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title: "Retro Computing, Vintage Hardware & FPGA | moonweb"
section: "retro"
tags: "retro"
description: "Physical retro hardware collection, Raspberry Pi units, Pi 400, and vintage computing setups."
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sections:
  - heading: "Atari ST Corner"
    cards:
      - title: "🖥️ The Mega ST Fleet"
        summary: "Three Mega ST 4 machines and a Mega ST 2, each with a clearly defined role from heirloom to workstation."
        href: "/retro/atari-mega-st-fleet/"
      - title: "🎮 Mega ST 4 Low"
        summary: "The bargain-bin Mega ST 4 rebuilt as a LowRes demo and games machine with Cloudy/Storm ST, Gotek, UltraSatan and more."
        href: "/retro/mega-st-low/"
      - title: "🖥️ Mega ST 4 High"
        summary: "The high-end workstation with MonSTerBoard, ET4000, NetUSBee, Eiffel and STPSU, running Geneva."
        href: "/retro/mega-st-high/"
      - title: "🔧 Mega ST 2"
        summary: "The spare and test machine for the rest of the fleet."
        href: "/retro/mega-st2/"
      - title: "🏛️ Heirloom Mega ST 4"
        summary: "My father's original Mega ST 4, kept factory-original as a baseline reference."
        href: "/retro/mega-st-heirloom/"
      - title: "🌀 Storm ST & Cloudy ST"
        summary: "Adding 8 MB Alt-RAM and flashable TOS to the Mega ST, switching between EmuTOS and iTOS 1.04."
        href: "/retro/storm-cloudy/"
      - title: "🧠 MonSTerBoard"
        summary: "How the MonSTerBoard turns the Mega ST 4 'High' into a workstation with 8 MB TT-RAM, dual IDE and flashable TOS."
        href: "/retro/monsterboard/"
      - title: "📖 TOS Explained"
        summary: "A short explanation of TOS, the operating system behind every Atari ST, and the versions that matter today."
        href: "/retro/tos/"
      - title: "💾 Gotek Floppy Emulator"
        summary: "Replacing floppy drives with cheap Gotek emulators and HxC firmware, using USB stick disk images on the Mega ST 4 'Low'."
        href: "/retro/gotek/"
      - title: "💽 UltraSatan"
        summary: "Giving the Mega ST 4 'Low' a real ACSI hard disk on an SD card with the UltraSatan Mini from Lotharek."
        href: "/retro/ultrasatan/"
      - title: "💽 ACSI2STM"
        summary: "An open-source ACSI to SD card hard drive emulator for the Atari ST. Bought, not yet in use."
        href: "/retro/acsi2stm/"
      - title: "💳 SidecarTridge Multi-device"
        summary: "An apps platform in a cartridge, adding Wi-Fi, ROM emulation and floppy/hard-disk images to the Mega ST 4 'Low'."
        href: "/retro/sidecartridge/"
      - title: "⌨️ Eiffel Interface"
        summary: "Connecting a PS/2 keyboard, mouse and joysticks to the Mega ST 4 'High' with the Eiffel adapter."
        href: "/retro/eiffel/"
      - title: "⌨️ Eiffel Pico USB"
        summary: "The modern USB-based Eiffel successor, bringing USB keyboard, mouse and joysticks to the Mega ST. Configured, not yet installed."
        href: "/retro/eiffel-pico/"
      - title: "🖱️ mouSTer"
        summary: "Connecting a modern USB mouse to the Mega ST 4 'Low' with the mouSTer DB-9 adapter."
        href: "/retro/mouster/"
      - title: "🖱️ Laser Mouse"
        summary: "Converting an original Atari STM-1 mouse to a modern laser sensor with the Atari mouse laser board."
        href: "/retro/laser-mouse/"
      - title: "📺 Atari to VGA"
        summary: "Getting the Mega ST onto modern VGA monitors with three RGB-to-VGA adapters: MCSWITCH, a self-build and an ST2VGA Enhanced."
        href: "/retro/atari-vga/"
      - title: "📺 Monitor Compatibility"
        summary: "The 15kHz problem explained, and which modern monitor panels actually cooperate with Atari colour modes."
        href: "/retro/atari-monitor-compatibility/"
      - title: "⚡ ET4000 in the Mega ST"
        summary: "Adding higher resolutions to the Mega ST 4 'High' via a STGA adapter and an ET4000 card, and what it took to get it working."
        href: "/retro/et4000-experiment/"
      - title: "🔌 STPSU"
        summary: "Replacing the aging Mega ST 4 'High' power supply with a modern STPSU for clean, stable power, especially for the ET4000."
        href: "/retro/stpsu/"
      - title: "🌐 NetUSBee"
        summary: "Real internet via STinG and a USB port for FAT16 data exchange with Windows on the Mega ST 4 'High'."
        href: "/retro/netusb/"
      - title: "🔌 Wi-Fi Modem & BBS"
        summary: "Dialing into telnet bulletin board systems from the Mega ST 4 'Low' using dhansel's WifiModem and terminal software."
        href: "/retro/atari-networking-bbs/"
      - title: "🧩 MiSTery Core on MIST"
        summary: "Cloning the Low's SD card to the MIST FPGA for direct SD access, five configurations and a backup plan if the real Mega ST breaks."
        href: "/retro/mistery-core/"
  - heading: "Amiga Corner"
    cards:
      - title: "⚔️ Vampire, A600GS or MiSTer"
        summary: "Why comparing modern Amiga hardware options by benchmark numbers alone is actively misleading, and how I run my Amiga today."
        href: "/retro/amiga-modern-platforms/"
      - title: "💾 Running AmigaOS in 2026"
        summary: "MiSTer FPGA versus Amiberry on a Raspberry Pi, two very different ways to get a fully working AmigaOS 3.2.3 desktop today."
        href: "/retro/amiga-hardware-landscape/"
      - title: "🥧 The PiMiga Journey"
        summary: "Three generations of the PiMiga distro compared, and why the newest release isn't automatically the best one."
        href: "/retro/pimiga-journey/"
      - title: "📦 The A1200"
        summary: "What's confirmed so far about Retro Games Ltd.'s upcoming Amiga 1200 console, ahead of its 2026 launch."
        href: "/retro/the-a1200/"
  - heading: "FPGA & Emulation"
    cards:
      - title: "🧩 MiST and MiSTer"
        summary: "Two FPGA boards with two very different personalities, and why the newer one doesn't win every category."
        href: "/retro/mist-mister-fpga/"
      - title: "🛋️ Batocera in the Living Room"
        summary: "The couch-friendly, software-emulation counterpart to the FPGA rigs, covering everything from Atari ST to arcade."
        href: "/retro/batocera-living-room/"
      - title: "🕹️ Mini Arcades & Handhelds"
        summary: "A buyer's guide to compact retro gaming devices, and how to spot a bootleg clone before you buy one."
        href: "/retro/mini-arcade-handheld-roundup/"
  - heading: "DOS & PC"
    cards:
      - title: "💻 The 486 DX2-66"
        summary: "Rebuilding a DOS era from memory on MiSTer FPGA, recreating the environment the way it felt back then."
        href: "/retro/dos-486-tower/"
      - title: "👾 PHOBIA DemoGroup Archive"
        summary: "The PHOBIA DemoGroup Archive, showcasing 1994 PC intros including the Phobia Welcome Intro, written in Turbo Pascal."
        href: "/phobia/"
      - title: "🎵 TranceMission Archive"
        summary: "TranceMission demos and intros from 1992-1995, programmed in Turbo Pascal with assembler on DOS PCs."
        href: "/tcm/"
  - heading: "Overview"
    cards:
      - title: "🏠 The Retro Corner Today"
        summary: "A room-by-room snapshot of every retro system currently active across the home."
        href: "/retro/retro-corner-snapshot/"

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<h1>Retro Computing</h1>
<p class="site-intro">Hardware I've collected and kept running over the years. From Atari ST and Amiga to MiSTer FPGA and DOS environments.</p>

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