… or a rather boring cleaning story
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Apple Color Style Writer 2200
… or did I spend ages trying to fix it?
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#marchintosh – Macintosh PowerBook G3 battery remake
… or always get the right tool for the job
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Using old iPad screens with MiSTer and retro machines
…or, how to replace your whole game room with one gadget :>
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Vacuum forming keyboards – the outcome
… or building the ultimate colored keyboard
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The Kryoflux build … twice
… 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
… or how I forgot to take all the pics again
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Atari 600 XL – Restoration to stock
… or simply, nothing fancy
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Atari 1020 Plotter – plotting pens replacement
… or GEL PENS to the rescue
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#DOScember – Gulipin PC 386DX
… or I wanted to play GODS again 🙂
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Wico Boss joystick hax
… or modding FTW!
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Website update
… or changes, changes, changes
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2x Apple IIc restoration and mods
… or my first dive into Apple II
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Restoring dot-matrix printer ribbon cartridges
… or that’s the way you hack ’em!
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Ultimate64 – a C64 from scratch
… or nearly from scratch 😉
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Amiga CD32 + TF330
… or a great combo … isn’t it?
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#Marchintosh – 2x Macintosh Classic
… or 1.5x Mac Classic cuz I forgot to take pics :/
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#SHORTS – DIY PSU for Atari XL/XE series
… or a nicely looking PSU for your 8-bit Atari
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#SHORTS – The mouSTer project – 31.01.2023 UPDATE
… or long-awaited firmware hax
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#SHORTS – DIY SIO2PC for 8-bit Atari
… or that was easier than I’d thought
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Beast64 project – PART TWO
… or OMG, even more add-ons
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Enterprise 64 – repairs and modding
… or Egyptian adventure
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Atari 800 XL + SDrive-MAX
… or another bedtime story
Commodore 128 – mods
… or adventures of a lame modder
Extreme refurbishing: Episode 3 – Commodore 116
… or did I just make poor-looking molded keys?
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Beeb errr … BBC Micro restoration and upgrades
… or I just saw the best-made upgrade for Beeb
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Atari – The frankenSTein series
… or I’ve never thought I’ll ever do such transplants 🙂
Various Hax- part five
… or weird stuff continues
PiSP – old project in a new skin
… or I just had a few spare hours 😉
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
Commodore 1541 floppy drive fixing chaos
… or fixing several 1541 drives for fun 😉
Amiga CDTV – just simple refurbishing
… or busy days are really busy nowadays
Atari 130 XE restoration and upgrade job
… or nasty SELECT key 😉
RGB4ALL – composite and s-video module
… or a “built-in modulator” for your retro thingy 😉
Extreme refurbishing: Episode 1 – Commodore 64
… or a story about C64 straight from a Monster Truck
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SD2IEC Revisited
… or finally, the project is finished
Various hax – part three
… another round of small hax that I did over the past few weeks.
C64 ALDI – quick refurb job
… or a story about a C64 version sold along with potatoes back in a day
Amiga 600 – recapping and minor fixes
… or dafaq is that gooey ?!
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
Amiga 600 – keyboard membrane fixes
… or how to figure something out while figuring something out
C64 – SD2IEC
… or a short story about a long project
Amstrad CPC 464 – The turmoil – PART ONE
… or how my Amstrad runs on youtube