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Programming with Visual Studio - Abandoned!

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

Programming with Visual Studio - Abandoned!

Oh! Looky! I made a Visual Basic program with some sort of windowed interface! What a feat! Pressing the Hide button hides the background, Prairie Wind, and Show makes it appear again. Change your name in the text box and it even greets you. How human-like! However, all is not... Continue reading

PICO Fuses by Littelfuse

Nix McRetro // 15th August 2016 // Categories: Repairs

There I was sitting at my workbench replacing a fuse in a Super Famicom when I noticed the original part was marked 1.5 A, 125 V. My first thought was: “125 V? But this is Australia! We have 250 V fuses here!” That was the wrong reason. A fuse’s voltage... Continue reading

Capacitor Order Day

Nix McRetro // 14th August 2016 // Categories: 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 // Categories: Guides, Hacks, Sega

I finally got around to doing some soldering on a somewhat faulty Mega Drive 2 I had lying about. I started from the old gieskes.nl circuit-bending diagram, but after checking the VRAM pinout properly I deliberately stayed away from the VCC and VSS power pins. On the VRAM I concentrated... Continue reading

Trout is Salmon, Salmon is Life

Nix McRetro // 11th August 2016 // Categories: News

I know a lot of you enjoy reading this blog and I can’t help but blog utter rubbish. Today the topic is salmon, or rather trout and the similarities it shares with salmon. There’s been a lot of misinformation going around and I’d like to help stir that pot of... Continue reading