LinuxJedi
linuxjedi.co.uk · Personal blog · on HN since 2011
LinuxJedi is a developer who writes about repairing and developing for retro computers like Amigas and BBC Micros, plus some open-source work.
What HN saysHN commenters recommend it as a favorite blog about fixing Amigas, BBC Micros and Archimedes, and cite posts on floppy drives and C64 diagnostics.
22HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Four new Amiga products for September 20242 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 2Drizzle - The Icing on the Cake - Part 22 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 3Homepage2 people · first shared 2022
- 4My WordPress Slack Ban1 people · 134 points · first shared 2024 · 80 comments on HN
- 5Teletext on a BBC Computer in 20241 people · 109 points · first shared 2024 · 71 comments on HN
- 6Drizzle7, a Rackspace backed MySQL fork - The icing on the cake1 people · 82 points · first shared 2011 · 30 comments on HN
- 7The Australian Commodore 641 people · 74 points · first shared 2022 · 29 comments on HN
- 8Amiga 1200 PiStorm Development1 people · 35 points · first shared 2021 · 6 comments on HN
- 9Fake chips, I got stung1 people · 13 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Emulating PPC32 Linux in x86_64 Linux1 people · 6 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 11AI Didn't Destroy Your Company, Your Processes Did1 people · 5 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Restoration of a barn find Amiga 2000: part 21 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Making a Can Bus Module Work with a Raspberry Pi1 people · 4 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 14Why Recapping Isn't Always the Cure: and Amiga 1200 Repair Story1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 15Last Week in Drizzle - Summary of the previous week of Drizzle development1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
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jamespo · 2025-01-29
In a similar vein, I love this blog: https://linuxjedi.co.uk/
He fixes Amigas, BBC Micros, Archimedes etc...
suprjami · 2022-10-28
Some more
* Chris Wellons - C and all sorts of stuff - https://nullprogram.com/
* Raymond Chen - low-level Windows-centric, really good - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
* Robert Elder - Linux systems - https://blog.robertelder.org/
* Andrew Hutchings - old computer restoration - https://linuxjedi.co.uk/
iaskwhy · 2011-03-16
The second part is already online although not linked form the first one: http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/?p=152
Edit: Actually it is linked ("Next post") but I was looking for it on the text itself, sorry! Also, my link was from a Google search, edited to the correct link.
rasz · 2024-08-25
>Amiga uses a variable drive speed
Amiga uses standard PC drives with slight tweaked pinout https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2020/12/05/converting-a-pc-floppy-drive-to-ami…
LinuxJedi · 2022-08-23
Yea, I was erring on the side of that being OK. U27 was also a suspect so I tried that first. Update here: https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2022/08/23/australian-commodore-64-motherboard…
windenntw · 2022-06-13
You can already get that by replacing the cpu with a pistorm:
https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2021/12/27/800mips-amiga-with-emu68-and-pistor…
Nexxxeh · 2021-08-22
Some super interesting posts on the site[1][2], but the linked one seems to be more like a teaser announcement. Am I missing something?
[1] https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2021/04/02/designing-the-amiga-2000-rgbtohdmi-…
[2] https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2021/03/23/repair-of-another-amiga-tf534-accel…