GeoCities, MiSTer and a Few Other Bits
Last October I was working on my GeoCities Rebuild as part of RetroChallenge 2021/10. Most of the technical details made it into the worklog, but I was also posting updates over on the Australian Computer Museum Society forum. There were a few replies and slightly off-topic conversations that I never...
The GeoCities Rebuild Worklog
Historical worklog: These are my 2021-2022 working notes for the GeoCities rebuild, complete with experiments, dead ends and destructive shell commands. Some command sequences and Apache configuration examples have lost their line breaks or contain escaped characters from the old page conversion. I have preserved those damaged fragments rather than...
Xbox 360 E 4GB - 500GB HDDHackr Upgrade
What feels like 500 years ago now, I had an Xbox 360 to play Burnout Revenge. I picked up a brand-new Xbox 360 from my local EB Games… Yeeeep! That’s how long ago it was, the darned thing was brand new!
Mayumi 4 | PIC12C508A | SCPH-7502 | PU-22
This is the Mayumi 4 installation I used with a PIC12C508A on an SCPH-7502 PlayStation with a PU-22 motherboard.
Mayumi 4 | PIC12F629 | SCPH-7502 | PU-22
This is the Mayumi 4 installation I used with a PIC12F629 on an SCPH-7502 PlayStation with a PU-22 motherboard.
Sony PlayStation Modchip Overview
First up, a little information on the PlayStation modchips and programmers I was experimenting with around 2016. A lot of this came from educated guesses, forum posts, things I read on the internet of all places, and my own trial and error.
Take Back the Darknet (Part 1)
Historical guide: This 14-part series documents the Raspberry Pi, Raspbian Jessie and Tor setup I used in January 2016. The original preamble was marked as an incomplete draft.
SuperCIC Installation Notes for SNSP-CPU-02 with F413A
These are my SuperCIC installation notes and photographs for an SNSP-CPU-02 board with the PAL F413A CIC. The original article left the PIC programming instructions and circuit diagram as placeholders, so it is not a complete standalone guide. Use Wolfsoft’s installation guide and the SuperCIC project documentation linked below alongside...
Block Imaging Drives with dd under Mac OS X
I’ve found dd extremely useful when dealing with older or otherwise inconvenient disk formats. This was particularly handy for Mac OS Standard / HFS media because OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard treated HFS as read-only. I also used it for Raspberry Pi media containing Linux filesystems that OS X did...
Hakko 808 Desoldering Tool: Removing a Failed Capacitor
Introducing the incredible Hakko 808 desoldering gun. This thing is amazing.
Removing an EPROM from a Sega Prototype / Test Cartridge
So I was thinking, why not? What a fun video it turned out to be!