Retro Computing

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…

1 year 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

Weird Amiga 600 Fault Repair

I have a lot of customer repairs in right now, and most are awaiting new parts (mostly SMD PLCC sockets,…

1 year ago

Amiga 1000 Repair

I was at the Norwich Games Festival last week, along with six of Amigas and a BBC Master 128 with…

1 year ago

Amiga RPT-75B PSU: Testing and enhancements

In my previous blog post, I showed how to make a new, high-spec power supply for Amiga 500 / 600…

1 year ago

Building an Amiga PSU around an RPT-75B

A lot of people use Meanwell power supplies as the replacements for the poor quality ones that came with the…

1 year ago

Fixing a TV Stand With 3D Printing

I have recently acquired two Sony KDL-15G2000 TVs, one via eBay and one via a local auction. These are great…

1 year ago