Today was our bimonthly meeting of the Robin Hood Amiga Group in Nottingham, UK.

Today's presentation was delivered by team behind the DeMoN project, which is a reverse-engineered and upgraded Action Replay 3 cart with tons of cool new features. Here is their demo unit plugged into a stock A500.

There was a diverse range of wonderful machines on show, including a CD32, Vampire standalone, A1200 PiStorm setup, a retro console table and a gorgeous A1000 setup.

We also had a visit from the Who Dares Wins Amiga BBS team, which is an oldskool 90s BBS that has been brought back to life by the original operators.

One of our members was showing off his progress on a ZX Spectrum clone project using the Tang Nano FPGA board.

A couple of cool homebuilt Amiga CD32 joysticks were on show.

Also, two of us were there showing off our work-in-progress Denise ITX Amiga builds.

I'm fitting a Marpet 4MB upgrade to my STFM today. What a hassle! PLCC socket hot glued on top of the surface mount MMU, interposer board inside the metal can and further mods needed to disable the onboard RAM.

My latest project is an XT-class build in a modern looking case (Sergey's Xi 8088) complete with LED fans, window in the side panel, etc.

Normally, I would try to source real floppy drives for a project like this. However, in this case, to make it more modern-looking, I'm going GOTEK+FlashFloppy.

My question is: let's say I want to be able to use most kinds of DOS floppy images, including 5.25", 3.5", double density and high density. If I configure the GOTEK in the BIOS as a 1.44mb drive, would it also accept 720k images? Would it also take 360k or 1.2mb images or would I need a second GOTEK configured as a virtual 5.25" drive to cover all the bases?

Does anybody have any experience of trying to fit internal storage into their ST? I'd prefer to have everything all in one unit drawing from the internal PSU if possible. I'm using a 1040 STFM.

I've seen references to a product called Lightning ST which has a wiki page but no indication of whether or where it is for sale.

I've also found this project: https://github.com/agranlund/STBlitter_RevA but no reviews or information from people who have built it.

If you have tried it, what kind of clearance issues did you have? Did you run without shielding? Did you cut parts of the shielding away? How does it fit with other expansions e.g. 4mb RAM?

Spooky late night text adventures on my BBC Micro model B, courtesy of [https://zornslemma.github.io/ozmoo.html](Ozmoo for Acorn).