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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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#MARCHintosh – 4x Mac SE

Posted on March 18, 2024August 10, 2024 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, 2024July 15, 2024 by drygol

… or simply, nothing fancy

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#DOScember – Gulipin PC 386DX

Posted on December 23, 2023December 23, 2023 by drygol

… or I wanted to play GODS again 🙂

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#SHORTS Modding Atari 130XE for Ajcek/Lamers

Posted on November 29, 2023November 29, 2023 by drygol

…or simply a short pictorial

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Wico Boss joystick hax

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

… or modding FTW!

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Website update

Posted on November 17, 2023November 17, 2023 by drygol

… or changes, changes, changes

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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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2x Apple IIc restoration and mods

Posted on October 20, 2023October 20, 2023 by drygol

… or my first dive into Apple II

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#Shorts – Nintendo Wii controllers fixes

Posted on September 19, 2023September 19, 2023 by drygol

… or what I was thinking?!

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Commodore floppy drive fixing chaos – Episode II

Posted on June 22, 2023July 15, 2024 by drygol

… or bashing the wall again :/

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Atari 400 mods

Posted on June 13, 2023June 13, 2023 by drygol

… or I just wanted to play RiverRaid 😉

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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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Ultimate64 – a C64 from scratch

Posted on May 16, 2023May 25, 2023 by drygol

… or nearly from scratch 😉

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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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#Marchintosh – 2x Macintosh Classic

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

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

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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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Beast64 project – PART TWO

Posted on December 10, 2022May 16, 2023 by drygol

… or OMG, even more add-ons

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#SHORTS – Sinclair ZX Printer

Posted on December 8, 2022May 16, 2023 by drygol

… or 3D printing FTW! … again.

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Beast64 project – PART ONE

Posted on October 14, 2022May 16, 2023 by drygol

… or OMG so many add-ons again

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Enterprise 64 – repairs and modding

Posted on April 6, 2022March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or Egyptian adventure

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16 is better than 3 – Atari 65 XE mass fixing … de-rusting

Posted on November 25, 2021March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or was it 0x10? :>

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The ThED project – update

Posted on January 28, 2020March 26, 2023 by drygol

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Two times GOTEK powered Amstrad CPC 6128 please.

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

… or quick and clean way to make a cool CPCs

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Commodore 128 – mods

Posted on May 14, 2019March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or adventures of a lame modder

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Extreme refurbishing: Episode 3 – Commodore 116

Posted on March 12, 2019May 16, 2023 by drygol

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

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Beeb errr … BBC Micro restoration and upgrades

Posted on January 31, 2019March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or I just saw the best-made upgrade for Beeb

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Installing a Vampire inside Amiga 500

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

… or A500 on steroids

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Atari – The frankenSTein series

Posted on December 14, 2018March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or I’ve never thought I’ll ever do such transplants 🙂

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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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2x Commodore VIC-20 – refurb and mods

Posted on August 30, 2018January 5, 2023 by drygol

… or two VICs go SD

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DEC Hi Note Ultra II – a retro laptop

Posted on June 29, 2018January 5, 2023 by drygol

… or DOS FTW! o/

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

Posted on June 12, 2018May 16, 2023 by drygol

… or biznaz continues :O

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

Posted on June 1, 2018May 16, 2023 by drygol

… or seriouz repair biznuz 😉

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Sinclair ZX81 – composite mod and repairs.

Posted on May 18, 2018January 5, 2023 by drygol

… or, gee … this is a tiny computer

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EasyFlash3 Cart for Commodore

Posted on December 20, 2017March 26, 2023 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, 2017March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or fixing several 1541 drives for fun 😉

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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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ZX Spectrum +3 – Cleaning and sound fix

Posted on September 14, 2017March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or just another story about mature hardware 😉

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Atari 130 XE restoration and upgrade job

Posted on July 20, 2017March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or nasty SELECT key 😉

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SD2IEC Revisited

Posted on May 11, 2017March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or finally, the project is finished

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Various hax – part three

Posted on April 13, 2017March 26, 2023 by drygol

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

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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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Amstrad CPC 464 – The turmoil – PART TWO

Posted on February 14, 2017March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or repairs mayhem … sort of

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Cyclone PCB factory project

Posted on January 19, 2017March 26, 2023 by drygol

… or a DIY PCB milling machine

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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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