A full build guide for Robin H Edwards’ A8PicoCart: a cheap Pico-based flash multicart for the Atari 400, 800, XL and XE, from PCB order to a 3D printed case.
Part three of the Toastrack series: the Z80 reset pin had no rise time, and the cause was a tiny trace lifted during the recap. One wire later, it lives again.
A melted ColecoVision cartridge from my house fire, with no idea what game was inside. I clean the baked-on soot from its edge fingers and switch it on to find out.
Two ColecoVision cartridges melted together in my house fire. I cut Pit Stop free, clean its sooty fingers with a fibreglass pencil and find out if a swollen board still runs.
A hammer left in the garden for two years goes into my ultrasonic cleaner with tap water and citric acid. Can ultrasonic cleaning really remove heavy rust?