I have been listening to my three or four drives go clunk, clunk, clunk for the best part of a … Continue reading
Category: Guides
Integrity and Extracting the GeoCities Archive – Rebuild V5
Quick heads up, this is a post for my own reference. The above is a screenshot from here.
Another awesome thing about using tar files is that you can search for things in them and extract them based on … Continue reading
Banksia BIT Blitzer 124E Dial-up Modem – Model BBM124E-B2CL
This is the first video in a two parter for the Banksia Bit Blitzer. … Continue reading
dd Progress Bar in Mac OS
I’ve been using dd to clone some disks on occasion recently, usually when they are non-native to Mac OS and let’s be honest, Mac OS isn’t Linux and Linux isn’t Unix. They all have some things in common though. And … Continue reading
General Electric Model 4665 AM/FM Radio – Part 4: AM/FM Switch
The AM/FM switch felt stuck down and spongy – on AM. Maybe FM wasn’t used much at … Continue reading
Rebuilding GeoCities on Mac OS 12
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 … Continue reading
The Assembler Games Archive – Work Notes
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 … Continue reading
Avtek MegaPlus V.32bis – Resetting the Linksys PAP2T
This one is a bit of an oddball. I had a chicken and egg situation. I needed the … Continue reading
The GeoCities Rebuild Worklog
This is the original, updated and mostly complete worklog for my GeoCities Reboot at http://geocities.mcretro.net.
1st October 2021
Retro computers need websites to visit. That is what this project is … Continue reading
The GeoCities Archive – Rebuild Complete
It’s alive! While it has taken just about all my free time over the past month, I can honestly say it has been worth it. The GeoCities Archive … Continue reading
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