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Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM (downtowndougbrown.com)
394 points by zdw 26 days ago | past | 120 comments
Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi (downtowndougbrown.com)
301 points by zdw 35 days ago | past | 87 comments
Please don't ship heavy, fragile vintage computers. They will be destroyed (downtowndougbrown.com)
8 points by zdw 55 days ago | past
How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows “Black Screen” bug in 2013 (downtowndougbrown.com)
79 points by zdw 66 days ago | past | 10 comments
Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found (downtowndougbrown.com)
315 points by chmaynard 4 months ago | past | 99 comments
Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives (downtowndougbrown.com)
287 points by zdw 4 months ago | past | 208 comments
An invalid 68030 instruction accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to boot (downtowndougbrown.com)
304 points by todsacerdoti 5 months ago | past | 69 comments
Why is my CPU usage always 100%? (downtowndougbrown.com)
537 points by pncnmnp 6 months ago | past | 143 comments
Easy repair of a defective NZXT Signal 4K30 capture card (downtowndougbrown.com)
2 points by todsacerdoti 6 months ago | past
The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory (downtowndougbrown.com)
536 points by zdw 7 months ago | past | 259 comments
Hardware repair of an Elgato HD60 S that only worked on Mac (downtowndougbrown.com)
4 points by miles 8 months ago | past
Hardware repair of an Elgato HD60 S that only worked on Mac (downtowndougbrown.com)
1 point by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | past
Are wireless gamepads terrible? Mario Maker TAS playback with an RP2040 (downtowndougbrown.com)
9 points by zdw 9 months ago | past | 3 comments
Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra (downtowndougbrown.com)
510 points by miles 10 months ago | past | 96 comments
Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra (downtowndougbrown.com)
5 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | past
Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 13: the end (downtowndougbrown.com)
67 points by zdw 11 months ago | past | 3 comments
Fixing more cheap Altera USB Blaster clones: CPLD adventures (downtowndougbrown.com)
1 point by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | past
I fixed a 6-year-old .deb installation bug in Ubuntu MATE and Xubuntu (downtowndougbrown.com)
2 points by jandeboevrie on July 10, 2024 | past
Playing 1080p H.264 video on my old 256 MB Raspberry Pi (downtowndougbrown.com)
4 points by yarapavan on July 5, 2024 | past
Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 12: UART woes (downtowndougbrown.com)
10 points by todsacerdoti on July 4, 2024 | past
Playing 1080p H.264 video on my old 256 MB Raspberry Pi (downtowndougbrown.com)
6 points by todsacerdoti on June 30, 2024 | past
Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 11: SD/CF card reader (downtowndougbrown.com)
35 points by todsacerdoti on June 21, 2024 | past | 1 comment
Fixing a knockoff Altera USB Blaster that never worked (downtowndougbrown.com)
155 points by jandeboevrie on June 9, 2024 | past | 32 comments
Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 10: RTC (downtowndougbrown.com)
121 points by todsacerdoti on June 2, 2024 | past | 17 comments
Why is my CPU usage always 100%? (Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 9) (downtowndougbrown.com)
3 points by todsacerdoti on April 26, 2024 | past
Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 8: audio (downtowndougbrown.com)
2 points by jandeboevrie on April 15, 2024 | past
More fun with Apple's internal tools: creating a PDS card (downtowndougbrown.com)
167 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 30, 2023 | past | 6 comments
How Apple's developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the '90s (downtowndougbrown.com)
200 points by SerCe on Nov 27, 2023 | past | 88 comments
How Apple's developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the '90s (downtowndougbrown.com)
4 points by classichasclass on Nov 26, 2023 | past
Apple's developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the '90s (downtowndougbrown.com)
4 points by zdw on Nov 25, 2023 | past

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