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<\/p>\nThis blog has had many things dumped on it over the past few years,\u00a0almost all of which have been geeky. So yeah, why break with tradition (as new as a given tradition may be).<\/p>\n
I’m going to start posting stuff up here to do with my retro computer projects (although likely to be more Amiga focussed) as I’m learning a lot as I go (and these are things I fear I can easily forget again) – so why not document it!<\/p>\n
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My Amiga 1200 didn’t start out as mine, it arrived as part of a Desktop Dynamite pack in Christmas 1993 and was very much the family<\/em> computer. Of course, at that point all my brother and I wanted to do with it was play games! Which we did. A lot.<\/p>\n My dad did actually use it as a computer however, typing up documents in Wordworth SE and printing them out on a Tandy Dot matrix printer (it was a noisy beast). All this was done while using a Philips 21″ TV as a monitor!<\/p>\n Eventually the inevitable happened, and in late 1996 the Amiga’s days were numbered as the search had begun for a replacement; an IBM compatible PC.<\/p>\n In 1997 a PC Science (where are they now?) machine arrived, running a Cyrix PR166+ processor at 133Mhz (yeah, we fell for the marketing, it was a learning experience to say the least).<\/p>\n Anyway, with the arrival of this new machine, the Amiga moved upstairs into my bedroom, where I pretty much ignored it as I wanted to play games on the shiny new PC downstairs. Sad times!<\/p>\n Eventually it dawned on me that I had a computer sitting right there, that no one else would fight me for use of, and that I’d never fully attempted to learn very much about.<\/p>\n I started prodding it a bit and then, well, that was it. The slippery slope was found, and here I am, almost 20 years later and the same machine is sitting right next to me.<\/p>\n Welcome This blog has had many things dumped on it over the past few years,\u00a0almost all of which have been geeky. So yeah, why break with tradition (as new as a given tradition may be). I’m going to start posting stuff up here to do with my retro computer projects (although likely to be more … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indigolemon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indigolemon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indigolemon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigolemon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigolemon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigolemon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigolemon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indigolemon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigolemon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigolemon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.indigolemon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/amiga_1200-1024x768.jpg\")
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