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Wow! A new video drops! It's a miracle! This week on "The ChickenHead Chonicles" am am talking about a very... interesting Commodore SFD-1001 Disk drive I found. Come check it out! youtu.be/KBOuNaLGeSI

Doing it old school! My latest acquisition for the #Amiga 500 with Kickstart 1.3: A GVP Impact A500-HD8+ with 2 MB. I replaced the broken HDD with a ZuluSCSI and am now copying Workbench 1.3 from floppy disks. Next, of course, I need to install Monkey Island (happy disk changing) 😅

Today, I took care of the power supply of the #MysteryMachine. I unplugged all the cards, drives and the CRT and measured the 5V and 12V rails without load.Then I created some load with an old hard drive and let it run for 20 minutes – the PSU remained completely stable, absolutely rock solid. 👍

I've made some progress exploring the #MysteryMachine. Using my Greaseweazel, I was able to create an image of the floppy disk I found in the machine's TEAC FD-55B. We were able to make the contents readable. It appears to be some kind of CP/M machine with Heckler & Koch's own MT4 file format.

I have dumped the 2764 EPROM labelled ‘MOS 2.0 0.4/10’ with my TL866-II+. To be on the safe side, I did this three times and compared the results with HxD.

Here are the photos of the Seagate ST-412 hard disk. It is interesting to note that it appears to have a type of daughterboard mounted on the drive electronics, with its own Z80 processor. I suspect that the daughterboard is the HDD controller.

Over the last few days, I've had a little time to explore the #MysteryMachine further. It seems to be completely bus-based; even the PSU is a plug-in card. Obviously Z80-based. After some initial research, it could be a CP/M computer with an ECB bus. Does anyone recognise it?

Today, I took care of the exterior appearance of the #mysterymachine and cleaned it thoroughly. Here are a few more pictures of the keyboard, the back and the bottom. I can see plug-in cards through the slots. Now I have to find the right screwdriver, because that's obviously not standard either.

Today I rescued this gem from the rubbish bin. However, I'm not sure what kind of device it is. There is no model sticker or other clues. It obviously has a hard drive and a floppy disk drive, so I think it must be a PC rather than a terminal. Over the next few days, I'll take a closer look at it.

OMG – Look what I found while looking through old photos #Amiga #80s

Can't wait! CU there.😎

Happy 40th to the legend that is the Amiga computer. #amiga #retro #nostalgia #tech

New video! Trying to repair a badly broken and incomplete NTSC Commodore VIC-20 board. YouTube: youtu.be/2mWqV9K_0cI PeerTube: makertube.net/w/og7NXbn5K2... #Commodore #VIC20 #VC20 #Repair #Troubleshooting #DeadTest #Diagnostic #VIC #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #NTSC #PenultimateCartridge

You should definitely check out this new vinyl record by DJ N-4ceR and TSA friends. Awesome tracks and last but not least a great looking product - n4cer.de/vinyl/n4cer02

Hey you early birds...this is not a drill! 3 months of blood, sweat and tears (and joystick juggling) have gone into this & we are really proud of what we have produced. 92 (NINETY TWO!!) Pages of modern #ZXSpecrum joy! And it's all for FREEEE! Treat yourself this sunny weekend.

Repair and restoration completed #IBM #XT 5160 - what a beast 😅

#IBM #XT 5160 - First motherboard and CGA-Tests after measuring for shorts - and it works! 🤩

Testing the #IBM 5610 power supply with a dummy load 😜 - all voltage rails are fine

Saved from the trash today #Sony #Trinitron

Today's score #IBM XT 5160🤩

Finally 🤩 #CaptainFuture

Spring is in the air and so is the Commodore Amiga News for the Week of February 23, 2025 with AmigaBill! #commodore #commodoreamiga #retrogaming #retrogamer #vintagecomputer #AmigaBill LINK: youtu.be/QSrTVq1YQWI

A little taste of #FPGASID on my #C64 - in stereo!

The SwinSID nano in my recently repaired #C64 wasn't enough for me after all - so let's see what this thing can do #FPGASID - WOW! Stereo SID sound is blowing me away 🎧

just fixed the last remaining issue of the blackscreen #C64 - 2 shorted PINs on the joystick port caused weird keyboard issues - this was a bit tricky to hunt down (btw the "bad" SID comes from the SwinSID nano - it's actually ok)

Nice! Check out the new release from Linus Akesson #Chiptunes www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gds1...

Happy 40th anniversary 🥳 #Commodore #C128 www.heise.de/en/news/40-y...

Very interesting #C64 #HDMI solution youtube.com/watch?v=oTaN...

I have rebranded my discord server. I often thought that discord is a fragmented place, and if you want to follow vintage tech youtubers you have to follow multiple discords. I think it would be a nice thing to have a server that can be a central hub. It wont include every channel, many already /1

Blackscreen #Commodore #C64 - Fixed. 😎 Cracked solderjoints on the power switch, bad PLA, 3 bad MOS-branded logic ICs.

Let's fix this blackscreen #Commodore #C64 😎

“Black Machinery” b/w “ Star Thieves” by TRULY LOST. New artist. New E.P, “Metamora” On all streaming services TODAY 🗡️ 🥀 ⛓️ 🕷️ 🩸🦂

Now we're talking. 😎 #PicoGUS #MT32-Pi #Duke3D

This is a really cool combination: #PicoGUS and #MT32-Pi playing together. I've wanted an MT32 for a long time, it's the cheapest alternative to a real one - and it sounds great! And also a perfect opportunity to try out my retro PC testbed...😜

This is a super cool project by Mihai Parparita to make classic Mac and NeXT emulation easily accessible in your browser. Play with all these old machines without installing anything. Neat! It uses WebAssembly ports of Mini vMac, Basilisk II, SheepShaver, DingusPPC, and Previous. infinitemac.org

The Christmas tree is up, finally time to test the #PicoGUS extensively. Man, this thing rocks!

For some tracks, I layer floppy drive sounds beneath the drums 💾✨

It’s 1989 and a fight breaks out between two gangs in an alleyway 👊🏻 #80s #synthwave #retro #vhs

The time is now... 🎄✨ 👉 song.link/i/1708897075

Having a great time at Atari Party 2024! #commodore #amiga #commodoreamiga #atari #retrogaming #retrogamer

Just imaging a real SCSI hard disk that came with my GVP Impact A2000 HC+8 Series II - with the #BlueSCSI V2 in initiator mode - no other hardware needed! And it works perfectly. Ingenious. #Commodore #Amiga #A2000

Are you in the EU? Well, you've probably only got a few more days to buy TFW8b things. #Dec13th www.tfw8b.com/december-13t...

Check this out #C64 #SID #Chiptunes youtu.be/UAa0GYIg-28?...

Years in the making, today I've launched a brand new Amiga Software Archive. It contains hundreds of disks never available online before including Disk Magazines, (N.A.) User Group disks, Public Domain collections and Shareware/Freeware full-version stand-alone disks. youtu.be/PZJ9PxYlvTg

Those were the days in the 80's 😂- me, my #Commodore #Amiga 500 with MIDI-Interface (!) and my Yamaha keyboard.

Hello Bluesky. 😎 Amigaaaaa!!! #Commodore #Amiga #A1200