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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…

11 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…

11 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…

11 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,…

11 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…

11 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…

12 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…

12 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.…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year ago