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Eric K. Hill: Sharing the ❤️ for the Amiga and all things Commodore. Create and manage design @sporcle by day. amigalove.com https://www.youtube.com/@AmigaLove https://www.threads.net/@amigal0ve

CMD (Creative Micro Designs) made a 3-button programmable mouse with a built in Real-time clock (hello, GEOS) in the 90s for C64/C128 computers? Yes, yes they did. The CMD SmartMouse. And it’s great. Fully 1351 AND 1350 compatible. But that 3rd button + RTC are the really the remarkable features.

Profile photo of my SmartMouse.Bird's eye view of the SmartMouse with 3 buttons. 3/4 shot of the SmartMouse with the CMD setup disk in the background. Bottom of the rollerball mouse which shows its serial number.

This is one-part terrifying and one-part exciting. I was fortunate to buy a PPC Cyberstorm for my A3000. I already have an 060 Cyberstorm, but not the PPC version. Curiosity killed the cat, I guess. That means I need to some minor surgery. But first, a loving glance and speed test.

Photo of my incredibly beefed up Amiga 3000 that sports a 19" LCD display via zz9000 HDMI card, Cyberstorm 060 card, half-gb silly amounts of RAM, etc. The LCD is a beige NEC that displays a background image painting of Rachel from Blade Runner on the desktop. The walls are awash in red and blue lighting from some LED strips I have under the desk. Good ol' (bad ol') SysInfo, which does show my Internal Hardware Modes correctly with the 060 CPU in use. Half-GB of RAM, plus more. It's nutty.

Such a legend. Ms. Heineman will be sorely missed but not forgotten by those who were lucky enough to play the games she helped create. Bard's Tale, Wasteland, Dragon Wars, Tass Times and several important Mac ports. It was such an honor and a pleasure meeting her in 2018. RIP, Becky.

I had the honor of meeting Becky at a signing table at PRGE in 2018. All I wanted was a photo. Naturally, she couldn't help herself from giving me rabbit ears. She was so happy and kind.