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Repair of a Cirrus Logic VLB Graphics Card

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

12 months ago

Upgrading my 486 PC Build

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

12 months ago

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

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

1 year ago

486 PC Build

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

1 year ago

wolfSSL on Amiga

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

1 year ago

Two special Amiga 4000s: Rebuilding Jops

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

1 year ago

Two special Amiga 4000s: More Jops Repairs

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

1 year ago

Two special Amiga 4000s: Jops video

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

1 year ago

Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 3

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

1 year ago

Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 2

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

1 year ago