Amiga Video Toaster Tips
A few tips on using the Amiga Video Toaster.
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Amiga tips
Amiga tips, particularly for the 3000 and it's weird Workbench 1.4 situation
DEC VXT2000
Info and setup process for an X-Windows terminal from DEC.
SunOS / SPARCbook notes
A mix of "useful" tips on Sun machines and the SPARCbook 3GS in particular.
Livingston Portmaster Beginner's Guide
An ISP in a box that you can sometimes find on ebay.
Adtran Atlas 550 Beginner's Guide
An incredibly useful device for telephone nerds.
Setting up Nortel BCM50 PBXes
These things are fantastically complicated.
Copying Windows drives
My observations on the best way to clone an NTFS-based Windows machine.
Advantages of stone-age graphics
I found some interesting quirks in the way Microsoft Flight Simulator renders graphics
HP QuickWeb, Singular And Pointless
Part 3 of a series on bizarre "instant on" Linux variants
Dell's Bizarre Double-Laptop
Part 2 of a series on bizarre "instant on" Linux variants
The Unholy Saga Of Phoenix Hyperspace
Part 1 of a series on bizarre "instant on" Linux variants
Video Toaster [5] Screenshots
Screenshots of the fifth Windows-based Video Toaster package.
Toasting Video on Windows
The Amiga Video Toaster was not the last Toaster, not by a long shot.
Video Toaster NT Screenshots
Screenshots of the first "Video Toaster" for PC
Configuring SCSI2SD for CDROM emulation
I couldn't find any other explanation online for how to do this.
Smartmedia in the 21st Century
Smartmedia can be hard to navigate 20+ years later.
Configuring the Gotek on an IBM PC
It's not hard, but you might hit some pitfalls.
Traceroute isn't real
A treatise on the fakeness of traceroute
Capturing / scaling retro video
Some notes on capturing and converting old video.
My Video Camera Collection
Added two new entries to "Consumer Cameras," RCA CKC021 and Mystery Orb, and updated VK-C3400.
The 8x14 Font Issue
Why some DOS software has corrupted text on modern graphics cards
Every screen mode of Microsoft Flight Simulator 4
Just what it says.
Emulating the FM Towns on Unz
The FM Towns is a somewhat strange 1980s Japanese computer with a number of interesting games. It also has an intriguing, unique GUI available. I found the available documentation on how to emulate this platform unusable, so this guide will take you through the process in the most straightforward way possible.
Running DOS Apps on Windows
One of Windows' biggest selling points was the ability to run DOS apps, especially multiple at once, but this isn't very well documented online, especially in early versions. I have documented this to the best of my ability.
KSUless Phones
Added audio recording to article.
Dialup In The Age Of Broadband
Revised several sections and added an audio recording of the article.
Setting up a Dialup Server in 2020
Added an audio recording of the article.
Basics of PPP
I've worked with PPP many times in my life - primarily in the PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) form in my job as a T1/DSL ISP technician, but also in a few other contexts, including, of course, as a dialup internet subscriber. More recently however I began looking into how dialup internet connections work at a nuts and bolts level, with the idea in mind that I might set up some kind of small dialup ISP…
Configuring Dialup RAS on Windows Server 2000 / 2003
Windows Server 2003 is the first OS I tried setting up as a dialup internet server. It works pretty well and doesn't require much effort if you're using a Windows client. These are the basic steps for doing that.