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Hi! I've just built my BlueSCSI and connected it up to my SE. To my surprise, it won't power via the bus. I've got the jumpers on the two termination headers (it's the only drive) and I've checked my soldering job. All looks OK. With termination enabled (jumpers in-place), there's no sign...

I’m harbouring dreams of porting the BadApple demo to 68K Macs. It’s been decades since I did any assembly, and my C is rusty after years of C#, Python and Ruby. But it’d be fun to try, even if the result is failure!

Agreed! The Beebs are wonderful machines, with hardware designed to be hacked-around on. Nearly every machine you pick up today has some sort of user-added hardware, holes drilled for switches, accelerators, DACs/ADCs, servo controllers, whatever. All part of the character! I really like the...

I read the “UK and NI” / “EU and Republic” as a gentle reminder about us in the UK not being part of the EU anymore. So the two parts of the island of Ireland are no longer a single market. It was sometimes difficult explaining the division of the island of Ireland to people not from these...

Oooh yes, the 3020’s a wonderful machine — just tops the 3010 for me due to the on-board IDE, which frees up the Podule slot for an Ethernet card or something. You’re right though, those damn Vartas. I took a chance on a very bad-looking 3020 a couple of years ago and to my amazement it worked...

Hello! Having wandered around various vintage communities, I've realised there's a wide range of opinions on what a 'proper' restoration is, with different attitudes prevailing in different communities. Bearing in mind that if you own it, you can do what you want -- in the grand scheme of...

Did you happen to go the SELTOS/RAMTOS route? (https://www.8bitchip.info/atari/astopensw.php) Ordinarily, you’d need to write the TOS image to suitable PROMs and replace those in the machine. The RAMTOS tool allows an alternate TOS to be loaded into RAM and used instead. Not 100% compatible...

(thought I’d also answer the bio questions that others have posted!) Age: 41. Not quite sure how that happened! Height: Too tall. Hit my head on things often, and look especially hilarious when I fall over! Beard: Full, varies between neat and dishevelled. Ginger, but increasingly white...

Seconded on that ST Book! Another of mine would be an Atari TT030, but they’re insanely expensive. I keep an eye out for an Intertec SuperBrain because, well, that name! And I’d really love to find a Spectrum 128K ‘toastrack’ model that isn’t north of £300!

The thing I remember is that although Amstrad finally added joystick ports to their Spectrums, they deliberately changed the pin-out from the Atari standard in order to sell their own joystick (which was awful). It meant that every ‘Amstrum’ owner I knew had a couple of adapters hanging out of...

This looks great! I’ll be getting a BlueSCSI any day now in the post, so will give this a try. I’m considering fitting an RGB2HDMI to my Mac SE as well, so I’m wondering if I could tweak the design to add a hole for an HDMI socket beside the SD card slot…

Hello! Well, that’s amazing timing! I picked up my first Compact Mac (an SE) a couple of weeks ago, having obsessively watched JDW and Branchus’ YT videos. They were my first proper step into the retro Mac scene and then I see this forum’s been launched? Superb! I’m a Brit who grew up in the...