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A bit more work on the arcade cabinet this weekend. Check out the build diary in the projects section to see the latest update, or click continue reading below.

As you may have guessed from my previous post, I’m embarking on my next project of building a full-size arcade cabinet. I’ve decided to replicate a cabinet that used the original control panel that I was given. I’ve created this in the projects section of my site and will be keeping a diary of the […]

About 1 year ago, I was gifted a couple of arcade boards and an arcade control panel by a friend of mine. Sadly, this friend has recently passed away, so I have now promoted a couple of projects involving these parts to the top of my priority list. I started by connecting up the two […]

Every now and again I like to have a move around in my retro room and possibly swap out some systems. Well I decided that to represent the Spectrum, I would get one of my 128K Spectrums connected up. I grabbed one off the shelf and plugged it all in ready to sit down and […]

Today I had a bit of spare time, so decided to take a look at a Spectrum 48K for one of my work colleagues. It had unfortunately been plugged in using an Acorn Electron PSU as he mixed up the power supplies. The Acorn Electron uses a 19v ac power supply, where as the Spectrum […]

Today was the day that the new 74LS374 arrived in the post. My first quick test was to put the new chip into my chip tester, and it confirmed the chip was ok whulst thebold one still reported faulty, so it looks like the chip tester might actually be trustworthy. I’ll be doing some more […]

Recently, a colleague at work contacted me and asked if I wanted some old computer stuff, including a 19″ CRT monitor and a colour Dot Matrix printer. This donation was gladly accepted, and whilst collecting my new toys, we found ourselves discussing various retro tech. During this conversation, he mentioned that he had a Yamaha […]

During a 3-hour car drive today, my brain got bored, and I started to think. This normally ends up being expensive, but this time, since I was driving, I used my time to ponder the question: Will nostalgia for technology still exist in the future? I was born in 1979, so my childhood memories come […]

After a couple of months of recategorising everything and making sure all the redirects are in place. The new website design is finally live. There are probably still a few kinks to work out, I need to put the projects section back in place, and I still need to find a way to move the […]

Every now and then, I decide to do something well outside of my comfort zone. So when I was messaged by Ravi from the Retro Hour asking if I would like to be on his team for the yearly Christmas quiz, I decided to say yes before I started talking myself out of it! We […]

After fixing the 3DFX card, I sat back and looked at the LCD monitor I was using, and decided it just wasn’t right for the system. But the problem was, I’d ran out of suitable CRT monitors. I did spot one in a skip at the local recycling centre a few days back, but as […]

I already have a few retro PCs in my collection, but I was missing one specific era, and that was the era when the 3dfx VooDoo cards hit the shelves. A friend of mine got one for his pc, and it was a complete game-changer back then. Everything went from blocky-looking textures to gorgeous, smoothed […]