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Atari 800XL: Restoration Part 1
When I was a teenager, one of the last 8bit machines I acquired was an Atari XEGS. This was a pretty cool machine, even if it was way out of date when I got it. I decided I needed an Atari of similar era for my collection, and along came an Atari 800XL. Read more
Acorn Atom: Virtual Tapes
Now that the Acorn Atom is working, I wanted to be able to load software on it. One solution many Atom owners go for is AtoMMC, which is a way of loading software from SD card. There is also an entire software archive for this. But I wanted something with a bit more of a… Read more
Acorn Atom: Restoration Part 3
Pretty much everything was working in my previous post. But I was struggling with the tape interface and there are a few changes I wanted to make. Here is where I am at. Read more
Acorn Atom: Restoration Part 2
In the previous part of this series, I got the Acorn Atom working. But I don’t just want it working, I want it in a good, usable condition. So, there is a little more work to do. Here is where I am at. Read more
Tigard and the Xilinx XC9500XL CPLD
This is a blog post mostly for my reference, as I forget how to do this every time I need to. Tigard is a great little device which exposes an FTDI and gives lots of ports and power options to connect it. I occasionally need to use it for programming Xilinx XC9572XL and similar ICs.… Read more
Acorn Atom: Restoration Part 1
In my previous post, I discussed the massive haul of Acorn related equipment I received, and one important piece in the collection was an Acorn Atom. Today I got to test if it worked! Read more
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