Is this old Dell vintage PC destined for landfill? Left at the side of a road, ready to be ground to metal dust. But does it have a possible 2nd life, as a vintage retro gaming PC? I want to play Temple Of Elemental Evil and other XP games on it, so…. What’s inside? Any hardware treasures? Does it Even work?
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Amiga CD32 CH02: Can I save this leaking-cap time bomb?
My CD32 is now up and running, but what about Leigh’s? Well, lets get on with replacing ALL of the caps on his machines mainboard. Should it survive the procedure, it should be future proof. Then lets test it out ,with some classic CD32 titles!
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Amiga CD32 CH01: Can I fix this rare Commodore Treasure?
I’m reviving this rare Amiga CD32! Bulging, leaking caps scream “recap time,” so Iām tackling all 28+ SMD capacitors. Who knew replacing Retro gaming console caps could be this exciting? Hit play and enjoy this 2-part epic restoration journey ā There is even a “guest star”, flown in at great expense!
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Converting Epic Harmon Kardon Speakers For My Retro G4 Cube!
My Apple computer retro Macintosh G4 Cube has no speakers. So I bought replacements, well.. no, they turned out to be G4 iMac speakers! But today I bought a G4 Cube Amplifier… with its speakers missing! Can I Frankenstein these two together, to get my G4 Cube pumping out high quality audio? Lets find out!
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Starting My Journey at the Iconic Bitmap Brothers Studio
The Bitmap Brothers are a Legendary 16-bit game developer. In 1994 I went for a job interview at their offices in Wapping. Watch-on, to learn how I began my game career journey at the Bitmap Brothers as a 3D artist. How would I fit into one of the most famous game developers in history. Watch on, its a fun journey!
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Amiga 40th Anniversary: A Celebration with Friends!
Join me as I attend the Amiga 40th Anniversary Event at the Centre For Computing History, in Cambridge UK. RJ Mical was to attend, along with famous game devs of the era. Even better, the venue would be stacked with vintage electronics and amazing vintage computers, from Mini Computers, to the Commodore 64 and Apple I computer, and on to games Nintendo and SEGA consoles. Lets have fun on my computer history museum tour!
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Can I fix my Macintosh LC475’s Video, Recap It AND then Overclock it? High stakes!
My vintage Macintosh LC475, an important machine in Apple Computer History, has poor video and on top of this it’s capacitors are ALL leaking, causing damage to its logic board! It really NEEDS restoration. So we need to get into this machine urgently, to get those caps replaced (ideally without pcb pad repair) and then do some troubleshooting and fault diagnosis to find a fix for its ailing video output! Oh, and for good measure, we’ll “overclock” it from 25MHz to 40MHz!
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Apple IIe Card: Add Hard Disks, Making Floppy Disks and Much More!
The Apple IIe card, the last great hoorah for Steve Wozniak’s and Steve Jobs love child, is in my Macintosh LC475, can I add multiple large hard disks to it? Can I write out 3.5″ AND more importantly 5.25″ floppy disks as well? How do we easily move data onto these disks? We look at the Floppy Emu and CiderPress II. Let’s dive in and make the most of this wonder card from Apple.
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Atari Mega4 CH03: Next Level Atari Mega with an OS Upgrade and Super-Silent PSU Fan!
My retro Atari computer, a Mega 4 arrived installed with its original German language TOS 1.02 ROM chips. Now, i’m not a German speaker, so upgrading to English TOS 1.04 is the first thing I will tackle in this video. With that done, there is the noisy PSU fan. A perfect candidate for a new, near silent Noctua fan replacement. With these in place, do we FINALLY have a Mega ST thats ready to rock? Lets see!
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Mastering T48 Burner for EPROMs: The Ultimate Guide
This short guide shows how to use the T48 Programmer and its Xgpro software to burn an EPROM. It covers blanking your EPROMS, checking they ARE blank in the software, loading ROM images, burning them and validating that they are correct. It’s a short, but perfectly formed guide to get you on your way to making your own ROMs.