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Reviving a Roland SoundBrush: Floppy MIDI Playback Without the Computer
Back in the 80s and early 90s, when games often came on floppy disks, the music came in MIDI format. If you have never heard of MIDI, this is a standard way for electronic instruments to communicate the notes being played. When the music was composed, sound modules such as the Roland MT-32 and later Read more
A Socket 7 Upgrade: Moving Beyond the 486
A while back I built a 486-based machine to play with some late 80s / early 90s games, as well as try out hardware of the era. I blogged about the process here, with an update here. I really enjoyed using this setup, but I wondered if I could improve it enough to run Quake Read more
Reviving an Amiga 600: From Dead Video to a Clean Boot
I managed to score an Amiga 600 motherboard which was faulty for £41. This weekend I attempted to fix it. Here is my progress. Read more
The Amiga 1200 That Fought Back: The Faults I Missed the First Time
I recently repaired an Amiga 1200 with a difficult to find fault. Unfortunately, it came back to me with more unusual faults that I didn’t discover the first time. So, here are the things I missed. Read more
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
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