Recent content by patters

I went down the rabbit hole of getting WPA2 connectivity on my Amiga 600. It's much slower (around 0.1x) 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 cards for around...

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...

A great result :) I've been using it for work for about a week and I really like it. There is one pain though - the QMK firmware is pretty poor at resuming from sleep. It often has to be replugged.

A small update. I was able to source 5 Alps White SKCM switches, pulled from a donor keyboard, on eBay for just under £10 shipped. Tonight I desoldered the problem switch and swapped in a replacement. The chatter is gone, and I sealed up the board, happy with the result. After some more firm...

This will be interesting to see. It's curious that these inter system link-up modes were developed, especially given the additional testing costs. Coincidentally, I saw it mentioned recently (in a YouTube video I think) that Stunt Car Racer was able to link between Amiga and Atari ST, something...

I like the typing feel of my M0116 keyboard that I acquired with my SE/30. My own Mac back in the day was a Classic with the far cheaper feeling Apple Keyboard II (M0487). I remember that my dad's office Macs and a friend's Mac IIfx had the nicer mechanical keyboards, so I was aware of the...