Category: Hacks

3 Amigos … err Amigas – immersion printing
… or HydroGraphics to the rescue!
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Sinclair ZX81 – composite mod and repairs.
… or, gee … this is a tiny computer
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Atari 1040 STFM refurb and Gotek upgrade
… or another machine goes to Norway

Amiga 500 – mods
… or Amigaaaaaaaahhhh !

Commodore 1541 floppy drive fixing chaos
… or fixing several 1541 drives for fun 😉

Various hax – part four
… or another round of weird stuff

ZX Spectrum +3 – Cleaning and sound fix
… or just another story about mature hardware 😉

RGB4ALL – composite and s-video module
… or a “built-in modulator” for your retro thingy 😉

C16 to C64 upgrade
… or another custom work for my Norwegian friend 🙂

EMC CLARiiON AX4-5 storage array hax
… or me dumb, me still winz :>

Various hax – part three
… another round of small hax that I did over the past few weeks.

Commodore 1541-II floppy drive refurbishing
… or how to break stuff in order to repair it
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Cyclone PCB factory project
… or a DIY PCB milling machine

QuickShot QS-137F Joystick repair
… or how to simply fix a worn-out joystick

Another day, another C64
… or how to reanimate a dead breadbin case

ZX Spectrum +2 – Blackie – PSU Hack
… or how to power retro hardware with a modern PSU

Project Mutator
… or retro bash scripts FTW!

Various hax – Part two
… or small hax overload

ZX Spectrum 128k +2 repairs
… or why u not work !?

Atari 800 XL – U1M and restoration
… or about de-yellowing one more time

Project RetroBlade – Evolution PART TWO
… or how to get lost in prototyping

retroPC – old games anyone ?
… or how to get a bluescreen from the past

C64 Breadbin – restoration again
… or a glossy keyboard attack!

3D Printing – latest machine
… or “Rise of The TrollBot”

Various hax – PART ONE
… or how to get overwhelmed by too many projects

Debricking ZX-Uno
… or how to keep on learning new stuff

Commodore 64 – The great refurbishing – PART THREE
… or how to use a heart surgeon tool to fix C64!
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ZX Spectrum 48k – just another repair …
… or hot-fixes surprise!

Project RetroBlade v 0.27237 – PART ONE
… or how to make use of rear camera LCD

Commodore 64 – The great refurbishing – PART TWO
… or do it till it’s done 😉
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3D Printing – Learning curve
… or how to spend a few months extruding molten plastic

Quick post about broken smartphone screen
… or how not to pay for deleting your photos
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Commodore 64 – The great refurbishing – PART ONE
… or bringing six C64 back to life
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Amiga 600TDP – The Dark Project
… or how to get an Amiga from a taxi driver

Monster (sic!) server upgrade
… or a short description of a quick&dirty hard disk hack

GSM 900 sniffing
… or a short story about osmocomBB

SIO2SD for 8-bit Atari
… or why open hardware rocks !!11one!eleven

Commodore 64 – SID in AVR wrapping
… or a story about how I suck at choosing the proper file

ZX Spectrum 48k – panel replacement
or how I bought ZX after 29 years.

Atari 1040 STe a.k.a. Puzzle project
… or how the shipping company did it again.
