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The story of three electrons ... err Acorn Electrons

... or computers that conquered UK heartsPic of the weekAmiga 600 cake on the RetroKomp party ElectronsThis time I wanted to A couple of months ago, my dear friend Wendell (again lol) asked me

3d

Atari 800 XL + SDrive-MAX

... or another bedtime story<Random garage pic>C64 keys retr0brighting FTW!!</Random garage pic>Poor Atari800XLSome time ago, I've bought an Atari 800XL that was rotting in a basement.

amstrad

Two times GOTEK powered Amstrad CPC 6128 please.

... or quick and clean way to make a cool CPCs . Intro The "LED works but I don't have PSU to check it..." series :D Yeah, eBay sellers rulez :D /Intro Another

commodore

Commodore 128 - mods

... or adventures of a lame modder . intro Only here you will find a Commodore C64 SUSHI!!! :D /intro Background story Yeah, I admit that I was super lazy for past few months if

commodore

Extreme refurbishing: Episode 3 - Commodore 116

... or did I just make poor looking molded keys? . Intro Ohh yeah, Retrokomp party + my 4yo son typing on an old school computer = outcome: /Intro The case of an unrefurbishable(lolwurd) C116 Kaz

mods

Beeb errr ... BBC Micro restoration and upgrades

... or I just saw the best-made upgrade for it Intro Who dafaq are these guys?! :D ... and what they are doing in my garage lol? :D /intro Yay, BBC Micro time! I've finally

amiga

Installing a Vampire inside Amiga 500

Intro I've discovered a new kind of flower while partying on SillyVenture 2018 I present you Beeronius Vulgaris! lol /Intro A few months ago I've experimented with a hydrographic coating of Amiga cases.

atari

Atari - The frankenSTein series

... or I've never thought I'll ever do such transplants :) Intro I was driving back home the other day when I saw this ... A semi-trailer on a semi-trailer on a semi-trailer. Mindfuck FTW! :D

Extreme deYellowing - Atari 1040 STF

... or bromine adventures Intro Some time ago, I've bought 23 Atari machines in a very poor shape. Most of the machines were dead, yellowed and with cracked cases. This rather short post is

hax

Various Hax- part five

... or weird stuff continues . Intro A stag-party cake for a serious Amiga fan. /intro OK, so here is the fifth part of various hax that I've gathered over several months. Let's start with

rpi

PiSP - old project in a new skin

... or I just had few spare hours ;) . < intro > From time to time I feel a need to work on something else than refurbs and repairs, so this time, I have another

amiga

3 Amigos ... err Amigas - immersion printing

... or HydroGraphics to the rescue! . intro A pic titled "One cap to fail them all" /intro This is gonna be a short post or rather pictorial of one of my past

drygol

2x Commodore VIC-20 - refurb and mods

... or two VICs goes SD . INTRO Some time ago, my friend Wendell asked me to refurbish and arm two VICs with SD2IEC readers. I've bought two machines in an unknown state ... as usual

retro

DEC Hi Note Ultra II - a retro laptop

... or DOS FTW! \o/ . intro 1337 team straight from the 70/80s sends greetz from RetroKomp/LoadError party ... /intro Background info This small project started because I wanted to have a standalone and

atari

Extreme refurbishing: Episode 2 - Atari 800 XL - Part two

... or biznaz continues :O . intro /intro This is the second part of "Extreme refurbishing - episode 2" feat. Atari 800 XL The first part can be found here A curious case

atari

Extreme refurbishing: Episode 2 - Atari 800 XL - Part one

... or seriouz repair biznuz ;) . intro /intro Background story Welcome to episode two of extreme refurbishing. I've decided that I'll split it into two parts. There is just too much material to cover, hence

zx

Sinclair ZX81 - composite mod and repairs.

... or , gee that is a tiny computer . . INTRO Poor joke time: Deciphering INTRO ... INT RO -> int RO -> Read-only integer ! YAY ! /INTRO ZX 81 If I remember correctly, it was

atari

Atari 1040 STFM refurb and Gotek upgrade

... or another machine goes to Norway Intro Master level! I've gotta work more and level up quickly :D /Intro I've decided that I'll finally start working on Atari ST machines that I've ordered

Amiga 500 - mods

... or Amigaaaaaaaahhhh ! Yup, above photo should be enough for a whole post but I decided that I'll add just a bit more ;) Mods I am a happy owner of quite a few A500s

c64

EasyFlash3 Cart for Commodore

... or a short story about how I've made a small batch of EF3s ;) . Intro Some time ago, I've received new tools that will help with soldering high-quality products. Precision soldering station ... aaaand extreeme

c64

Commodore 1541 floppy drive fixing chaos

... or fixing several 1541 drives for fun ;) . [Intro] A challenge ! [/intro] 1541 fixing chaos Part of you already knows that some time ago I've bought quite a few computers, but I didn't mention

hax

Various hax - part four

... or another round of weird stuff . INTRO Right now I am like ... ... but I am gonna change it to ... C64 ... 3D printed Not really a hack but kinda cool and fits this blog

amiga

Amiga CDTV - just simple refurbishing

... or busy days are really busy nowadays . Intro Yes, I didn't write for a while and I don't have much to defend myself except excuses. I must admit that job changes and retro

speccy

ZX Spectrum +3 - Cleaning and sound fix

... or just another story about mature hardware ;) Intro Yeah yeah, I know, I didn't write for quite a while. It was kinda hard due to prolonged holidays, job changing, online store opening -

atari

Atari 130 XE restoration and upgrade job

... or nasty SELECT key ;) Intro Some time ago one of my Norwegian friends asked me if I have a boxed Atari 130XE. He wanted this unit to be nicely refurbished and modded with

retrohax

RGB2C/S - composite and s-video module

... or a "built-in modulator" for your retro thingy ;) Yes, I was away from keyboard for a while ;P The "why ?" So this idea came after I've bought a CPC

c64

Extreme refurbishing: Episode 1 - Commodore 64

... or a story about C64 straight from a Monster Truck Fail of the month Story Last month, I've bought quite a few retro computers. There was one quite special so I decided I'll

c64

C16 to C64 upgrade

... or another custom work for my Norwegian friend :) Intro Getting a good quality photo of a dye with just an USB camera "microscope" is kinda hard. I've gotta buy a decent

sd

SD2IEC Revisited

... or finally finished project . First transport ... ... finally arrived. ... but I am still waiting for the second half :D It'll take a while to refurbish it all ;) SD2IEC revisited Some time ago, I wrote

hax

EMC CLARiiON AX4-5 storage array hax

... or me dumb, me still winz :> Story mode on In short, this post is about how I've managed to run stock SATA disks in an EMC array. I should have written this

cpc

Amstrad CPC 6128 - HxC mod

... or Batman forever ... forever . Short story Recently, I decided that I need to buy a larger Hard Drive ... /Short story CPC 6128 I always wanted to put my hands on Amstrad CPC 6128.

c64

Various hax - part three

... another round of small hax that I did over past few weeks. Desoldering station Some time ago, I've bought a cheap desoldering station to conveniently desolder DIP packaged chips from retro computer motherboards.

c64

C64 ALDI - quick refurb job

... or a story about a C64 version sold along with potatoes back in a day Intro This is going to be a very short post about a quick refurbishing project of C64 ALDI

amiga

Amiga 600 - recapping and minor fixes

... or dafaq is that gooey ?! Intro Some time ago mCCnEx of WantedTeam demoscene group, asked me to have a look at his Amiga 600. There was a major issue with broken keyboard membrane

amiga

Broken plastic ? No problem !

... hopefully ... . Photo of the week Extreme refurbishing series ;) Fixing stuff This post is about fixing plastic cases of retro computers. Well, maybe it is rather how I fix it. Of course, this method

amstrad

Amstrad CPC 464 - The turmoil - PART TWO

... or repairs mayhem ... sort of Photo of the week This C64 mainboard needs serious debugging ;P Intro This post is a continuation of CPC repairs saga that I've started HERE This time, I'll

c64

Commodore 1541-II floppy drive refurbishing

... or how to break stuff in order to repair it Intro A long time ago, far far away, in a distant galaxy, something happened but ... ... nobody knows what exactly happened because it is

retro

Cyclone PCB factory project

... or a DIY PCB milling machine Intro I've got this link from Wiecz0r/Lamers ... no further explanation required ... :> What for ? Yeh yeh, I didn't write for a while. X-mas ... new year ... and

QuickShot QS-137F Joystick repair

... or how to simply fix a worn out joystick The why ? Simply, because this joystick has a switch under a hood that allows to set it to work on different machines like speccy,

amiga

Amiga 600 - keyboard membrane fixes

... or how to figure something out while figuring something out Intro Party lolz The problem A few days ago, Mccnex/WantedTeam asked me to fix his spare Amiga 600 keyboards. I was like

c64

C64 - SD2IEC

... or a short story about a lenghty project . First batch Why long ? because I am still working on it, but let me write how it all started. As usual, Johny/Lamers is a

retro

Another day, another C64

... or how to reanimate a dead breadbin case Photo of a week Just have a look what I've got recently :D A Commodore 64 that worked on submarine vessel ;P The Plan I've

zx

ZX Spectrum +2 - Blackie - PSU Hack

... or how to power retro hardware with modern PSU So I wanted to connect this: ... but DAMN, theres no atomic power plant nearby. ... So, I've decided to take my work back underground ... to

3d

3D Printing - various prints

... or printing t3h stuff, ha ! Photo of a week This time as a photo of a week, I present you old and great Norton Commander. Bachoo of Save The Floppy( PL language only

cpc

Amstrad CPC 464 - The turmoil - PART ONE

... or how my Amstrad load youtube . Photo of the week This time I present you a photo titled "The great chase of a 1337 h4x0r !" Obviously, this had to be a

retro

Project Mutator

... or retro bash scripts FTW! Let's start with an old (2008) photo of a week titled "We all love AIX" ;P Yup, 16 GB of RAM in 2007 was quite a

retro

Various hax - Part two

... or small hax overload Intro Let's start with a photo of the week. Proposed title - "Y U NO WORK ??!!" Any idea what hardware it is ? :> Another day, another post

spectrum

ZX Spectrum 128k +2 repairs

... or why u not work !? < The story > Soooo, this is a story about little boy who was never born < /End of story :D > Mmmmkay, poor joke ;P The real

atari

Atari 800 XL - U1M and restoration

... or about de-yellowing one more time Ataaariiii I've recently bought nicely worn out Atari 800XL. I won't lie if I say I did buy it on purpose when I saw it on a

retro

Project RetroBlade - Evolution PART TWO

... or how to get lost in prototyping This is part two of my long time project of building a retro handheld. This is a quick run through my prototyping series. Part one can

retroPC - old games anyone ?

... or how to get a bluescreen from the past The story Remember those dark winter evenings spent with Diablo 1? or F-29 Raptor ? or Dune 2 ? Naaah ?! maybe Eye of Beholder 2 then

C64 Breadbin - restoration again

... or a glossy keyboard attack ! No STORY this time That's right, short and pure restoration of a cool C64 Breadbin that was presumably dug out of some sort of dungeon lol. PCB straight

hardware

3D Printing - latest machine

... or "Rise of The TrollBot" This is the third part of my posts about 3D printers that I've created over past four years. Here is a first part The second one

hax

Various hax - PART ONE

... or how to get overwhelmed by too many projects Yup, posting delays again :/ That is caused by too many projects that I started simultaneously and these have to be finished so I will

zx

Debricking ZX-Uno

... or how to keep on learning new stuff Background story A few days ago, I was visiting my friend Bart030. Bart received a bricked ZX-Uno board for repairs. However, he didn't have a

hardware

CPC 464 - Repairs and restoration

... or how to fail at restoring key caps ... and fix it afterward Recently, I've bought a drowned (at least it looked like drowned :D) and burned (at least it looked like burned :D)

c64

Commodore 64 - The great refurbishing - PART THREE

... or how to use heart surgeon tool to fix C64 ! Ha ! So part three it is ... Yoda said. Well, he didn't say it but just imagine he did ok ? Yup, this is part

hardware

ZX Spectrum 48k - just another repair ...

... or hot-fixes surprise ! Story Recently, I've received a broken ZX Spectrum 48k from a friend. A nice looking unit that required a bit of work on the outside. ... and a lot on the

Project RetroBlade v 0.27237 - PART ONE

... or how to make use of rear camera LCD Soooo... ...so it all started because I browse too much Interwebz :> Like this: Nowadays, electronic stuff is really cheap so very often when

c64

Commodore 64 - The great refurbishing - PART TWO

... or do it till it's done ;) Alrighty righty ! This is the second part of my six C64s restoration/upgrade project. The first part for all of you who didn't see it is here

3D Printing - Learning curve

... or how to spend few months extruding molten plastic Why ? After finishing my first 3D printer, I started to feel hunger for more upgrades, changes and playing with 3Dprinting in general. The second

hardware

Quick post about broken smartphone screen

... or how not to pay for deleting your photos Quick story Another short post. This time, not so retro but it might be handy for some of you ;) Recently, my son have killed

c64

Commodore 64 - The great refurbishing - PART ONE

... or bringing six C64 back to life The story Beyond seven mountain ranges, beyond seven rivers , lived a little dog called Ricardo. ... but he ate too many tacos and died ... End of story

hardware

Amiga 600TDP - The Dark Project

... or how to get an Amiga from a taxi driver Getting A600 This is a kinda funny story. Some time ago, me and some friends, we had a drinking session in my garage.

Monster (sic!) server upgrade

... or a short description of a quick&dirty hard disk hack Dafaq?! Why ?! I run a home Linux box stuff like keeping IRC session, OpenVPN, serve files to my local network or

hardware

3D Printing - The beginning

... or the first step to getting yourself into the great world of endless DIY crap In 2012, I was attending a demoscene party in my hometown. Besides typical demoscene party activities ... ... I also

security

GSM 900 sniffing

... or a short story about osmocomBB This is going to be rather a short post, mainly because I played with it few years ago so this is sort of ancient stuff compared to

atari

SIO2SD for 8-bit Atari

... or why open hardware rocks !!11one!eleven How it all started One day, I was doing a lot of pretty much nothing. Suddenly I've heard a weird sound ... PING PING PING. To be

retro

Commodore 64 - SID in AVR wrapping

... or a story how I suck at choosing proper file The story Once upon a time, there was a little pony called Bungholio ... OK! OK! Wrong story. Let me start it over again.

retro

ZX Spectrum 48k - panel replacement

or how I bought ZX after 29 years. Yup, ZX Spectrum was the first computer that I had an occasion to play with. It was 1986 and I was 6 years old. I

atari

Atari 1040 STe a.k.a. Puzzle project

... or how shipping company did it again. I've never had 16 bit Atari computer, therefore, I am a complete noob if it is about ST series. These machines are still rather cheap so

atari

Atari 65XE on steroids

... or how I started with retro computing. Back in 1986, as a six-year-old boy, I had an opportunity to play with ZX Spectrum. Wow, that was a joy back then, Space Invaders, Knight