Old systems all running now

From left to right:

Amiga 1200 (030/28, 16+2MB RAM, 20GB Hard disk)

Spectrum +3 (Internal MF3, Internal IDE, 1GB CF, 3.5" B:)

Commodore 128D (Standard except AR4 and 64HDD Pro with PwrLoad support (see below))

BBC B (176K RAM (!), SD interface, 8271 replay interface, sideways ROM board)

C64 improvements

The above is a Powerload/XE cable for 64HDD Pro.

It allows the loading of C64 games in about 3.5 seconds, compared to 20-25 seconds using the X-Loader or over two minutes using a bog standard 1541 (or the free 64HDD)

Unfortunately they generally take rather longer than 3.5 seconds to decompress and get past all the cracktros but I suppose you can't have everything.

Yes, that's stripboard housed in an old tape box, was going for function rather than aesthetics.

Pandora back

Hihi

Pandora is back, fully working and why yes, that is E-UAE running an AGA game.

Yes, well....

Hideki: I just started wow again on a rather good looking private server
Hideki: molten-wow.com
Hideki: http://www.pokenet.co.uk/misc/images.games/wow/molten-al-10-exodar.jpg
Vodkaholic: ah right I still play on the real one
Hideki: yeah, I'm still a Drænai
Vodkaholic: that all I have :D
Vodkaholic: female ofc
Vodkaholic: dam that arse :D
Hideki: mine is male since I'm in possession of a penis
Hideki: I've never understood why people play as the sex they're not, lol
Vodkaholic: well I don't liek the idea of looking at a males are all day :D
Vodkaholic: arse*
Hideki: haha
Vodkaholic: thats the only reason :D

Another test video

Hihi

This time we have 10 seconds or so covering 2 hours of sky

Unfortunately we also have clouds rather inconveniently placed which I didn't notice but never mind...

720p this time (actually 1024x768 but Youtube doesn't seem to do anything but widescreen sizes now)



You'll probably want to play it in 720p, perhaps full screen for full quality (or as full as it can be after Youtube have compressed it to death)

Images are 40 second exposures at ISO200, 87 of them in all, at 9fps for ~10 seconds.