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Sakura Taisen: Episode 5 Live Stream

Nix McRetro // 24th May 2020 // Gaming, Livestream, Sega

Sumire and Kanna get off to a bad start in the play! Good thing Ogami is here to try and patch things up between them… just need to find that anti-venom… I know it’s around this spooky mansion somewhere! Satan and Miroku are the two surviving, of four, villains left... Continue reading

Sakura Taisen: Episode 4 Live Stream

Nix McRetro // 19th May 2020 // Gaming, Livestream, Sega

The past three live streams have all had the audio stuttering and running at a higher pitch (or tone) than they should have been… whoops! Looks like the Inogeni USB capture device I am using had some quirks until I forced it to 1080p, down from 2160p (4K), in Mac... Continue reading

NUC8i7BEH Hackintosh Catalina Overview

Nix McRetro // 10th May 2020 // Apple, IBM PC, YouTube

A bit of fiddling and we finally get bluetooth working on the NUC8i7BEH which is running the latest and greatest from Apple at the time of this post which is Mac OS Catalina 10.15.4. Most other things work well at this stage, I haven’t had any issues with stability. Originally... Continue reading

Sega Mega Drive PAL 60hz Full Colour Mod

Nix McRetro // 7th May 2020 // Sega

Sega Mega Drive PAL 60hz Full Colour Mod

I’ve had this page bookmarked for something close to five years now, the site I references not only updated their links so much that I couldn’t find the darned thing but the site went bust! I really need to be more proactive with linking to things before they disappear off... Continue reading

Miscellaneous TeraDrive Information

Nix McRetro // 4th May 2020 // IBM PC, Sega

Teradrive various information secure The story of becoming 486. The old log was uploaded to the data library with NDEV’s FDEVICE, and there was a story of 486 conversion in the fourth log. Specifically, you can remove the 286 of the main body, solder the PLCC socket, and put the... Continue reading