Hardware
[ Oct 3 2015 ]
Getting to know the Cactus V6 (again)
I don’t know what happened, but the original of this article has evaporated into the internet ether. Let’s all thank the internet archive and maybe give them some money. Anyway, the Cactus V6! — The Cactus V6 transceiver is a transmitter or receiver (it does both) that allows full remote power control of your speedlights […]
Hardware
[ Sep 13 2015 ]
Car Stereo Hacking (again)
You might remember I hacked up the stereo in my car a while back (but you probably don’t). Long story short, my new-to-me Honda CR-V had a steering-wheel stereo control that used two wires to communicate with the stock head unit. The replacement Pioneer deck also used two wires, so I gutted the stock switch […]
Games
[ Mar 21 2015 ]
Capcom’s CPS Changer
The nineties were a time of weird and wonderful experimentation in Japan. Not to be left out, Capcom released a weird device that looked a lot like a video game console.
Games
[ Mar 21 2015 ]
Resurrecting the Dreamcast with GDEMU
The Dreamcast has long been one of my top-5 consoles, and the GDEMU is an amazing multi-game loader that makes the Dreamcast even more awesome.
Games
[ Nov 22 2014 ]
Twenty Years of the Sega Saturn
Twenty years ago today Sega’s 32-bit Saturn console was launched in Japan.
Games
[ Jun 2 2014 ]
PC Engine Magazine Retrospective
The rise and fall of the PC Engine, viewed through a 43GB archive of magazine scans.
Hardware
[ Feb 4 2014 ]
iiNet mailed me a KYP USB key
I received an interesting thing in the mail yesterday, it’s a USB dongle from iiNet, a large Australian ISP.
Games
[ Jan 15 2014 ]
Repairing Robotron
The long story about resurrecting my Robotron arcade board, and most of its peripheral parts.
Games
[ Jul 1 2006 ]
The Samsung Saturn Revisited
You may remember an older writeup I did on the elusive, nearly mythical Samsung Saturn. I recently received a pair of additional units, and after having had a look at them there are definitely new things to learn. The two biggest things of interest are:1. Not all of them have the Japanese-language option disabled from […]
Hardware
[ May 11 2006 ]
Blowing power supplies
I’ve been working on my JAMMA gear here at home, trying to make my arcade games run on my TV. After a couple of weeks fucking around with joysticks and RGB cables I finally got things working, more or less. I’ve got a weird problem with the TV, the image skips and rolls frequently, enough […]
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