I purchased this poor thing last week. After some initial mucking about, life was breathed into it once more. I had a a bit of fun getting the […]
Vintage Tech
Composite Modding the Atari 2600
Buoyed on by my successful project to add a composite video output to a 1976 Pong game, I decided to move to my next target, the Atari 2600. […]
Vintage Tech
Breathing New (Composite) Life Into a Binatone Pong Console
Pong! What more could a young child want in 1978? Despite my formative years, I was already hooked on my friend’s magic-filled box of delights he described as […]
Vintage Tech
Binatone Pong
The first computer game I ever owned was this Binatone ‘TV Master MK IV’ – a simple unit that could play the standard Pong variants with a pair […]
Raspberry Pi / Vintage Tech
RS232 on the Raspberry Pi (to a Psion 5)
The Raspberry Pi’s General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) connector consists of 26 pins that are a hacker’s delight, allowing for some serious analogue and digital tomfoolery. When drooling over the […]