Phil's homepage
Latest changes
| Date | Changes |
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| 2025-02-14 | Happy Valentine's Day! I'm celebrating by releasing my notes on the Iomega Zip and Jaz drives, including details on the vendor-specific SCSI commands and mode pages. |
| 2025-01-07 | Happy New Year! Added wiring details for BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum and ACT Siris One / Victor 9000 to my notes on universal serial cables built from Cisco console cables and adapters. |
| 2024-11-24 | Added Dumping a protected MC68HC705C8S |
| 2024-11-05 | Added notes on using Cisco console cables as generic RS232 cables. |
| Documented GI biphase 75-ohm baseband physical layer (Analog Cable TV) | |
| 2024-06-06 | Added supplementary notes for my EMF2024 analog cable TV talk. |
| 2024-06-04 | Added Talks and presentations page, with slides and video from some of my conference talks. |
| 2024-04-21 | Added NABU Adaptor model NA-2 internals page, with details on how the NABU Adaptor works. |
| 2024-04-04 | Added Windows XP network install and Chyron Lantern (Digital PC CODI PCI) pages. |
| 2024-03-18 | Added DDS/DAT notes page with details of DAT/DDS drives and their capabilities |
| 2023-09-06 | Added NABU PC page, including details of the internal expansion card interface. |
| 2023-03-16 | Added GI/Jerrold video scrambling. Includes details on how the GI/Jerrold RF and Baseband CATV scrambling schemes work, and the data formats in use. |
| 2023-01-06 | Added Ghidra cheat sheet |
| 2023-01-05 | Added ST-Link/V2 (or clone) to Black Magic conversion (mostly for my own reference!). |
| More updates to the Analog Cable emulation section, notably descriptions of the Jerrold FSK commands, and various information about their set-top boxes and headend equipment. | |
| 2023-01-02 | Added Analog Cable emulation to the HackTV section, started documenting my efforts in building my own analog cable TV headend. |
(Slightly incomplete) Site map
- 3D Printing – my 3D printers, and some 3D-printable items I've designed
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- Polaroid Digital Palette film recorder – drivers and efforts to use it on newer platforms.
- IBM LPFK (Lighted Program Function Keyboard)
- Brother P-Touch driver – C library to send bitmap data to the PT-2450DX and similar Brother plastic label printers.
- Datatrak radio location system and Mk2 Navigation receiver reverse-engineering
- Aircraft avionics instruments reverse-engineering
- Ferranti FEI30/FE130 radar warning indicator display
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- Atari Digital Vector Generator – how it works and how to program it (aka The Hitch-Hacker's Guide to the Atari DVG)
- CRT clock using a DG7/32 – temporarily paused
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- SQ6POG MMDVM board notes – and how to resolve design issues on the Chinese variant
- Setting up MMDVM on a Pi – useful if you want to use the SQ6POG MMDVM board for non-DMR protocols (e.g. MPT1327)
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- Retrocomputing
- Miscellaneous
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Archived websites
I also host a website archive:
- The late Lee Davison's website – as of some time in the early 2000s. Lee sadly passed away in September 2013.
- A later (2011) but incomplete archive exists on the Wayback Machine.