retrocomputing

Today was our bimonthly meeting of the Robin Hood Amiga Group in Nottingham, UK.

Today's presentation was delivered by team behind the DeMoN project, which is a reverse-engineered and upgraded Action Replay 3 cart with tons of cool new features. Here is their demo unit plugged into a stock A500.

There was a diverse range of wonderful machines on show, including a CD32, Vampire standalone, A1200 PiStorm setup, a retro console table and a gorgeous A1000 setup.

We also had a visit from the Who Dares Wins Amiga BBS team, which is an oldskool 90s BBS that has been brought back to life by the original operators.

One of our members was showing off his progress on a ZX Spectrum clone project using the Tang Nano FPGA board.

A couple of cool homebuilt Amiga CD32 joysticks were on show.

Also, two of us were there showing off our work-in-progress Denise ITX Amiga builds.

Specs-
MOBO: Intel D875PBZ board
CPU: Pentium 4 3.0GHz
RAM: 512MB DDR
GPU: Nvidia 6800 GT
Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy SB0090

Keyboard: IBM KB8923 Mechanical Mouse: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical

Display: Compaq S710 CRT 1024x768 @ 85Hz

I have the whole thing connected to the Belkin SoHo KVM with my Windows 11 PC (behind the cabinet on the left) and my NUC that I use as a home lab server (on top of the Blu-ray drive on the right)

A blog post on the build will be forthcoming but feel free to suggest games and software I should load onto or AMA about the system.

It was a really fun project

via https://oldbytes.space/@flexion/114154723957087861 <- there’s a higher quality version of this photo there

Hello!

I came across a cosmetically good condition CRT monitor at the local recycled goods shop, but I can't seem to find much information about it.

It is an Osborne MPV 1024 14" CRT monitor. I was able to find a manual for it on the Internet Archive, and an old forum question about using it with a then new Windows 95 machine, but that's about it.

The thing that confuses me though is that I wasn't aware of Osborne making individual computer monitors, or peripherals of any kind. I also don't seem to see anyone online talking about these monitors.

I want to find out if it's rare or otherwise special in some way, or if it's just a generic CRT monitor of the 80s/90s that just reused the Osborne branding.

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