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CleanDrawer script released on OS4Depot. (In kt_scripts archive)

Amigans about 8 days ago

CleanDrawer now available on OS4Depot in the kt_scripts archive.Ever get tired of using the workbench windows menues, "Clean up by", then "resize to fit", then "Snapshot" just to arrange your drawers and windows?Clean Drawers …

PC 486SX (ao486) • SAVIOR.EXE: A general solution for backing up DOS saves

MISTerFPGA about 10 days ago

Work in ProgressThis is a design document specifying the functionality of a program that is not finished. I've implemented a lot of the functionality described below, but not all of it, and there are probably a lot of bugs. I can make an alpha version ava …

PC 486SX (ao486) • archive.org folder synchronization script [0mhz-dos]

MISTerFPGA about 12 days ago

Hey folks, I hacked this up today for my own use. It will synchronize any item folder @ archive.org (default is 0mhz-dos) with a local directory. Unlike the other download script I saw mentioned here, it doesn't need to parse XML, works for any archive.or …
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A Fanmade Mega Man 3 SNES Port Is In The Works

Time Extension about 21 days ago

"I've waited long enough".Infidelity, the talented porter who was previously behind the fanmade SNES conversions of Mega Man, Mega Man II, and Mega Man IV, has revealed that he is finally going to give the same treatment to the third entry in the classic s …
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Puck Man PCB (Namco)

The Arcade Blogger about 25 days ago

44 years ago (22 May 1980 to be precise), the first Puck Man machine was placed in an arcade in Tokyo’s Shibuya district, starting a worldwide global videogaming phenomenon. Today, Namco’s Pac-Man remains one of the most recognisable video gam …

Newcomers Forum • Confused About ROM Placement?

MISTerFPGA about 1 month ago

Hi,I have the htgdb-gamepack's from archive.orgI mainly figured out where the zips go etc but some are confusing such as the darksoft packs e.g Darksoft CPS2 2020-05-24.7zWhich folder do they go in on /media/fat/games ?Is there a guide for these packs?Tha …
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'Goemon Oedo Daikaiten' English Fan Translation Is Now Available

Time Extension about 1 month ago

The PS1 Goemon game was released back in 2001.Update #2 : The English fan translation patch for the 2001 PlayStation game 'Go For It! Goemon: The Grand Cycle of Oedo' has now been released, as announced by the ROM hacker AceDiez.If you want to try it out f …
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The Japanese Game Preservation Society Is Selling Off Rare Items To Fund Its Vital Work

Time Extension about 2 months ago

Scanner is needed to preserve video game magazines.The Japanese Game Preservation Society is selling off duplicate items from its inventory in order to raise the money required to purchase the flatbed scanner needed to electronically archive magazines and …

Creating CPAM image for smartportsd HD on apple 2c ZRAM board

VCFed about 2 months ago

I recently hooked up smartportsd device to apple 2c that has ZRAM Utra 3 board installed. After patching the firmware to report images of size 800K as "DISK 3.5" floppy I was able to run CPAM60UF.com to make the image bootable to CPAM 5.1 on the …
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Square Had Huge Plans For The N64 Before It Fell Out With Nintendo

Time Extension about 2 months ago

The company was ready to invest ¥350 Million into Nintendo's new console.As many will no doubt know already, prior to the release of Final Fantasy VII on the PlayStation 1 in 1997, Square was initially planning to develop the game for the Nintendo 64, eve …
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Amdek AMDISK III 3" floppy Disk Drive User Manual

VCFed about 2 months ago

I uploaded the user manual for the Amdisk III to the IA a few days back. …
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Random: Travel Back In Time With These God Of War II Launch Videos

Time Extension about 2 months ago

Now in 1080p!The documentary filmmakers at Noclip have just uploaded a bunch of new videos to its Game History Archive channel focusing on Sony's launch event for 2007's God of War II.So if you're one of those people who regularly find themselves pining fo …

ZipNews Reader archive / keygen

VCFed about 2 months ago

Hello, Due to retirement, the ensuing boredom, and overwhelming nostalgia, I've been putting together replicas of the machines I used in the 80s/90s. One of the bits of software I used quite a bit was a pretty neat offline USENET reader named "ZipNe …

PC 486SX (ao486) • Special Sauce MiSTer FPGA DOS Game Collection

MISTerFPGA about 2 months ago

Another game collection? Sure why not. I thought I would see what I could learn by tweaking all these games to run on MiSTer FPGA.Why this collection? Well it's not for everyone. The idea was to make a "booter" version of a top games collection where …
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Archivist Preserves Full Set Of Super Mario Bros. Toys From The '80s

Time Extension about 2 months ago

The toys were originally released by Bandai back in 1986.Back in October 2022, we told you about Mr. Talida and their ongoing preservation project to archive old video game toys and merchandise using 3D scanning technology.And ever since, they've clearly b …

Building the MMU on MAX7000 devices

Apple Fritter about 2 months ago

AttachmentSize retro_devices.zip132.23 KB In this thread: https://www.applefritter.co... retro_devices asks for help to program the MMU on some old Altera EPM7064LC44-10 and EPM7064LC68-10.I am starting this thread for …
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Looking for manual: Digelec Model 824 eeprom p[ropgrammer.

VCFed about 3 months ago

I have read the past posts on the subject but unfortunately the links are so old that nothing is findable. searched also archive.org but only have the manual for model 804 if someone has a PDF copy of the Digelec Model 824 eeprom programmer , I would appre …
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ZPPA (Bluesky Innovations) bootable Parallel Port ZIP

VCFed about 3 months ago

Does someone know this pretty nice ROM extension, which lets you use a parallel port ZIP drive for booting (e.g. a different operating system) ? I found an early article about it: https://brianlivingston.com... …

IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000 • MiSTer PC XT BIOS

MISTerFPGA about 3 months ago

Here's my small contribution to this project:MiSTer PC XT BIOSIt's a fork of well known 8088_bios (https://github.com/skisele... PC XT related enhancements:Memory size set to 704KB. So if A000h UMB enabled, 704KB memory will be available to …
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Toshiba T1200 laptop User Manual

VCFed about 3 months ago

Toshiba T1200 laptop User Manual I scanned it myself as I couldn't find it online anywhere, only the service manual ... T1200 Laptop User Manual (T1200F, T1200FB, T1200H, T1200HB) : Jas …

ZX Spectrum, ZX81, SAM Coupé, TSConf, QL, Next • Spectrum Next Games?

MISTerFPGA about 3 months ago

Is there any archive with Spectrum Next games online available somewhere? I’ve noticed that there are so many good games for the new machine. There are a lot of archives with games for MiSTer but I didn’t find any for the Next specifically… …

IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000 • XT-IDE r625

MISTerFPGA about 3 months ago

Just received much awaited addons and start looking at MisterXT Looks like it's suggested BIOSes goes with quite old XT-IDE release, so i made a build of main and XT-IDE BIOS.Main BIOS is a quick port of Book8088 (chinese XT laptop) BIOS i'm working on, w …
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Obscure PS1 Platformer 'Spider' Gets Remastered Soundtrack Release

Time Extension about 3 months ago

Composer Barry Leitch has revisited his 1997 OST.Back in 1997, the original publisher of Grand Theft Auto BMG Interactive released Spider: The Video Game — Boss Game Studios' bizarre PS1 platformer about a scientist who has accidentally had his mind tran …
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You Can Now Play The Dreamcast Lightgun Game 'Death Crimson 2' In English

Time Extension about 3 months ago

Death Crimson 2 was originally released as a Japan-exclusive back in 1999.Update : The English translation patch for the Dreamcast lightgun shooter Death Crimson 2 is now available on GitHub.Pascarella announced the release of the patch yesterday on Twitte …
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Throughout the history of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the character Bink (the host of the barrel…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

Throughout the history of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the character Bink (the host of the barrel minigame) has been steadily “de-Donkey Kongified” over time, losing more and more resemblance to Donkey Kong.Left: in the prototype version …