Captain's Log / star date 2008.1230

No shortage of gadgets this X-Mas. My girlfriend gave me a Logitech Harmony One remote as an X-Mas present. The One Remote To Rule Them All! I'll be happily occupied programming it for all my gear. This is one cool remote! I bought my girlfriend a Nintendo DS Lite. She likes gaming and ofcourse I won't mind playing a few games on her DS at all! ;-)

But that's not all! A DIY chain had a special sale of Asus Eee PC's that could be picked up for as little as 199 euros for the 900 model with 1GB of memory and a 16GB solid state drive. In case you didn't know, the Eee PC line is a line of very compact notebooks, sometimes referred to as sub-notebooks. It comes with what looks to be an ASUS customized version of Xandros (a Linux distribution) which works very well! I bought this nice little notebook for use as a dedicated Amiga emulator. I'll probably be installing the Amiga Forever 2008 KX Light edition which is basically a very light weight, customized Linux distribution that runs UAE on startup. What I'd really like to try though is AROS, but it seems that AROS doesn't run natively yet on the Eee PC hardware, or at least it doesn't support enough of the hardware to make it a usable OS. Pity though, as AROS has seen some very nice steps forward on the usability front. 

Furthermore it seems I seriously underestimated the amount of time that went into the afforementioned social obligations (see previous posts). Although you won't hear me complain, it has left me with way less spare time to spend on fiddling with my Amigas. My previously mentioned A500 retro survival project has been delayed, because I currently don't have the time to set everything up properly. Today should prove to be an interesting day though, because I'll be spending all day doing a health check of all the Amigas I have in my collection (lots of A500s, an A600, an A1000, an A1200, two A3000s, 2 CDTV's and 3 CD32's) Phew! Have a very good New Year's Eve!!