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Stone Age Gamer Deluxe Mega EverDrive Serial 123

Nix McRetro // 11th January 2013 // YouTube

A quick look at my Stone Age Gamer Deluxe Mega EverDrive, serial number 123. This post is mostly about the packaging and presentation rather than another full hardware demonstration, but the cartridge itself is one of the early Mega EverDrive units from the period. The contemporary Mega EverDrive manual from... Continue reading

Sega Saturn Sophia and VA0 Parts Compatibility Test

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

A member of the ASSEMblergames forums asked whether I could try some of the Sophia hardware in an ordinary retail VA0 Saturn. Naturally I had to find out. I moved the Sophia CD mechanism and SH-1 daughterboard into a retail Saturn with a VA0 motherboard. Both worked. That sure does... 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 wonderfully cheap single-core Celeron, it felt remarkably fast for what it cost and compared very favourably with some of the PowerPC Macs I was using around that period. It certainly cannot be... Continue reading

Sega TeraDrive Scanliner Demo with 15 kHz / 31 kHz RGB

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

Scanlines make the world go round. This was my first proper test of the new VGA scanline generator I picked up through ASSEMblergames. The more interesting part, though, was finally seeing the TeraDrive’s Mega Drive mode running through a suitable display setup. Sega designed the TeraDrive’s analogue RGB output to... Continue reading

My Fifteen Minutes Starts Now!

Nix McRetro // 7th January 2013 // Gaming, YouTube

Without further delay, hurry over to ChimeraRevo to enjoy my first appearance there, and hopefully not the last. For anyone who doesn’t speak Italian, Google Translate may be useful. It was all made possible by one of my good YouTube friends, MasterControl90. You are all my friends, don’t worry! Be... Continue reading