January 2022

Those who are long-term subscribers would remember that way back in 2016 I tried putting my sites behind Cloudflare. I have been hesitant to let my little home server loose on the big world wide CDN web. That move was made, again, around a week ago, with the home server... Continue reading

Some further digging into my “to be sorted” folder has revealed some save games for EarthBound. They appear to date back to October 2013. Talk about a blast from the past! I had two saves, one at level 75 and another at level 97. The amount of grinding involved between... Continue reading

Recently I’ve been trying to sort all the haphazardly “organised” files on my cold storage hard drive. I came across a disk image of my LC 475 and a pack of 600 games that I’d never looked into. I’m on an M1 Mac and Basilisk II still works. Incredible, I... Continue reading

My Mega Drive ROM v1.01 was compiled sometime in February 2016. I was supposed to write something about this over five years ago but it apparently got away from me. Version 1.00 (above) is pretty simple. I edited the sample source code and compiled the ROM under Ubuntu if I... Continue reading

A friend who happens to be a photography enthusiast sent me through the above and below photos of some lizards he came across. Above we have the Eastern Water Skink, Eulamprus quoyii, and below… We have the Tree Skink, Egernia striolata, unironically on a rock as it is also known... Continue reading

Found two of these little ones moulting in the summer heat. A bit of a windy evening for such small cicadas. But they’ll probably be alright if they’ve made it this far. The next day, there’s nothing left but a shell. Enjoy your summer little cicadas! 😄 Continue reading

Assembler Games was a large part of my online presence in the 2010s and had a great bunch of people to converse with about retro hardware. For the history of Assembler Games, you can check out this archived link - History of ASSEMblergames.com This was archived primarily by Nemesis when... Continue reading

This little guy was found climbing around an Officeworks A-frame sign. Seemed to be in good condition, no missing limbs! Really didn’t want to put it back into nature. But I wasn’t set up to keep this little guy. Well I could. I mean I could. But I won’t. Enjoy... Continue reading

I have nothing but praise for the Sakura Wars franchise. I had previously played the original Sakura Wars (1996) on my Sega Saturn thanks to the translation patch, so jumping to the PS4 game left a very large gap in my Sakura education. The battles felt much faster than the... Continue reading

Well it’s been a year, to the day. There have been a few patches issued and the game has progressed from 1.06 to the current 1.31 on my trusty PlayStation 4 slim, aaaaand the game still crashes. Fun fact: Most of the time the live stream ends because the game... Continue reading

Here’s my relatively new, old modem. The Avtek MegaPlus V.32bis Modem - Model CD950. We have an initial power up to make sure that anything I do from this point on doesn’t put us in a worse position than when we started. This year I’ll be primarily dealing with dial-up... Continue reading