The Project The Raspberry Pi has no 'out of the box' way to display a 240p RGB signal, which is a pain if you want to have RetroPie running on your 90's Sony PVM. Enter, the Pi400RGB. Created by Llegoff on Github it offers either RGB Scart or VGA out from the Pi 400...
The pickup Trolling Trademe one night I did my usual filter of 'faulty' and this came up in the search results. It was a Sound Blaster X 2.1 Sound System at $1 reserve, I placed a $1 bid on it and woke up in the morning to find that I won it for a whole $1. A bit of...
Finding out this thing even existed I think it was a post of a Facebook group of someone building one of these that led me to finding out about them and then the project sat on my to-do list for months before I ordered the parts for it. Its called the OGX360 by...
Finding the Project After seeing the 240p test suite everywhere I wondered if a standalone RGB test pattern generator existed, and sure enough as usual someone has already figured it out. I found this project on 'AVR Projects by Dim' that uses an ATTiny 2313 chip to...
The Trademe find that started it all This is what started this project, a $38 trademe buy for an AdvanTech 486 on a Card. Listed as Untested with a 486DX2 and 8MB of ram, how could I go wrong. I had a DOS machine already but I liked the idea of an ultra compact but...
Finding the Right MT32Pi Hat Since nobody can afford a real Roland MT32 a bunch of smart people had figured out how to use a Raspberry Pi to emulate it as a hardware device, which was much more in my price range. I did some digging and found that most Pi hats were for...
Laying out the parts I have a really old test bench that came with a motherboard I bought years ago but I wanted to some more modular and more sturdy that could work for both modern and vintage setups. It wasn't until I came across this video from Tech Tangents that I...
Digging the Apple IIc and Laser 128 out of the hoard These were an extremely grubby set of machines that came out of an estate sale. They seemed to be sitting for a very long time with a pile of classic macs. BUT, I had been looking for a Laser 128 for a while as I...
The Pickup Well I thought it was the deal of a century, a 21" Sony G21S1 CRT for a whole $1! I had heard these were RGB moddable and just couldnt resist having a go myself. Upon pickup it was obvious that this thing was hardly ever used and just had sat in a basement...
Coming across the elusive Voodoo 2 12MB cards Somehow, I managed to get 2 3DFx Voodoo 2 12MB cards and the SLI cable. Both cards came from various estate sales over the years and I even gave one away not knowing how it worked. As most people other than me would know,...