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Pimp my Ami #2 – Vanilla A500 for BooM Party

Posted on April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 by drygol

…or did I NOT pimp it at all?!

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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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Wico Boss joystick hax

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

… or modding FTW!

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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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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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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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Amiga CD32 + TF330

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

… or a great combo … isn’t it?

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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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Beast64 project – PART TWO

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

… or OMG, even more add-ons

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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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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 – Commodore 1084 monitor – front panel latch hack

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

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The mouSTer project – 20.11.2021 UPDATE

Posted on November 21, 2021February 26, 2025 by drygol

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Colored keycaps – Vacuum forming research continued

Posted on October 20, 2021February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or it will take a while to figure it out

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Retrohax becomes the official distributor of LOTHAREK

Posted on May 3, 2021February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or now there is gonna be even work to do

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The mouSTer project – another, another UPDATE

Posted on April 7, 2021February 26, 2025 by drygol

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2x Commodore VIC-20 – a quick refurb job

Posted on March 18, 2021February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or even quicker

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The mouSTer project – another UPDATE

Posted on March 4, 2021February 26, 2025 by drygol

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Various Hax – part seven

Posted on December 21, 2020February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or just another post about some minor mods

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Random Commodore Plus/4 hax

Posted on August 16, 2020February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or I’ve simply lost some pics

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Amiga 1200 – S-video mod and refurb

Posted on August 11, 2020February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or … am I stoned? :>

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Spray painting a computer case – a short HOW-TO

Posted on July 24, 2020February 26, 2025 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, 2020February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or it took a while to get here 😀

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Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration

Posted on June 27, 2020February 26, 2025 by drygol

…or sculpturing is not that bad for health ;P

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The ThED project – update

Posted on June 2, 2020February 26, 2025 by drygol

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The ThED project – update

Posted on April 11, 2020February 26, 2025 by drygol

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Extreme refurbishing: Episode 5 – Wasabi C64 – Part Three

Posted on March 15, 2020February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or scarred case FTW!

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Extreme refurbishing: Episode 5 – Wasabi C64 – Part Two

Posted on March 1, 2020February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or a motherboard from hell

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The ThED project – update

Posted on January 28, 2020February 26, 2025 by drygol

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Commodore C16 – RAM upgrade and internal SD2IEC mount

Posted on January 10, 2020February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or another C16 on my bench 🙂

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Various Hax – part six

Posted on December 19, 2019February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or weird stuff continues to continue 😉

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ThED – MOS technology TED replacement for Commodore 264 series

Posted on December 5, 2019February 26, 2025 by drygol

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Commodore C128 DCR – broken PSU fix and a quick refurb.

Posted on December 1, 2019February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or web spiders FTW!

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Extreme refurbishing: Episode 4 – Vampiric Amiga 500

Posted on October 7, 2019February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or ginger/rusty shielding is hawt!

Commodore 128 – mods

Posted on May 14, 2019February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or adventures of a lame modder

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Extreme refurbishing: Episode 3 – Commodore 116

Posted on March 12, 2019February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or did I just make poor-looking molded keys?

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Various Hax- part five

Posted on November 11, 2018February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or weird stuff continues

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3 Amigos … err Amigas – immersion printing

Posted on September 5, 2018February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or HydroGraphics to the rescue!

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2x Commodore VIC-20 – refurb and mods

Posted on August 30, 2018February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or two VICs go SD

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EasyFlash3 Cart for Commodore

Posted on December 20, 2017February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or a short story about how I’ve made a small batch of EF3s 😉

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Commodore 1541 floppy drive fixing chaos

Posted on November 9, 2017February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or fixing several 1541 drives for fun 😉

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Amiga CDTV – just simple refurbishing

Posted on November 1, 2017February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or busy days are really busy nowadays

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Extreme refurbishing: Episode 1 – Commodore 64

Posted on June 12, 2017February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or a story about C64 straight from a Monster Truck

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C16 to C64 upgrade

Posted on May 21, 2017February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or another custom work for my Norwegian friend 🙂

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Various hax – part three

Posted on April 13, 2017February 26, 2025 by drygol

… another round of small hax that I did over the past few weeks.

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C64 ALDI – quick refurb job

Posted on April 5, 2017February 26, 2025 by drygol

… or a story about a C64 version sold along with potatoes back in a day

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