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Archive - 2015
My Custom HP Logic Analyzer 16700A Cart
So after looking at the high priced real HP logic analyzer cart that didn’t look that great to me, I decided to build my own incorporating a ton of features that just really makes my life easier. This is optimized...
My new i7-4790k Desktop build
I needed some more horsepower for my FPGA compiles, and because it’s been so long since my last PC build, I decided to take advantage of some free time I had, and build a new machine. This machine is a quad-core...
Memory controllers in FPGAs are the bane of my existence, help needed
I want to put together a softcore 68K computer system, just something simple. I’ve purchased, but not yet received, the Terasic Cyclone V GX Starter Kit, an Altera FPGA eval board. It looks pretty sweet and...
$28 Gonbes GBS8200 Scandoubler for use with Commodore Amiga
While I probably would have preferred to order an Indivision ECS scan doubler, a really nice alternative is a Gonbes GBS8200 video converter off of ebay. I had bought version 2.0 sometime in 2010 or 2011, and could not...
Kickstarter: Commodore, The Amiga Years Book
I just wanted to mention that I’m a backer on this kickstarter, and I just wanted to get the word out. I’ve read On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore and I’d love to read this...
DIY 115 watt flexible LED Task Lamp
So I wanted a very bright flexible LED task Lamp that didn’t break the budget. I had a few feet of 7020 LED strip lighting left over from my undershelf LED lights, so I decided to put those to the task...
migrated website to a new host
Over the last week, I migrated this blog to a new hosting provider. GoDaddy was such a pig and the site just ran like molasses when hosted by them. I couldn’t be happier with the switch that I’ve made, but I...
Reading Amiga Kickstart ROMs with a TL866A reader
I recently bought a TL866A from ebay with a bunch of adapters for a little under $100 shipped. Seems like a decent programmer except for the fact that it doesn’t support the 27C200/27C400 mask ROMs that hold...
Update to Rigol CSV to OLS file conversion post
A couple years ago I posted some information on how to convert a Rigol CSV to an OLS File. I recently got a request for some more information. So let’s look at the two files First twenty lines of the Rigol CSV...