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GeoCities, MiSTer and a Few Other Bits

Nix McRetro // 10th February 2022 // Categories: Guides, Linux, Programming

Last October I was working on my GeoCities Rebuild as part of RetroChallenge 2021/10. Most of the technical details made it into the worklog, but I was also posting updates over on the Australian Computer Museum Society forum. There were a few replies and slightly off-topic conversations that I never... Continue reading

The GeoCities Rebuild Worklog

Nix McRetro // 6th February 2022 // Categories: 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

Cloudflare CDN v2

Nix McRetro // 30th January 2022 // Categories: Linux, News

Those who are long-term subscribers would remember that way back in 2016 I tried putting my sites behind Cloudflare. I have been hesitant to let my little home server loose on the big world wide CDN web. That move was made, again, around a week ago, with the home server... Continue reading

I Found Ness! EarthBound Revisited

Nix McRetro // 27th January 2022 // Categories: Gaming, Nintendo

Some further digging into my “to be sorted” folder has revealed some save games for EarthBound. They appear to date back to October 2013. Talk about a blast from the past! I had two saves, one at level 75 and another at level 97. The amount of grinding involved between... Continue reading

Apple Macintosh LC 475: 68k Gaming

Nix McRetro // 24th January 2022 // Categories: Apple, Gaming

Recently I’ve been trying to sort all the haphazardly “organised” files on my cold storage hard drive. I came across a disk image of my LC 475 and a pack of 600 games that I’d never looked into. I’m on an M1 Mac and Basilisk II still works. Incredible, I... Continue reading