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Yep! I bricked a Pentium 3 motherboard (and how I fixed it)
In my retro collection is a Pentium 3 based computer which I will be blogging about once I finish building it completely. But in the mean time I figured I would update the BIOS in it to fix an issue, and bricked it in the process. This is what happened and how I fixed it. Read more
This PC keyboard hides an interesting secret…
I found this keyboard on eBay recently, although it wasn’t quite the one I was looking for I still think it is interesting. Let me show you why. Read more
Intel Inside (but not how you would expect)
I last left my Acorn RiscPC with a StrongARM CPU card and an IBM/Cyrix based 5×86 CPU card. I saw something come up cheap on eBay which I decided to purchase just due to its uniqueness which changes things a little. Read more
Shape drawing on the SSD1351 display
Based on the previous few posts, we now have lots of things we can do with the SSD1351 display. One additional thing we can play with this time is drawing shapes. There are a few tricks to doing this quickly. As with previous posts, this will work on other displays with minimal effort to convert… Read more
Font rendering on the SSD1351 display
Now that we have image rendering down, it is time to look at font rendering on the SSD1351. As before the techniques used here will work with other graphics displays and libraries with minimal effort. Read more
Basic graphics on the SSD1351 display
Yesterday I wrote a post on how to wire up and initialise the SSD1351 display with a Raspberry Pi Pico. Today I’m going to delve a little into some routines to display things on the screen. A lot of what I’m covering from here onwards could be easily adapted to work on any graphic display,… Read more
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