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I’ve had this one for a few months now but forgot to add it to my list. Don’t really know too much about these yet, so will be fun having a play and seeing what I can get it to do. Apparently they were very popular with reporters and editors as it has a good […]

This one came of for a bargain price on one of the Facebook groups so I coulnd’t resist adding another Amstrad to the collection. I already have a CPC M4 board for this computer to allow loading software from SD Card and over Wi-Fi. Will definately be setting this one up and experimenting a bit […]

I recently purchased a cheap Atari 800XL which was listed as not working. I’ve been trying to find some broken computers as fixing them up and learning about how they work has started to become a big part of this hobby for me. So when I plugged in the computer and it sprang into life, […]

One of the computers I have setup on my new desk is the Yamaha CX5M MSX Computer. The only issue with that is the UK version of this machine only outputs a composite video signal and that is going to look terrible on an LCD monitor. After looking around the internet for bit, I came […]

Recently a BBC Master was listed on one of the Facebook Groups I am on. It was listed as not working for £75 so I decided to grab it and try and revive it. My assumption was that the issue was going to be the Rifa caps in the power supply. So after waiting for […]

After moving house, one of my first tasks was to sort out my new retro room. I have really enjoyed getting it all sorted, but for a while now I kept having one thought which I didn’t want to know the answer to, where the hell is my FunKey S!!!! All of my handhelds were […]

When I first started building my mini pinball cabinet, it was designed to be powered by the Steamdeck. This was mainly because I didn’t have a spare PC kicking around that could do the job. The Steamdeck has being doing the job, but it had one issue, the loading times! Because the pinball software runs […]

A while ago I purchased some UV overlays for the Vectrex. These overlays require a UV light source to make them glow. At the time when I purchased them, my 3D printer couldn’t handle the size of the Vectrex screen so I made a frame using multiple 3D printed parts and glued them together. I […]

After another busy couple of weeks, I finally have my new retro room/workshop in a possition where I can start to enjoy it. Obviously, a room like this is never truly finished, but at least I can now escape from the real world and have a nice place to relax. So let’s have a quick […]

I now have my computer desks in and setup so just thought i’d do a quick post showing what it looks like. Still got some cable management to do and then I need to make a start on cabling up to 20+ consoles on the other side of the room! I was hoping to get […]

I have just finished my two week break from work, of which much of it was spent doing bits and pieces to the new retro room. Still have a lot to do, but here are a couple of updated pics. More to come in the following weeks 😀

Things have been a bit quiet recently as we have been going through the stressful process of moving house. But we are now in, and work has started on the new home of north devon retro archive! I would by lying if I didn’t say one of the biggest reasons I picked this house, was […]