In this area you will find my own personal material, but also other mini-projects and articles wrote in the spirit of old-school genre!

I've searched through old stuff from as early as 1983 (I believe) and the following years. Basically it bears a-lot of memories preserved as-is, but also a continued effort to keep the spirit alive with new additions made in recent times.

A sort-of "lost and found" + keep forever scenario.

My computer history
Commodore 64 Life - Introduction
C64 Life - Digging Deeper
C64 Life - My Actual Hardware
C64 Life - Footage from the 90's
C64 Life - First magazines
C64 Life - First books I read
My collection of Commodore 64, 128, Plus/4 computers
Repair of an Commodore Plus/4 (264) !

Some small projects that got special focus by me. I'm pretty sure the information provided would prove useful for other Amigaians out there too!

Hardware Projects Overview

Amiga ATX Power Supply
RocGen RG300C Genlock
JCL ColourPic Framegrabber
Alcotini Stereo Soundsampler
Amiga 500 FloppyEmulator - MPDOS
Vidi Amiga Digitizers
IVS Grand Slam / Trumpcard
Amiga 500 Kick1.2 repair!

Currently focusing in creating Norway's first? complete archive (with actual magazines) that meant alot to computer nerds back in the 80 and 90's, just like myself.

Many scans are from my own collection, but also features donation of physical magazines during June/July 2014.

Whereever possible, not only PDF's will be created and uploaded, but also media such as Floppy Disk images and CD-Rom images where applicable.

A deep-dive into the official Amiga 500 Promo video that was released in 1987. The amount of research done is quite extensive, so enjoy what I have discovered and documented so far.

Latest updates:
Recent updates on tracing the origins of Amiga used related artwork

The 5 categories:
Computer Video - Amiga 500/2000 Promotional 1987 Video - Introduction
Computer Video - Amiga 500/2000 Promotional 1987 Video - Part 1
Computer Video - Amiga 500/2000 Promotional 1987 Video - Part 2
Computer Video - Amiga 500/2000 Promotional 1987 Video - Part 3
Computer Video - Amiga 500/2000 Promotional 1987 Video - Part 4
Computer Video - Amiga 500/2000 Promotional 1987 Video - Part 5

This tells the story of how I managed to repair and restore this obscure computer back to life. The story spans over a decade!

Problems solved was
1: Create a DC power replacement.
2: Replace all the keyboard switches.

During the recent years I have downloaded several thousand PDF scans of old Computer Magazines (just check my own section). Anyway, I always like those type-in pages of mysterious code snippets for both Commodore 64 and Amiga in all kinds of languages.

Presented here is a personal collection of type-ins that I find interresting.

Type-in fun (C64) - Part #1
Type-in fun (C64) - Part #2
Type-in fun (C64) - Part #3
Type-in fun (C64) - Part #4


Type-in fun (Amiga) - Part #1
Type-in fun (Amiga) - Part #2

About LSD Grapevine Magazines
Entire Contents of Grapevine Magazine (05 - 21)

Presented here are various monochrome pictures I printed out on my MannesMann Tally-MT81 and Star LC-10 Color printer (using black ribbon) somewhere in the years between 1992-1994.

Back in the days, we Amiga people where blessed with fonts that featured multicolored design for use in typically Deluxe Paint, Scala Multimedia and other professional software regarding graphics and title programs.

My own collection of the complete set of physical Aminet Set CD's released from 1995 to 2002.

Scanned and OCR'd from Commodore Computing International May 1989 Issue.

Thought this could be handy to know whats actually going inside the standard startup-sequence of Workbench 1.2 and 1.3. As the original author did several writing and copying text errors regarding what was ACTUALLY written in a real Startup-Sequence, I had to clean up his mess. What an useless author that must have been!

Real hand drawings made by a young Stone Oakvalley…hmmm It do sounds like Luke Skywalker doesn’t it? :-)

These drawings as far as I can say are drawn in 1985-87, but could be 83-84 too some of them. At the time I was 9-13 years old.

Presented here are some personal scans from various Star Wars paper material such as; comic commercials, toy catalogs, homemade comic magazines and a audiobook with the tape recording dated around 1983-1986.

Homemade Star Wars Comic Magazines (1986-1987)
Star Wars - Toy Catalog Scans
Comic Commercials + other Scans
Audio Book & Tape Recording - Star Wars
Random Star Wars related clippings from the 70's and 80's!

Bonus regarding Audio-Tape:
Audio Book & Tape Recording - He-Man

Star Wars album comics - Norwegian 1977-1983
Star Wars comics - Norwegian 1983
Star Wars comics - Norwegian 1984
Star Wars comics - Norwegian 1985
Star Wars comics - Norwegian 1986
Star Wars comics - Norwegian 1987
Star Wars comics - Norwegian 1996
Star Wars comics - Norwegian 1997
Star Wars comics - Norwegian 1999-2017

Scanned Norwegian Toy Catalogs from 1990. Leketøyskataloger fra 1990, Extra Leker og Ringo.
Norwegian Toy Catalogs (1990) - Norske leketøyskataloger fra 90-tallet

In October 2022 I decided it was time to get an overview over my VHS Tapes collected since 1990 or so.

Stone Oakvalley's VHS Tape Collection 1 of 9
Stone Oakvalley's VHS Tape Collection 2 of 9
Stone Oakvalley's VHS Tape Collection 3 of 9
Stone Oakvalley's VHS Tape Collection 4 of 9
Stone Oakvalley's VHS Tape Collection 5 of 9
Stone Oakvalley's VHS Tape Collection 6 of 9
Stone Oakvalley's VHS Tape Collection 7 of 9
Stone Oakvalley's VHS Tape Collection 8 of 9
Stone Oakvalley's VHS Tape Collection 9 of 9
In preperation: My VHS Collection - cover screenshotting

Just a quick round-up of 27 years worth of PC based usage :-)

Over the years, just like with my PCI card collection, the range and amount of Memory cards have accumulated. Today, I thought was a good day to just at least scan all of them so its easier to find some if I need any for future projects.

MP3 Archive (154473* files) of music recorded from real unmodified Commodore 64's hardware (6581R2, 6581R4 & 8580R5).

MP3 Archive (254620* files) of music recorded from a real Amiga 1200 (Paula 8364R7PL) chip.