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Sega Dreamcast PAL Revision VA0 Update

Nix McRetro // 27th October 2012 // Sega, YouTube

Today I just couldn’t help myself. Dug into the VA0 PAL Dreamcast and took some photos of the internals. Interestingly it is definitely a VA0 board. There is no denying that. I wonder what the difference is between it and say a Japanese VA0 or a US VA0 though. And... Continue reading

Sega Dreamcast PAL Revision VA0

Nix McRetro // 25th October 2012 // News, Sega

A Dreamcast post? It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Here is a Dreamcast I picked up a while ago from the UK. Realised I hadn’t posted anything about actually receiving it. It did arrive and has shown some issues like randomly restarting. That said, I’ve had it on test with... Continue reading

IBM PS/2 Model 30 8086 Sound, Video and CPU Upgrades

Nix McRetro // 25th October 2012 // IBM PC, YouTube

Easiest to start with the CPU Upgrade I suppose… Popped in a V30 8MHz chip and 8087-2 co-processor. Ran it through some basic benchmarks and it is a fair deal better than the vanilla 8086-2 (8MHz) CPU that was installed. I really didn’t expect to see that much of a... Continue reading

Osborne 486 Windows 95 Installation Demo

Nix McRetro // 24th October 2012 // IBM PC, YouTube

Finally got the above video together and shows Windows 95 installed. CD-ROM works most of the time, looks like I need to find original discs as it doesn’t really like reading any burnt discs and tends to lock up the system. My TDK Gold 80 minute discs tend to work... Continue reading

Osborne 486 MBR Virus Infection

Nix McRetro // 23rd October 2012 // IBM PC, Repairs

Looks like I am not the only one who has a virus at the moment. Trusty old Osborne got the MBR of the hard drive infected with a virus from the Sound Blaster 16 install disks I installed earlier to get sound / CD-ROM functionality. It was only discovered after... Continue reading