371 Days Later…

Well, I guess its been over a year since the last post on Amiga emulation It was easy to spend time writing back when I was locked down at home but since going back to work its been harder. When last we spoke, we had just got a basic Amiga1200 up and running with AmigaOS3.1. […]

Let’s Get Emulating!

So to get started playing with an Amiga the easiest thing to do is install an Emulator. The UAE Emulator is available for all kinds of platforms. You can even run it on a Raspberry Pi, I use a Mac, so that’s what I’m going to talk about here. FS-UAE You’ll want to head to […]

The Future Was Here

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was a home computer called the Amiga and I owned a couple. The Amiga was machine from the future. In the early 90s when I and my friends owned them, when Windows 3.1 was barely stumbling along with overlapping windows, the Amiga had a […]

Model vs View

I started my post-college career as a Microsoft Windows developer, building a visitor centre application for Scottish Nuclear’s “Come and See” program in 1995. Microsoft’s Visual C++ and the MFC framework meant it was relatively easy to make an app “look and feel” like Windows. You really had to go out of your way to […]

Quote: Jerry Sternin

It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than think your way into a new way of acting.

Hunting High and Low

So while I figure out the longer term career stuff (conversations are ongoing) I thought I’d take the time to build a couple of apps I’ve had on my mind. I’m procrastinating by writing, but also I’m trying to write more and this is whats on my mind. I know what I should do is […]

Link: How Designers Destroyed The World

Webstock ’13: Mike Monteiro – How Designers Destroyed the World

Link: Yosemite

I’m really excited to be going to Cocoaconf Yosemite. Aside from the giant, anonymous WWDC this is the first conference I’ve attended rather than organised in nearly ten years.