The Amiga is a family of personal computers. It’s the last truly great gaming home computer before the dominance of the PC and the 32-bit games consoles.
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Author: John O'Donnell
John is an ardent fan of KDE Plasma 5. He spends most of his time writing about KDE based software. If you catch him using GNOME, there's a prize coming your way!
Emulate the BBC Micro home computer with Linux
The BBC Microcomputer System was a series of microcomputers designed and built by the Acorn Computer company.
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Emulate the Commodore 64 home computer with Linux
The Commodore 64 (C64) is an 8-bit home computer released in 1982. The $595 (£399) device took its name from its US maker, Commodore International, and the fact it had 64K of RAM.
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Emulate the Atari ST home computer with Linux
The Atari ST was a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation. We recommend open source emulators for the Atari ST.
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Emulate the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer with Linux
The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. The name highlighted the machine’s color capabilities.
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Emulate the Amstrad CPC home computer with Linux
This series looks at emulating home computers. This article looks at emulating the Amstrad CPC range.
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CodeGym Review: How to Learn Java With No Programming Experience
CodeGym is an intuitive and easy-to-use platform that helps entry-level programmers learn Java online.
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Emulate the Sinclair ZX81 home computer with Linux
This series looks at emulating home computers. We start the series looking at the ZX81, a home computer produced by Sinclair Research from 1981.
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Digitize Your Music Collection including Tagging
We go through a simple way to digitize your CD collection using open source software.
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Linux for Beginners: Should You Make the Switch?
When it comes to operating systems, most people tend to go for the most popular options.
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Understanding Path of Exile’s Unique Approach to Endgame Content
For players unfamiliar with the genre, titles like Path of Exile (PoE) can be hard to place. This is especially true as the heyday of the top-down action RPG is long passed.
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Linux at Home: Learn an Instrument with Linux
Learning and playing an instrument has some real benefits to boosting your mood and mental health, as it sparks electrical signals using both sides of your brain.
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How to Play Windows Games on Linux
More and more people are switching to Linux because it has a very user-friendly interface and is more stable after updates than Windows.
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Linux at Home: Circuit Design with Linux
Take any random circuit from the internet and start your designing. With this software, you’ll be able to practice, practice, practice.
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Linux at Home: Digital Music Production with Linux
DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) is an important tool in your creative arsenal.
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Linux at Home: Creative Writing with Linux
Now is a great time to take up a new hobby. How about spending your time penning a classic novel or screenplay?
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Linux at Home: Digital Art with Linux
Instead of painting on canvas or paper, digital art software allows you to paint and draw directly onto a computer, which has a number of amazing advantages.
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Three Beginner-Friendly Data Mining Solutions
Data mining is no longer a mythical thing that only a handful of data scientists understand. Everyone leverages data to do their work.
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Linux at Home: Research Your Family Tree
The Linux at Home feature continues with a great pastime – researching your family tree.
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Linux at Home: Embroidery design
Continuing in our Linux at Home series, John looks at embroidery software. Embroidery is the craft of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn.
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