Ready Player One?
The film of one of the most unashamedly geeky books has finally come out, and I saw it on its first UK showing. The book, for those that don’t know, is set in a...
Category: Reviews
Retro fetish: world’s first portable colour computer – Commodore SX-64
The observant may have noticed a hobby of mine, which is collecting and using stuff from the early days of home computing. The times between 1980 and 2000 were quite astonishing in the acceleration...
AORM (CU Amiga July 1994)
(Editor’s note: my first review, which came about from me speaking to CU and asking if they’d want to review this new package. They asked me if I’d write the review… so I did. ...
HTML Howto, Amiga Computing 87, June 1995
(Editor’s note: this was published in June 1995. Things have changed a lot!) By now, you’d have had to be completely cut off from the world not to have noticed that the World Wide...
Review: The Unarchiver for MacOS X
Unarchives more old skool formats than you can shake a stick at – but is it any good?
Buddha Flash Phoenix Edition for Amiga
The Buddha Flash Phoenix is a cheap, cheerful and available Zorro 2 IDE interface. Is it nirvana, or samsara?
Broadcast Elite (unused by CU)
(following on from the OpalVision Roaster article) Tucked into another corner of the room with its twenty one inch multisync monitor and smaller video monitor is another 4000 equipped with 34MB, 5 GIGAbytes of...
AmiFileSafe (Amiga Computing 91 – Oct 1995)
Exciting! Interesting! Words never yet used to describe a file system review… And I continue that tradition here.
CyberStorm 060 + Cybervision 64 (CU Amiga August 1995)
Summer 1995 saw the launch of Phase 5’s CyberStorm and CyberVision. Were they any good? Read on, brave reader…
3D Spectacular (CU Amiga December 1994)
(Editor’s note: this article appeared in the December 1994 issue of CU Amiga, and ran over 4 pages) Cast your mind back to late 1986. In computer shops around the country, an incredible plague...