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Sega Mega Drive 2 50 Hz / 60 Hz Mod, Mark II

Nix McRetro // 20th January 2013 // Categories: Hacks, Repairs, Sega

This is the Mega Drive 2 I was talking about in the previous video. I knew I had it somewhere. More importantly, I knew this one worked properly. Well… close to properly. It’s another peaceful Sunday afternoon, despite me initially thinking it was Saturday morning. That’s what happens when you... Continue reading

Drilling Region-Switch Holes in a Sega Mega Drive 2

Nix McRetro // 18th January 2013 // Categories: Hacks, Sega, YouTube

Some sock puppetry is also in this video. I’m not entirely sure why, but apparently that’s what happens when I spend too much time surrounded by old Sega hardware! I’d been working on a couple of Mega Drive 2 region modifications, with the intention of giving the finished machines to... Continue reading

VL400C-I 486 Motherboard Failure

Nix McRetro // 18th January 2013 // Categories: IBM PC, Repairs, YouTube

Here I try to get an old VL400C-I 486 motherboard going. So much hope. Two other 486 boards had already been scrapped, and I had pinned my hopes on this one finally giving me somewhere useful to install the growing pile of ISA cards. The plan was to put together... Continue reading

Apple Macintosh LC 475: Revenge of the Microdrives

Nix McRetro // 18th January 2013 // Categories: Apple, Hacks, YouTube

The Microdrives are back! Just when I thought I’d had enough of trying to make these things work, here I am with three Hitachi Microdrives, a CompactFlash card and the PCD-60B in the Apple Macintosh LC 475. In the previous attempt I discovered that the particular 4 GB drives I’d... Continue reading

Apple Macintosh LC 475: 256 MB PCMCIA Flash Card Test

Nix McRetro // 17th January 2013 // Categories: Apple, Hacks, YouTube

Another round of experiments with the PCD-60B SCSI card reader in the LC 475. The SD-card adapter still isn’t cooperating, and the Microdrives have not exactly covered themselves in glory either. Today I’ve got a few more things to try, including a 256 MB PCMCIA flash card. Surely something is... Continue reading