Entry 0901: Blog: 1

Been a while I know since I last added anything to the 
website. I have seriously cut back given that I have 
such restricted space now. This doesn`t mean that I am
not acquiring still the odd goodie... Like the KIM-1
The KIM-1 was the property of a very talented electrical 
engineer who sadly I never had the opportunity to meet 
though I was privileged to receive these items. The man 
in question was a true pioneer of computer technology

scuzz

KIM-1

In the beginning there was the KIM

Shortly after the KIM was introduced, MOS Technology Inc
was purchased by Commodore International. The production
of the KIM lasted only a short while under the CBM label
until it was ended. Chuck Peddle progressed work on an
expanded version with a full keyboard , cassette drive
and monochrome monitor. The ROM was extended to include
BASIC... The result was the PET launched in 1977.. and
so you can see just how important the KIM was to the 
whole Commodore range of machines.

scuzz

Entry 0901: Blog: 2

I have no idea just how many photographs there are
on this website.. What I do know is that up until
today they were all taken by my trusty Epson 850Z.
Sadly the camera finally gave up the 'ghosts' and
decided not to play ball. Even with the large
rubber band clasping the battery bay.. Anyway,
for the first time the camera can be featured on
these pages as the Panasonic moves in to take
over the challenge. Unfortunatley the new camera
is not as good as the old.. Isn`t that often the
case with new kit :-)

scuzz

New kid on the block

Entry 0901: Blog: 3

Hi

Retro Gamer this month and its the turn of that arcade
classic Asteroids...

' It's the late summer of 1979 and engineer Ed Logg is 
preparing for a trip to Old Sacramento California. He 
packs the retrofit kit for Atari Football designed to
upgrade the plays and prolong the games's arcade life.
Joining him on the journey is is colleague Collette Weil
but Ed decides to take another companion along for
the ride: the project he's been working on since the
spring. Once at the arcade, his baby is carefully 
placed among the rows of blinking cabs. There's 
no fancy silk screen and the cabinet art is incomplete 
but the lighted panel clearly displays the name of this
newborn: Asteroids '..... The rest I guess is history.

Classic. Read Retro Gamer .

There is also a great article on the making of Legend.

scuzz

Entry 0901: Blog: 4

Again from Sven at Amiga Mart..

' Hyperion Entertainment VDF has announced the immediate 
availability a a new software development kit for developing 
software for Amiga OS 4.1... '

Read on from this weeks Micro Mart.

Sven also reports on moves to port Open Video Toaster to the 
newer Amiga platforms...

scuzz

Entry 0901: Blog: 5

From the pages of Micro Mart and particularly as reported 
by Sven Harvey in Amiga Mart...

' Wayne Hunt decided to to step down from leading the longest 
running of the current Amiga web portals and news sites 
Amiga.org. What's more he has put the site up for sale as 
an ongoing concern '

Wayne will only sell to someone with a genuine interest 
in keeping it going in the format that it currently runs 
in. I do hope this is achieved cus Amiga. org is one my 
most frequented and loved sites. 

Fingers crossed.

scuzz

Entry 0901: Blog: 6

[ Quote ]

What is Protext?

One of the most successful British word processor programs, 
developed by Peterborough-based Arnor Ltd between 1985 and 
1995, Protext has sold over 30,000 copies. Original written 
for the Amstrad CPC464, Protext was subsequently released 
for the Amstrad PCW8256, the PC, the Atari ST, Commodore 
Amiga and the Acorn Archimedes.

When Arnor closed in 1995 it seemed that Protext had become 
another British casualty of the fast-evolving world of computers. 
But a group of Protext users with professional experience 
from other areas of business were not prepared to let it go. 
They formed a partnership called Protext Software with the 
copyright owners and original programmers and relaunched 
the program in an new version (v6.7) for the PC. Now, in 
July 2008, Protext has been issued as freeware and can be 
downloaded from this web site, completely free of charge.

Despite being packed with advanced features, above all the 
latest versions of Protext remain fast and very easy to use. 
It is a credit to the programmers that the user-friendly 
qualities of the original CPC version have been maintained 
through to this latest one while building in more and more 
useful features.

[ End quote ]

scuzz

Protext Download Page

Entry 0901: Blog: 7

[ Quote ]

Great Valley Products - GVP-M 

April 24, 2009 Update - Software Hut and GVP have teamed 
to bring back many popular GVP products for the Amiga at 
new, lower prices. These are newly made production pieces 
with a full 1 year warranty. Many of the items are limited 
production so hurry as they will sell out fast. Our first 
batch of ram both 4mb and 16mb simms has arrived today and 
A2000 and A4000 accelerators are due in stock on Monday. 
A1200 accelerators should be the end of next week and the 
Spectrum boards should be in around May 5th. 

[ end quote ]

scuzz

Entry 0901: Blog: 8

Earlier this year Lycos decided to withdraw support
for their website domain service. That was bad news
for me given that I used their service to provide
file storage for Amiga dms and lha files. The reason
being that Webfusion who host this site do not
recognise the lha and dms format. Consequently,
whilst I was able to rescue the domains scuzz.org.uk
and scuzz-retro.com I decided to update the files
so they were compressed into ZIP files. This meant
that I could use this Webfusion site for all the
files. It follows that I am happy to report that
all the files previously dislodged by Lycos are
now again available to download.. Including the
1000 Amiga demo disks.

Hopefully those that mailed asking me to remedy this
issue will now have access again to the Amiga disk
images on this site.

If anyone does find a broken link or problem then
please email me. Been a bit of a needle in the old
haystack this one.

scuzz

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