Today we bumble around the Sega TeraDrive menus, they were quite exciting to play with. If only they had managed to get a 486-class CPU in the sucker it would have been the best retrogaming experience ever! Instead we end … Continue reading
Category: IBM PC
Gigabyte Dual BIOS and the Host Protected Area
Gigabyte motherboards with an Xpress Recovery BIOS are apparently affected by a bug! The following is taken from here.
“When the drive is first in the boot order, Gigabyte’s BIOS will write a backup copy of itself to a … Continue reading
Sega TeraDrive Model 3 â Faulty Power Supply (Part 6)
It’s important to know your limits and when to walk away. With that, I think we’re about done with the Sega … Continue reading
Sega TeraDrive Model 3 â Faulty Power Supply (Part 5)
We’re well into summer time here in Sydney, Australia. Time to throw another shrimp on the barbie as they say. Not … Continue reading
Sega TeraDrive Model 3 â Faulty Power Supply (Part 4)
In this instalment of “Faulty Power Supply” we desolder some capacitors, apparently at random! We find a little bit of trouble … Continue reading
Sega TeraDrive Model 3 – Faulty Power Supply (Part 3)
We delve into the power supply grabbing any capacitor values we can see. This is a continuation of parts one and … Continue reading
Sega TeraDrive Model 3 Extreme ScanDisk
With everything recapped, we move to scan the disks… with ScanDisk… in realtime! For a change of pace at the end we then speed … Continue reading
Recapping the Sega TeraDrive Model 2 Floppy Drives
Incredible news, I can see the clearing up ahead where these recapping videos disappear. Keep your channel set to McRetro.net and we’ll see you through.
In other sad news, today we have lost AssemblerGames.com. Everyone can now head to ObscureGamers.com… Continue reading
Recapping the Sega TeraDrive Model 3 Floppy Drive
The hard drives are all recapped, so we move along to the floppy drives. As alerted by Ronnie of Assembler Games, they … Continue reading
Sega TeraDrive WDL-330P Comparison
With recapping of the 30MB hard drives complete, we have a look at the exterior of each drive including their model numbers and whatnot. Next … Continue reading
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