Adrian's Digital Basement

Remember when DDR4 RAM was on the way out and cheap? Yeah... me too. Lately my NAS has been running low on RAM. Using swap turns it into an unusable lump. So I bit the bullet and bought a second hand 32GB stick of dual rank DDR4. OUCH!

I love it! It's the late 90s all over again. titleart.dvy.io

This was an unexpectedly excellent video! I love a good mystery. youtu.be/GKpCVgKPdzE?...

I got a copyright claim on the Super Mario Bros. 2 first level music by this company. I looked it up and apparently they made a remix of the music and are claiming a match from music coming straight out of the console! (Or a clone console in this case.) Sigh ...

I'll be at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo today and tomorrow. (Oct 10-11) Since I don't have a booth for myself, I'll be hanging out around the Interim Computer Museum exhibit. Come by and say "hi!" and check out some cool old computers. retrogamingexpo.com

I got this wonderful care package from some amazing folks in Wisconsin. Yes, these are honest to goodness ketchup chips actually sold in the US! I am shocked! Maybe these can make their way to Oregon stores? Hello "BIg-Chip" companies, are you listening? @graffias79.bsky.social

Rebooted my lab PC, and I got a pop-up when the GPU drivers tried to auto-update. Claims my AMD Ryzen 5600G integrated Radeon graphics aren't supported anymore? Has AMD given up on consumer graphics entirely? Either that or their drivers are track. Probably both...

*SIGH* Even in all the clutter down here in the basement, I very rarely misplace things... But I have misplaced the cleaning drill bit for my Hakko desoldering iron. I should just order another one versus spending a bunch of time looking for it. It's small and probably rolled off my bench... :-(

Just going through my pile of projects and this note just makes me laugh.

Why do smoke detectors always start beeping "low battery" in the middle of the night? It has to be temperature related... this one started at 3AM but the basement temps never really change at all, day or night.

I just picked one of these up. It's very similar to the 703 that you might see me using on videos, but I figured why not get this. $74 shipped. The major difference on the ZT-706S is the 66,000 count multimeter. Plus It has a (slightly more) useful frequency generator.

Rootie went on a #VCFMW rampage of cuteness! Appreciate @torbar.bsky.social agreeing to be her handler. And appreciate @jeffgeerling.com and @adriansdigitalbasement.com being great sports and allowing themselves to Get Slugged. (As well as @museumjoe.bsky.social and @bluescsi.com)

The back of the VCFMW 21 (2026) T-shirt had a tribute to the Z80 CPU with all sorts of interesting computers listed which used the Z80 CPU. How many of the machines do you have in your collection?

On our way to Chicago for VCF Midwest! Rammy and I both appreciate the retro livery on our plane. 🕶️

Just picked this up. Maybe I can finally stop complaining about the 5X Pro? 🤔

MartyPC.net, the web based cycle accurate IBM PC emulator has gotten a massive upgrade including tape loading support! This is just so cool to all be running inside your browser. Highly recommend you check it out.

What a community! @factorofmatt.bsky.social made a special version of the FOM keyboard tester for this one of a kind C64! youtu.be/uFMAToFtGgY

I absolutely adore BOTH sides of that prototype!

Can anyone identify the logo on the 7406 IC? (The DRAM chip to the right is sporting the Matsushita logo.)

I have a Woz Apple IIgs with a motherboard from 1988 (chip dates) but it has the IIe PSU and keyboard connectors installed. It also has what appears to be an OEM-like PSU fan installed onto a 1987 Week 01 IIgs PSU. Warranty replacement board perhaps? But why the IIe connectors?

This is a fun project: Use FFMPEG to simulate the sound of audio cassettes. I converted a few albums and it sounds extremely authentic. github.com/AARomanov198...

There is a new AMI BIOS customizer and option ROM injector for 386SX-era boards. Super cool and I can't wait to try this out. youtube.com/watch?v=f-AG...

I have been playing around with a production Lisa FPGA board and it's so cool. What an amazing project! I had a small issue with an incompatible SD card, but we got that sorted. AFAIK, Joe still has some that aren't reserved yet: jcm-1.com/product-cate...

You don't need a tool to remove these keys! #ti99life

Jobs is wondering if the "twiggy" drivers were a good idea.

It's Friday night troubleshooting with the Commodore Amiga 3000: I'm checking into the machine's flicker-fixer woes. It's very nice to be able to run this machine without the riser installed! 😂

If you're into Commodore and you're in or around Seattle this weekend, you need to check out this show! Unfortunately, I will not be there.

Peel pron with a Model F keyboard

Check out this awesome packing material.

I love so much about all this.

If you missed Alex's talk at VCFSW talking about his new LisaFPGA project, I highly recommend a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QSP...

Rammy loves to go new places

FFS!! To update my supporter scroll on my videos, I have to manually download the YouTube Member list from the Youtube Creator Studio as a CSV. Fine, only takes a few clicks. I just went to do this, and the download button just doesn't do anything. Logged out & back in again: still broken. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

I really appreciate that someone daily drives this AW11 Toyota MR2! The 80s angular looks are too cool.

Nifty! This newly revived web tool allows you to convert an animated GIF into a NES (ROM) which will play the gif on real NES hardware. I love stuff like this! k6lcm.github.io/nesflix-web/ Thanks @levimaaia.com for the neat video and history on the tool.

Everything about this makes me smile. Thank you @gloriouscow.bsky.social for doing something so cool and fun! martypc.blogspot.com/2026/05/60fp...

Here's a new one: My Amiga 600 has been acting up lately, slow, filesystem getting corrupted, block errors, etc. It turns out the 16GB PNY SD card I was using for the boot drive took a huge crap. No matter which card reader or computer I plug it into, it only ever runs about this fast. WTF!

Awesome! More freakin' Archimedes content over on @theretrochannel.bsky.social thanks to the absolute legend @cencio1976.bsky.social youtu.be/X1Yc7bSSzIA?...