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[ May 23 2004 ]

More strange PC Engine stuff…

If you enjoyed last week’s Vistar you’ll love these Chinese-made PC Engine clones!





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[ Mar 10 2004 ]

Anatomy of a Joystick

I’ve put together a page on the Anatomy of a Joystick, the first in a series of articles about controls (I hope!). Enjoy, and let me know if there’s anything that might need to be changed.





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[ Feb 20 2004 ]

Strange Saturn Internals

Of interest only to the techy geeks, I found a strange new Saturn. It’s not especially rare, but it uses a Sanyo CD mechanism, which is sort of weird (the majority are JVC).





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[ Jan 31 2004 ]

IS Electronics Saturn Address Checker

I picked up a huge and rare Saturn Address Checker made by IS Electronics. No, this isn’t a repeat, this one’s a LOT different. About 8kg different in fact.





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[ Nov 6 2003 ]

TeraDrive Page up!

The Sega TeraDrive is an unusual computer. Have a look!





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[ Jul 17 2003 ]

The Koei PasoGo Portable Console

Koei, creators of Romance of the Three Kingdoms + Nobunaga’s Ambition, among other things, made a cart-based portable system that only plays Go. Check it out.





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[ Mar 12 2003 ]

Micomsoft’s XSelect-D4 Reviewed

Jeremy Pallant may be long winded, but he’s also very thorough. Please read his incredibly detailed review of Micomsoft’s world-beating XSelect-D4 component/RGB transcoder. Update! Jeremy’s whipped up a shorter NFG-style review if you want to get the bottom line faster.





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[ Jan 22 2003 ]

Some weird prototype gear

For your viewing enjoyment and wonderment, some protype PC Engine gear and a few pics of some MegaDrive protos: MD Floppy Drive, a MD Floppy + keyboard and a MD FDD + touchpad. None of these items were released, but in the case of the PC Engine gear you can clearly see where some of […]





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