Repair of a Trident VLB Graphics Card

1 year 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

1 year 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

1 year 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

1 year 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

1 year 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…