Keeping old machines alive, one project at a time
Retro projects
Hands-on retrogaming, retrocomputing, console restoration, repair, and hardware modification projects.
Some time ago, I had the opportunity to get both an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 1200. While the Amiga 500 was restored as a fairly traditional machine, I had a more ambitious project in mind for …
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Back in the early ’90s, I had an Amiga 2000 with just one expansion card: a SCSI controller paired with a massive 290 MB hard drive. Getting software and games to run from the hard …
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Some time ago, I had the chance to buy a used PlayStation 2 for cheap because it was sold as “defective.” In fact, the console was unable to read any discs, whether DVD or CD. I …
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The PSP Go is a pretty good version to play with original hardware on the go, as it is the smallest version of the console. It has however 2 mains drawbacks : its limited internal storage …
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It is a well known thing now : the japanese Sega Marks III had additional hardware compared to its US and Europe counterpart (the Master System) : a Yamaha FM sound chip. Not all games take …
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In a previous article, I pimped a good old Socket 7 based PC with a K6-II 400 (overclocked to 500Mhz) and a Riva 128. For sure it was running very nicely, but I found two components to make …
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Back in the nineties, I was using boosted Amiga computers and a Playstation, not a PC. Of course, I had the chance to play Doom on my father’s PS/2 with its 486SLC, but I did not …
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Changing the BIOS of a Playstation 1 may sound weird. As explained in a previous article, my console is a Japanese model thus it has an additional region check in its bios. So even with a …
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The playstation 1 is not my favourite system, but I have to admit that it has some good games. I got an NTSC PSOne for really cheap and some NTSC games can be difficult to find in Europe (at …
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I recently had to replace the touch panel of my Nintendo DSi XL : it was not working anymore and some games were even crashing while touching the screen. I think it is worth replacing it : …
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