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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 and CPU card with lots of minor issues. Here is how I diagnosed and fixed them. Read more
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 today I thought I would cover a repair that came in for an A3640 CPU card. Read more
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 state. Unfortunately, due to an injury, he wasn’t able to bring it back to me to finish until now. There was a bit more work to do than I thought, but here we go! Read more
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 card to see if I could repair it. Read more
Raspberry Pi JTAG Programming – 2025 Edition
It seems that every time I document how to do Xilinx JTAG programming from a Raspberry Pi, they change something to break it. So, it is time to update the instructions again. Read more
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 them. If I could do it, I could keep one for my 486 PC build. Can I do it? Let’s find out. Read more
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