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Category Archives: retrocomputing
Philips Computer Monitor 80
Last week I further fine-tuned my CRT repair skills by getting a Philips Computer Monitor 80 (BM7522) running again after almost a decade of inactivity. Some backstory: I found an old Commodore 128D in my mother-in-law’s basement with this original … Continue reading
What Getting a Minidisc Player Working in 2026 Says About Disposable Infrastructure
NB: At some point I started using ChatGPT to help me navigate the technical issues around getting metadata for a ripped CD on Windows 98, so the entire chat might be a useful archive of that. (assuming open.ai is still … Continue reading
RetroTink-ering
Taylor and I have recommitted to the retro-gaming/retro-computing streams in 2026 because they’re just so much fun, and this one did not disappoint. We do recognize out of the gate this stream has nothing to do with hosting and it’s … Continue reading
My New Old Walkman
Many years ago, thanks to Laura Ritchie, I got a load of VHS tapes from England. It was the impetus for the first of many re-watchings of The Sopranos during and sinceCOVID-19. I think it’s been 4 full re-watchings and it … Continue reading
Commodore 64C
A strange thing happened on the way to trying to open a Haunted Arcade at bavastudio, someone gave me an original Commodore 64C.* I’ve never seen the re-design of the classic breadbox version of the C64, so it was definitely … Continue reading
YoloBox Pro, Madden 2001, and a Reason to Stream
The rainy weekend in Trento provided a good excuse to play with the YoloBox Pro that’s been sitting on my shelf. I regularly chat with Tim about all the streaming he’s doing at Reclaim Arcade, which was an added push … Continue reading
RetroNAS: Networking for Retrogamers
Taylor Jadin blogged about experimenting with RetroNAS as a tool to help organize the various devices he uses to play games on his various retrocomputing devices. He describes the tool in the following way: It does a few different things, … Continue reading
More Retrogaming Fun with Batocera
My colleague Noah Dorsett turned me on to Batocera a few weeks back, and over the holiday break I took some time to install it and mess around—and I’m glad I did! Batocera is an open-source and completely free retro-gaming … Continue reading
Retropie Overscan Settings for 27″ CRT
I currently have two Retropie setups: one on a Raspberry Pi 3b and the other on a Raspberry Pi 4b. I did this to work through some issues I was having getting the OS updated from the Raspbian Stretch to … Continue reading
Atari 2600 on the 3DS
Atari 2600 emultaion running on a 3DS About 7 or 8 years ago I figured out how to bypass region-lock on the Nintendo 3DS so my kids could play the games we bought in Italy. With the release of the … Continue reading