David's Computer Blog

Call for Submissions: Share Your Story, Written the Retro Way! Are you a writer who loves vintage technology?  Do you enjoy the charm of classic word processors?  Do you have a new retro Amiga keyboard that you''re wanting to use? Retro Words, Timeless Stories is an online short story exhibition where every entry must be created using a retro word processor  on vintage Commodore computers (be it real or emulated) such as  AmigaWriter, WordPerfect, ProWrite, Final Writer, Wordworth, Personal Write, or any classic software of your choice that ran on a Commodore 64/128/Amiga computer! This is more than a writing challenge—it’s an opportunity to blend nostalgia with creativity , bringing vintage digital tools back to life in a modern storytelling space. It's also an opportunity to use your new or old Amiga-based keyboard! These vintage tools provided a focused and tactile writing experience, free from modern-day distractions. Now, in this online exhibition , we celebra...

Aside from the legal issues of the release of Amithlon in the previous Decade, last week I was going through some old CD-ROMs that I had in my collection. I stumbled across my copy of Amithlon. Two weeks ago I was doing some technical reading on the Internet in regard to Amithlon. When I first acquired Amithlon, I wasn't too aware of the differences between it and other emulated Amiga software such as WinUAE and E-UAE. After learning of many of the technical differences, I wanted to give it a try. I had two desktop computers on which I tried to boot Amithlon. An i3 Intel machine and an AMD machine. Amithlon wouldn't boot on either of them. After pondering an hour or two, I remembered that I had an old Pentium 4 Celeron computer (a Compaq S6100NX) that my mother-in-law had given me when they moved houses two years ago. It wasn't running anything anyways, so I decided to plug it in and try to boot Amithlon on it. The result? It booted with no problem! The only problem encoun...