People buy a computer today because they have a problem that needs to be solved today, or in the near future. If today’s computer is good enough to solve today’s problem, then any…

I’m no stranger to pushing hardware past its limits. For example, seven years ago, I tracked down an issue that prevented 16 GB of RAM being used in a motherboard that only supported 8. It…

This little booklet came with the Boss DR-55 when it was new, and it nowhere to be found on the internet as a free resource for those of us who might be hoping to get some examples of how to learn to…

Fifty years ago Florida was cool. Now? Not so much. Original snapshot Roadside attraction 1979 Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Worms and Waves – Commodore 64 Intro by xAD Blog Download: Download: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=263907 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nysnt-FJGVQ

Today's scans are from 1959, and would be pretty nice views of Main Street USA - except that they are just a bit soft (in other words, blurry). Bummer! But they are still worth a look, in spite of…

Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the paper

Seventy years ago this month, the August 1956 issue of Radio News carried this circuit for a one-transistor portable receiver, which was really a crystal set followed by a one-transistor (2N107)…

SCRAPE THIS: FORMAT C:\ (I realise most people won't understand this, and that it is technically inaccurate. But the smartest will get the joke.)

Here's a list, from memory, of the computers I've used. I've included computers used at home on a regular basis. Previous post about some of these machines. This post was inspired by Lily's post:…

[MC Lothlorien, ZX Spectrum] Some three years ago, I played Ken Wright’s Pacific War (1983) and concluded thus: “It is by far the best ZX…

A biologist and former employee of IBM visits the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California. Walking into the Computer History Museum , it seems unassuming enough- a slightly clean…

When it comes to gaming, I greatly prefer PC games as I feel I have more control. But recently I've gotten into a mood where I want to be able to play games on consoles that I never grew up with,…

A friend of mine is going to one of those huge retro gaming fairs next month, the kind with hundreds of tables and a line before the doors even open. He knows I collect Rayman stuff and asked me the…

I was lucky enough to get my hands on a ZX81 in a box recently. There is a huge amount of information online about them so I won’t add much by way of background here – wikipedia provides.…

You have to really admire Shuouma’s dedication to not only bringing us new games to play online, but also to making sure every server is rock-solid, and in the case of today’s news,…

Kevin Wells has released a new version of Currency, his application that provides a way to check exchange rates for different currencies, as well as the GDP (gross domestic product) and population…

This post brings together a number of ideas so far from the following: It runs the code from the Spectrum Compatible video adding the video output from the Pico VGA to the RC2014 PCB used for the…

We’ve previously seen that Union Pacific sponsored a radio series called Your America that was accompanied by advertising featuring paintings of of a scene each state served by the UP. The…

After finishing my Colecovision game cartridge shield for the Adafruit Fruit Jam, my next quest was to find a Colecovision game emulator for the Fruit Jam. Unfortunately, I could not find any so I…

The 90’s Emachine with a whole 64MB of RAM! I remember seeing these ‘EMachine ’ PCs in the late 90s. By then, I had been using computers since 1986, starting with a BBC…

Eighty-five years ago this month, the August 1941 issue of QST carried this hint, sent to the magazine by W3QY, to get rid of a pesky case of broadcast interference (BCI). Even though he was running…

Bytes of Art, on Offscreen Colonies, the 64 kilobyte intro by the Hungarian group Conspiracy that took first place in the PC 64k competition at Revision 2015. BoyC wrote the engine and the effects,…

ADJUSTING THE DISK DRIVE SEEK SETTINGS I wired up a number of disk drive signals to the oscilloscope. The amplifier balance and dead band adjustments were previously completed. The operation of the…

I successfully jailbreaked my 14 year old Kindle Touch 🎉 This after support for it was ended by Amazon back in May. Currently my plan is to use calibre to load new books onto it and KOReader to read…

With tape working, and after a several month hiatus, it was time to implement an IBM 1414 Synchronizer for unit record (IBM 1402 Card Read/Punch and IBM 1403 Printer) devices. As with the 1414 Tape…

Here is a blank pattern sheet for the Boss DR-55 to help us keep our patterns together, and keep our numeric counts in order. DOWNLOAD Boss DR-55 Blank Pattern Sheet | 8.5 x 11 black and white…

GitHub Repository: cogliano/Fruit_Jam_ColecoVision_Cartridge_Reader(Note: KiCAD files coming soon). I have always loved the Colecovision Game System. Released in 1982, it was a step above from the…

So, in 2026, we have a new owner of the Commodore trademarks and a new Commodore 64! Well, actually, it is a bundling of a number of already available components into one system. But, whatever. It…

A few months ago I was thinking again about Pavel Panchenka’s (LLM-assisted) “We’d be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes”, which posits that standardizing on nine-bit bytes would have saved us from a number…

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During a recent trip I worked on a Gameboy emulator using my 14 year old Asus Zenbok UX31A, using a limited set of tools and my experience from earlier emulator developments. Read the full journal…

So I got this very filthy tape as an arrival - completely covered in dust, worse yet the box has a hole which means a lot of that dust ended up inside (spoiler: it was more than just dust). I decided…

Previously: 30 NES/Famicom Games I finished as a kid, my list of completed console games from around 2002 Intro This is yet another entry in my (years/decades-long) attempt to chronicle the entirety…

I was inspired after running photoshop on the same 60p chip as in a Raspberry Pi Pico. I think about simpler computers and tradeoffs and link to some projects. I think about permacomputing and…

Back in December I reviewed the first YU ModeL Airbus A300 release and since then a lot has happened in […] The post Air Macau | Airbus A300B4-622R | B-MAS | YU ModeL first appeared on…

Modern Retro Station at CRT TV xD - Something I wanted to do for a long time, but I didn't have enough time and courage to do. 😆 ~ As the title says I managed to connect my 2016 Dell OptiPlex mini…

Excited to announce I will be launching a new typewriter book at the Australian Typewriter Collectors' Convention 2026 at Wollstonecraft in Sydney on September 26. <img border="0"…

For the past few years I’ve been working on reverse engineering and remaking an almost 40 year old DOS game. Despite its age, I’m often surprised by the complexity and little tricks the game used,…

Introduction For 14+ years, every shader that bgfx compiled, starting from the initial commit, went through a preprocessor written for the Amiga with origins in 1984: fcpp - Frexx CPP (C…

CHECKING 257 TRANSISTOR FROM DONOR SLT CARD I put the transistor that I pulled off a spare card and tested it with my curve tracer. I compared it to the two transistors on the M2/M3 card which made…

An unusual demilitarized slide rule The post War and Peace appeared first on Nathan&#039;s Possibly Interesting web site.

Back in 1992, my dad bought a Macintosh IIsi to learn and master a new technology that was becoming an increasingly big part of his daily work: the computer. Since he was already living in the United…

A lot of things came together for this report on the Cooke triplet of the Minostigmat lens: So here is my article, which recalculates the theoretical performance of the first Minox lens, the…

By next year, every major old game from the 1980-mid 1990 period will be web playable on a modern web stack.

MintPPC now installs working downgraded mesa packages by default. There is no need anymore to manually install older mesa binaries. There is also no need to apt-mark hold the packages as the packages…

Man, if you have not played this game then you are missing out! Probably one of THE best racing games out there, and it's completely free - as in free beer (the best kind) and free speech! I honestly…

What, precisely, do semi-luxury automobiles have to do with computer golf games? More than expected. Updated with information about another missing link.

After some legalese back-and-forth among copyright holders, licensers, and licensees that makes you think there’s a multi-billion dollar brand involved (I’m not a lawyer, but it sounds like a good…