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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

The Assembler Games Archive - Work Notes

Nix McRetro // 9th October 2022 // Guides, Programming, YouTube

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 go through and get it, let alone... Continue reading

General Electric Model 4665 AM/FM Radio - Part 1: Overview

Nix McRetro // 7th October 2022 // Repairs, YouTube

There always needs to be a starting point. And this is where we are starting. An overview of the General Electric Model 4665 AM/FM Electronic Digital Clock Radio. Neat things about this radio is that it has a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) for the clock section. VFD has always been... Continue reading