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RetroChallenge 2022/10 - GeoCities Rebuild on Dial-up at 14.4k

Nix McRetro // 31st October 2022 // Raspberry Pi, YouTube

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

General Electric Model 4665 AM/FM Radio – Part 4: AM/FM Switch

Nix McRetro // 29th October 2022 // Guides, Repairs, YouTube

The AM/FM switch felt stuck down and spongy - on AM. Maybe FM wasn’t used much at all on this radio. The dust collected and got in over the years. The great news is that a tiny bit of CRC 2-26 and it’s loosened up quite well. That stuff really... Continue reading

General Electric Model 4665 AM/FM Radio – Part 3: Transmitter

Nix McRetro // 22nd October 2022 // Hacks, Raspberry Pi, Repairs

In this video we’ve taken a first-gen model Raspberry Pi and use it as a radio transmitter. I grabbed Bit Shift Kevin MacLeod of incompetech.com and popped it onto the SD card after following the steps on makezine.com. The article is a little dated but that’s exactly how old this... Continue reading

General Electric Model 4665 AM/FM Radio - Part 2: Tuning

Nix McRetro // 16th October 2022 // Repairs, YouTube

What an incredible find. Around the 11 minute mark I find some radio that I actually found quite funny. It’s been a while since I’ve tuned into commercial radio, let alone on an analog radio! Please enjoy the static noises and as always stay tuned for more to come! 😉... Continue reading

Rebuilding GeoCities on Mac OS 12

Nix McRetro // 12th October 2022 // Guides, News, Raspberry Pi

A while back, some of you may remember that I entered RetroChallenge 2021/10. I was somewhat successfully at a rebuild of 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.... Continue reading