Wie funktioniert die Technik hinter der Infinisomnia-Website und den eBooks? Werfen wir einen Blick in den Maschinenraum!| shred.zone
Wie ich zum Geschichten schreiben kam – und warum ich glaube, dass du das auch kannst…| shred.zone
Dian erwacht in einer fremden Zeit, an einem unbekannten Ort, in einem Leben, das nicht sein eigenes ist. Einfach zurückkehren? Unmöglich! Erst muss er eine Aufgabe lösen. Und dann ist da noch diese Frau – gefangen in derselben Welt, geheimnisvoll und unberechenbar. Willkommen zu meinem neuen Projekt: Infinisomnia Infinisomnia ist eine Reihe zusammenhängender Kurzromane. Die Geschichten sind kostenlos, frei (libre) und quelloffen. Du schreibst jetzt? Ja! Vor ein paar Jahren habe ich das...| Shredzone
Surprise: I have taken up writing. My project is a series of short novels in the crime and adventure genre – open source and free of charge, of course!| shred.zone
I have moved my projects from GitHub to Codeberg. Read here why, and which projects stayed on GitHub.| shred.zone
Is it possible to use a Teenage Engineering OP-1 without a battery when it is worn out?| shred.zone
How to post-process CR3 files with Fedora and Darktable| shred.zone
The Retro Chip Tester (short: RCT) by Stephan Slabihoud is a chip tester that can test an incredible amount of RAMs, logic chips and other retro components. The good thing is that it is also affordable and fun to assemble.| shred.zone
Now it's finally time for a test run. Will the Sidecar work?| shred.zone
In the second part, the Sidecar is repaired and reassembled.| shred.zone
I was lucky and got hand on a Commodore A1060 "Sidecar". This first part is about the teardown of the Sidecar, and the damage assessment.| shred.zone
I recently got two Competition Pro Mini joysticks. The full-size Competition Pro was probably one of the most famous joysticks back in the 1980s and early 1990s. This model was said to be unbreakable, and was able to withstand even long and intensive gaming sessions. If one of the microswitches eventually failed, it was easy to get a new one from an electronics store and replace it just by using a screwdriver, no soldering required.| shred.zone
After being on Twitter for 13 years, I decided that it is time to leave the platform for good. They say you should always leave on a high note. Maybe I have missed that moment already.| shred.zone
In the first part I successfully repaired an Amiga CD32 that got broken due to leaking capacitors and a botched restauration attempt. In this part I replace the laser pickup and calibrate the CD drive.| shred.zone
I found this CD32 for a fair price, and bought it. The optical condition of the case is quite okay. It has some visible scratchmarks. The previous owner tried to fix them, but made it even worse. At that time, I wasn't aware yet that this would be the main theme of the whole restauration.| shred.zone
The ZX Dandanator Mini is a DIY game cartridge for the ZX Spectrum. Let's build one!| shred.zone
Sometimes you cannot choose your project, but the project chooses you. This one is about sending the status of a Home Connect clothes washer to MQTT using LoRa radio communication.| shred.zone
Let's have a look inside a ZX Spectrum Plus this time. It's basically the same as a ZX Spectrum, but with a (somewhat) better keyboard and a reset button. However, this machine caused a few surprises.| shred.zone
I got this board of a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It must have been a ZX Spectrum Plus model before, because there was this reset wire attached to it. There were also a few labels that were explaining the functionality of the components in German language, maybe for educational purposes.| shred.zone
The AmigaOS offers a debug console as a simple way for debugging. Log data can be written via the linkable Debug.lib, which is also used by all kind of tools like MuForce, Mungwall, or PatchWork. AmigaOS provides a simple internal debugger called ROMWack (which has been replaced by the even simpler SAD in later versions). But also DiagROM is writing diagnostics data via the serial port, which comes in handy when a RAM chip or something in the video area is broken.| shred.zone
When I found this Amiga 1200, I felt pity for it. The case and keyboard was very yellowed, but what was even worse was the screwed up attempt to fit a Gotek drive into the case. The previous owner obviously tried to open the floppy disk area with some kind of cutter pincers, essentially ruining the case.| shred.zone
In the previous part, I refurbished the keyboard of the Amiga 1000. It was in a bad state, and truly deserved to get its own part. Now I will replace the floppy drive with a Centuriontech GOEX on pills floppy simulator, and then put everything back together.| shred.zone
While I was restauring an Amiga 1200, I noticed that on that machine, the right and middle mouse buttons did not react on both ports. Checking it further, it turned out that it was working with an original Amiga mouse, but failed with my YAMI mouse interface. The mouse interface could not be the cause though, as it is actually working reliably for decades on all kind of Amigas, including an Amiga 1200.| shred.zone
The Amiga 1000 is the jewel of every Amiga collection. I had the lucky chance to get one. Let's refurbish it!| shred.zone
Let's refurbish a handheld game console for a change. This PSP got a shiny new case, and a custom firmware.| shred.zone
The Maestro Professional was a fully digital Amiga sound card. Let's have a look how it worked.| shred.zone