Abit Siluro Geforce Ti4200 OTES – Why so special?
What’s significant about this 13 year old video card you ask? It was the first card to feature a blower style cooler that vented hot air from the GPU outside of the back of...
Category: Retro Computers
“Commodore Amiga: A Visual Compendium” Book Review
I have received my Amiga Visual Compendium1 book package from Bitmap Books/Kickstarter, and, WOW! This book is incredibly beautiful; chock full with edge-to-edge screen-captures of some of the most famous and believed Amiga software...
Project: Home Arcade – 8 Months Later
UPDATE – Oct 29, 2017: I’ve swapped out the Asus PC and Windows for a Raspberry Pi 3 with RetroPie, and I am extremely happy with the results. You can read about the most...
Amiga “Boing Ball” Wallpaper
Ever since its debut demo along-side the original Amiga, the Boing Ball has been a beloved icon for the Amiga community. The demo, put together in just hours; and within hours of the Amiga’s...
Amiga “Checkmark” Logo from Workbench 2 & 3 Wallpaper
When the Amiga was first released in 1985, Commodore choose to brand the new computer with a new logo, a multi-colored, rainbow, double-checkmark. On Amiga hardware, this logo was only featured on the original...
Amiga “Workbench 1.3 Disk” Icon Wallpaper
Prior to Workbench 1.3, in the user interface, system disks would appear as generic, blank-white, silhouettes of a 3.5in floppy. Released in 1988, to go with the new Amiga 500 and 2000 computers, Workbench...
Atari ST “Busy Bee” Icon Wallpaper
Continuing the run of the Atari ST’s clever icons in the TOS operating system, the ‘system busy’ state was represented by the Busy Bee. This downloadable ZIP file contains a 400×400 transparent PNG, and...
Atari ST “Bomb” Crash Icon Wallpaper
Released in June 1985, the Atari 520ST was designed to compete against the, at the time, still unreleased Commodore Amiga computer. Featuring a Motorola 68000 CPU running at 8MHz, the 520ST, and later its...
