Commodore Amiga

Null-modem cable and Amiga Explorer

Ever since I installed a CF card in my Amiga 500, I naturally wanted to load it up with software and games. This quickly raised the question: how do I transfer software from my PC to my Amiga? Using my Gotek drive, I can do this quite easily, but since […]

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 - Commodore Amiga

40 years later

Last year, I turned 50, and one of my friends suggested we visit the Bonami Computer and Video Game Museum in Zwolle, the Netherlands. Upon arrival, we found ourselves in a vast hall filled with an impressive array of computers and game consoles. The collection featured everything from 1940s computers […]