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 my old stuff from as early as 1977 and the following years thereafter. 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.

Its sorted after historic age and introduction (more or less), and includes also PC based hardware as well as other electronic hardware that would be relatable to any old-schooler out there!

My computer history
My 80-90's equipment
My collection of Atari TV Game Consoles & Computers
My collection of Commodore 64, 128, Plus/4 computers
Commodore 64 / Spectrum Tape Collection
My collection of Commodore Amiga computers
My collection of Joysticks
My collection of ISA / PCI / AGP based PC cards - approx 100 pcs!
My collection of RAM and SIMM memory chips

In September 2023, I signed back up to host my own Youtube channels after deleting my first account from 2008 in 2013. It was a 10-year protest :-)

Click to read more!

Just a teaser for two projects that I (Stone Oakvalley) are currently planning. It's related to my YouTube channel "Old-school Computer Stuff".

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
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 Computer geeks 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!
Improve, repair and testing an Eureka Communicator II for Amiga CD32
Movie: Do a IBM 5151 CRT Monitor work with Commodore 128?

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:
Movie: Amiga - The Movie (1987) - Unpuzzled!
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.

Back in the days, we Amiga people where blessed with a multitude of single-color fonts for use in typically Deluxe Paint, Scala Multimedia and other professional software regarding graphics and title programs. This is an follow-up on my 2022 project where I focused only on ColorFonts!

Need xxxx.library for the Amiga and the author of "program" did not include it or failed to mention what library should be used until after you checked with SnoopDOS to figure it out?

Well, the headache of searching for "xx" version of "xxxxx" library has finally come to an end, in which I present the only collection ever made in an attempt to collect them all!

Need xxxx.device for the Amiga and the author of "program" did not include it or failed to mention what device should be used until after you checked with SnoopDOS to figure it out?

Well, the headache of searching for "xx" version of "xxxxx" device has finally come to an end, in which I present the only collection ever made in an attempt to collect them all!

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

Amiga Startup-Sequence:

Scanned and OCR'd from Commodore Computing International May 1989 Issue.
AMIGA STARTUP-SEQUENCE


Amiga Workbench HDToolBox:

All versions of HDToolBox for Amiga computers "ever" !

Throughout the years I have collected randomly old 8 and 16-bit joysticks, and thought it would be nice to finally have time to organize and take some pictures.

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
Audio Book & Tape Recording - Tron

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 (80s-90s) - Norske leketøyskataloger 80-90-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.

The collection consists of:
1: Original C64 Tapes / Floppy releases with original covers (single or double).
2: Original C64 Tape Boxes (with more than 1 game and 1 tape).
3: Loose stray tapes and boxes (meaning incomplete).

Commodore 64 specific amount is 69.
Spectrum related tapes amount is 5.

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.