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Finally succumbed to the lure of a cheap Chinese chainsaw. The cost of parts (mainly freight) to repair my very reliable vintage Stihl 015AV saw made the Chinese saws look attractive. I went all out and purchased the mighty X-Bull 75cc chainsaw. A bit of…

With a little bit of tweaking, some reverse engineering, wire, vero board and a magnifying glass, the microbee boots from flash. Here's how I built the hardware interface. Here is where the interface will connect the the 128k coreboard. Note the three holes near the…

Well,having sorted out the smoke :) I managed to convince one of my original floppy drives to become a 'was' floppy drive. it is no more, it's deceased. Where the smoke came from. It must have been under some pressure because there was a lot…

Well the magic smoke escaped from the power supply. This stopped procedings for a couple of days while we sorted out the issue. Decided to replace the original mid '80s power supply with a new one. Got back to working with the CF and have…

Have been playing with my microbee and looking at a simple compact flash interface. Not 100% sure if I'll continue with it as is or alter it. The simple interface uses an 8 bit data bus. Downside is that it effectively halves the capacity of…