Stuart Williams' MICRO MUSINGS

My name is Stuart Williams, and from 1987 onwards I began writing for a range of home computer magazines, including amongst others ST Update, Amiga Computing, Amiga User International and Micro Computer Mart.

A lot of data has flowed over the network since then, during which time I also became a local history and speculative fiction author and a newspaper journalist. But today, amongst other things, I edit and publish Retro Computing News, an online magazine for those interested in the history of computers and the hobby of retro computing. I also write for a number of other publications such as Eight Bit magazine, Retro Now!, Retro Gaming Magazine and Micro Mart (the latter now sadly defunct).

2015's thirtieth birthday of the Commodore Amiga computer, a machine which changed my life, prompted me to try and place on record, here, as much as I can of my writings from 'back in the day', and to expand on that as time permits.

'AMIGA meditations', as this blog started out, now 'Stuart Williams' MICRO MUSINGS, is my personal look back at those heady days when the Commodore Amiga was arguably king of what was then an incredibly diverse world of home computing, and my own personal involvement in those times.

Here you'll find a selection of my published articles, many on the Amiga but also on other machines and varied topics. For what it's worth, you will also find my own new 'musings'.

Please keep coming back, as all this is a work in progress, and will continue to grow and evolve!

This blog was, quite deliberately, launched on the birthday of the 'father' of the Amiga, Jay Miner, to mark International Amiga Day.

I hope you find it interesting.

Stuart Williams