The postman bought me a package today containing the updated versions of most of the PCBs from the website as well as the new ones for the MiSTer -> Gorf (and others) interface.
I need to get soldering and make sure that they actually work. I think I’ll start with the multigame, not had one of those for myself for ages.
I decided to reverse engineer a bootleg of a Century playpack, as used on their conversions for Galaxian, Scramble and Donkey Kong hardware * For what I found out see the information page in my repair log here * Each hardware variant would have a custom memory mapping IC at position 3
It seems that some of the multitude of changes in policy within the USA have meant that the British postal service will no longer accept packages destined for that part of the world. So, until this situation has been resolved, I can no longer send anything from the shop to the United States of America!
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…
From now on all of the power used to host this site is supplied by the sun. This is down to a combination solar panel / battery system installed by UPS Solar which seems to be performing well at the moment, certainly better than the info I gleaned from several websites as to how much…
I have finished moving the remaining pages from the old Frontpage website over to WordPress and put some of the archive history back in. I did have to modify a few things to make it more ‘mobile’ friendly so all pages should be viewable on your phone. (a few require you to rotate your phone…
One of the reasons I wanted to build a Retro Chip Tester (RCT) was because there are several adapters available that let you extend the capability of it. The one I had an immediate use for was the 2708 programming adapter. I ordered some PCBs for this, put it together and it has now been…