Collecting Yeti Steel Frames

Thought I would share a picture of my Yetis. One is a 1991 FRO and the other is a 1992 Ultimate I think. These old steel MTB frames are highly collectible and keep there value.

Amiga 500 accelerator 030

While I am in a posting mode for Amiga stuff I thought I would share this picture of an Amiga 500 accelerator, or turbo card as they where also called back in the day. It is a Hurricane 030 and has a Motorola 68030 CPU at 25 MHz and a 25 MHz FPU. This is a really old card so it does not use the more modern 72-pin memory standard but Zip chips, a really weird way of adding more memory. As you can see on the picture this card has 4 MB installed and there is space for 4 MB more, but finding these obscure memory chips could be extremely hard today!

Another cool thing is the switch which lets you switch of the 030 CPU completely and instead runs the Amiga 500 with the original 7.14 MHz 68000 chip. As far as CPU speed goes it is also possible to run a 50 MHz CPU on this card, reaching hi-end workstation speeds of 1991. As with most A500 accelerators this card will work perfectly fine in an Amiga 2000, I have tried it.

This turbo board cost about 1500 dollars back in the day, not many Amiga 500 where expanded with more than 0.5 MB extra memory and an extra floppy drive so these turbo boards are rare!

Amiga explosion!

This was a sweet Amiga deal I secured a couple of years ago. Sadly I do not have anything of it left anymore sans a really nice micro switched mouse. Check it out! BTW if you want to read more about cool Amiga stuff visit Erkans homepage and find out more about the Amiga!

SFF 486, Small Form Factor 486

This is a cool 486 IMHO. I found this on the net a couple of years ago and I just had to have it. Just look how small it is! It has: 486 DX2 66 MHz 32 MB memory 420 MB harddrive 3COM NIC Soundblaster AWE 32 Integrated VGA Two ISA slots Aluminum chassi 3.5 floppy drive Gravis Gamepad I am running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 on it. I mainly use it to run DOS application and games. I can run CuteFTP in Windows to fetch software from my server so I do not need a CD-ROM. Perfect for DOS gaming.

Wondering how to save energy on your computer, read this article in Swedish about saving energy on your computer.

Exploded can of Cola

Do not put a can of soda in your fridge, or you will hear a loud bang and your cola will be destroyed!

How to be a webprogrammer

Another web project and another late night at the keyboard coding HTML and PHP. If you want to hear it directly from someone with years of knowledge from the web-industry head on over to Erkans web tutorials and other interesting written texts of what its like to work on web-projects.

Read more about this at Erkans homepage in the section Interests.

iPod-Info, the definitive website for every iPod owner!

I have been using an iPod ever since late 2001 and it is my favorite piece of hardware ever. To celebrate this I made an iPod website with information about the iPod nano, shuffle, video and lots of other iPod related things, check out my iPod information page at iPod-Info!

Tiny flash light!

I got this small Maglite Solitaire as a present, it is the smallest Maglite but also the coolest. I am no flash light snob but LED flash lights are all the rage today and classic flash lights like the Maglites are quickly becoming obsolete. But as far as black anodized cool aluminum flash lights go, Maglites are awesome!

HardSID

I thought I would share an old classic with my faithful readers. Back in 2000 I was one of the first buyers of the HardSID card an ISA card with space for a genuine SID chip from a C64. Playing SID tunes on a PC through the SID chip was then possible and I got to tell you how great SID tunes sounded with a true chip instead of lousy emulation. When the ISA slot died so did my use of this card so I sold it. But there are PCI based SID cards for sale today, but I would much prefer an USB version if it would be possible. Much recommended if you like SID tunes, you will notice a dramatic improvement in the sound quality of SID tunes!

Handheld video games mania

I like to collect handheld video games. My favorite at the moment is the Atari Lynx, it is totally awesome!

Back when the Lynx was released it had more advanced games than even the Amiga could have. Games like Blue Thunder and California Games where instant winners. The Lynx might not have been the most popular handheld but the games are still enjoyable.

I have to admit though that I only play Lynx at home. It is a huge handheld and wont fit my pockets, if I play games outside I usually take my PSP or my GBA micro.

Did you know that the Game Boy micro from Nintendo does not play classic black and white Game Boy games or Game Boy Color games?

There is a solution to play older original black and white Game Boy games on the GBA micro, you can find out more about it on the how to play GB games on a GBA micro page.

Out Run 2006 Coast 2 Coast

So Out Run 2006 Coast 2 Coast has been ported to the PC? That is great news actually, arcade games for the PC is not exactly common after the 80’ies went out of style. Sadly.

SEGA is well known for the strong arcade roots, almost every SEGA game feels like a quality arcade title and the new Out Run game does not steer away from this formula.

Anyone looking from an arcade racer should get Out Run 2006 Coast 2 Coast, it is a great game, and as you can see on the screenshot, if you have a monitor capable of 1920x1200 you can run the game in this gorgeous resolution!