April 2016

As I was pulling apart an eMachines E732 for a friend, I realised I should make a video for anybody else unfortunate enough to be doing the same thing. These machines are reasonably straightforward to disassemble, with accessible RAM, hard drive and wireless card. The main jobs were replacing the... Continue reading

The Sega Dreamcast HKT-0120 development box has a SCSI hard drive containing some rather interesting material, including World Series Baseball 2K2. Unfortunately, the drive wasn’t in particularly good health, so getting a proper image of it had become a bit of a priority. I’d already managed to recover some of... Continue reading

Everyone loves WSB2K2! World Series Baseball 2K2! I’ve been trying to recover the contents of the SCSI hard drive from my Sega Dreamcast HKT-0120 development unit, and this time I’m giving R-Studio for Linux and ordinary dd a go. Getting the software and hardware to cooperate has been an adventure... Continue reading

This is the preliminary setup for preserving the SCSI hard drive from the Sega Dreamcast HKT-0120 development box. Before making any changes to the development kit, I wanted a raw copy of the existing disk in case there was anything cool hiding on it. Or, to use slightly more archival... Continue reading

You might all remember this review from early March. Not the most glowing review, because my Dimplex DC10RC was either faulty or, in my original highly scientific terminology, a complete hunk of junk. Let me show you the MEGA edition, the Dimplex DC15RCBW Reverse Cycle Air Conditioner. In my actual... Continue reading

We’ve got a few videos to crank out this month and I think I may be working on too many projects at once. I guess we’ll find out if I burn out and set fire to all my way past cool hardware! Continue reading