Installing Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 on qemu
Wed 03 April 2019 in misc • retrocomputing, linux • Leave a comment
Collected notes and process on installing an ancient Linux for no good reason
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PC to Apple II Joystick Adapter
Tue 02 April 2019 in misc • retrocomputing • Leave a comment
Adapting a PC joystick to the Apple IIc / IIgs is trivial if you have some basic components. Here are plans for doing so.
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Building a C64 power supply
Sat 04 August 2018 in Hardware • c64, retrocomputing, electronics • Leave a comment
C64 power supplies are way too expensive and if you have a couple particular skills you can just build your own.
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The IBM JX
Fri 03 August 2018 in Hardware • retrocomputing, ibm, iwantit • Leave a comment
Apparently when the PCjr was still A Thing IBM tried to break into the Japanese market with something called the PC-JX.
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Koala Pad
Wed 01 August 2018 in Hardware • koalapad, c64, pc, msdos, retrocomputing, art • Leave a comment
A week or so ago I was on eBay and stumbled across a thing called a Koala Pad. I had seen and heard of these before - it's basically a graphics tablet from 1983 that came out for damn near every home computer platform. I had seen them for the C64 and Apple II, but this one caught my eye.
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