October 2022

Now this is an interesting one. I entered RetroChallenge 2022/10 to see if I could bring the GeoCities archive back to life again using the scripts built by despens in 2012/2013. The goal was to use hardware from that era running Ubuntu 12.04, the OS those scripts were originally written... Continue reading

The AM/FM switch felt stuck down and spongy - on AM. Maybe FM wasn’t used much at all on this radio, and dust had worked its way into the switch over the years. The great news is that a tiny bit of CRC 2-26 loosened it up quite well. That... Continue reading

In this video we’ve taken a first-generation Raspberry Pi and used it as a radio transmitter. I grabbed Bit Shift by Kevin MacLeod and popped it onto the SD card after following Make:’s Raspberry Pirate Radio guide. The article is a little dated, but that’s exactly how old this Raspberry... Continue reading

What an incredible find. Around the 11-minute mark I tune into something that actually made me laugh. It’s been a while since I’ve listened to commercial radio, let alone on an analogue radio! Please enjoy the static noises and, as always, stay tuned for more to come! 😉 Related posts... Continue reading

A while back, some of you may remember that I entered RetroChallenge 2021/10. I had some success rebuilding the GeoCities Archive, also known as The Archive Team Geocities Valhalla, and managed to host it on a Raspberry Pi. Of course it wasn’t perfect and I knew that. So since then... Continue reading

For anyone else who has the ASSEMbler Games archive, I thought I’d just leave up some notes on what I did and what issues I had while putting it all together. I’ve since taken down my mirror as I didn’t have time to get it, let alone my GeoCities rebuild,... Continue reading

Here’s where we start with the General Electric Model 4665 AM/FM Electronic Digital Clock Radio. One neat thing about this radio is that it has a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) for the clock section, which makes it rather interesting before we’ve even got properly stuck into the electronics. VFD has... Continue reading

A fair amount of these are originals from the mid-90s when I picked them up at the local newsagent. I’ll be rescanning and optimising them onto my Sonic the Hedgehog website in the near future. These caps were the Australian variant. Josh and I collected these as I fondly remember... Continue reading