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RetroChallenge 2022/10 - GeoCities Rebuild on Dial-up at 28.8k

Nix McRetro // 7th November 2022 // Categories: Raspberry Pi, YouTube

That’s right, we doubled the speed to 28.8k, but it’s still only 28.8k… maybe that’s why the video is four hours long. Haha! Or maybe it’s because I was searching for the perfect Evangelion MIDI. I do need to find some new SoundFonts! We were using the Spirit Viper V.34... Continue reading

General Electric Model 4665 AM/FM Radio - Part 5: Photo Slideshow

Nix McRetro // 4th November 2022 // Categories: Repairs

All good things eventually come to an end. You’re probably here because you’ve watched all four videos in the series so far. This is the fifth and final video on this alarm clock radio. Below are the capacitor values I recorded from my unit. The missing stickers meant I couldn’t... Continue reading

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

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

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

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

Nix McRetro // 29th October 2022 // Categories: 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, 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

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

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

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