With the missus getting increasingly addicted to Guild Wars, it’s been getting harder and harder to get on my PC of an evening.  Accordingly, I have treated myself to a new toy – an Acer laptop. The specs are reasonable, although I could have lived without Vista.  It’s taken me almost a full week to [...]

In a brave attempt to rid myself of some of the cruft I’ve gathered over the years, I’ve recently had a somewhat brutal clearout.  As well as all the rubbish that I’ve collected, I’m planning to get rid of the vast majority of my old gaming equipment – including my beloved Commodore C64 collection. Accordingly, [...]

I’ve been on a massive clearout session of my old computing stuff with a view to finally decluttering my life after twenty-some years of being an unrepentant hoarder, and I spotted an old brochure lying in the bottom of a box. Just think – for under £3,000 you can get an ‘ultimate games machine’ with [...]

Well, I couldn’t wait until Sunday – so I’ve pieced the RiscPC back together and fired it up… And it works absolutely perfectly. Turns out it’s actually a Zip 250, which is nice – and all the insides work splendidly. The keyboard I recovered at the same time is shot, sadly, but it’s just a [...]

Walking home through the business park where my current day job is located the other day, I spied a skip with a rather interesting device sticking out of the top – an Acorn RiscPC. A nice one, too – a double slice unit. Further inspection revealed an Iomega Zip 100 drive, a 52x CD-ROM, and [...]

I finally got around to recording just how long my Eee PC 701 lasts for under normal usage. That’s with almost minimum brightness, playing music and browsing the ‘net. It’s not the greatest battery life ever, but pretty impressive for the size. To be fair, I shut the system down when the battery light started [...]