Reviving a Roland SoundBrush: Floppy MIDI Playback Without the Computer

3 days ago
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Back in the 80s and early 90s, when games often came on floppy disks, the music came in MIDI format.…

A Socket 7 Upgrade: Moving Beyond the 486

6 days ago

A while back I built a 486-based machine to play with some late 80s / early 90s games, as well…

Reviving an Amiga 600: From Dead Video to a Clean Boot

4 weeks ago

I managed to score an Amiga 600 motherboard which was faulty for £41. This weekend I attempted to fix it.…

The Amiga 1200 That Fought Back: The Faults I Missed the First Time

1 month ago

I recently repaired an Amiga 1200 with a difficult to find fault. Unfortunately, it came back to me with more…

Why Recapping Isn’t Always the Cure: And Amiga 1200 Repair Story

2 months ago

I often see on places such as Facebook that an Amiga owner will show a fault they have with their…

KDE Plasma Automatic Time Zone

2 months ago

I have been a full time KDE Plasma user for quite a while now. Whilst I do not miss much…

The wolfDemo Board Story: From Idea to Reality

2 months ago

I work building open-source cybersecurity solutions for wolfSSL. These solutions often involve embedded environments, which is why we attended Embedded…

Upgrading the RAM Detective: A Firmware Adventure with RAMCHECK

5 months ago

The firmware in my RAMCHECK is very old, there were many updates since then. Unfortunately, the firmware was not published…

The Ultimate RAM Detective: Meet the Innoventions RAMCHECK

5 months ago

Whilst repairing vintage machines, a lot of RAM passes by my benches. Most of it works great, some of it…

Vintage Speed Demon: Fixing an ARK1000VL Graphics Card

6 months ago

According to some, the ARK1000VL is considered the fastest VLB graphics card chip you can get. I recently repaired several…