March 28, 2024March 28, 2024Vintage Computers VIC-20 Fix and clean-up notes Fixing and cleaning a VIC-20 that needs some love to bring it back to action! Read more
February 8, 2024Vintage Computers NEC 8201A – CMOS Battery Add a nicer battery to a NEC 8201A portable computer and sort the bad design decision made when it was new! Read more
January 16, 2024January 16, 2024Vintage Computers Oddball tech – A tiny computer with big burn-in A little computer with deep burn-in and hidden surprises! Read more
January 12, 2024January 16, 2024Sound and Video, Vintage Computers Virtual Tape Recorder for retro computers A virtual tape recorder with remote function on a PC? Sounds good! Read more
January 7, 2024January 7, 2024Gaming Oric games – Tape load times and ranking A ranking of Oric tape games, loading times and difficulty rating (From someone terrible at video games!) Links into the Youtube channel […] Read more
December 28, 2023December 28, 2023Test equipment, Vintage Computers SRAM 4164 Testing Got a bunch of 4164 chips and an Arduino Nano? Why not get them together for some testing! Read more
December 24, 2023December 24, 2023Programming BBC Basic – Tips 1 Some more BBC Basic tips to handle SLEEP and Keyboard buffer Read more
December 13, 2023December 13, 2023Test equipment Bench power socket A simple bench top power socket with anti static connection point. Read more
December 8, 2023December 8, 2023Programming BBC Basic Optimise 3 More testing of BBC code. PROC, GOSUB and LOCAL this time… Read more
December 6, 2023December 6, 2023Programming BBC Basic Optimise 2 Further tips in optimisations of simple BASIC code. We take a look at SPC and VDU commands this time. Read more