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3.6V Lithium Battery Corrosion Damage

Nix McRetro // 14th January 2013 // Apple, IBM PC, Repairs

Here’s a peek at what damage those little power cells can wreak on poor unsuspecting motherboards. It just happened to be an LC 475 as well, didn’t it? Not mine thankfully! :P Continue reading

Retro Repair - Wyse 286 Final Overview

Nix McRetro // 12th January 2013 // IBM PC, Repairs, YouTube

We fire up the Wyse 286 one last time before passing it on to (hopefully) greener pastures. Farewell dear Wyse PC, you have been a learning experience. We get the floppy drives firing up and both become bootable (in turns of course). We also get to see a small demo... Continue reading

Stone Age Gamer Deluxe Mega EverDrive Serial 123

Nix McRetro // 11th January 2013 // YouTube

A look at the packaging and presentation of the Mega EverDrive Deluxe Edition from Stone Age Gamer. Continue reading

Sega Saturn Sophia / Sega Saturn VA0 Parts Swapping

Nix McRetro // 9th January 2013 // Repairs, Sega, YouTube

Tested my Sophia CD deck and SH-1 daughterboard on a retail Saturn with a VA0 mainboard at the request of a member of the ASSEMblergames forums. We were hoping there would be something funky about it being able to read burnt discs, no luck, unfortunately. However, I did learn that... Continue reading

Hackintosh Rebuild ASRock 775Dual-915GL Overview

Nix McRetro // 9th January 2013 // Apple, Hacks, IBM PC

We take a trip down memory lane to my first Hackintosh motherboard, the ASRock 775Dual-915GL. Powered by a beefy Celeron single core CPU, it ran circles around all the PowerPC G4 and G5 technology of the day. The original I built was made back in late 2005 / early 2006.... Continue reading