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The mouSTer project – 30.12.2024 UPDATE

Posted on December 30, 2024January 2, 2025 by drygol

… or moving production in-house

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Vacuum forming keyboards – the outcome

Posted on July 13, 2024August 10, 2024 by drygol

… or building the ultimate colored keyboard

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The Kryoflux build … twice

Posted on June 5, 2024August 10, 2024 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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Wico Boss joystick hax

Posted on November 19, 2023November 19, 2023 by drygol

… or modding FTW!

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Three Amiga CDTV fixing spree

Posted on November 12, 2023November 12, 2023 by drygol

… or maybe 2.5x

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Pimp my Ami #1 – Fluo

Posted on July 19, 2023July 19, 2023 by drygol

…or Hydroxide discoveries 🙂

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Restoring dot-matrix printer ribbon cartridges

Posted on May 26, 2023May 30, 2023 by drygol

… or that’s the way you hack ’em!

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Amiga 500 – RAM hax

Posted on May 24, 2023May 25, 2023 by drygol

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

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Amiga CD32 + TF330

Posted on April 3, 2023December 4, 2023 by drygol

… or a great combo … isn’t it?

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Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract – Final part

Posted on February 4, 2023March 26, 2023 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, 2023May 16, 2023 by drygol

… or long-awaited firmware hax

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Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract PART 6

Posted on January 22, 2023May 16, 2023 by drygol

… or still not the end

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Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract PART 5

Posted on November 2, 2022May 16, 2023 by drygol

…or are you done yet?

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#SHORTS – Amiga 500 PSU modding

Posted on October 21, 2022May 16, 2023 by drygol

… or don’t trust the ground 😉

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Website update

Posted on September 27, 2022March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or it took quite a while

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Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract PART 4

Posted on July 28, 2022May 16, 2023 by drygol

…or the chaos is overwhelming

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#SHORTS – ROM adapter hax

Posted on July 11, 2022March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or a cool tool to revive your old machine

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#shorts – Commodore 1084 monitor – front panel latch hack

Posted on May 5, 2022May 16, 2023 by drygol

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Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract PART 3

Posted on March 11, 2022March 26, 2023 by drygol

…or chaos is awesome!

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The mouSTer project – 20.11.2021 UPDATE

Posted on November 21, 2021March 26, 2023 by drygol

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Colored keycaps – Vacuum forming research continued

Posted on October 20, 2021March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or it will take a while to figure it out

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Amiga 600 – FURIA card upgrade and other mods

Posted on September 13, 2021March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or something simple this time

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Retrohax becomes the official distributor of LOTHAREK

Posted on May 3, 2021March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or now there is gonna be even work to do

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Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract PART 1

Posted on April 22, 2021July 14, 2024 by drygol

… or let’s start the longest and most complicated project so far

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The mouSTer project – another, another UPDATE

Posted on April 7, 2021March 26, 2023 by drygol

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Amiga 2000 – semi-extreme refurb – Part one

Posted on March 29, 2021March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or maybe this Amiga 2000 wasn’t that extreme after all

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The mouSTer project – another UPDATE

Posted on March 4, 2021March 26, 2023 by drygol

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The mouSTer project – UPDATE

Posted on February 9, 2021March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or we are slowly getting there 😉

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Vacuum forming machine build … errr fail

Posted on February 8, 2021March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or fail at securing your keycaps

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The mouSTer project is here

Posted on January 19, 2021March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or one adapter to rule them all

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Various Hax – part seven

Posted on December 21, 2020March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or just another post about some minor mods

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Amiga 1000 project – Phoenix motherboard

Posted on October 25, 2020March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or failures are your friends :>

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Amiga 1200 – S-video mod and refurb

Posted on August 11, 2020March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or … am I stoned? :>

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Spray painting a computer case – a short HOW-TO

Posted on July 24, 2020March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or it is simple but with some caveats 🙂

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Project mouSTer – The ultimate mouse adapter for retro computers

Posted on July 7, 2020March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or it took a while to get here 😀

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Amiga 600 – mods and repairs

Posted on January 21, 2020March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or projects overload again

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Various Hax – part six

Posted on December 19, 2019March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or weird stuff continues to continue 😉

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Extreme refurbishing: Episode 4 – Vampiric Amiga 500

Posted on October 7, 2019March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or ginger/rusty shielding is hawt!

Installing a Vampire inside Amiga 500

Posted on January 9, 2019March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or A500 on steroids

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Various Hax- part five

Posted on November 11, 2018January 5, 2023 by drygol

… or weird stuff continues

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PiSP – old project in a new skin

Posted on October 17, 2018May 16, 2023 by drygol

… or I just had a few spare hours 😉

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3 Amigos … err Amigas – immersion printing

Posted on September 5, 2018January 5, 2023 by drygol

… or HydroGraphics to the rescue!

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Amiga 500 – mods

Posted on January 25, 2018January 5, 2023 by drygol

… or Amigaaaaaaaahhhh !

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Various hax – part four

Posted on November 2, 2017March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or another round of weird stuff

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Amiga CDTV – just simple refurbishing

Posted on November 1, 2017March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or busy days are really busy nowadays

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RGB4ALL – composite and s-video module

Posted on July 12, 2017March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or a “built-in modulator” for your retro thingy 😉

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Amiga 600 – recapping and minor fixes

Posted on March 27, 2017March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or dafaq is that gooey ?!

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Broken plastic? No problem!

Posted on March 6, 2017March 26, 2023 by drygol

… hopefully …

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QuickShot QS-137F Joystick repair

Posted on December 25, 2016March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or how to simply fix a worn-out joystick

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Amiga 600 – keyboard membrane fixes

Posted on December 16, 2016March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or how to figure something out while figuring something out

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