Category: Hardware
VICE.COM has published an excerpt from the book Electronic Dreams – How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer by Tom Lean. The book was recently published by Bloomsbury Publishing and tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time turning it into a user-friendly domestic technology. It also covers the other side of the history with the…
Sometimes it is hard to come up with a good headline, therefore, some sensationalism had to be used to catch your interest! It was for a good cause if you are interested in retro computer history. The website Big Book of Amiga Hardware has added several pictures and a lot of information of the less-known Amiga of all times, the A2200. It…
This post is for those that like to get their hands dirty, opening the C64 and replacing dying parts. Sometimes the hardest part is to find and match modern components to the ones used to build a Commodore 64 back in the 80s. An article on Technologically Induced Coma blog has listed all the parts of a Rev C board and…
Retro computer’s floppy drives are a species facing extinction. With all moving parts and sensible mechanism, it is hard to keep them working properly. For those who have an extensive collection of floppy disks, the options are to copy them to any modern mass storage solution or to pray for their floppy drives not to die… MSX owners have an…
We have recently posted about the availability of the Vampire II accelerator board for the Amiga 600 and how it would make your old friend fly. Since then, a lot of buzz about the board happened on the Amiga Facebook groups Commodore Amiga and Amiga Friends. Two happy users have just received their boards and kindly wrote their Review/First Impressions. There…
Quinn Dunki while not recording Open Apple podcast, keeps herself busy tinkering with the Apple IIc. She has published on her blog, Blondihacks, an extensive and super-geeky article to show how she was able to add an accelerator control for the Apple IIc plus, a machine that was able to run on both 4Mhz and the Apple II standard 1.023Mhz….
The Vampire II is the newest and the fastest accelerator available for your Amiga 600. It will sit on top of your original CPU and take full control of your Amiga. According to the developers of the board, the board is faster than an Amiga 1200 with a 68060 accelerator running at 80MHz. If you are concerned about the heat,…
If you CRT is dying fast, and the options to connect your Amiga to a modern monitor are not easy to come around, you should take a look at the A520HD, the HDTV equivalent of the classic Commodore A520 TV modulator. Instead of encoding the Amiga video signal to a low-quality composite output it converts the RGB output to a high-quality…
Tynemouth Software has been developing an expansion cartridge for the Commodore VIC-20, adding RAM and ROM expansion selectable by dipswitches. There is a new update from the previous prototype, expanding it by adding 4 pins to each of the chips. The RAM is upgraded from a 62256 (32Kx8) to a 621024 (128Kx8), and the ROM from 27C512 (64Kx8) to 27C040…
The website Old Tech New Tech Magazine has published a detailed review of the VGA Adapter for the Apple IIc. The product, sold by A2Heaven costs USD$85, seemed to please the reviewer, Warren Ernst: “The Apple IIc VGA adapter is not for everyone. People without eyes, for example, won’t benefit from it. …the A2Heaven’s Apple IIc VGA adapter is arguably the most worthwhile…
