AL-1000: Saved from Oblivion.
The Commodore AL-1000, which is akin to a mini-PET (heavy and boxy). It uses tubes to display the numbers. There was some roughhousing with this venerable calculator and it needed some TLC to get going. …
On a Date with Ms. Pacman
I’ve been asked for about a year now to head out to my brothers’ studio, where an unhappy tabletop Ms. Pacman has been sitting busted. Three of the ROM’s on the board were loose, one …
C64: First 8K Generic Cart
As of today, I made my first C64 cartridge. Most of my programming experience is either through floppy or tape-based storage. Making a ROM/BIN file and getting it to work was tougher than I thought. …
C64 NIC: Networking on the Commodore 64
I have a few of these guys in a box, mostly for a long term project that I have been working on. I haven’t had much need for them in the last while as VICE …
Amiga 2000 / PC Side Upgrades and Repairs
Yuri’s Goldfinger card was having some really strange issues — the PAS AUDIO 16 ISA card that was handling audio for the PC side of the computer was also throwing up in certain DOS configurations. …
C64: 64Bites.com (teaching old dogs new tricks)
http://www.64bites.com I will say three things about Michal’s c64 programming series: his videos are fun, fast and packed with information. I am not a bad assembly programmer, -not the best- but not bad. After watching …
Amiga + Gotek Floppy Emulation
Well, the Gotek Floppy has been running relatively well. I dragged a bunch of ADF’s over to a USB stick (with the menu ADF) and it was pretty much working. I wish the drive face …
Amiga 1020 5 1/4 Floppy
I’ve had this one in the basement for a long time, never got it working correctly — until now. Device = trackdisk.device Unit = 2 /* first external unit */ Flags = 1 /* important …
A3000D: Random problems finally sorted.
I upgraded the A3000D with as much stuff I had in storage and few things off of Amibay. After the RTC fixes, HD LED, misc capacitors and replacement floppy I started adding: GVP IOEtxender (high-speed …
A3000: Amber’s Variable Resistor
The A3000 was randomly deciding to output a proper signal to VGA. I know the monitor I was using (or LCD) was capable of displaying in the right frequency range — but only 1 out …