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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 […]

I’ve been fairly busy recently and even though I’ve still been doing a lot of stuff with retro hardware, I’ve not found time to update this site. So I need to catch up, starting with this one which I have actually had for over a year but I knew it wasn’t working so has been […]

The Dragon 32 was an 8-bit computer based around the Motorola MC6809E CPU which meant it was very similar to the Tandy TRS80 CoCo range of computers. This particular example came to my collection as a nonworking example. When powered on the screen just showed a load of garbage. After dealing with a couple of […]

After playing around with the Video Genie system which was a clone of the original TRS80, I decided it would be fun to explore the Tandy line of computers a bit more. So after looking around a bit I settled on the TRS-80 CoCo 2 (Color Computer 2). This particular example had the benefit of […]

This one is something a bit different. The Video Genie EG3003 is a hong kong made clone of the Tandy TRS-80 computer. It was sold under several different names worldwide such as the TRZ-80 and the Dick Smith System 80. But for us UK folk it was the Video Genie. Although it was a clone […]

With the exception of an original Apple iPad and an iPod Nano back in the day, I’ve never owned another Apple device. On the mobile side, I’ve always had Android devices from their first release, and from the computing side, I’ve always been in the PC camp. But back in the time of the 8-bit […]

After seeing a YouTube video about a modder that had made a super slim version of the already slim Playstation 2, I couldn’t resist building one myself! This mod takes a 79xxx Series PS2 Slim (Which had a smaller main PCB than other models), then trims it down a bit more and removes the optical […]

The bedroom needed a new carpet so I decided to go for a re-design. Originally I was going to build another custom unit, but after measuring IKEAs Kallax units, it turned out that for once, they were exactly the right size for what I required. So one trip to IKEA later and a lot of […]