Retro projects

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Retro project lists Rubenerd may eventually even fulfill. Completed builds and fun go on Rubenerd's Retro Corner, also hosted here.

All machines

Dream machines

  • Acorn Achimedes A3010
  • Apple IIGS
  • Atari 65XE
  • DEC AlphaStation 200
  • MinZ-C Z180 machine
  • RC2014 stack
  • Sun 3

Upscalers

Apple

Apple //e Platinum

Apple IIGS

Power Mac G4 Quicksilver

  • Adaptec AHA-2930CU (revision 4.2+), because AHA-2910 can't boot OS 9
  • ZuluSCSI

Atari

Atari 65XE/800XE

Atari 1040 STE

Commoodore

Commodore 16C build

Commodore 64 "Aldi"

  • 250425 revision board, want to try

Commodore 128

Commodore VC-20

PC builds

Acacia VLB i486

  • 32 MB FPM (16x 2) to max out memory
  • BusLogic BT-445S, BT-440S, or BT-440C
  • Gotek floppy emulator
  • Gotek PCI bracket
  • i486 Intel chip lifter 309178-002
  • Intel DX4-100 &EW (Write-back) CPU
  • S3 Vision864 VLB, or Cirrus Logic VLB CL-GD5429 2 MB, or S3 S3C805
  • Socket 3 CPU fan cooler

Childhood reproduction PC

PC machines

Dell Dimension 4100

  • NEC DVD-RW drive, such as ND-1300A
  • Pentium III Coppermine 1.0 GHz, Socket 370

DFI Am386SX

HP Brio BA600

  • Panasonic/Matsushita DVD-ROM drive

IBM Aptiva

  • Arctic 80 mm case fan

IBM JX 5511

Pentium Pro build

  • Pentium Pro "Black Fiber" SL25A or SL259

Sanyo XT clone

PC parts

Diagnostics

  • Landmark Kickstart IRQ ISA Card

Drives

  • s0kill.exe utility for making CF cards bootable
  • Sony (Ditto!) StoreStation

NICs

  • IBM Token Ring 16/4 ISA
  • IBM 8228 MAU

Sound cards

Sun Microsystems

SPARCStation 5

  • MK48T02 NVRAM replacement
  • Sun 50-pin SCSI CD-ROM
  • Sun SBus Token Ring card 501-1932

ZX Spectrum