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Back in the 486 days, it was common to see a “Turbo” button on the front panel of many PCs, which was used to toggle between the CPU’s maximum speed …read more Continue reading OLED Display Lets Vintage PC Engage Turbo Mode in Style
There was a point in time, excruciatingly brief, in which desktop computers often had a large “TURBO” button on their front panel. Some even featured an LCD that would indicate …read more Continue reading 486 Gets Animated Turbo Button Thanks to Arduino
Emulators are easy and convenient, but for some retrocomputing enthusiasts nothing comes close to running classic software on actual era-appropriate hardware. This can become a problem, though, for those into …read more Continue reading Tiny 3D Printed Gaming PC Contains Real Retro Hardware
Ever since the 1970s, a frequent project has been to take a microprocessor and construct a computer system on a breadboard or stripboard. Usually these machines feature a familiar 8-bit …read more Continue reading It’s a 486 Computer, On a Breadboard
We love retrocomputing and tiny computers here at Hackaday, so it’s always nice to see projects that combine the two. [Eivind]’s TinyLlama lets you play DOS games on a board …read more Continue reading TinyLlama is a 486 in Your Pocket
A footnote in the week’s technology news came from Linus Torvalds, as he floated the idea of abandoning support for the Intel 80486 architecture in a Linux kernel mailing list …read more Continue reading Bye Bye Linux On The 486. Will We Miss You?
Universal Serial Bus has been the de facto standard for sending information to and from computer peripherals for almost two decades, but despite the word “universal” in the name this …read more Continue reading Building a Serial Bus To Save an Old Hard Drive
Older Apple computers can often be something of a collector’s item, with the oldest fetching an enormously high price in auctions. The ones from the late ’80s and early ’90s …read more Continue reading Custom Macintosh with a Real 486
There was a time when booting Linux from a floppy disk was the norm, but of course, those days are long gone. Even if you still had a working 3.5 …read more Continue reading Running Modern Linux from a Single Floppy Disk
PC-104 is a standard computer form factor that most people outside of industrial settings probably haven’t seen before. It’s essentially an Intel 486 processor with lots of support for standards …read more Continue reading DOS Gaming PC Gets Necessary Updates