What a wonderful time to be alive. So much has been going on! Where to begin…

Maybe we’ll start with a massive shout-out to SomeOrdinaryGamers on YouTube, who came across the onion version of this very website.

I’m glad my Hackers references were picked up too! SOG had around 500,000 subscribers, and the attention sent roughly 400 new subscribers over to McRetro Gaming. Welcome!

The same website files were being served by Apache to both the normal mcretro.net site and a Tor onion service. I set it up mostly because I was curious about how onion services worked. After plenty of trial and error, I managed to get the mirror running. It’s really quite clever!

The onion service in this video used the version 2 address system that existed at the time. Tor retired v2 onion services in 2021, so that old address and the setup guide that followed should now be treated as historical rather than current instructions.

Uptime was sitting at a massive 36 days, more than I’d managed before, all on the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Zero had also appeared by then. Incredible little thing, although I wasn’t planning to make it carry this particular web-server workload.

We’d also signed up Steve McRetro as a co-host on McRetro Gaming. I was kind of hoping to hear back from SuperNick (Nick) as well, but it seems he had moved on to other projects. The video above is something like what the live streams will be like. I’m even toying with doing Retro Repairs via live stream… tempting! :)

For now, I’ve got about a week’s worth of sleep to catch up on, so I’ll see everyone when the PS4 returns home.

It’s gone out for a walk!

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