#Retro Computing

How clever engineers made a cheap computer powerful

How do you get more than 64K of RAM in an 8 bit computer? Let’s look at how memory banking works!

Let’s explore how 8bit computers worked, looking at their memory, interrupts and DMA.

How to make Amiga like effects on an 8 bit Spectrum

How was 2021 for you? I mean, compared to 2020 it was a big improvement, but that’s a pretty low bar to aim for. Let’s focus more on the projects that I completed and what I learned from them.

How to program keyboards and joysticks on the Spectrum Next

I found my 25 year old A-Level programming project, is it any good?

Meet the world’s worse mouse design ever. The Atari ST mouse. Amiga owners liked their tank mice, we ST owners didn’t like ours. It was square, uncomfortable and prone to breaking quite easily.

An overview of the Spectrum Next’s hardware sprites

So how exactly do you learn programming? There’s more to it than just typing in code listings after all. Let’s find out using LOGO on my BBC!