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After another busy couple of weeks, I finally have my new retro room/workshop in a possition where I can start to enjoy it. Obviously, a room like this is never truly finished, but at least I can now escape from the real world and have a nice place to relax. So let’s have a quick […]

I now have my computer desks in and setup so just thought i’d do a quick post showing what it looks like. Still got some cable management to do and then I need to make a start on cabling up to 20+ consoles on the other side of the room! I was hoping to get […]

I have just finished my two week break from work, of which much of it was spent doing bits and pieces to the new retro room. Still have a lot to do, but here are a couple of updated pics. More to come in the following weeks 😀

Things have been a bit quiet recently as we have been going through the stressful process of moving house. But we are now in, and work has started on the new home of north devon retro archive! I would by lying if I didn’t say one of the biggest reasons I picked this house, was […]

After a trip down to the South West Amiga Group’s latest meet on Saturday, I strangely enough ended up returning home with an Acorn Archimedes A3010. The computer was labelled as non-working and I paid the sum of £50 for the privilege of bringing it home with me. These computers are notorious for being destroyed […]

I know I’ve been a bit quiet for a few months but I have been working on a big project in the background (More info soon). To keep me busy though, I decided I needed something new to have a tinker with, so I purchased a non working Apple Macintosh Classic II off Ebay. The […]

Ok, so I actually bought a 2DS quite a while ago and forgot to add it to my list. So when a cheap boxed 2DS came up for sale I picked it up. Only afterward did I start getting deja vu and realised there was one sitting on display in my cabinet lol. It did […]

As anyone who has looked through this website is probably aware, I like to modify my old hardware to add modern features to them, especially when it comes to loading games. I have several “Everdrive” type devices connected to my cartridge consoles and many ODE (Optical Drive Emualtors) for my disc-based consoles such as the […]

Since getting the Quest 3 on launch day, I really wanted to have a mess around with the new mixed reality feature. So I installed Unity and started to re-familiarise myself with it as it’s been a while since I last used it. After searching around for a while, I found an open-source Gameboy Emulator […]

One of the most obvious Amigas missing from my collection was the Amiga A1200. I already have a CD32 with a TF330 card so this was my alternative to the A1200, but I decided that I needed to get the real experience. So here it is, a lovely condition A1200 with 4MB of additional memory […]

When I first heard about the Analogue Pocket, I thought it looked like a nice device, but I didn’t commit myself to a pre-order. I already have several emulation handhelds that can play pretty much anything I want them to. But, as time passed, I started seeing more reviews of the device saying that it […]

These days Everdrive cartridges are the easiest way of transferring ROM files over to the N64. But this wasn’t always the case. Back in the late 90s, a company named Bung Enterprises Limited released its Doctor V64 device. This device was marketed originally as an N64 dev kit, and some companies did actually use it […]