(AKA “Fix that Flippin’ Faulty ‘F’ Key!”) While testing ICs in my 1541 for the last video, I noticed that the ‘F’ key on the […]
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Commodore SFD 1001 Floppy Teardown and Repair Part 3
Last time we powered on the SFD 1001 floppy drive and discovered that it didn’t work. At least it did work a little bit – […]
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The M2 MacBook AIRmiga
AKA emulating an Amiga on the latest Apple Silicon MacBook Everybody and his dog has been installing Amiga emulators. They’re installed on Windows PCs based […]
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Commodore SFD 1001 Floppy Teardown and Repair Part 2
In this video we continue the floppy drive repair that we started last week. The SFD 1001 is an interesting drive. It was one of […]
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Commodore SFD 1001 Drive Teardown and Repair
The Commodore SFD 1001 floppy disk drive is an interesting beast. It looks like a 1541, but it’s not. To start with, it’s an IEEE-488 […]
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Trying to fix a Battery Damaged A500+
The Amiga 500+ that came from Matt’s office (see last week’s video) did not power on. Actually that’s not strictly true; it did power on, […]
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Office Retro Haul
My mate Matt has (had!) some old retro computing gear hidden somewhere in his old office. When he asked if I wanted to help clearing […]
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Put a Mean Well RD-35A PSU in a 1571
I replaced the big, heavy linear power supply in my Commodore 1571 disk drive with a tiny Mean Well RD-35A switching power supply. The Mean […]
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A 1MB Amiga 500 Without a Trapdoor Card?
For this memory upgrade you need an Amiga 500 with a revision 6A motherboard, and an 8372A Fat Agnus chip, plus four 256Kx4 DRAMs (81C4256A […]
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Amiga 500 “Power Light Comes On” Repair: Part 3
Have you bought an old computer, and when you opened the box you found a horrible grimy mess? Worried about what’s lurking between the keys […]
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