Collaborate Disseminate
Over the years, and especially lately, we’ve seen tons of single-board retrocomputer builds. That’s fine with us — the more, the merrier. But they all start to run together a …read more Continue reading Squeezing a Minimalist 6502 Retrocomputer Onto a Single Breadboard
If you were around for the early days of the personal computer revolution, you’ll no doubt recall the excitement every time IBM announced a new version of its beige boxes. …read more Continue reading Bringing Up an Old Motherboard Is a Delicate Process
Emulating old computers or video game systems isn’t always about recreating childhood nostalgia or playing classics on hardware that doesn’t exist anymore. A lot of the time it can be …read more Continue reading Taking Pokémon on a Walk
Buying broken gear for cheap is time honored hacker tradition, and while we might not always be successful in reviving it, rarely do we come away empty handed. There’s always …read more Continue reading Swapped ROM Revives Ailing HP-48S Calculator
We’ve seen a few interesting magnetic core memories on these fine pages over the years, but we don’t recall seeing too many user programmable magnetic core memory devices. This interesting …read more Continue reading Soviet-Era Auto Dialler Uses Magnetic Rope Core Memory
If you’ve ever worked on a system that loads its software from a ROM or EPROM, you know how much of a hassle it can be to make frequent changes …read more Continue reading Pi Pico Emulates ROM for Speedy Retro Hacking
Have you ever heard of a Centurion minicomputer? If not, don’t feel bad — we hadn’t either, until [David Lovett] stumbled upon a semi-complete version of the 1980-ish mini in …read more Continue reading Homebrew ROM Reader Saves Data from a Vintage Minicomputer
The story for this one starts a few months ago, when [John Green] released his PICO-GB project. His code allowed the Raspberry Pi Pico to stand in for a Game …read more Continue reading Pi Pico Game Boy Flash Cart Gets Slim RP2040 Upgrade
If there is one thing that Sir Clive SInclair was famous for, it was producing electronic devices that somehow managed to squeeze near-impossible performance out of relatively meagre components. This gave us some impressive products, but it’s fair to say that sometimes this philosophy pushed the envelope a little too …read more
Continue reading Finally! The ROM You Wished Your Sinclair Spectrum Had!
If you’ve scrolled through the list of boot options offered on any PC’s BIOS, it reads like a history of storage technology. Up top we have the options to boot from disk, often a solid-state drive, then USB disk, optical drive, removable media, and down the bottom there’s usually an …read more
Continue reading Booting a PC from Vinyl for a Warmer, Richer OS