Electronics

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…

11 hours ago

Working with the AVR Dx family

In recent years, Microchip has launched a new range of AVR chips. They appear to have had some things borrowed…

10 months ago

Kickstart Amiga Expo and My New Products

Last weekend I was at the second Kickstart Amiga Expo, where I had a table under my "Retro Supplies" brand,…

1 year ago

Adventures with a “working” Pentium III Motherboard

In my quest to build my perfect early 2000s gaming PC I decided to build it into a tower machine…

3 years ago

Design of the GoFloppy Drive

A couple of months ago I released a product called the GoFloppy Drive. It is the result of a long…

3 years ago

Amiga Repairs: Put Down That Screwdriver!

The 16bit era Commodore Amiga computers have many of their ICs socketed, which means they can be removed easily when…

3 years ago

Amiga RAMesses

I recently developed a popular board called RAMesses, which upgrades an Amiga 500 / 2000 / Commodore CDTV to 2MB…

3 years ago

Lightning Amiga Performance With PiStorm

There has been some very exciting accelerator projects recently. Of course the TerribleFire and Vampire accelerators are incredibly popular but…

4 years ago

Repairing an Amiga 2000 Motherboard

The Amiga 2000 can be seen as a sister computer to the Amiga 500. It is very similar in design,…

4 years ago