It was relatively cheap so I took a gamble on this Eaca EG-2000 Colour Genie Untested rare piece of retro history. Besides it was something very out of the ordinary. The EG-2000 was released back in 1982 the same year the Commodore 64 , Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Tangerine Oric-1 and Dragon 32 as well a […]
Back in the day my first real IT job fresh out of university was working for Hepworth Refractories in Worksop, Nottinghamshire and given a made up, catch all role of Project Enginner. They basically made heat resistant bricks for kilns and furnaces but had lots of aging control equipment and the site spanned 60 acres […]
This was purchased from a family whose father had used the QL for his business in the 1980’s. The computer quickly outlived its usefullness and, as many Sinclair QL’s before it, was then stored in the loft and left unused for decades. The sale was described as turns on but unable to test. I didn’t […]
Amiga 500 Boxed Pistorm 128Mb Ram 4Gb HDisk HDMI Completely rennovated and fully tested. This particular Amiga has hidden talents sporting a pistorm accelerator with HDMI output. An excellent clean and tidy example with no discoloration. Thanks to the pistorm, this Amiga is fast, blindingly fast with speeds in excess of an Amiga 4000. Very […]
With the Commodore Combined SD2IEC Fastload Cartridge you get all the benefits of modern using a SD card with the blistering load times of Fastload. The cartridge ,available here, also provides convenient single character commands and built in disk tools. There is no extra boards to install unlike the PI1541. This is just plug and […]
Spectrum +2B with internal IDE Interface The Spectrum is a great machine but loading games takes upwards of 10 minutes and even on a +3 machine with a disk drive still takes minutes and thats if the disks still work after 30 plus years of use. I therefore decided to build something to improve the […]
