Recent content by patters

Just tried v1.0.0, but it hangs on the black screen LOADING WAD FILE. I left it for several minutes, and nothing. I used shareware Doom1.wad v1.1, and I transferred that to the Mac using Fetch set to binary mode. My SE/30 has the gglabs MacSIMM 32bit clean ROM. I was running System 7.5.3, which...

Finally made time to sit down and try this out, but sadly my SE/30 has only 20MB of RAM. When you say you'll reduce the 64MB requirement, do you expect a machine like mine to be able to run the game eventually? I seem to remember that 4MB was enough on a DOS PC back in the day, so 20MB should be...

It's the same nonsense in the other direction for us Europeans. USPS rates quoted by most suppliers are similar, and yet we can have stuff air freighted from China for a tenth of the cost.

I added a new section to the guide with instructions for recovering a dead card following a flash update failure.

I went down the rabbit hole of getting WPA2 connectivity on my Amiga 600. It's much slower (around a tenth of the speed) than a wired NIC, but it's a weird sort of flex - modern wifi connectivity without compromising security, on a 33 year old computer. I found a couple of suitable Prism2 wifi...

Does the FDHD have two floppy ports, or a single one like the SE/30?

Ha, I had actually watched your video already. One thing I'm curious about - with the new ROMs/SWIM do you lose the use of the second internal floppy port? Or could you have a pair of SuperDrives (FDHD²)? I think for my machine there isn't the imperative to upgrade its drives, since I have the...

The Auction I already have a Macintosh SE/30 that I was lucky enough to find at a reasonable price, and which had already been recapped. But I couldn't resist putting in a low bid on a scruffy looking, but apparently working, Macintosh SE recently. I was surprised to win it. Shipping I was...

If you look at the top and bottom edges you'll see they're kind of stepped, with a cutout to improve that clearance. Once the case is on, I don't think there would be any sufficient frame/analog board flex that would disturb the CRT neck board, especially since the back edge of the analog board...

I just want to thank @alxlab for the design and @Trash80toG4 for the suggested improvements. I got one printed by JLCPCB via FDM (PLA) for only £6 delivered - to replace a very loud grinding "squirrel cage" fan in an original two floppy drive SE - and it's perfect! I couldn't get the nut into...

Part Two - Selecting and Configuring a TCP/IP Stack Let's set some expectations: an Amiga browsing the modern Web is going to be pretty horrendous. If, like me, you have an unaccelerated A600 the only real purpose of getting online is just out of curiosity, but it's also nice to be able to...

Part One - Obtaining a Network Card The first challenge is finding a NIC without paying way over the odds. Most sellers have discovered they can scalp Amiga owners for £50 for a compatible PCMCIA NIC. I ruled out wireless network cards on the basis that none of the Amiga compatible ones will...

I restored an Amiga 600 recently and it was quite difficult to install the OS, since it seemed to pretty much assume a CD-ROM drive. I documented the steps to install from SD/CF card here: https://github.com/patters-match/AmigaSetup

Bonus content - if you're like me and hanging onto a perfectly good 28 year old PostScript HP laser printer and still want to use it with the latest macOS (in my case 15.5 Sequoia), then you'll be disappointed that Apple seems to have prevented use of the old monolithic HP Printers installation...