Saturday, March 15, 2025

More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX)

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In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature. Plus, as most systems in the family were minicomputers, they had the whole m...
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Saturday, January 18, 2025

The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem

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Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s couldn't be used. If only there ...
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Saturday, January 4, 2025

Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy

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Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can avoid it." So I'll just lead ...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024

A mostly merry Southern Hemisphere Commodore Christmas

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A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's our year to be with my wife's family in regional New S...
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Saturday, December 7, 2024

Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One

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I still have my literal first home computer ( the Tomy Tutor ), and it so happens I also have my literal first game console: the Tandyvision...
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Friday, November 29, 2024

The Hall SC-VGA-2 video processor, the Atari ST and NeXTSTEP: more tales of the unscreenshotable

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A periodic fascination on this blog is figuring out better ways to get better screenshots of our classic systems, which often hail from the ...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit

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I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them involve some little Commodore 64 games...
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