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Image from Louisiana Retina As the title implies, even though I stated in my previous blog post back in October of 2025 that I wasn't going to be doing any new development in the retro computer arena, that changed. In fact a lot has happened since that posting.A month later I had a heart attack which put me in the hospital, and I walked out days later with two new stents installed in the arteries…
One thing I've always experienced in life, is that it's absolutely guaranteed to change on you. And that's exactly what has happened with my interest in developing retro hardware. I'm no longer feeling the buzz and excitement I once had, and of course something else rushed in to fill the void.Here's my back story...-------------------------A little over 10 years ago, I had rediscovered the Atari…
Its been a very good ride, but I've pretty much done all I can think of for the Atari, and or anything else I wish to do for any of the other 8-bit computing platforms. So after 10 years this month of mainly doing Atari upgrade projects in my spare time, I've made a decision to redirect all of my creativity in an entirely different direction.And that will be concentrating more of my time to my Low…
The 1200XL-1mb SRAM upgrade was just released last week, which was very much a personal project as well as the RAMBO XL-II which is also seeing an official release at this time.The RAMBO XL-II initially had only been discussed and talked about on AtariAge, and also saw an initial release on that platform back in 2022. At the time I needed a way to increase my 1200XL's RAM up to 256K so as to run…
After the integration of a MIDI Player to the former FujiNet only plug-in module, I decided it was finally time to release all the changes I had been working on for the last several months. This included fixed firmware for both PS/2 sub-processors, a corrected pad hole size for the CR2032 Battery Holder on the main NUCplus4 PCB, a new combo FujiNet/MIDIplay PCB, new improved Version 2 firmware for…
I got the final boards about a week and half ago, assembled one, and gave it a test. Everything worked as it should.So my plan now is to build up a 2nd one and drop that off with someone I consider to be the utmost authority on the 1200XL, and who has gotta have the largest collection in the known world, and perhaps the entire universe - Bob Woolley.Currently I'm waiting for some SRAM chips to…
Well lot's of things happened over the past 3 months.The NUCplus4 Project got releasedThe UGV got a new, better, revised version released called the UGV-III was in the hospital for 3 days because of massive blood clots in my lungsThe 1200XL-1MB Project (a 1088K SRAM upgrade) got startedNUCplus4This got released on September 21st 2024 nearly 3 months ago, and there have been several people that…
NUCplus4 Brief Description...This daughter board is meant to expand the basic 576NUC+ miniature Atari computer system with a multitude of new abilities. Four at any given time to be exact. Go here for more INFO.Assembly...This is pretty much a through-hole board in most regards, with the only exceptions being the the Push-Push SD Card socket and the optional FujiNet Module's ESP-32 which has a…
I got side tracked once again the other day, and found myself studying some posts on various websites about MIDI-CAR and it's player. I had seen some things about this a couple years back, but at the time it appeared to be focused on a PBI based hardware device only. And because my focus had been centered around SIO based MIDIMATE devices, I wasn't all that interested. However when I was having a…
Final case design completed for 576NUCplus4 project. Printed on Bambu Lab A1 mini PLA Matte Charcoal (11101), PLA Basic Gray (10103) Created and Modified in TinkerCad The original 576NUC+ case design was created by Steve Boswell (AtariAge: Mr Robot) who later released the STLs to the open source community, which I was able to modify to suit this new incarnation. This was also made possible t [...]