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Vintage computing

• Motorola MC68000 CPU as part of an FPGA design
• Old video game info and tools: Saints of Virtue and Lego Island
• Acid in wood, acid-free paper purchase, busting versus edge crush test
• Apple IIc unboxing, one blogger's efforts on Apple IIc Plus, DIY GPU development
• N64 Gameshark Linux tools, Everdrive Nintendo cartridge SD card adapters, and more
• Poor man's SCSI via parallel port revisited
• Yes, info on the SWIM chip, and Macintosh Portable
• How to refill my old inkjet printer cartridges
• Review on early generation DRAM usage
• Great article on classic Macintosh CRT and analog board
• Very interesting story about first cloned Macintosh computer
• Windows XP VBEMP to get 8-bit video modes back?
• The secret to Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth on Windows 9x
• 3D on Windows XP VMs, CUE/BIN disk images for Windows 98 games, VOGONS, the Windows vintage community
• Bill Gates famous Mugshot photo
• Eagle CAD library for vintage parts
• Supercapacitor UPS for Raspberry Pi
• Virtual Game Cube DVD loader
• FluxEngine, a flux disk imager on the cheap
• Retrobrighting with less chemicals, no chemicals?
• Lots of great tech: RaSCSI, Scuznet, MacOS cross compile, and more
• Reverse engineering the Macintosh SE main logic board project, how to digitize a multilayer PCB
• Searching for Open Hardware designs in vintage computing, history of Floppy Emu, and the crux of mass production and Open Hardware
• RaSCSI, the solution to using your Raspberry Pi as a SCSI device
• vtools, a modern proxy on the web for vintage Macintoshes
• PotatoFi's blog, and NanoPi
• Searching for the Internet Archive community, a disappointment
• vcfed, like 68kMLA but bigger
• SNARF, great DOS screen capture utility
• Good tricks for dealing with stubborn through-hole desoldering
• Another treasure trove of old computers, but unfortunately inaccessible
• Digi-Key blog article on long-term IoT sensors, and ithium thionyl chloride batteries revisited
• Great article on proper technique for surface-mount capacitor removal
• A Slack client for Windows 3.1 and useful information on Win3.1 retro development
• Updates on rubber decay and preservation
• Many useful tips and tricks from 68kMLA
• Lots of interesting info from 68kMLA
• Good bye jrwhipple.com
• Lessons learned with cable design
• Rare Apple II jigsaw puzzle
• Capacitor plague still affecting us to this day? And notes on "Chinese drywall"
• More information on leak-resistant lithium batteries
• Raspberry Pi AppleTalk bridge
• Computer and television video signal standards
• Vintage Computer Festival Mid-west
• Capacitor repair info on vintage Macintoshes
• Imagewriter emulator!
• More insightful vintage Macintosh knowledge
• Disk imaging software info
• Useful server for vintage Apple II and Macintosh
• Rationale for vintage computing vs. single board computing
• Very interesting modern 8-bit computer design
• Lots of useful vintage computing and vintage Macintosh information
• Mystery MacSE expansion card identity solved, still figuring out how to use it, misc. information on vintage computing
• Info on removing Macintosh SE logic board
• Interesting story about restoring Macintosh Classic and hard disk drive
• Scans of various vintage Macintosh manuals
• Recap capacitors in a Macintosh 20SC Hard Disk power supply
• What's this? Magnetic flux disk images?
• Some interesting history on Tandy Corporation
• To those who are leaving the vintage computing community...
• Physical placement of logical sectors on removable media
• Long discussion on why I like vintage computing
• Copy a Windows 9x disk image over the network
• Where to find Windows 98 online
• Copy a Macintosh Classic hard disk image over the network
• The MS-DOS Encyclopedia's availability online
• Supplies to construct a classic Macintosh serial cable
• You **can** find 1990s era computers on Ebay
• Learning low-level hardware using an old ADSL modem-router
• Hard drive stiction
• Various useful information on Apple II and Macintosh vintage computing
• Apple II and IBM PC 5.25 inch disks are **not** compatible