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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]

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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

One antique chip posted from the UK, a small piece of tape, a tiny act of vandalism, and finally my Amiga has achieved a new level of hackery. One whole megabyte of chip RAM!

Just to stocktake here, what used to be a stock revision 5 Amiga 500 now has ...
- a 68010 CPU
- an upgraded Angus to support 1MB of chip RAM
- an 8 meg RAM expansion and IDE controller
- Kickstart 3.2 ROM
- a gotek floppy emulator
- 64GB SDD
- Compact Flash card reader

It's getting closer to done, I guess. Not much else to do without turning it into something completely different.

An 8372A Agnus chip in a socket on an Amiga board Close up section of an Amiga board with a scratch through one circuit track Screenshot of Amiga system info showing an upgraded Agnus and a 68010 CPU fitted
Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

I have a growing suspicion that war may be good for absolutely nothing, and I wish someone could have pointed this out to us at some point.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

I shouted at the TV the other day because a scene allegedly set in 1997 showed a computer with the Windows XP green hills desktop background. Why can't these productions just hire a couple of damn nerds?