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  • PowerPacks!

    [the publish date is retroactively published] In 1990, I bought the Commodore Format magazine, I had about half the run, both the magazines and tapes. As mentioned earlier in this blog, I lost the tapes. I have asked my mum if my magazines survived, which they didn’t. As they cost a hefty penny now, I […]

  • Double D punching

    [the publish date is retroactively published] I have bought a load of disks for my C64C, and a lot of them said double-sided, but with only one Write Protect notch. Back in the day, there was such a tool to be able to punch another hole on the other side of the floppy disk, nowadays […]

  • I got you covered

    [the publish date is retroactively published] These retro computers come in beige and with UV ‘protection’. Unfortunately, the UV ‘protection’ makes these plastic cases go a not very nice looking nicotine yellow, or as Retro recipes have called it, ‘Dirty beige’. So I wanted to buy some really nice covers for my devices. (the date […]

  • Floppy discs and floppy drives

    [the publish date is retroactively published] There are problems with buying original hardware; one is you WILL overspend, and the other is you start getting nostalgic for things you’ve never had. Also, I kept drooling over floppy drives on eBay. Things came to a head in October; I bought a 1541-ii. The VERY drive I […]

  • Doing ‘Real Work’

    [the publish date is retroactively published] I knew my trusty Commodore 64 was a ‘real computer’ (as in I could buy disk drives and printers) and always wanted to do ‘real work’ on it. So, I looked at buying a mouse for my C64. As the original ones are a tad pricey (in the UK, […]

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