Retro Computing

Unboxing the Legend Continues: Amiga 1000 Mouse Restoration.

I recently received a boxed Amiga 1000 which was in excellent condition, but required a little work. It came with…

7 months ago

Unboxing a Legend: Amiga 1000

I have a local friend who is a private collector of vintage computers and consoles, and he has an incredible…

7 months ago

Amiga 4000 With Lots of Little Problems

I’ve had a few people send me things in to repair lately. Amongst these was an Amiga 4000 motherboard, RAM…

9 months ago

Amiga A3640 CPU Card Repair

Lately, I've been very busy, but haven't had many interesting things to blog about happen. That will change soon, but…

10 months ago

Two special Amiga 4000s: Finishing Jools Repair

You may remember that the A4000 known as "Jools" went to its new owner for an event in a semi-working…

11 months ago

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…

11 months 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…

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