I recently bought a faulty Amiga A570 and intended to write a repair blog post about it eventually, but this adventure ended up in a completely different direction: a fault affecting many Amigas in the wild. There is a lot to cover, so, let s get to it. The Amiga A570 Put simply, the A570 is [ ] Source
Whether or not it is controversial, I do use Claude Code quite heavily for testing in my day job. In fact, I designed an internal tool which is an AI-powered static analysis tool. There are pros and cons of Claude Code. I m not going to cover them today. But I am going to cover something [ ] Source
Some things happening in this industry are making me feel old lately. Problems we hit and solved decades ago are being hit again today. People are discovering the same solutions, just giving them new buzzwords. But today I want to talk about a different trend, and it comes down making old mistakes and blaming the [ ] Source
I was working on benchmarking some new code on a Raspberry Pi Pico today and needed to debug it. This proved to be more difficult than it should be, so I figured I would document how I did it. The Problem The Pi Pico has a readily available Debug Probe that uses a SWD connection [ ] Source
What should have been a straightforward CD32 recap turned into something far more interesting. The CD32 belongs to Tony Warriner, known for Broken Sword and Beneath a Steel Sky, and more recently UrbX Warriors. It turned out to be a bit more work than expected so, of course, I am blogging about it. The CD32 [ ] Source
Back in the 80s and early 90s, when games often came on floppy disks, the music came in MIDI format. If you have never heard of MIDI, this is a standard way for electronic instruments to communicate the notes being played. When the music was composed, sound modules such as the Roland MT-32 and later [ ] Source
A while back I built a 486-based machine to play with some late 80s / early 90s games, as well as try out hardware of the era. I blogged about the process here, with an update here. I really enjoyed using this setup, but I wondered if I could improve it enough to run Quake [ ] Source
I managed to score an Amiga 600 motherboard which was faulty for £41. This weekend I attempted to fix it. Here is my progress. The motherboard This is what the motherboard looked like when it arrived. Things to note immediately: In general, nowhere near the worst I ve seen. I was hoping for a fun challenge. [ ] Source
I recently repaired an Amiga 1200 with a difficult to find fault. Unfortunately, it came back to me with more unusual faults that I didn t discover the first time. So, here are the things I missed. Story so far This A1200 basically had an invisible break in one of the traces to Paula, which caused [ ] Source
I often see on places such as Facebook that an Amiga owner will show a fault they have with their machine, and the immediate response you’ll see is “recap it”. Now, I’m not saying that recapping isn’t needed, for the SMD caps used in Amigas, it always is. But that isn’t always the problem either. [ ] Source