YouTube video by vswitchzero CD-ROM Drive Emulation on the PicoGUS!

With @polpo.org 's latest 3.x firmware, the PicoGUS is able to emulate a CD-ROM drive! Using ISO and BIN/CUE images on a USB stick, it eliminates yet another unreliable component with moving parts in a retro PC. Join me today as I take this new feature for a spin!

youtu.be/08IPnmvuatw

I remember playing this at Jillian's.

It’s good knowing someone else tried similar steps, I was maybe heading in the right direction. Before the disassembly I didn’t get anywhere, so thank you for that. Displaced Gamers’ YouTube series dealing with these issues helped me understand more, so I should revisit it.

I kind of remember that almost worked changing this. Slow frame rate, but it wasn’t stable. It kept crashing. I would’ve been happy if it was slow but stable, then I could look for any optimizations. But again, I don’t know what I’m doing.

That is exactly was what I was trying to figure out myself, but maybe I didn’t go low enough. If the viewport could be shrunk, that would have been my other hope for optimization. Storing some kind of optimized math routines in ROM would be my next guess, but also beyond my abilities.

Oh lol, I already took a stab at it with your documented version, but I had no idea what I was doing. I’m impressed you got it to work at all on NTSC, and would love to just try the terrible frame rate version on my NES (and see what changes you made!). At least it wouldn’t look all glitchy.

Hey, the NES version is 6502, right? Bonus points if you get it to work on NTSC, it thinks too hard during VBlank.

YouTube video by Ron's Computer Videos PSA: Tariffs will destroy the vintage computing hobby (if you let them).

Well... here we are. #Tariffs will destroy the vintage computing hobby (if you let them). youtu.be/yRpltgz3ldo

YouTube video by UMR Tetris the Grandmaster 1 and 2 for GBA - TGM Mode (3-28-25)

Interesting thing on GBATemp: gbatemp.net/threads/tgma...

Well, that's one way to play TGM. On the GBA, no less.

I still suck at it, though. Not used to the rotation system at all or the immense speed once we're at 20G speed.

#blutoid
#gba
#tetris

youtu.be/o2dAYr_qm10

Stereograms! 3.5” floppy

is it this?

I’m confused about the unreleased 552. Some I recognized as released, but what criteria determined inclusion? Slightly misspelled names for games like Caveman Ughlympics? Is it US centric for games with different names outside Japan like Final Mission? Or new Ghostbusters II being PAL/JPN only?

Neo and the MD scene

"If you get caught using that ..."
I had an MD recorder for music when The Matrix came out, but the data disc scene fascinated me. It’s probably for the best I never got one, the inefficiencies are hilarious. I keep telling myself I don’t need one, but it’s still so cool to see it in action.

I still have a similar one. It was great! No boot up time, instant fun. Same for my old LCD Tetris game.

TGM4 Tetris the Grand Master 4 -Absolute Eye- running off a PC CRT VGA monitor and an old 360 arcade stick

Playing #TGM 4 all day on an old monitor, love that they kept the 4:3 option!

surely there’s a way to
get the ARM Mac to work, maybe using something like the OSSC Pro as a downscaler?

We’re going to have to jailbreak our appliances just to add basic features back, like hold down a button combo for 5 seconds to enable rinse mode. Something they could’ve easily done in the first place.

Try the Bubble Bobble intro, one of my favorites on Tandy 1000

Clearance is the main issue finding an appropriate button, all the screw in push buttons I see stick out too far into the case.

Gutted Catchphrase game with Raspberry Pi Pico, I2C IIC 1602 LED screen

I’m working on a customizable Catch Phrase project using a Raspberry #PiPico, but I need suggestions for push buttons. Since the new LED screen occupies the same space as the original board, I can only reuse the Next button. I need something thin enough to fit, but also possibly screws in. #arduino

just need to add Famicom Keyboard support

【ファミコンゲーム開発日記】
穴掘りゲームはちょっと一休みです🍵
ファミコンの機械語モニタを作り始めました。
（いったいなぜ？？？笑）
メモリ表示、メモリ入力、ディスアセンブルを実装しました🤗
次はアセンブリ入力実装予定です。
#nes #nesdev #homebrew

This is big news for the #MegaDuck laptop!

Finally we have aftermarket SRAM/Save Carts for this console, esp useful since the OEM Save Carts are basically impossible to find now.

Barcode Battler II along with Famicom game and adapter running on a NES (with EXP and cart adapters). Instructions and cards scattered about with the game running on a CRT TV.

I own one and recently got the Famicom game/adapter, but I’ve never been able to make ANY progress, keep dying repeatedly. The cards it comes with seem particularly useless. I want to like it but IDGI. Side note, at some point they renamed those other toys to Calico Critters in the US. 🤔

My father never understand why I traded the more powerful and colorful Lynx for a GameBoy. Even if you “do the math” on specs, the underpowered little green had many more games I enjoyed, especially with a link cable.

I keep getting an internal server error resetting my password. It may not have liked the special character I used signing up, either.

are you also preserving the pencil puzzles?

YouTube video by Level 2 Jeff Don (Novaspirit Tech) passed away

I hate to post this, but Don Hui (Novaspirit Tech) passed away yesterday.

Very brief video about it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkGq...) — his family requested donations to his son Zachery's 529 college fund: (see reply)

I made* a free web app for tracking the bank in Monopoly
monacleman.neocities.org
*not taking full credit since AI helped, so consider it public domain. my actual web coding skills are in the GeoCities age, seemed appropriate to dump here. it’s even a PWA so you can add it to your home screen. 💸

Wooden chopsticks go through the hole of the Apple //c monitor and its stand to prevent the screen from tipping over onto the ground.

Has anyone managed to 3D print replacement parts for the Apple //c monitor stand? I’ve resorted to using a chopstick to prevent my monitor from falling off.

Macintosh Performa 6200CD

Finally done with the Performa 6200CD. Moved off everything from the IDE drive and got BlueSCSI to boot correctly. Should be easy to add stuff now, and it runs a lot faster. Now I need to repair the SE’s floppy drive that won’t stop trying to eject.