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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 28/09/2026

Rebooted my lab PC, and I got a pop-up when the GPU drivers tried to auto-update. Claims my AMD Ryzen 5600G integrated Radeon graphics aren't supported anymore? Has AMD given up on consumer graphics entirely? Either that or their drivers are track. Probably both...

Screenshot showing that AMD Radeon drivers won't install on a computer with AMD Radeon drivers because it says that the hardware isn't supported anymore

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 22/09/2026

*SIGH* Even in all the clutter down here in the basement, I very rarely misplace things... But I have misplaced the cleaning drill bit for my Hakko desoldering iron. I should just order another one versus spending a bunch of time looking for it. It's small and probably rolled off my bench... :-(

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 22/09/2026

Just going through my pile of projects and this note just makes me laugh.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 18/09/2026

Why do smoke detectors always start beeping "low battery" in the middle of the night? It has to be temperature related... this one started at 3AM but the basement temps never really change at all, day or night.

The smoke detector that woke me up last night

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 15/09/2026

I just picked one of these up. It's very similar to the 703 that you might see me using on videos, but I figured why not get this. $74 shipped. The major difference on the ZT-706S is the 66,000 count multimeter. Plus It has a (slightly more) useful frequency generator.

Zoyi ZT-706S : visually the scope looks slightly different but I think the underlying hardware is unchanged.

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Xodium @xodium.net · 14/09/2026

Rootie went on a #VCFMW rampage of cuteness! Appreciate @torbar.bsky.social agreeing to be her handler. And appreciate @jeffgeerling.com and @adriansdigitalbasement.com being great sports and allowing themselves to Get Slugged. (As well as @museumjoe.bsky.social and @bluescsi.com)

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 15/09/2026

The back of the VCFMW 21 (2026) T-shirt had a tribute to the Z80 CPU with all sorts of interesting computers listed which used the Z80 CPU. How many of the machines do you have in your collection?

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 10/09/2026

On our way to Chicago for VCF Midwest! Rammy and I both appreciate the retro livery on our plane. 🕶️

American airlines plane with retro TWA livery

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 10/09/2026

Just picked this up. Maybe I can finally stop complaining about the 5X Pro? 🤔

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 28/08/2026

MartyPC.net, the web based cycle accurate IBM PC emulator has gotten a massive upgrade including tape loading support! This is just so cool to all be running inside your browser. Highly recommend you check it out.

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MartyPC Web Edition

An IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust - Now compiled for the web!

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 13/08/2026

I absolutely adore BOTH sides of that prototype!

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 13/08/2026

Can anyone identify the logo on the 7406 IC? (The DRAM chip to the right is sporting the Matsushita logo.)

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 11/08/2026

I have a Woz Apple IIgs with a motherboard from 1988 (chip dates) but it has the IIe PSU and keyboard connectors installed. It also has what appears to be an OEM-like PSU fan installed onto a 1987 Week 01 IIgs PSU. Warranty replacement board perhaps? But why the IIe connectors?

Apple IIgs top cover with the Woz Limited edition badge

Machine running off an Apple IIe PSU. Showing the Duracell battery which was soldered into the machine.

Original Astec PSU with a fan mounted in a very OEM looking holder.

IIgs motherboard with 1988 Week 31-37 chips installed. Also it has a small bodge board near the sound chip. Note the Apple IIe keyboard connector.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 27/07/2026

This is a fun project: Use FFMPEG to simulate the sound of audio cassettes. I converted a few albums and it sounds extremely authentic. github.com/AARomanov198...

https://github.com/AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation/blob/master/assets/cassettes.jpeg Several audio cassettes

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 19/07/2026

There is a new AMI BIOS customizer and option ROM injector for 386SX-era boards. Super cool and I can't wait to try this out. youtube.com/watch?v=f-AG...

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Made a new AMI BIOS Editor (AthAMIed). Enable hidden options. Inject Option ROMs.

YouTube video by Atheatos

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 08/07/2026

I have been playing around with a production Lisa FPGA board and it's so cool. What an amazing project! I had a small issue with an incompatible SD card, but we got that sorted. AFAIK, Joe still has some that aren't reserved yet: jcm-1.com/product-cate...

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 06/07/2026

Jobs is wondering if the "twiggy" drivers were a good idea.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 20/06/2026

It's Friday night troubleshooting with the Commodore Amiga 3000: I'm checking into the machine's flicker-fixer woes. It's very nice to be able to run this machine without the riser installed! 😂

Friday night troubleshooting with the Amiga 3000

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 20/06/2026

If you're into Commodore and you're in or around Seattle this weekend, you need to check out this show! Unfortunately, I will not be there.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 05/06/2026

If you missed Alex's talk at VCFSW talking about his new LisaFPGA project, I highly recommend a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QSP...

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How I Recreated the Apple Lisa Inside an FPGA - The (Open-Source) LisaFPGA Project

YouTube video by VCF Southwest

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 02/06/2026

This is what I love to see! Aaron reverse engineered the Apple /// Profile interface card and released it as OSH, so any Apple /// owner can now get up and running with a Profile hard drive. (Incidentally AlexTheCat's ESProfile emulator works with the Apple ///) github.com/PCGamerAaron...

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GitHub - PCGamerAaron/ReProFile: ReProFile /// is my attempt at recreating the Apple/// ProFile interface.

ReProFile /// is my attempt at recreating the Apple/// ProFile interface. - PCGamerAaron/ReProFile

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 26/05/2026

FFS!! To update my supporter scroll on my videos, I have to manually download the YouTube Member list from the Youtube Creator Studio as a CSV. Fine, only takes a few clicks. I just went to do this, and the download button just doesn't do anything. Logged out & back in again: still broken. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

YouTube is a clown show, this is the member download button in creator studio. Broken.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 25/05/2026

I really appreciate that someone daily drives this AW11 Toyota MR2! The 80s angular looks are too cool.

Toyota MR2 in red, spotted in Portland Oregon

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 15/05/2026

Nifty! This newly revived web tool allows you to convert an animated GIF into a NES (ROM) which will play the gif on real NES hardware. I love stuff like this! k6lcm.github.io/nesflix-web/ Thanks @levimaaia.com for the neat video and history on the tool.

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nesflix-web

Convert an animated GIF into a playable NES ROM. In-browser port of NESFlix (2011) by NO CARRIER and Batsly Adams.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 14/05/2026

Hot take: The classic Amiga has the most crappy and brittle filesystems of any retro computer. (I'm talking about Fast File System.) You just look at it wrong and it gets corrupted. To make matters worse, the included "disk doctor" tool is worthless hot garbage...

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 14/05/2026

Here's a new one: My Amiga 600 has been acting up lately, slow, filesystem getting corrupted, block errors, etc. It turns out the 16GB PNY SD card I was using for the boot drive took a huge crap. No matter which card reader or computer I plug it into, it only ever runs about this fast. WTF!

Trying to recover the data from a "bad" 16GB PNY SD card using DD on linux.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 13/05/2026

Trashpicked 9" monitor: So filthy but it must be saved!

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 12/05/2026

I seem to have no spare working Amiga floppy drives around, so I just setup a Teac FD-235HF-3240 to work with the Amiga. If you have a 3XXX version of this drive, there are bunch of small jumpers: Set RY34 (Ready signal on pin 34) and DC2 (Disk change on pin 2.) Then set DS0, FG, HA, HF and NMK.

Where the jumpers are located on this drive. This is a Teac FD-235HF-3240 but these jumpers should be the same on any -3XXX drive.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 05/05/2026

After a wonderfully successful VCF PNW in Seattle, the Plexus P/20 is now in the hands of the Interim Computer Museum! icm.museum Coming soon to a telnet session near you.

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The Interim Computer Museum

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 02/04/2026

A friend just shared this with me. They were installing Windows 3.1 and noticed a particular printer listed as part of the built-in printer driver set. Amazing!

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 01/04/2026

Reminder! VCF PNW in Seattle is coming up. I'll be one of the exhibitors, so if you're in the area, please come and say hi and stay for the retro goodness.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 29/03/2026

I have a Basic Fractal Benchmark on this Google Sheet: If anyone has cool computers with 80-columns and BASIC, try running this little program while timing it. Report back so I can add it to the leaderboard. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 25/03/2026

I've been doing more "stuff" with the Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS main processor board. It's really fun playing with this relic that no one cares about.

Jumper installed on the Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 13/03/2026

We just had record rain in Portland and it resulted in some water in the basement. 😢 Luckily I have water sensors, so I was alerted right away. It just means I need to reinforce the water proofing system for this one specific spot (which was around my water main.) And try to dry the moisture...

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 07/03/2026

This floppy is like the TARDIS. It might look like a normal 1.2mb floppy, but apparently it has 4 gigs of bad sectors on it!

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 04/03/2026

As the #PicoIDE campaign on Crowd Supply enters its final hours (www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...), @ctrl-alt-rees.com has come out with a fantastic video all about the PicoIDE! And wow it looks good in that baby AT case. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_t...

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The $69 PicoIDE Is A Game Changer For Vintage Computing

YouTube video by ctrl-alt-rees

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 04/03/2026

Magic smoke released. Of course, it happened right after I screwed the cover on.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 02/03/2026

I just released another video on my extras channel. This time. a mint Commodore VIC-20 with an unusual video fault: youtu.be/YuxpjbKaHwI

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Quick fix: An unusual Commodore VIC-20 fault

YouTube video by Adrian's Digital Basement Extras

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 02/03/2026

A while back I made a video where I figured out how to run the built in ROM diags on a Mac SE/30 over its serial port. I documented the work and some smart folks have turned that work into an easy to use program that anyone can use: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K48v... Great resource to fix a bad Mac!

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Reconnaissance Software Reveals Every Problem With This Apple Macintosh SE30

YouTube video by Rudy's Retro Intel

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 18/02/2026

I don't normally post about my own videos on the socials, but I thought I'd share a video I just made live on my extras channel. I'm starting to do more small/quick things over on the extras channel, so just trying to spread the word a bit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0SJ...

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Franklin Ace 1000/1200 Keyboard Repair (Keytronics Foam and Foil)

YouTube video by Adrian's Digital Basement Extras

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 16/02/2026

More developments: Scott talks about how Ars Technica published an article on the subject with AI hallucinated quotes, discusses theories on why the original piece was posted and by whom, and the overall effectiveness of it. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 16/02/2026

An interesting phone I stumbled across: The Plaza 2 by Northwestern Bell Phones. I couldn't find any information on this phone, so I thought I'd share photos of this ugly two line phone. Of course it works perfectly, has a nice sounding electronic ring and has a nice sounding heavy handset.

Plaza 2 by Northwestern Bell Phones, Handset

Plaza 2 by Northwestern Bell Phones, underside
SKU 70119

Plaza 2 by Northwestern Bell Phones, handhold to pick up the device

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