New Test Rig

The Retro Chip Tester (RCT) was developed to test „old“ memory chips from the 1970s and 1980s, which are often no longer recognized by today’s programming devices. The RCT is able to identify defective memory cells very reliably. It can save the contents of ROMs, PROMs and EPROMs to a memory card. If the memory…

I fondly remember playing games like Confidential Mission on my Dreamcast in the games room, displayed on a 26″ Hantarex screen that came out of a video conference room. However, with the switch of TVs and monitors to LCD / OLED etc, these old guns no longer work. After doing some browsing across several web…

One of the PCBs I own had a dead SLAPSTIC, Atari’s custom protection chip used in several games of the time, which meant I just got a nice ROM error in test mode and a blank screen instead of the game. Some old 8 bit hacking and we have hopefully fixed the problem. Check out…

Since Windows 10 becomes an unsupported OS next year, I re-enabled secure boot on Windows 10 (via the BIOS settings for my motherboard) so that Windows Update would let me perform the update to windows 11. Once that had all completed, I disabled it again and my machine now boots into Windows 11 and still…

Since it originally appeared in 2003 this website has been edited by a few pieces of software and hosted on many different types of hardware. It was originally created using Frontpage 2000 and hosted on the webspace I got from my ISP (Do you remember when you used to get that with your dial up…

The Kagi 13” and 19” CRT chassis (KB240162), which seems to be used in Gremlin and Nichibutsu cabinets has now been added to the monitor capacitor list page. If you need schematics for this, they can be found in the Nichibutsu Moon Shuttle manual. (available as a PDF on several sites – if you cannot…