Welcome to my personal blog, where I write about games, retro tech, and development topics. Below is a chronological list of posts, but you can also browse by tag or by series.
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Tonight's the Night! Tonight I'll re-cap my Amiga 600! Spoiler: It won't end well. :-(
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Bought a dirty and broken Amiga tank mouse on Ebay in order to gut it, clean it and mod it with a laser sensor by @jesusdelatorrec.
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After watching the 4th episode of @thejanbeta's recent Amiga 500 repair video series, I learned about the existence of a custom kickstart ROM that can diagnose Amiga hardware.
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Final (proper) Amiga keyboard update. Besides the broken plastic clip of the space bar, the keyboard membrane needed some love because some keys were flaky sometimes. A good way to improve the reliability is to add graphite to refresh conductivity.
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To fix the semi-broken Amiga 1200 space-bar for good, I need to replace the plastic back plate with a new one. And for that switch a full Amiga 1200 keyboard dis- and reassembly is required. Perfect activity for the last day of the year.
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My 1200 keyboard back plastic plate replacement arrived today. Had to soak, clean and dry it: A simple man's requiem.
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Exactly 28 years ago I got my first original game for xmas: F-19 Stealth Fighter by I lost it a few years later during a chaotic move, however this week I managed to obtain a near-perfect copy on Ebay!
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Got stuck in a platformer game, hit space, spawned a little dude. (Apprentice, Rainbow Arts, 1990, OCS)
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Quick follow up on the Amiga 1200 system instabilities I've been experiencing. I bought an IR thermometer to measure the heat generated by the Indivision AGA MK2cr.
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The keyboard fix I did earlier this month didn't work. Too much force was needed to get the key to trigger. UsingAmigaShellwashell. Tonight I decided to revisit the space bar repair.
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Bad evening, lots of debugging. I suspect the accelerator card isn't working properly. This error or variants of it pops up a lot.
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This is the "Gayle" chip inside the Amiga 1200. It contains a hardware bug that prevents the proper reinitialization of the PCMCIA slot after a reset via keyboard or a software crash. To make it detect cards again, a full powercycle is needed.
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Last night the Power LED started to fail. After some quick research, it seems this is a common issue with aging Amigas. Recommended fix: Re-solder the LEDs.
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Even for @lazygamereviews, this is an inadequate amount of packing peanuts.
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I bought a used Amiga 1200 (Escom REV 1D4) on Ebay in very good condition. This machine will get upgraded in the next few weeks.
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Quick update: The left fire button on the joystick wasn’t working correctly, turns out the micro switch got dislocated. Easy fix.
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Let’s start off with something trivial. Mouse and Joystick cleaning.
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