Original Xbox 2TB SATA Hard disk upgrade
This blog post covers how to upgrade your hard disk in a soft modded OG Xbox to 2TB. It assumes that your system is already softmodded.
Vintage computers
Original Xbox softmod
Softmodding your original Xbox has a lot of advantages. You can run homebrew applications, run emulators for retro consoles, install a larger hard disk and run backups of your games.
Stereo SID with VICE C64 emulator
To get dual SID working inside C64 VICE emulator first download Cynthcart 2.0 release from the github repository.
Installing SIDKick SID replacement
SIDKick is yet another SID replacement solution for your C64 that is powered by Teensy 4.1 board. It is completely free and open source based that you can build yourself.
Macintosh Plus disks from disk images
This blog post takes a closer look at the Macintosh Plus and show how to create a System Boot floppy disk. Besides that it also shows how to get some software to run on this computer.
Switchable SIO2USB floppy disk interface
One of my previous blog posts that is about recreating Atari XL/XE floppy disks describes a SIO2USB interface inside my Atari 65XE. The advantage of it is that it includes a switch that lets you toggle between the USB connection and the SIO port. This way you can easily switch between a real and virtual floppy disk that can be mounted with AspeQt software and copy real floppy disks to disks images and the other way around.
C64 cartridges on breadboard
What you see here is a Commodore 64 cartridge that I have created by sticking an EPROM and some other components on a breadboard.
Atari 800XL bill-of-materials (BOM)
In my previous blog, I have written a bit about the remake of the PCB board for Atari 800XL computer. Now I will describe the process of acquiring all the parts needed to build it.
MiSTer assembly instructions
There are a few simple assembly steps required to dress up your DE10-Nano board and transform it to a fully functional retro machine.
MiSTer USB Hub 2.1 - SMD soldering
When you need to connect more then one USB device to your DE10-Nano FPGA board then you need to use a powered USB hub. It is possible to use normal hub, but it is way cooler to connect the one that is custom designed for the MiSTer project.