Apple IIc Plus + floppy drives

Posted on March 16, 2025March 16, 2025 by drygol

… or did I start fixing by breaking?

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#shorts – Enterprise 128 a quick refurb

Posted on March 12, 2025March 12, 2025 by drygol

… or a rather boring cleaning story

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Apple Color Style Writer 2200

Posted on March 7, 2025March 7, 2025 by drygol

… or did I spend ages trying to fix it?

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#shorts – CMOS battery failed – Dallas RTC module hax

Posted on March 7, 2025March 7, 2025 by drygol

… or drill baby drill :>

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#marchintosh – Macintosh PowerBook G3 battery remake

Posted on March 2, 2025March 2, 2025 by drygol

… or always get the right tool for the job

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#shorts Fixing a Sony PlayStation 1 – SCPH-1002

Posted on February 27, 2025February 27, 2025 by drygol

… or it wasn’t that extreme after all

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Using old iPad screens with MiSTer and retro machines

Posted on February 23, 2025February 26, 2025 by drygol

…or, how to replace your whole game room with one gadget :>

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The mouSTer project – 30.12.2024 UPDATE

Posted on December 30, 2024February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or moving production in-house

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The Commodore COLT resto job

Posted on August 10, 2024February 26, 2025 by drygol

…or, surprisingly pleasant restoration

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Vacuum forming keyboards – the outcome

Posted on July 13, 2024February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or building the ultimate colored keyboard

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The Kryoflux build … twice

Posted on June 5, 2024February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or as usual, I am writing a post of a build that happened long ago … so I don’t recall everything :/

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#MARCHintosh – 4x Mac SE

Posted on March 18, 2024February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or how I forgot to take all the pics again

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Atari 600 XL – Restoration to stock

Posted on February 17, 2024February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or simply, nothing fancy

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Atari 1020 Plotter – plotting pens replacement

Posted on February 2, 2024February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or GEL PENS to the rescue

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#DOScember – Gulipin PC 386DX

Posted on December 23, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or I wanted to play GODS again 🙂

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#SHORTS Modding Atari 130XE for Ajcek/Lamers

Posted on November 29, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

…or simply a short pictorial

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Wico Boss joystick hax

Posted on November 19, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or modding FTW!

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Website update

Posted on November 17, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or changes, changes, changes

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Three Amiga CDTV fixing spree

Posted on November 12, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or maybe 2.5x

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2x Apple IIc restoration and mods

Posted on October 20, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or my first dive into Apple II

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#Shorts – Nintendo Wii controllers fixes

Posted on September 19, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or what I was thinking?!

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Pimp my Ami #1 – Fluo

Posted on July 19, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

…or Hydroxide discoveries 🙂

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Commodore floppy drive fixing chaos – Episode II

Posted on June 22, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or bashing the wall again :/

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#SHORTS Atari ST warped case

Posted on June 16, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or at least I tried

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Atari 400 mods

Posted on June 13, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or I just wanted to play RiverRaid 😉

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Restoring dot-matrix printer ribbon cartridges

Posted on May 26, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or that’s the way you hack ’em!

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Amiga 500 – RAM hax

Posted on May 24, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or I would like to think it is ultimate but it’s lame instead 😀

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Ultimate64 – a C64 from scratch

Posted on May 16, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or nearly from scratch 😉

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#SHORTS – ZX 81 Keyboard membrane swap

Posted on April 28, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

…or “have a nice key” 😉

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Amiga CD32 + TF330

Posted on April 3, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or a great combo … isn’t it?

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#Marchintosh – 2x Macintosh Classic

Posted on March 26, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or 1.5x Mac Classic cuz I forgot to take pics :/

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#SHORTS – DIY PSU for Atari XL/XE series

Posted on February 16, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or a nicely looking PSU for your 8-bit Atari

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Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract – Final part

Posted on February 4, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or is it possible with that project? :>

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#SHORTS – The mouSTer project – 31.01.2023 UPDATE

Posted on January 31, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or long-awaited firmware hax

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Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract PART 6

Posted on January 22, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or still not the end

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#SHORTS – DIY SIO2PC for 8-bit Atari

Posted on January 5, 2023February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or that was easier than I’d thought

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Beast64 project – PART TWO

Posted on December 10, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or OMG, even more add-ons

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#SHORTS – Sinclair ZX Printer

Posted on December 8, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or 3D printing FTW! … again.

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Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract PART 5

Posted on November 2, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

…or are you done yet?

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#SHORTS – Amiga 500 PSU modding

Posted on October 21, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or don’t trust the ground 😉

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Beast64 project – PART ONE

Posted on October 14, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or OMG so many add-ons again

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Website update

Posted on September 27, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or it took quite a while

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Mechboard64 – the perfect keyboard for your C64

Posted on September 1, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or I didn’t know it will be soooo cool journey 😉

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#SHORTS – Atari 1027 Printer – The ‘Revive1027’ project

Posted on August 25, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or printing a printer part so it can print again 😀

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Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract PART 4

Posted on July 28, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

…or the chaos is overwhelming

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#SHORTS – ROM adapter hax

Posted on July 11, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or a cool tool to revive your old machine

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RadioShack TRS-80 Model 4P

Posted on June 15, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

…or maybe just TEA ARE ASS EIGHTY FTW!!!one!!eleven!

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#shorts – Commodore 1084 monitor – front panel latch hack

Posted on May 5, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

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Enterprise 64 – repairs and modding

Posted on April 6, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or Egyptian adventure

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Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract PART 3

Posted on March 11, 2022February 26, 2025 by drygol

…or chaos is awesome!

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