I'm about to head to the Shack after work and pick up a diode and some matrix board. I'm going to roll my own SIO2PC interface thanks to a MAX233 chip I got. Schematic seems easy enough and if it works - that's $35 or so saved right there.

Although - I've also taken a PC floppy drive and with a couple wires hacked it into thinking it's an Amiga floppy drive. Wrote over 100 working ADFs using that puppy, good times.


What sort of hardware hacks have you done to your old computer setups? Any tips/tricks you want to share?

For A8 owners - here's the schematic I'm using. If it works I'll update it here.