Category: Uncategorized

After my trip to the Amiga30th in Amsterdam last month and my subsequent visits to California and the UK to attend two more Amiga30th Anniversary events, I’m now safely back in New Zealand. I have just about overcome the triple-whammy of three time zones, jet-lag and late nights coupled with a slight over-indulgence of alcohol.… Continue reading On the shoulders of Giants

I’m writing this blog a few days before I travel to the Netherlands for the Amiga30th Event in Amsterdam. Who would have thought that the Amiga would be celebrating it’s 30th birthday this year? Although I did not get my first Amiga until 1988, a full 3 years after the Amiga’s launch, the Amiga computer… Continue reading Amiga30th – Amsterdam

It’s been quite a while since I’ve updated my blog. Unfortunately, there are just not enough hours in the day at the moment. Apart from my Amiga passion (hey who said obsession) I enjoy helping young companies start their business and, as a founding investor in Lightning Lab, I’m in the fortunate position of working… Continue reading Warp back to the Future

With the Christmas season almost upon us it’s time for a little Winter/Summer cheer. Those clever developers at EntwicklerX (Frank Menzel & Thomas Claus) have worked their magic once again to further optimise the composite engine driving the Workbench CANDI animations. The result is an improved graphics performance at a much lower CPU load. Better… Continue reading Seasons Greetings

Amiwest has come and gone for another year and I’m now back in the New Zealand as the Southern hemisphere heads towards Christmas. I don’t think my Northern hemisphere imprinted brain will ever come to terms with “winter” being summer time down under. 😉 As several other attendees have already have posted excellent blogs I… Continue reading You’re not on the list!

I can’t believe we are only a couple of weeks away from another Amiwest show. It seems like only yesterday I was packing my red suitcase for my now annual pilgrimage to Sacramento. A lot has happened in the past year both in the Amiga world and my personal life. My youngest daughter got married… Continue reading eXperience

It’s been a while since I posted to my blog, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been very busy over the past six weeks. Sadly, and contrary to popular belief, I do have a life and interests outside the Amiga realm. Although I’ve not had much time to try out the latest versions of MorphOS… Continue reading Radiant

While not quite Homer’s Odyssey, Roman Kargin (kas1e) has released his own version of the Odyssey for AmigaOS4.1. Unlike Homer’s epic Greek poem, Odyssey v1.23 is a relatively lightweight r155188 WebKit based browser which brings Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL and HTML5 Video/Audio support to AmigaOS4. Based on the source code released by Fabien… Continue reading Each man delights ……

“You will be assimilated, resistance is futile” or so says the Borg Queen in Star Trek, one of my all-time favourite Sci-Fi TV shows. I’ve always thought that Star Trek had such interesting and well rounded characters like Deanna Troi, Seven of Nine, the Vulcan T’pol and of course the Borg Queen herself. Hmmm, do… Continue reading Designation unknown?

As we come to the end of another year in Amigaland it’s a time to reflect on the past 12 months and look forward to what the new year will bring. My recent visit to Pianeta Amiga has reinforced my believe that a new spirit of cooperation and understanding is slowly beginning to flourish and… Continue reading Auld Lang Syne