On this page you will find site updates, or pictures of retro gear I've just bought or I have found on display while out in the wild.
If I bought it, it will get an entry in the museum soon
Don't forget to check my socials for more up to the minute news and behind the scenes action
And finally any enquiries can be made via this form
02/08/26 - Artificially Intelligent
Apparently you don't need to spend £1000's to analyse images from security cameras when motion is detected
All you need is an old desktop PC, a cheap GPU from Vinted, and some free software to get a text description from an image in an average of six seconds
30/06/26 - ??? Sixer
Is it a heavy sixer, or a light sixer?
It's not a heavy sixer!
12/05/26 - Optim Sport
I got this OPL Optim Sport from Vinted, it does look familiar, doesn't it?
09/05/26 - Gamatic Grandstand
Gamatic 7600 == Grandstand TV Game 2000 == ???
29/04/26 - CAAAAAAKE
Another Pentium 4/Windows XP desktop PC was donated to the museum, look at the wallpaper
I'm already hungry
24/04/26 - Floppy disk bonanza
The museum was recently donated a big box of 3 1/2 inch floppy disks, there are double density and high density blank disks, some commercial software for the PC including all seven Microsoft Windows 3.1 install disks, a couple of drive cleaning disks, and some disk labels
08/04/26 - Atari 520 Sixteen-Thirty-Two-Floppy-Disk-Modulator
Saw this in a local Cash Converters, it had been there for a while, included was a Tatung VGA monitor, made an offer, I think they were glad to get rid of it
It's mine now
07/04/26 - Amstrad? Sony? Nintendo? Help!
Right, please pay attention, there's a lot to take in here...
Here we have an Amstrad games console that looks like a Sony Playstation 2 that plays Nintendo Entertainment System games.
Got that? Good
20/03/26 - Online forms
I finally got round to creating online forms for enquiries, feedback, and reporting comments instead of using "mailto" email links, which were annoying to use
General Enquiry Form
The feedback and reporting comments links are in the share menu at the bottom of rooms and exhibits around the museum
10/03/26 - Did someone say Free Bush Internet TV?
A nice lady contacted the museum and asked if I wanted a new-in-box Bush Internet TV box
Obviously yes
06/03/26 - iMac mania
Hot on the heels of the MacBook is this iMac 12, which like the MacBook, needed a full reinstall
21/02/26 - MacBook mania
Another donation was this 2010 Macbook which the owner said she tried to delete some files from but messed up something and it no longer booted, which was correct. However I could not boot anything, even from a USB drive, turns out there was something else wrong with it...
18/02/26 - Full Speccy setup
Another recent donation to the museum, a Sinclair Spectrum Plus with accesories
18/02/26 - Sir Alan's legacy
Here is a PC that's not a PC that was donated to the museum recently
25/01/26 - Donations and purchase updates
I bought the cassette recorder from Retro Bristol for £10, however the PS2, PS3, Wii, and microphone was donated to me locally
The PS3 is working and includes a controller
01/01/26 - The new year is off to a flying start
I was donated this recently, it's an electronic tabletop pinball machine from the 1970's
30/12/25 - December's haul
The retro acquisitions have been a bit quiet recently, because Christmas, but I managed to pick up these two items
The C64 Mini Black Edition and a Conic 406 six game Pong console with pistol attachment
20/10/25 - Another desktop PC
I picked this up just because it had an SSD, it's from the Windows 7 era, but still runs the Latest Linux Mint just fine, so no need to throw out your old PC because Microsoft claims it can't run Windows 11
14/10/25 - Old projects brought back
I decided to bring back some of the projects I had documented on my old site
Retro Projects
07/10/25 - Suspiciously similar Videomaster
The second version of the Colourscore, looks a bit like the Sportsworld, and nothing like the original
01/10/25 - Confused cats and green screen monitors
This Amstrad GT65 green screen monitor was being given away for free on FB Marketplace, for some reason the cats are fascinated with it
15/09/25 - Similar but different
I found this on Vinted for £5.00, it's a clone of the Radofin Tele-Sports Mini
05/09/25 - Large, and Awkward
I found these two on Vinted, £5.10 for the pair
30/08/25 - More Pongs (Reprise)
I had a bit of a score at Vintage Gamer in Halesowen, four boxed Pong consoles, including another teeny tiny Pong, another Radofin with the shortest controller cables ever, an interesting Videomaster that uses metal balls in dimples on top of the case to keep score, and a Pong from a company I had never heard of
And this was included as well, another early electronic hand-held game which was a clone of "Simon"
I even found a vintage 9v PP3 battery in the Videomaster
23/08/25 - Boxes of kindness
I was donated the console boxes for the Playstation and Playstation 2, Xbox and Xbox 360, and the Wii
05/08/2025 - Oh Hai Guys
Bought some more Pongs, because why not?
The Radofin Tele-Sports IV is another clone of the Prinztronic Micro 5500 and the Acetronic Tele-Sports IV
Prinztronic Tournament 3 Deluxe
Radofin Tele-Sports IV
Radofin Tele-Sports Mini
01/07/2025 - Holiday thrifting Part Two
Still on holiday in Yorkshire, had to check out more local retro game stores, today I've found these
Prinztronic Tournament VC6000
Hanimex 7771
30/06/2025 - Holiday thrifting
On holiday in Yorkshire, had to check out the local retro game stores, so far I've found these
Bandai Wonderswan Color
Sega Game Gear TV
Orb Retro Arcade
14/06/2025 - The most exciting home video game
I found this on Vinted for £5 plus shipping, I already have the Mk3 version, this is the Mk1 version
Radofin Tele-Sports
07/06/2025 - A wild Atari XEGS appears. What whilst thou do?
An Atari XEGS found in the wild at Retro Bristol
Atari XEGS
12/05/2025 - On a mission
I have been to several shops, car boot sales, and been browsing Ebay and Vinted to bring you a lot of new content, mainly Plug and Play and Pong consoles. So go check them out
13/04/2025 - Retro Bristol got it going on
An unplanned visit to Retro Bristol yields some surprising finds
Acetronic MPU 1000
Grandstand Video Entertainment Computer (Fairchild Channel F)
25/03/2025 - Computer based animated 404 Not Found Error screens are back
After what seems like a lifetime, I've completely rewritten my custom 404 error screens I had on my old site, fixed some of the issues they had, like incorrect aspect ratios and missing cursors. Then installed them on this site
There is an Amiga Guru Meditation error. The C64, C128, Plus 4, Vic 20, and Spectrum boot and cassette loading animations, and finally a Windows style Blue Screen of Death
Random 404 Not Found Error
I still haven't worked out how to stop the Facebook browser increasing the text size and breaking the effect though. I'll probably need to query the browser and use PHP to change the font sizes served to the browser. Oh joy!
11/03/2025 - Bored and unsupervised
I had some time off over my birthday, so installed an old hard disc in the Medion to see what it was all about, and found it was all about being a low powered PC. But now it has Linux Mint installed, and it's at my parents house, so I can remote in and mess with it
Medion PC MT14
06/03/2025 - Someone's been on Vinted again
It's been a while, but I found the Binatone and mini NES on Vinted and the "untested" Xbox was free to collector on Facebook Marketplace
Binatone TV Master Mk4+2
Minigame Entertainment System
Microsoft Xbox 360
15/02/2025 - Post Valentine's day treat
Found both of these in Nerdz Nook in Bridgwater, total cost £15
Quick Gun Turbo
Nintendo NES Zapper
14/02/2025 - Valentine's day treat
Binatones version of the PC-50x range of Pong consoles is all mine now
Binatone Superstar
11/02/2025 - Amstrad Modu-Modu-Modulator
A £4 Vinted find, convert your CPC from a nice crisp video display from the dedicated monitor... To RF
Amstrad Module MP1
05/02/2025 - Oblong Video Master Super Score with Rifle
An Ebay find, there was two of them available, if you're quick
Videomaster Superscore
28/01/2025 - Finally figured out how to do comments
Am I mad? Yes, but the dedicated museum pages now have comments enabled, and yes I know all about "FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING"! So there!
No subscribing to Disqus for me
25/01/2025 - Massive (mostly) behind the scenes site update
I've been doing a lot of work on this site, mainly to do with the Nav bar at the bottom of the screen, it now has menus that pop up, give them a try
09/01/2025 - Another day, another Grandstand
Another Vinted find, missing the battery cover. Seems to be the same as the Grandstand Cartridge in a different case
Grandstand Colour Programmable
08/01/2025 - Short Rainbow
My lovely better half has again alerted me to retro hardware which was for sale on FB Marketplace
Atari 2600 Jr
06/01/2025 - Share to Facebook, Threads, Reddit, and Copy URL features now enabled
They are in the Share menu at the bottom of every page, please use them
05/01/2025 - Best. Game. Ever.
I replayed Super Mario World over the Christmas and New Year holidays, I finished it but with only 94 exits complete, so now I need to go through each level again to find what I missed
04/01/2025 - Easter eggs
They are starting to creep in here, can you find one?
Clue: If you visit the dark side often enough, you may find one of the museum's resident kitties...
