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VIC-20 Fix and clean-up notes

Fixing and cleaning a VIC-20 that needs some love to bring it back to action!

Add a nicer battery to a NEC 8201A portable computer and sort the bad design decision made when it was new!

A little computer with deep burn-in and hidden surprises!

A virtual tape recorder with remote function on a PC? Sounds good!

A ranking of Oric tape games, loading times and difficulty rating (From someone terrible at video games!) Links into the Youtube channel […]

Got a bunch of 4164 chips and an Arduino Nano? Why not get them together for some testing!

Some more BBC Basic tips to handle SLEEP and Keyboard buffer

A simple bench top power socket with anti static connection point.

More testing of BBC code. PROC, GOSUB and LOCAL this time…

Further tips in optimisations of simple BASIC code. We take a look at SPC and VDU commands this time.