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  • Reviving an Amiga 600: From Dead Video to a Clean Boot

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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