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Working with the AVR Dx family

In recent years, Microchip has launched a new range of AVR chips. They appear to have had some things borrowed…

4 months ago

My WordPress Slack ban

A couple of days ago, I got banned from the WordPress community Slack. As this is about WordPress, I figure…

4 months ago

Issues I found during WordPress.com to .org migration

Whilst migrating from wordpress.com to an installation of the open source WordPress, I hit some gotchas that I couldn't easily…

5 months ago

Why I moved my blog

Unfortunately, there is a war going on within the WordPress community. To stay as far away as possible from it,…

5 months ago

Four new Amiga products for September 2024

Since the June Amiga Expo, I have been developing some new Amiga related products. I challenged myself to launch four…

5 months ago

Repairing an Amiga that caught on fire!

Karl at Retro32 likes to challenge me, and this time he had an interesting one. When he turned on an…

6 months ago

Fixing a reproduction Amiga 500 Plus motherboard

I've had several customer machines on my bench lately, there is one in particular I think is worthy of a…

6 months ago

Building my ideal 486 laptop

Over the past few weeks, I've learned far more than I initially wanted to about the Dell Latitude XP series.…

7 months ago

Restoration of a special Amiga 4000 motherboard

Earlier this month was the Kickstart Amiga Expo, and my Amiga business, Retro Supplies, had a stand there. I had…

7 months ago

An Amiga 1200 fighting me the whole way

On my repair list have been two motherboards from Retro32. An Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200. The Amiga 600 repair…

7 months ago