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NEW: Check out Disk Flashback - the New Floppy Disk Mounting Program for Windows

I've listed all of my videos below in date order, alternatively, visit my YouTube Channel to view them from there.

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Unsung Heroes: The Developer of Amiberry, Dimitris Panokostas (aka WiDWaN) - Interview

Unsung Heroes: featuring Dimitris Panokostas aka MiDWaN, creator of Amiberry, the Amiga emulator for the Raspberry Pi and other operating systems.

How to program Wordle in AMOS on the AMIGA - Tutorial!

In this AMOS (Amiga) Tutorial we learn to put together the popular Wordle game. This tutorial is suitable for beginners. You may want to be ready with the pause button as I'll be going quite fast!

Real Floppy Disk Drive for the MiSTer FPGA - Current Progress

This week I thought I'd bring you an update on where I'm at with supporting floppy disks for cores like the Amiga (minimig) of the MiSTer FPGA.

Did I just create life? Crazy AI Robots!

In this video I'll show you the basics of AI (Artifical Intellegence) using Neural Networks. We'll then learn to teach them by evolving them using Genetic Algorithms and finally put them into several problems to see if they can solve them.

Using a Retro Joystick on Modern Systems

In this video I show how to make an adapter so these common DB9 style joysticks can be connected to a modern PC via USB

Can I Make My Own 3D Printed Retro Joystick?

In this video I attempt to 3D print and build my own retro-style joystick for my Amiga. With slightly different wiring it would also work on many other systems.

How Floppy Disk Copy Protection Worked

In this video I'll take a look at some of the physical copy protection methods used to prevent disk duplicates from working. This is far from a comprehensive list, but these are some of the most common and most interesting. Play with the Simulator

How Data is Encoded and Stored on Floppy Disks

This is the first in a two-part series about floppy disks. In this part I'm going to take a look at how data is stored, both physically and from the computer onto a floppy disk.

Using an Arduino in Low or Battery Power Situations

In this video we're going to look at the basic Arduino devices (with the ATMega328 processor) and learn how we can use it in a low power environment such as data logging where we may be running totally off battery. I show that it's possible to use the Arduino down to microamps!.

My Visit to the Leicester Retro Computer Museum

In the heart of Leicestershire lies a building brimming with gaming history, and on the 27th November I went along and took a look!

I challenge you to count and name as many different systems as possible!

Whilst there I played on several of the machines, took a look around the library of games and mags they had, and enjoyed the nostalgic atmosphere.