A thread · 13 notes · Retro Tech
The retro workbench.
Old TVs, old Macs and an arcade cabinet: projects that make old hardware useful again.
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Building a FieldStation42 Cable Box
A build log for a Raspberry Pi cable box that runs FieldStation42 on a CRT, with a keypad, an LED channel display, a guide channel and a WeatherStar weather channel.
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WeatherStar 4000: The '90s Weather Channel on a Raspberry Pi
My open-source Python and pygame recreation of the WeatherStar 4000, built for Raspberry Pi and CRT TVs, with live weather data and 26-plus display modes.
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An Arcade Cabinet With a 4:3 Monitor, and Why I Went With CoinOPS on a PC
Notes from an arcade cabinet build in progress, on why the monitor is 4:3, and why a PC running CoinOPS won out over a plug-and-play Pandora-style board.
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Organizing Vintage Mac Software: How I Name and File a Classic Mac Archive
The folder layout and naming rules I use for a pile of old Mac software, and the small PowerShell script that does the renaming without losing the original names.
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Making a Mac OS Extended (HFS+) USB Drive on Windows with TransMac
How I format and load HFS+ USB drives for old Macs from a Windows PC, plus the retro-specific catches that trip you up on the Mac side.
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Genesis ROM Workshop: Pulling Palettes, Tiles and Text Out of Sega Genesis ROMs
Genesis ROM Workshop is my open-source Python toolkit for poking around inside Sega Genesis ROMs, extracting palettes, text and tile graphics for ROM hacking, translation and preservation work.
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CRT 90s TV: Channel Surfing Like It's 1996, on a Raspberry Pi
CRT 90s TV is my open-source Raspberry Pi project for turning an old tube TV into a nine-channel, remote-controlled '90s channel-surfing machine.
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Upgrading a 1GHz Apple eMac: The Plan
My phased plan for turning a 1GHz PowerPC G4 eMac into a solid classic Mac, from maxing the RAM to swapping the old IDE drive for something faster.
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Dell Optiplex GX280: Turning an Office Box Into an XP Gaming PC
My parts list and order of operations for turning a Pentium 4 Dell Optiplex GX280 into a period-correct Windows XP gaming machine.
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Dell Precision T7500: A 96GB, 24TB Upgrade Plan for an Old Workstation
My upgrade plan for a dual-Xeon Dell Precision T7500, with 96GB of ECC RAM, an LSI SAS/SATA controller and two 12TB drives, plus the one cabling detail I'd double-check.
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A BC-250 Cyberdeck: The Build Spec for a Console-Board Desktop
My v2 build spec for an all-in-one cyberdeck built around AMD's BC-250 mining board, a printed slim console case, a 15.6-inch touch panel, and Bazzite running the niri window manager.
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Installing MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 on a Gateway 2000 486, From Floppies
How I got MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 onto an old Gateway 2000 486 from a stack of floppies, including the two problems that ate most of the afternoon and the config files I ended up with.
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Stocking a Windows 98 PC the Way It Looked in 1999
My list for loading a Windows 98 machine with the software, games, sounds and screensavers of 1998 to 2001, plus the DOS-era diagnostic kit I'd keep beside it.