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The Birth of Eleventy7.net

Nix McRetro // 17th August 2016 // IBM PC, News

WordPress does not like working with darknets due to something, something. What were those somethings? I’ve already forgotten. However, it has led me on a new journey to create eleventy7.net - not the hip Christian rock band or anything to do with The Hobbit… but a website dedicated to the... Continue reading

Programming w/ Visual Studio Abandoned!

Nix McRetro // 17th August 2016 // Programming, Study

Oh! Looky! I made a visual basic program with some sort of windowed interface! What a feat! Pressing the button to hide will hide the background (Prairie Wind) and show will make it show! Plus change your name in the text box and it greets you, how human-like! However all... Continue reading

PICO Fuses by Littelfuse

Nix McRetro // 15th August 2016 // Repairs

There I was sitting at my workbench replacing a fuse on a Super Famicom when it occurred to me it had a 125V 1.5A fuse. 125V, but this is Australia! We have 250V fuses here! I did some reading on the internet and it appears to be possible to use... Continue reading

Capacitor Order Day

Nix McRetro // 14th August 2016 // Nintendo, Repairs, Sega

Capacitors, there’s nothing more fun than replacing capacitors. As a result I’m on the hunt for the following capacitors from my local friendly Element14 / Farnell. TeraDrive power supply is on the list as are four Super Nintendo / Super Famicoms. SNES values are thanks to Console5. Turns out I... Continue reading

Circuit Bending - Sonic the Hedgehog

Nix McRetro // 12th August 2016 // Guides, Hacks, Sega

I finally got around to doing some soldering on a somewhat faulty Mega Drive 2 I had lying about. Now I took the schematic from gieskes.nl but noticed that there were two VSS / VCC lines into the 40 pin static VRAM. So I decided to avoid them and just... Continue reading