Stop squinting at tiny OLED screens and mashing rotary encoders. In this video, we review Omegaware’s Gotek Touchscreen Interface (GTi), a game-changing Gotek upgrade that adds vibrant box art, carousel scrolling, and instant search to your retro Amiga’s floppy setup.
Category: Upgrade
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Flawed Genius: The zz9000 Amiga Graphics Upgrade That’s About to Get WAY Better!
Thirty three years later, I finally got my hands on the 24-bit Amiga graphics card of my dreams. The MNT zz9000 is an all-in-one RTG, Ethernet and USB monster for the Amiga 3000/4000/2000 & 500, but does it actually deliver on all its amazing promise? Let’s install it, test it, and find out if it’s worth your hard-earned cash.
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The Ultimate vintage IBM 5150 Upgrade? | The XT-CF-LITE
There’s something magical about using an original IBM 5150 or XT PC, but waiting on floppy disks will test the patience of even dedicated retro enthusiasts. IBM didn’t design this machine to support hard disks out of the gate, but modern engineering has given this legendary 8088 PC a new lease on life. Enter the XT-CF-LITE!
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Sidekick 64: Why every C64 owner needs one of these Cartidges!
Today, I’m show-casing the Sidekick64, a Commodore 64 cartridge that’s a time machine and a synthesizer rolled into one. If you’ve ever wanted to give your Commodore 64 superpowers, this is the hardware upgrade you’ve been waiting for.
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I Waited 33 Years for This Dream Amiga Upgrade… Will It Work?
33 years ago I had a dream: a 24-bit graphics card for my Amiga 1500, the key to taking my 3D graphics to the next level! There was just one tiny problem… a £3,000 price tag. Fast-forward 33 years and against all odds, a Piccolo SD64 has fallen into my hands — but there’s a catch. It’s untested, it’s ancient, and it may already be dead. Will it power⚡up? Will it let me live that long-denied Amiga dream? Or will this be the moment when nostalgia goes up in a puff of magic smoke?
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Atari Mega4 CH03: Next Level Atari Mega with an OS Upgrade and Super-Silent PSU Fan!
My retro Atari computer, a Mega 4 arrived installed with its original German language TOS 1.02 ROM chips. Now, i’m not a German speaker, so upgrading to English TOS 1.04 is the first thing I will tackle in this video. With that done, there is the noisy PSU fan. A perfect candidate for a new, near silent Noctua fan replacement. With these in place, do we FINALLY have a Mega ST thats ready to rock? Lets see!
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C64 Longevity: Switch & Heatsink Install (A Must-Do Upgrade!)
My mission continues! To get closer to playing Wasteland on my beloved Commodore 64, it’s time for some serious upgrades! In this chapter, I’m installing a new power switch and strategically placing heatsinks to boost the C64’s longevity and reliability. It’s essential maintenance for my vintage 80s treasure! But the retro gods had other plans… a small, unexpected lightning bolt struck! What went wrong? Watch on to find out what interrupted my upgrade!
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Amiga 4000: Is the Fastlane Z3 the best home for a BlueSCSIv2 Upgrade?
In this video, we install a Fastlane Z3 Fast SCSI2 card in my Amiga 4000 and use a BlueSCSIv2 to upgrade the machine with much faster disk IO and the potential of a CD-Rom and WIFI based networking.
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Amiga500 Upgrade CH:03 RAM Upgrade & Reassembly
In this episode, we make a modification to my revision 6A Amiga 500, cutting a trace, to allow it to have 1MB of Chip RAM, by adding the 512KB in my trapdoor RAM expansion, to the 512KB on board. Once this is done, we put the machine back together, plug in my GVP A500-HD8+ sidecar SCSI Hard Disk and we check out how it performs. Was all the effort worth it?
