Retro Computing

Repair of a Trident VLB Graphics Card

Hot on the heels of repairing the Cirrus Logic VLB card, I acquired a dead Trident TGUI9440 based VLB graphics…

1 week ago

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…

2 weeks 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…

3 weeks 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 month ago

486 PC Build

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

2 months ago

wolfSSL on Amiga

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

2 months 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,…

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

2 months ago