System breakdowns, IC guides, chassis builds, and vintage hardware deep dives from Smiggy's workbench
Dedicated board-level reference pages with IC maps, cap lists, and diagnostics
ASSY board selector, PSU warnings, IC pinouts for 6510, SID, VIC-II, CIA, PLA & DRAM, plus A/V port references.
Model selector, SMD recap guide with corrosion cleanup, DB23 RGB to SCART wiring, boot screen error decoder, CIA fault symptoms & connector pinouts.
Introducing the Amiga Machine Hub — a dedicated landing page for the A500, A600, and A1200 covering SMD recapping, video output and upscaling, boot sc...
Introducing the Commodore 64 Machine Hub — a dedicated landing page that brings together everything you need on the workbench when servicing a C64: mo...
Thirty new chips in the IC Pinout Finder today — 6502, VIC-II, AY-3-8910, DRAM and more, plus the swaps that will destroy a chip if you get them wrong...
A rare piece of arcade-style kit just landed on the workbench! A big thank you to Dylan for sending over the QuickJoy SV-129 Foot Pedal via the donati...
A new bench tool with colour-coded, clickable DIP and PLCC pinouts for 26 retro chips — plus the pinout traps that catch people out when substituting ...
A new tool in the Bench Tools section: verified capacitor lists and recap guides for ten classic mainboards — all five Commodore 64 assemblies, the Am...
The Osborne 1 holds a pivotal place in computing history as the first commercially successful portable computer.
A look back at the BBC Micro, Britain's most influential home computer, its history in schools, its ARM architecture legacy, and how writing my very f...
More tools and references for retro hardware enthusiasts
Look up pinouts and datasheets for classic ICs — Z80, 6502, 6510, SID, VIC-II, 74-series logic and more.
Diagnostic flowcharts, recapping logs, and trace repair notes from real bench sessions.
Interactive browser-based tools — calculators, pinout finders, frequency references and more.