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80kg Weight Loss Goal Achieved!

Nix McRetro // 7th August 2016 // News

Look at that, I don’t need to slap a red line on this one, the goal line in green is more than enough to show I’ve hit my target at an average rate of 1.14kg per week for the past seven months. 35.4kg shed and my meals 30% tastier. (I... Continue reading

IRC RIP in Peace

Nix McRetro // 6th August 2016 // News

While it was an interesting experience running an IRC server and getting it all setup to work properly. It’s now defunct and removed from the McRetro.net server. Nothing much happened on it and it was taking up space in my dock. So with very little regret we bid the McRetroNET... Continue reading

Programming w/ Visual Studio - Week 1

Nix McRetro // 4th August 2016 // News, Programming

I’ve begun my journey into the world of programming, with no experience apart from hackery of html and css I enter onto a new journey. Below is my first program in full that I wrote. I actually made another one that calculated BMI properly, but that has been lost for... Continue reading

Third Party Dreamcast Shell

Nix McRetro // 2nd August 2016 // Hacks, News, Sega

I’ve bumped a smoke/sun tainted Dreamcast into a fresh new smokey translucent case. Fits in pretty well with the This is COOL Saturn. I had a Broadband Adapter (BBA) in this particular Dreamcast so I dremelled away at the modem port to make the RJ11 socket an RJ45 size. For... Continue reading

Johnny Five is Healthy BMI

Nix McRetro // 1st August 2016 // News

I think I’ve won this game, I’ve smashed through the weight loss and achieved a healthy BMI down from an “Obese” 35 point something. The healthy range is between 18 and 25 so I’ve just entered a good place to live for the rest of my salmon, chicken, milk, high... Continue reading