Commodore Amiga

Amiga gets a hard drive

Today, I received the 8MB fast RAM and IDE module for my Amiga 500, which I bought from a user on the Amibay forum. It also came with a Compact Flash adapter and a 4GB CF card. The installation wasn’t too difficult. First, I carefully removed the MC68000 processor from […]

Commodore Amiga

My first ever Amiga

After watching countless YouTube videos about the Commodore 64, I started noticing frequent mentions of another iconic machine: the Commodore Amiga. This sparked my curiosity, but I had never used an Amiga before and had no idea how to operate it. I knew nothing about Kickstart or Workbench. Nothing about […]

Commodore 64

Changing my floppy drive device number

Ever since I got an SD2IEC device for my Commodore 64, I’ve been thinking about the best way to manage device numbers. By default, the 1541 floppy drive is assigned device number 8. Daisy-chaining my SD2IEC would make the SD reader device number 9, but I don’t want that. I […]