Collaborate Disseminate
At the very start of the personal computer revolution, there were relatively inexpensive boards with little more than a CPU, some memory, a display, and switches or a keypad. Some …read more Continue reading Kim-1: Memory Problem Resolved
Will it or won’t it? That’s the question much on the minds of astronomers, astrophysicists, and the astro-adjacent this week as Betelgeuse continued its pattern of mysterious behavior that might …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 18, 2023
These days, most webservers are big hefty rackmount rigs with roaring fans in giant datacenters. [naDDan]’s webserver is altogether more humble, as it runs on a single Commodore 64. The …read more Continue reading Commodore 64 Web Server Brings 8-Bit Into The Future
Cloudy with a chance of concrete? The “success” of last week’s brief but eventful Starship launch has apparently raised some regulatory eyebrows, with the Federal Aviation Administration launching an investigation …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 30, 2023
When you think of tiny microcontroller boards, you probably think of a modern surface mount processor. Not [Andreas Jakob]. His 5×5 cm keychain computer rocks a 6809 CPU at a …read more Continue reading The Keychain 6809
The MouSTer is a device that enables modern USB HID mice to be used on various retro computers. The project has been through its ups and downs over years, but …read more Continue reading The MouSTer Adapter Now Has Amiga Scroll Support
[Ted Fried] wrote in with not one but two (2!) new drop-in replacements for widespread old-school CPUs: the Zilog Z80 and the Intel 8088. Both of the “chips” run in …read more Continue reading Teensy Twofer of Plug-In Emulated Retro CPUs
Despite the huge strides in computing power and functionality that have been achieved in the past few decades, there are still some things that older computers can do which are …read more Continue reading How To Restore a Musical Amiga
Talk about playing on hard mode! The news this week was rife with stories about Palmer Luckey’s murder-modified VR headset, which ostensibly kills the wearer if their character dies in-game. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: November 13, 2022
Working on retro computers is rarely straightforward, as [ukmaker] recently found out while designing a new display interface. Their oscilloscope was having trouble triggering on the video signal produced by …read more Continue reading An Oscilloscope Trigger For Vintage Video Processors