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If you've been following my Amiga 2000 series you'll have seen all kinda of changes to it over time, but I've always wanted to add an accelerator to it.

I've already got a Pistorm in my Amiga 1200, and this time, I'd like to keep it real, so, I ordered a Dicke Olga, which includes an MC68030 CPU running at 50Mhz with 128MB of fast ram, quite the upgrade!

In this video I go through the steps of installing it, and configuring it with a new M.2 drive, as well as an FPU and a CD-ROM too!

In the previous video I showed how I write the code to run the disk cleaning machine, but I never actually tested if it was actually effective.

In this video I'm going to attempt to clean and repair 16 floppy disks, testing their state before and after, and using Isopropanol and Washing Up Liquid, I'll also put my machine to the test by comparing it to a manual hand cleaning.

In the last video I showed you the design and build for my craziest of things yet. It's suppose to clean floppy disks, but why just do that when you can make it fun? I added speakers and LEDs all over it.

In this video I'll show you how I programmed both of the Arduinos and finally I'll show you the thing running...

After the Kickstart event last year I decided I wanted to create something to clean floppy disks. Sometimes they wont read because the magnetic material has come off the disk, however sometimes there's a layer of mold.

Now I could just make something simple, but why not have some fun... so I've designed the most crazy of contraptions to achieve this task.

In the previous video I experimented with the Action Replay MK III for the Amiga 2000. However it only worked with kickstart 1.3 and its a real pain to get to where the kickstart chip is.

In this video we're going to install a Kickstart switcher, but then mod it so it will disable the action replay when kickstart 3.1 is selected.

In this video we'll explore the action replay MK III for the Amiga 2000. I didn’t even realise they made one for this machine, so was really surprised when I picked one up.

Sadly however, mine was missing the controller and so in the video we'll reverse engineer it and build our own, as well as see if the card works and give it a quick test.

Back in 2017 when I created Drawbridge, I very much wanted to create what I'm releasing in this video.

Introducing DiskFlashback, a Windows application that not only lets you mount Amiga, Atari and PC floppy disk images as real drive letters, but also lets you mount your *real* DrawBridge, Greaswewazle or Supercard Pro too.

I picked this up a while back, and was curious exactly what it could achieve for such a simple looking device.

Attached to it is a variable resistor and a switch, and with that you can freeze and selectively slow down games playing. But how does it work? And can we improve it?

I have to admit, this video didn’t actually go quite to plan. I had a bit of a brainwave after I'd finished editing it and ended up having to create another section on the end, and it was WELL WORTH IT!

A while back, I discovered a device that you could plug into the external floppy drive port of your Amiga that supposedly would protect any disk inserted from becoming infected with boot block or boot sector viruses.

Curious how such a simple device could achieve this feat I decided to put it to the test.... and wow, was I surprised...

Last year I brought you the AMIGA game Hop to the Top, which had a slightly darker sequel around Halloween.

This year I bring you Bunny’s "Boing Ball" Bounty, a speed-run challenge where you need to collect the eggs as quickly as possible.