Console

The floor is lava

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:45:00 +0100

While children naturally reshape games to their imagination, we can reclaim this creativity by inventing our own goals within video games.

Chip music

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:50:00 +0100

How to play back game music from the era of dedicated sound chips.

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:00:39 +0100

I finally gave in and launched a self‑hosted blog.

Compact Amiga Power Supply Unit

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 23:53:42 +0000

Today two pre-orders from Individual Computer arrived.

Copy of Amiga 600

Thu, 07 May 2020 17:27:38 +0000

Hello World (2)

Amiga 600 analysis

Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:42:54 +0000

It's a little dead, Jim.

Amiga 600 solder pad resurrection

Sun, 22 Sep 2019 00:32:03 +0000

How hard can it be to fix a pulled solder pad?

Amiga 600 recapping + destruction

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 01:48:59 +0000

Tonight's the Night! Tonight I'll re-cap my Amiga 600! Spoiler: It won't end well. :-(

Laser Tank Mouse

Fri, 24 May 2019 00:01:55 +0000

Bought a dirty and broken Amiga tank mouse on Ebay in order to gut it, clean it and mod it with a laser sensor by @jesusdelatorrec.

Darkmere

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 01:35:40 +0000

8 hour train ride! Ideal moment to play an Amiga classic: Darkmere: The Nightmare's Begun (by Core Design, 1993)

Keyboard 7/7 — Finale Totale

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 23:34:54 +0000

A super flat package arrived today!

Amiga DiagRom

Sat, 19 Jan 2019 10:39:55 +0000

After watching the 4th episode of @thejanbeta's recent Amiga 500 repair video series, I learned about the existence of a custom kickstart ROM that can diagnose Amiga hardware.

Keyboard 6/7

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 23:45:08 +0000

Final (proper) Amiga keyboard update. Besides the broken plastic clip of the space bar, the keyboard membrane needed some love because some keys were flaky sometimes. A good way to improve the reliability is to add graphite to refresh conductivity.

Keyboard 5/7

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 22:30:43 +0000

To fix the semi-broken Amiga 1200 space-bar for good, I need to replace the plastic back plate with a new one. And for that switch a full Amiga 1200 keyboard dis- and reassembly is required. Perfect activity for the last day of the year.

Keyboard 4/7

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 21:11:39 +0000

My 1200 keyboard back plastic plate replacement arrived today. Had to soak, clean and dry it: A simple man's requiem.

F-19 Stealth Figther

Tue, 25 Dec 2018 22:39:04 +0000

Exactly 28 years ago I got my first original game for xmas: F-19 Stealth Fighter by I lost it a few years later during a chaotic move, however this week I managed to obtain a near-perfect copy on Ebay!

Apprentice

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:45:20 +0000

Got stuck in a platformer game, hit space, spawned a little dude. (Apprentice, Rainbow Arts, 1990, OCS)

Keyboard 3/7

Sat, 15 Dec 2018 00:20:45 +0000

Amiga 1200 space-bar fix update 3!

Screen tests

Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:15:43 +0000

Final screen test.

Accellerator woes 3/3

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:49:52 +0000

Quick follow up on the Amiga 1200 system instabilities I've been experiencing. I bought an IR thermometer to measure the heat generated by the Indivision AGA MK2cr.

Keyboard 2/7

Sat, 24 Nov 2018 23:10:49 +0000

The keyboard fix I did earlier this month didn't work. Too much force was needed to get the key to trigger. UsingAmigaShellwashell. Tonight I decided to revisit the space bar repair.

Accellerator woes 2/3

Fri, 23 Nov 2018 00:48:55 +0000

I finally figured it out.

Accellerator woes 1/3

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 01:52:14 +0000

Bad evening, lots of debugging. I suspect the accelerator card isn't working properly. This error or variants of it pops up a lot.

Broken Amiga Disk

Sat, 17 Nov 2018 00:37:32 +0000

Follow up on that broken AmigaOS disk.

Gayle Reset Fix

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:01:10 +0000

This is the "Gayle" chip inside the Amiga 1200. It contains a hardware bug that prevents the proper reinitialization of the PCMCIA slot after a reset via keyboard or a software crash. To make it detect cards again, a full powercycle is needed.

Power LED soldering

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 12:54:39 +0000

Last night the Power LED started to fail. After some quick research, it seems this is a common issue with aging Amigas. Recommended fix: Re-solder the LEDs.

Amiga OS 3.1.4

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 01:28:37 +0000

AmigaOS 3.1.4 arrived today! It's on 6 floppy disks and two Kickstart roms.

Lesser packing peanuts

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 23:44:11 +0000

Even for @lazygamereviews, this is an inadequate amount of packing peanuts.

SD2IDE

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:15:03 +0000

Today I received my new SD card interface (SD2IDE) as well as a single port IDE adapter by RastPort for my Amiga 1200.

Floppy Disks Staircase

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:28:21 +0000

New essential hardware in the mail today.

Floppy Disks

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 23:48:28 +0000

Okay.

Individual Computer

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:46:59 +0000

"Congrats! Your new hardware has just come home!"

Amiga 1200

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 13:14:32 +0000

I bought a used Amiga 1200 (Escom REV 1D4) on Ebay in very good condition. This machine will get upgraded in the next few weeks.

PSU

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:15:31 +0000

My new Amiga replacement PSU (Universal +12V, -12V, 5V) by Lotharek arrived today!

Shipment

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:15:13 +0000

A big box with Amiga parts was delivered to my Briefkasten today.

Joystick 2/2

Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:42:18 +0000

Quick update: The left fire button on the joystick wasn’t working correctly, turns out the micro switch got dislocated. Easy fix.

Joystick 1/2

Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:30:09 +0000

Bonus material: Clicky and squeaky like all good peripherals.

Unboxing the peripherals

Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:55:42 +0000

Let’s start off with something trivial. Mouse and Joystick cleaning.