TypeStore
What is a TypeStore? Well… if you would have done a Google search before this blog initially got posted and got picked up by search engines, you’d be very hard-pressed …
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Workshop Weekend
I was attending a repair workshop this weekend along with other vintage computer aficionados. These (paid) workshops are typically to provide working space for those who need an area to …
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Installing a Large SSD Drive in a Stock Amiga 1200
This project started as a need to come up with a solution for my Amiga 1200 that recently suffered floppy disk failure. Although I am able to attach an external …
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Archiving Flux
For quite some time, I was buying devices to allow me to archive the over 1000 floppy disks I have acquired over the decades when collecting vintage computer systems. I …
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Retrochallenge R̶C̶2̶0̶1̶8̶/̶0̶9̶ R̶C̶2̶0̶1̶9̶/̶1̶0̶ RC2020/04
Update (again) – 30 APR 2020: I’m, again, back at it. Something mysteriously fell through with the operation of the RC2019/10 Retrochallenge. The entire contest just went stale with no …
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Retro Christmas Wishlist: Day 16 – 20
We’re past the halfway point on this Wishlist series. I know it’s bringing back a flood of memories for me. How about you? Do you now suddenly feel the urge …
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Retro Christmas Wishlist: Day 11 – 15
Ten days in this series so far. Did any of the things I have posted ever show up on your former wishlists, or even better, show up as a gift …
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Workshop Weekend
As a member of the Vintage Computer Federation (VCF), Mid-Atlantic Chapter, I regularly attend their scheduled Workshop Weekends, where members go to work on broken electronics (mainly, but not limited …
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Data Transfer Between Two Commodore 64s
In a previous article, I introduced a hardware and software technique that allows for active data transfer from one Commodore 64 to another via a custom User Port cable connecting …
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Behind the Scenes – C64 Cross Assembling
I promised, both on this website and at VCFEast XII that I would release the details of the hardware and software involved in the “cross compiling” of Assembly language software …
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