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I’ve been fairly busy recently and even though I’ve still been doing a lot of stuff with retro hardware, I’ve not found time to update this site. So I need to catch up, starting with this one which I have actually had for over a year but I knew it wasn’t working so has been […]

The Dragon 32 was an 8-bit computer based around the Motorola MC6809E CPU which meant it was very similar to the Tandy TRS80 CoCo range of computers. This particular example came to my collection as a nonworking example. When powered on the screen just showed a load of garbage. After dealing with a couple of […]

After playing around with the Video Genie system which was a clone of the original TRS80, I decided it would be fun to explore the Tandy line of computers a bit more. So after looking around a bit I settled on the TRS-80 CoCo 2 (Color Computer 2). This particular example had the benefit of […]

This one is something a bit different. The Video Genie EG3003 is a hong kong made clone of the Tandy TRS-80 computer. It was sold under several different names worldwide such as the TRZ-80 and the Dick Smith System 80. But for us UK folk it was the Video Genie. Although it was a clone […]

With the exception of an original Apple iPad and an iPod Nano back in the day, I’ve never owned another Apple device. On the mobile side, I’ve always had Android devices from their first release, and from the computing side, I’ve always been in the PC camp. But back in the time of the 8-bit […]

After seeing a YouTube video about a modder that had made a super slim version of the already slim Playstation 2, I couldn’t resist building one myself! This mod takes a 79xxx Series PS2 Slim (Which had a smaller main PCB than other models), then trims it down a bit more and removes the optical […]

The bedroom needed a new carpet so I decided to go for a re-design. Originally I was going to build another custom unit, but after measuring IKEAs Kallax units, it turned out that for once, they were exactly the right size for what I required. So one trip to IKEA later and a lot of […]

The only thing I really remember about these devices when they came out, was everyone taking the **** out of them for having to hold them sideways to use them as a phone. Well besides that issue, the device itself could actually run some pretty good games for the time. Games like Tomb Raider got […]

The Virtual Boy has always intrigued me, a bit like a VR headset, it’s one of those devices that people cannot show you what it is like in a video or a screenshot. You just have to experience it for yourself. I had previously heard a lot of people complaining of headaches and eye strain […]

A while ago I put together a small project to flash the Atari Jaguar Skunkboard flash cart from a Raspberry Pi (More details here). The Skunkboard can only hold 1 or 2 games at a time so it was nice to not have to keep removing it and plugging it into my PC to flash […]

I was given this old PC the other day along with a bunch of other bits and pieces that I am still going through. But this was definitely the most interesting item so I wanted to take a look at it as soon as possible. After measuring the voltages coming from the power supply it […]

Having had the NC100 whilst I was at school and having one again in my collection now, I have still always wanted its bigger brother the NC200. The bigger screen, built-in backlight, and a 3.5″ floppy drive made it a far more advanced device. I’ve been keeping an eye out for a while now for […]