About XPD

Well, that’s me. XPD / Demise / FastRaccoon.

40 something years old, dad, husband, gamer, geek along with a bit of fishing and photography thrown in.

My actual computing days started back when I got one of the first Commodore Amiga 500 Plus units in the country, but I’d been a gamer since before then on an Atari 2600, and friends various systems (Amiga’s, PC’s, Sega’s etc).

Didn’t have the Amiga too long before I started upgrading it and got into BBS’s and eventually stared my own BBS which ran for a number of years.

Final setup before my Amiga died, was A500 Plus, 2MB Chip RAM, 4MB Fast RAM, GVPA530 expansion, EC030 @ 40MHz, 120MB SCSI HDD running softkicked to Kickstart 3.1. The A530 I upgraded to run a GURURom which opened its potential up even more allowing the drive to run even faster.

I still love the Amiga to this day, is a fantastic system and was well ahead of its time.

I’m a geek gamer at heart.

Have owned and gamed on :

Atari 2600, Amiga 500 Plus, Amiga CD32, Playstation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Xbox One,  iCade Arcade, Raspberry Pi, PC, R36S Clone and probably more I’ve forgotten.

I have multiple Playstations in various conditions, with the aim of building one of each totally reconditioned and running.

The iCade system, does work but was in rough condition, so the plan has been to restore it.

I have owned more Amigas since my original ones, however the cost involved in getting them back to decent spec to run without floppy discs etc, is time and financial based. So I cheated and bought a mini Amiga 500. Now with a full sized A1200 version on the way, I’ll probably grab one of those.