Retro Computers are the computers of the past. My main interest are with the 8-bit and 16-bit computers produced by Commodore like the Commodore 64 and Commodore Amigas.
The Amiga 500 and Amiga 600 relies heavily on their builtin 3.5 inch 880 KB floppy drives. Unfortunately these drives and the floppy disks they store their information on are not aging well. In this post I will be installing a Gotek Floppy Emulator into an external 3.5″ floppy drive case to solve this problem. …
I finally got back into the Commodore Amiga in late May 2019 by purchasing a used Amiga 500. I have yet to set it up permanently but it has been running a few times. I am planning how to set it up physically as well as how my setup will be with regard to software …
My Commodore history – part three: Back to the Amiga Read More »
As you may have read in My Commodore history – part one: Commodore 64, my computer story started with a Commodore 64. Through a friend, who had an Amiga 1000 I was introduced to the Amiga world. As I remember, he later got both an Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000. He actually had an Atari …
My Commodore history – part two: Commodore Amiga Read More »
My history with having computers started with the Commodore 64. This post originally appeared on my old Amiga site (Amiga Retro Computing). In the early 1980’s when I was a child, me and my friends frequented the retail shops in town that had computers. Back then shops used to have computers on display that you …