Unboxing a Legend: Amiga 1000

5 months ago

I have a local friend who is a private collector of vintage computers and consoles, and he has an incredible…

Amiga 4000 With Lots of Little Problems

6 months ago

I’ve had a few people send me things in to repair lately. Amongst these was an Amiga 4000 motherboard, RAM…

Amiga A3640 CPU Card Repair

7 months ago

Lately, I've been very busy, but haven't had many interesting things to blog about happen. That will change soon, but…

Two special Amiga 4000s: Finishing Jools Repair

9 months ago

You may remember that the A4000 known as "Jools" went to its new owner for an event in a semi-working…

Repair of a Trident VLB Graphics Card

9 months ago

Hot on the heels of repairing the Cirrus Logic VLB card, I acquired a dead Trident TGUI9440 based VLB graphics…

Raspberry Pi JTAG Programming – 2025 Edition

9 months ago

It seems that every time I document how to do Xilinx JTAG programming from a Raspberry Pi, they change something…

Repair of a Cirrus Logic VLB Graphics Card

9 months ago

Fellow vintage computer collector, Gammitin, challenged me to fix four VLB graphics cards, as well as upgrade the RAM on…

Upgrading my 486 PC Build

9 months ago

You may remember my recent 486 PC build, I enjoyed doing it, but I had several issues with it. It…

The Roland MT-32: The Ultimate late-80s Gaming Sound

10 months ago

One of the projects I wanted to do with my new 486 PC was to try out a Roland MT-32…

486 PC Build

10 months ago

A lot of people my age went from the 8bit era to the 16bit era and then PCs. I took…