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The IBM Personal System/55 5510

Nix McRetro // 11th April 2020 // IBM PC, Sega

The IBM PS/55 5510 material below is a rough machine translation of FunkyGoods’ Japanese article about the PS/55 TYPE 5510, published on 21 February 2010. It caught my attention because of the overlap with the Sega TeraDrive Model 2. The photographs and hands-on observations belong to the original article, not... Continue reading

Nintendo Wii 4.3E LetterBomb / HackMii Softmod

Nix McRetro // 10th April 2020 // Nintendo

Oh trusty old Nintendo Wii, how I had forgotten about thee. Looking through my “To Be Sorted” bookmarks folder I found the old GroovyPost guide I must have followed when I softmodded a Wii running System Menu 4.3E using LetterBomb and the HackMii Installer. Boy oh boy, does that take... Continue reading

Programming on Sega Consoles

Nix McRetro // 6th April 2020 // Devkit, Sega

GENDEV - Genesis development environment for Linux. SGDK - SGDK is a free and open development kit for the Sega Mega Drive. Sega Saturn SDK - Linux / Windows Continue reading

MiSTer FPGA on the DE10-Nano

Nix McRetro // 4th April 2020 // Programming

I finally got around to putting together my MiSTer FPGA. Below is a list of all the things I bought to get it into one piece. Sadly, the case I so desire is never in stock, so I’ve just gone with an open design for the time being. Eventually it... Continue reading

Looking at the SNES 1CHIP

Nix McRetro // 28th March 2020 // Nintendo, YouTube

Today we look back on the Super Nintendo 1CHIP console. Relevant at just about any time in history, really! To be fair, this video was already a few years old when I posted it. Today I’m actually adding RGB output to a Japanese Nintendo 64, which is quite straightforward if... Continue reading