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Re:Amiga 2000 – The Tesseract project PART 2 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @06:41PM (#28688320)
Modern A2000 project
Re:Beast64 project – testing an overkill switch for SIDFX on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:28PM (#28449494)
Yeah, Ardu Nano is an overkill but I had it in a drawer so who cares :)
Re:Atari Fan #1 paper mag is out on Thursday September 24, 2020 @06:08AM (#24577060)
Yeah, it is 2020 but we wanted it to be a paper like in `90s ;)
Re:BBC Master on Steroids on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:42PM (#24297080)
btw. A1200 was a really mild state. Have a look at my "Extreme refurb" series -> https://retrohax.net/?s=extreme Those machines were a bit harder to fix lol :D
Re:BBC Master on Steroids on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:39PM (#24297044)
Thank you for kind words :)
Re:BBC Master on Steroids on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:42PM (#24295502)
Actually, I was under the impression that it is only config input. I will have to recheck it. This might be a major problem. Thanks!
Re:BBC Master on Steroids on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:41PM (#24295485)
good point! thanks!
Re:BBC Master on Steroids on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:28AM (#24292963)
Yeah, he is doing cool stuff :)
Re:BBC Master on Steroids on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:45AM (#24292674)
Re:BBC Master on Steroids on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:04AM (#24292386)
I would love to test it too but it is already in a different part of the world :) That was a custom order.
Re:BBC Master on Steroids on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:50AM (#24292286)
lololol good point :D
Re:Project mouSTer – Mouse adapter for retrocomputers on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:11PM (#23773228)
One connector is THT and the other is soldered to the PCB via its pins
Re:Project mouSTer – Mouse adapter for retrocomputers on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:09PM (#23773223)
yup, the difference AFAIK is that it only supports USB mice with PS/2 support which becomes rare nowadays
Re:Project mouSTer – Mouse adapter for retrocomputers on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:08PM (#23773207)
I owe you an explanation. It was supposed to be a joke but looks like it wasn't good. I've removed it after reading your comments
Re:Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:25AM (#23698748)
Thank you for kind words. Regarding learning, basics are out there on the Internet but it all required a lot of testing, so yes, trial and error approach.
Re:Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration on Monday June 29, 2020 @12:18PM (#23678988)
It might be that I've used a wrong name for it. This is basically a kind of oil to fix squeaking car door rubber gaskets.
Re:Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration on Monday June 29, 2020 @11:48AM (#23678639)
Thank you everyone for warm words. Such feedback means a lot to me :) More of this kind of refurbs are on my blog already -> https://retrohax.net/?s=extreme