Rehabilitation of old computers is a pet topic of mine - I still have pretty much every computer I've ever owned, from the Oric-1 machine that got me going, to

Rehabilitation of old computers is a pet topic of mine - I still have pretty much every computer I've ever owned, from the Oric-1 machine that got me going, to the Atari Portfolio with onboard C compiler that I used for many great things in the 90's, to the BeBox that I boot up every year, my old O2 that is still sitting there, in all its 200mhz glory, just because .. but one thing that has always kind of bugged me is that I missed out on the Amiga revolution, having gone from developing at first for my home 8-bit machines, directly to Unix and machines like the MIPS Risc/os Pizzabox .. which then led to SGI, and so on.. so I feel like I missed a serious aspect of the computer revolution by not ever really having much Amiga time .. all my mates ever did with theirs was play games, and I was much more interested in coding the thing than anything else. So every few years I get the urge to have another look and try to figure out what all the fuss is about. It seems like MorphOS is a good way to do that - but I have to say that I'm a little disappointed that its crippleware, although I understand that with practically no market for their work, the MorphOS developers have to make a buck somehow. Anyway, one thing that has really helped me get a bit of that lost spirit of Amiga computing has been the Open Pandora console: http://openpandora.org/ http://openpandora.org/ which is, essentially, an emulation paradise .. this allows me to run the UAE emulator and others, as well as a veritable cornucopia of emulators for other systems .. plus, its extremely portable, to boot. I even once ported BCPL to the Pandora, just so I could get a working EDSAC emulator, grin.. For anyone else interested in archaic computing platforms, the underground movement behind the Pandora can be a very comforting community to join.