Repair of a Cirrus Logic VLB Graphics Card

11 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

11 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

12 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

1 year ago

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

wolfSSL on Amiga

1 year ago

As many of you are probably aware, I am one of the developers of wolfSSL. I specialise in porting to…

Two special Amiga 4000s: Rebuilding Jops

1 year ago

Now that the motherboard work is finished, it is time to rebuild. Lots of 3D printing involved in this one,…

Two special Amiga 4000s: More Jops Repairs

1 year ago

In my previous post in this series, I managed to diagnose and repair three very strange issues that were causing…

Two special Amiga 4000s: Jops video

1 year ago

I finally got Jops to generate a good DiagROM serial output, but the video output wasn't working. This time I…

Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 3

1 year ago

All the motherboard issues were resolved in my previous post in this series, now it is time to reassemble and…

Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 2

1 year ago

With this Amiga 2000, I previously got it into a state where it would boot from the main CPU and…