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Why Recapping Isn’t Always the Cure: And Amiga 1200 Repair Story
I often see on places such as Facebook that an Amiga owner will show a fault they have with their machine, and the immediate response you’ll see is “recap it”. Now, I’m not saying that recapping isn’t needed, for the SMD caps used in Amigas, it always is. But that isn’t always the problem either.… Read more
KDE Plasma Automatic Time Zone
I have been a full time KDE Plasma user for quite a while now. Whilst I do not miss much from GNOME, and love the way I can make Plasma my own, there is one niggle that has been missing for a while. That is automatic time zone changing. I don’t mean daylight savings, that… Read more
The wolfDemo Board Story: From Idea to Reality
I work building open-source cybersecurity solutions for wolfSSL. These solutions often involve embedded environments, which is why we attended Embedded World in Nuremberg this March. We showcased several embedded security demos running on development boards. It got me thinking: what if we made our own development board? Read more
Upgrading the RAM Detective: A Firmware Adventure with RAMCHECK
The firmware in my RAMCHECK is very old, there were many updates since then. Unfortunately, the firmware was not published on the internet before Innoventions closed down. So, this is my adventure about obtaining new firmware. Read more
The Ultimate RAM Detective: Meet the Innoventions RAMCHECK
Whilst repairing vintage machines, a lot of RAM passes by my benches. Most of it works great, some of it is in not so good condition. It is possible to test RAM in a system, but that may not tell the whole story, particularly if a RAM stick causes instability. It can also be difficult… Read more
Vintage Speed Demon: Fixing an ARK1000VL Graphics Card
According to some, the ARK1000VL is considered the fastest VLB graphics card chip you can get. I recently repaired several other VLB graphics cards, so when an ARK1000VL based card came up, I had to take the challenge. Read more
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