Tony is a Geek

Why revival?  Well... apparently I did "some stuff" with my Atari ST back in 2017 and then again in 2021 ... and due to over-working on work/work stuff and not setting aside enough personal-time, the machines kind of moved further and further under piles of "stuff". ( yes, that is an original Sony AIBO ERS-111 on the shelf that I purchased back in 1999/2000 - that little dog is still more advanced than most of the latest "AI" technology in the market-place today ) Well, I decided to take 2 weeks off work. literally. off work.  It took a few days, okay, about 5, to totally disconnect and wind down and stop / not think about work/work related things.  During this time, I decided to "sort out the 16/32 bit room".  This was my old home/office, basically a large double-bedroom that a child of any age would absolutely love to have; however, I had managed to overfill it with "stuff" and it had become a mini-cave with very little or not desk s...

 okay...okay...okay...so I managed to get Secret of Monkey Island running and working from the UltraSATAN disk drive - all is good with that. Then I thought, maybe I should get some of the "other" things I have lying around working too. Such as the NetUSBee that plugs in as a cartridge, here it is plugged into the 520 ST (with 4MB), although I did transfer over to use the 1040 ST (with 1MB) shortly afterwards: I found an old TPLink wifi extender device, that I could plug the Cat 5 cable into (and then downstairs, I had the other end plugged into the wifi router) and there is the device itself, not much to look at, but does what it was built for: This is a great little device that I obviously bought many years ago, got working once and then "forgot: about it.  It is basically a network card, plug in a CAT5/6 cable and you're good to go.  It has a couple of USB connections, someone wrote a USB Mouse driver for it, but doesn't look like anyone got any further with o...