there will be free and they're actively looking for more exhibitors right now to attend. Check it out! 🇨🇦

In any box of stuff you have, there will always be at least one C2N

Ha! Found one of the #DOOM levels I created back in the mid nineties on an old backup CD and just played through it in DOSbox. It’s surprisingly good fun (and brutally hard). The timestamp on the .WAD is Dec 23rd, 1996. I should probably release it to the public for its 30th birthday next year. 😅

#FUNFACT Commodore VIC20's are ace.. But to make it acer'er you'll need one of these! www.tfw8b.com/product/penu... #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #8bit #Commodore #VIC20

Just a quick public service announcement. If you try to buy something from my Tindie store or TFW8b (or anyone's online store for that matter) and it's not working, please let them know. These days it's often a question of "is the store still working or is it just that no one is buying anything?"

New video! I reviewed a pre-production version of the new mechanical Amiga keyboards from A1200net. YouTube: youtu.be/HNOTwb4UsCA PeerTube: makertube.net/w/kP6snQGm4n... #Amiga #Keyboard #MechanicalKeyboard #LinearSwitches #MitsumiHybrid #Commodore #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

New video! I reviewed a pre-production version of the new mechanical Amiga keyboards from A1200net. YouTube: youtu.be/HNOTwb4UsCA PeerTube: makertube.net/w/kP6snQGm4n... #Amiga #Keyboard #MechanicalKeyboard #LinearSwitches #MitsumiHybrid #Commodore #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

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Interview with Christian Bartsch: The story of X-Copy on the #Amiga spillhistorie.no/2025/10/10/t...

Reports of my Demise have been greatly exaggerated... I'm here, and working on a new video for the 40th anniversary of our beloved #Amiga - and I think I should be back on track and making regular videos in November.

What can I say? It's perfect

Just realized that I accidentally (I swear!) have 3 #Amiga centered videos lined up next. Just in time for #Amiga40, although I don’t ever plan for things like that. Sometimes my usual chaos just falls into place by sheer coincidence… 😅

New blog post - Changing SD2IEC Device IDs blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2025/10/chan... Several techniques you can use to change the device ID of your SD2IEC from ID #8 to ID #9, and several reasons why you shouldn't do it.

Pantogram’s miniature binary typewriter spoon-tamago.com/pantograph-i...

You may have noticed my latest C64 repairs have not all gone to plan. So I asked a couple of very generous pals in @adriansdigitalbasement.com and @theretrochannel.bsky.social to lend a hand. I picked their brains clean!

This article rings true to me, having recovered data from 3” and 3.5” floppies, my first-pass success rate at the moment is about 70%. I’ve recently recovered data for a friend off a 40MB hard drive including an unfinished book.

Apparently, somebody at @ifixit.com liked my videos enough for them to send me their new FixHub portable soldering station for free. It’s "a bit" faster and more powerful than my aging Weller soldering station from some decades ago. The battery pack is optional, the little iron also works USB-C.

To highlight their "Commodore" brand, Commodore Business Machines once brought an actual ship to the waterfront for the 1983 CES show, meaning there was in fact a brief time where you could be a Commodore Commodore.

I never had any major grudges with Apple‘s MacOS and have happily used it both professionally (as an audio guy and as a video creator) and privately for years and years. The new Liquid Glass stuff completely messes up the experience. MacOS used to be fun and it actually looked good. That’s all gone.

New video! I'm showing two (and a half) ways of getting the TL866 EPROM programmer to work in Linux. YouTube: youtu.be/_oacXhtaLsk #TL866 #EPROM #EPROMProgrammer #XGecu #MiniPro #Linux #LinuxMint #Wine #VirtualBox #Tutorial #HowTo #EPROMBurner

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Your favourite Youtube channel has a new video out. But since he's now pulling cars apart (Technology Connections) watch some throbber review Friday The 13th on the C64, Speccy and CPC instead. You'll shit your pants with fright or your money back.* youtu.be/7a6N3ZyTWvM * No refunds.

"Rincewind sat at a little table in a dark corner of the Broken Drum." The first Discworld video game, a text adventure released in 1986, and the only one to directly adapt a specific novel. 📺: The Colour of Magic, Delta 4, 1986. (ZX Spectrum)

Successfully linuxed (if that isn’t a word it should be) the few remaining Windows 10 devices in the Beta household. And also transformed my daily driver 2015 MacBook Pro into a LinuxBook. I’m a noob so I installed Linux Mint mostly (CashyOS on the kid‘s gaming rig though). Went surprisingly well. 👍

New video! I'm restoring a 1980s vintage NAD 7020e receiver and setting it up correctly. YouTube: youtu.be/EQksKIyDJvY PeerTube: makertube.net/w/fYUAwoWVDp... #NAD7020 #NAD7020e #Receiver #Restoration #NAD #NewAudioDimension #Refurb #Recapping #IdlingCurrent #Bias #VintageHifi #VintageAudio

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A little update of my Spectrum Next project...

Spending a little time with this recent-ish conversion of Lock’n Chase to the C64. It feels quite spot on - which is no surprise, as the C64 hardware is of the right vintage for this era of arcade game to get brought over well.