Retro

Unboxing the Legend Continues: Amiga 1000 Mouse Restoration.

I recently received a boxed Amiga 1000 which was in excellent condition, but required a little work. It came with…

11 months ago

Unboxing a Legend: Amiga 1000

I have a local friend who is a private collector of vintage computers and consoles, and he has an incredible…

11 months ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

1 year ago

Upgrading my 486 PC Build

You may remember my recent 486 PC build, I enjoyed doing it, but I had several issues with it. It…

1 year ago

The Roland MT-32: The Ultimate late-80s Gaming Sound

One of the projects I wanted to do with my new 486 PC was to try out a Roland MT-32…

1 year ago

486 PC Build

A lot of people my age went from the 8bit era to the 16bit era and then PCs. I took…

1 year ago