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Programming Atmel AVR Chips with a PICkit 2 and AVRDUDE on a Mac

Nix McRetro // 30th December 2013 // Guides, Programming

Programming Atmel AVR Chips with a PICkit 2 and AVRDUDE on a Mac

PICkit 2 is a Microchip programmer/debugger designed primarily for PIC chips. The fun part is that AVRDUDE can also use it as an ISP programmer for supported AVR microcontrollers, including the ATmega328P I was working with here. That AVR support comes from AVRDUDE rather than Microchip’s PICkit 2 application. At... Continue reading

Dumping the Japanese Sega Channel BIOS (Success)

Nix McRetro // 23rd December 2013 // Programming, Sega, YouTube

Victory is mine! And yours, and the internets! Please enjoy the dump of the Sega Channel BIOS brought to you by Dr. Eggfan and myself. For science! More can be seen on Sonic Retro. Sega Channel Japan series The Theme from Sega Channel Japan Japanese Sega Channel Adapter - First... Continue reading

Dumping the Japanese Sega Channel BIOS (Failure 2)

Nix McRetro // 22nd December 2013 // Programming, Sega, YouTube

Another bad dump on this one too. Multiple dumps, different data each time, and the checksums don’t match! How frustrating, let’s see if we can get to the bottom of this one in the next video. Sega Channel Japan series The Theme from Sega Channel Japan Japanese Sega Channel Adapter... Continue reading

Dumping the Japanese Sega Channel BIOS (Failure 1)

Nix McRetro // 22nd December 2013 // Programming, Sega, YouTube

We’re attempting to dump the good old BIOS from the older of the two units, but what’s this? The dump doesn’t seem to pass the checksum check! Uh oh! Sounds like another video or two is needed to solve this mystery! Sega Channel Japan series The Theme from Sega Channel... Continue reading

Socketing the Sega Channel Adapter BIOS (Japanese Version)

Nix McRetro // 9th December 2013 // Hacks, Sega, YouTube

We needed to remove the ROM chips to dump them, so why not video it? Enjoy! :D Sega Channel Japan series The Theme from Sega Channel Japan Japanese Sega Channel Adapter - First Look Japanese Sega Channel Adapter - Second Look Dumping the Japanese Sega Channel BIOS (Failure 1) Dumping... Continue reading