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For #doscember2021, I'm going to look at a version of DOS you've probably never used on a machine you probably thought could never be a PC.
#doscember
In what is becoming a Halloween tradition for this channel it's time to look a vampire card (its as close to indulging themed content as I'm ever likely to get), this time we are looking at the Vampire v2 for the A1200.
Vampire v4 standalone https://youtu.be/YRr74v2tPzM
My thanks to BigGun for the help with getting it flashed and working.
After waiting more than a year, the Retro Computer Festival happen and I went, and I mostly remember to film a video.
Sorry about the video quality and sometimes iffy audio, it was all shot on my phone.
Author 20goto10 https://twitter.com/MarquisdeGeek
All bought for £1 off eBay. Retro does not have to be expensive.
To try these games your self, go to http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk and be amazed you can run a BBC emulator in a browser.
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By the end of the 90s the Unix workstation world had worked out that windows was a developing threat. How could they complete, well may windows could become a standard API they could provide an implementation of.
This video is sponsored by http://www.pcbway.com
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PIStorm has been one of the most interesting, and cheapest accelerators for the Amiga. So I figured it was finally time to look at it, and see how we got here and how it works.
This video is sponsored by PCBWay (https://www.pcbway.com)
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Casio thought it had a found an untapped market for consoles, a whole new customer base who they assumed where not using the current crop of consoles. So Casio lunched the Loopy, and its may well be worse than you think it is.
Last year I cleaned up one of the most unpleasant smelling machines I've ever been near, a very mouldy Amiga 500. Having used it for a year it's time to pimp my A500, and my tank mouse.
The aim of the Amiga A500 Upgrade is to get a good looking gaming machine, rather than somthing targeting the most power hungry Amiga applications, and games ported from other platforms.
If you're interested in the Terriblefire TF536 I'd have a look at the Terriblefire YT channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgHJudlHQiKGx-eSXwpLi8Q, you'll learn a fair bit about electronics and the inner workings of the Amiga, and also about one Scottish band in particular.
The pervious A500 video where you can discover the vital role dentists played in the birth of the amgia is here https://youtu.be/s9LBa-Wtvdk
Ever wondered how the 3d game for the BBC Mirco Elite managed to fit 8 whole galaxies of 256 planets, and numerous ship designed into on 32k of RAM. Well its time to take Acornsoft's Elite apart and see what makes it tick.
Mark Moxon's website is https://www.bbcelite.com/
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Intel is a very successful company, but sometimes it makes mistakes, and very few mistakes are this titanic, its time to talk about Itanium.
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