Glimpse into the world of Cycle Exact programming

The retro fever caught me again. I am these days quite busy with my RC models like helicopters and multicopters, but I felt it was time again to explore some topics around the Commodore 64 hardware. I stumbled upon the website of Michael Steil. He was the author of the 15 Second Disk Copy program ...

A harddrive gives me a hard time

The last two evenings I was fighting with the Megafile 30 harddrive of the Atari ST. The wiring is perfect and “something” happens between the ST and the Megafile but I don’t have any access yet. Pretty fast it became clear, that I might need some drivers and tools to further investigate. I am a ...

My Latest Catch

Since I have moved from Germany to Malaysia, my collection of old games and systems grows a lot slower. However, I managed to get an ATARI 520 STfm for RM 125 (~ 30 Euro). It came with SC1224 color screen and Megafile 30 harddrive. Unfortunately the harddrive cable and the mouse was missing. An original ...