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Next console build with a board off eBay. It works! No signal on the RF out but the multiport is fine. I can live with that.

Decided my transparent NES enclosure needs some internal lights. Still designing exactly where I want to mount them and how they’ll behave.

StarFlight on the C64.

YouTube video by Spicy V Rick and Morty Creator Dan Harmon goes on crazy anti Fascist rant.

“Don’t die talking to cancer!”

Phantasy Star I was my motivation for getting the console again.

It has RGB out ;) Unfortunately, not many ways to take advantage of it back in the day.

Who is else had a SMS? This Sega Master System controller arrived completely dead; no buttons working. Narrowed the issue down to a shorted ground wire somewhere in the cable. Soldered on a new 9-pin cable and viola, works!

Yeah, I have one of the new ‘knockoffs’ and, while it ‘works’, the action is completely different.

I recently restored an NES board and just received a pair of original controllers. The patent for these controllers expired some years ago, but I wanted trademarked ‘real thing.’ Yeah, I’m that nerdy 😉

Well, I can’t speak for ‘this generation’ since I’m an ‘old’ but I think there’s value beyond nostalgia in the sense some excellent games were created on resource limited platforms with no engine; on the metal. Everything was greenfield … and that’s fun, not shitty.

My New Year’s Day project. Board to convert the Sega 8-pin RGB signal to VGA. I’ve seen lots of commercial 8-pin RGB to SCART adapters but going to VGA is more direct for A/V equipment in the US and I already have an upscaler that can take VGA.

I needed a bigger boat. Building out the retro rig; Intellivision, Master System, Genesis, NES and C64 Ultimate. All original boards save for the C64 Ultimate which is a ‘new’ product. I’m refurbishing the, once broken, NES. #retrogaming.

Bubble lights and beer sausage. My Xmas staples.

So, back in the 80s, did you ever contact the Consumer Adjustment Center? (manual page from Intellivision Sea Battle).

I ordered a Contemporary Research 232-ATSC than can take composite directly. Not sure how the scaling compares to the SC unit though. May keep that in mind for another console ;)

The beginnings of a retro game console setup. My old Intellivision II being the first console. Waiting on an upscaler device to output to a modern display.

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I can’t count the number of times ChatGPT has made me facepalm. 🤦‍♀️ I don’t recall who made the prediction but it was essentially “AI wont take your job, it will just make it suck” Yep.

Stocking stuffer fun 😂

YouTube video by Arch Enemy - Topic Rise of the Tyrant

Not the song I expected to find in Apple’s The Morning Show … but 🤘

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Now I know why I liked this bag. It’s covered in points to clip to. No more digging for keys 🙃

Sasha DiGiulian endures stormy weather to free-climb El Capitan's longest route, becoming first woman to do so Sasha DiGiulian free-climbed the roughly 3,000-foot sheer granite wall in Yosemite National Park over the course of 23 days.

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Late Fall in the PNW. Tis the season for high gravity beer. Baltic Porter, 7.9% abv. A strong European lager with hints of caramel and often licorice notes. Historically, the preferred beverage of Catherine the Great. #homebrew

Vacation impulse buys. I feel like these pair well for some reason 😂

Last night in SD. Sun just set behind the courtyard of our hotel. Boo! Went to the San Diego museum of Art. There was a special exhibit of Castaneda. New to me; abstract with themes self reflection often depicted by recursion in the work.

J-Tree ;) Fantastic this time of year. High 70s today … and sun 🌞