What started with childhood memories of an Atari ST and an Amiga 500 turned into a full-blown home retro-computing corner after 2020. Here's a snapshot of the whole setup, which machines are actually set up and running right now, and which are boxed and ready to use on demand.
The study holds the bulk of the serious gear. The MiSTer FPGA and the MiST FPGA are set up here, both connected to a NEC 1970NXp. The Mega ST 4 "Low" machine is set up and running on a Dell monitor that can handle 15kHz, serving as the demo- and game-machine.
The rest of the Atari hardware is stored here but not set up, mainly for lack of space:
The Batocera box is the couch-friendly setup for casual sessions across dozens of systems, no FPGA timing precision required. The Raspberry Pi 400 (running Hatari and PiMiga) also lives here, connected to a small NEC 18-inch monitor as the flexible, high-resolution alternative to the original hardware. The A1200 console is on pre-order and will join this setup.
Outside the two rooms there's a small collection of handheld emulation devices for retro gaming away from a screen.
All machines share the same network infrastructure, with FTP access to the NAS for file transfers. Disk images and software archives are stored centrally and served to individual machines as needed. The MiSTer and MiST both use SD cards for storage, while the original hardware uses CompactFlash adapters or SCSI-to-IDE bridges depending on the machine. The Raspberry Pi 400 accesses the same NFS shares as the other Pis in the flat.
The honest status update: several open items remain, documenting the exact handheld models, and the full-size A1200 is on pre-order ahead of its 4 December 2026 launch. Retro computing, it turns out, is never really "done."