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Mass Effect Legendary Edition (2021, PS4 Live Stream)

Nix McRetro // 17th April 2022 // Gaming, Livestream, Sony

This is as far as I got with Mass Effect. I was recently gifted the Legendary Edition and found the time to fire it up. You might notice I didn’t get much further than naming my character honkers. I was trying to put Honkers the Goose, but it crashed on... Continue reading

Avtek MegaPlus V.32bis - First Connection Attempt

Nix McRetro // 9th April 2022 // IBM PC, YouTube

Another test of the Avtek MegaPlus V.32bis Modem (Model CD950). We’re performing a blind dial from the Mac app Serial, with no server at the other end to answer. In a future video, after we reset the VoIP box (PAP2T or similar), we should be able to dial another modem.... Continue reading

Cyberpunk 2077 PS4 1.51 Patch Update... Update

Nix McRetro // 2nd April 2022 // Gaming, Sony, YouTube

How did they break the game to the point of Sony needing to release a system patch to fix it? That’s impressive. But you know what I think is even more impressive? A platinum trophy in Cyberpunk 2077 on a PS4 slim. It was a struggle but the completionist in... Continue reading

Cyberpunk 2077 PS4 1.51 Patch Update

Nix McRetro // 17th February 2022 // Gaming, Sony, YouTube

Look, I know Cyberpunk 2077 1.31 wasn’t perfect on the trusty old PlayStation 4 as seen above. I mean I wasn’t expecting to be able to get into this car - but here I am, inside the car. Well, now the enemies can see me and I’m stuck in the... Continue reading

The GeoCities Rebuild Worklog

Nix McRetro // 6th February 2022 // Guides, Linux, Programming

Historical worklog: These are my 2021-2022 working notes for the GeoCities rebuild, complete with experiments, dead ends and destructive shell commands. Some command sequences and Apache configuration examples have lost their line breaks or contain escaped characters from the old page conversion. I have preserved those damaged fragments rather than... Continue reading