As 2021 is “the year of the peripheral” for me, I thought I’d put down my Month by Month plan for upgrades.
| January | RAMIIgs (Apple IIgs, already fitted) |
| February | Z80 Card for Apple II (Apple IIe, second hand, on it’s way) |
| March | DDI 5 (Amstrad CPC 464. Sorry Greg!) |
| April | Nothing. I’ll be at SwanCon so will save for that |
| May | SCSI2SD (Mac Se/30. I’ll also add a cable to route it outside the case) |
| June | AVGCart (Atari 800xl) |
| July | divMMC Future (ZX Spectrum, a system that needs more love here) |
| Aug | I’ll probably make the case for the Amiga 1200 |
| Sept | Mockingboard (Apple IIe) |
| Oct | Some sort of Amiga Accelerator? If I can find one… |
| Nov | Harlequin 128 (So it arrives for Christmas) |
| Dec | Christmas! Save my $$$ |
Why no upgrades for the BBC Master? Because it’s pretty much fully upgraded. Atari STfm? These are notoriously difficult to upgrade. Commodore 64? Fully upgraded. CreatVision? Urgh, it’s playing up again.
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Iām amazed that so many of these platforms have upgrades and enhancements under current development.
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It’s incredible. New stuff is turning up all the time, as well as replacements for failed components. I’m always amused that you can use a peripheral with thousands of times the RAM and CPU performance to support a computer from the 1980s.
Case in point is all the WiFi modems out there based on the ESP32 chipset. That’s a 32 bit dual core processor running at 160MHz, with half a meg of SRAM. That’s more cpu power than Amigas and Motorola based Macs had!
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So, if I’m ready to order one, what’s the “best” way? I’m in Australia.
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