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'Lightweight Personal Server' ZimaBlade Is A Retro Gaming Powerhouse

Time Extension about 8 months ago

Starts at just $64.A new single-board computer is offering an alternative when it comes to retro game emulation.The ZimaBlade measures just 107 x 80 x 23 mm and is powered by Intel's Celeron chipset, offering an x86-based computing solution for 'cyber nati …

Z280 homebrew board plan

VCFed about 8 months ago

Anyone want to comment on these schematics? Anything stand out as being horribly broken? The plan is to have a Z280 in 16-bit ZBUS mode. An Altera CPLD acts as a 'chipset' to handle DRAM, PS/2 keyboard port, and signals for the 8-bit ISA slots. A 74373 la …
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ANBERNIC RG405V Review

Retro Dodo about 9 months ago

You Either Love It Or Hate It ... RG405V Handheld ... …
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Aya Neo Embraces Android With The Pocket AIR Handheld

Time Extension about 9 months ago

Update: Now available on IndieGoGo.Update : The IndieGoGo campaign for the Pocket AIR is now live.Early bird pricing is $279 for the MTK1200 chipset / 6G RAM / 128G SSD version. The MTK1200 / 8G / 256G version is $329, while the top-of-the-line MTK1200 / 1 …
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Powkiddy RGB30 Review

Retro Dodo about 9 months ago

Super Niche, Super Fun ... RGB30 ... …
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AYANEO Kun Specs, Release Date, Pricing & More

Retro Dodo about 9 months ago

Surely, if you’ve got your eye on premium portable gaming devices, then the AYANEO KUN is one you’re watching closely. And if you’ve already made your decision to pick one up, then you don’t have too long to wait. Because the Ku …
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Games • UK software publishers and the Commodore 64C (8580 SID!) problem.....AKA....did Commodore balls this up too?

Lemon64 about 9 months ago

I like the 64C but even budget re-releases of games on sale well past the death of the 6581 breadbin model are still 100% borked as far as sound goes. Why?Is it pure greed/lazyness/lack of talent or is it impossible to get IK+, Way o t Exploding Fist, BMX …
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Pimax Introduces A More Affordable “Non-VR” Retro Handheld

Retro Dodo about 9 months ago

Pimax has introduced the new Portal-Retro handheld, doing away with the VR cameras and features, and now sporting a non removable controller. After hearing rumors about a possible upcoming “lite” iteration of the Pimax Portal, I reached out to Pima …
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AYANEO Pocket Air Leak Confirms Snapdragon Chipset In New Handheld

Retro Dodo about 9 months ago

Just days after the announcement of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset coming in the AYN Odin2, an AYANEO Pocket Air leak has brought about an alternative in their upcoming Pocket Air. This is no coincidence, of course. In fact, I am absolutely positive th …
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Powkiddy Reveals New RGB30 With Square Display

Retro Dodo about 9 months ago

New images of the Powkiddy RGB30 have just been shared with Retro Dodo, and this is looking like the next best way to play retro games. It seems like Powkiddy has been listening in on my private conversations, because a device with a screen like this i …
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AYN Odin2 Finally Reveals Ultra Powerful Chipset

Retro Dodo about 9 months ago

After a few weeks of waiting and a slow trickle of information, AYN has finally revealed the chipset to be used in their upcoming Odin2 handheld. So what was the chipset that they finally settled on? The ultra powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Obviously …
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TJD T80 is Another Handheld Monster You Probably Shouldn’t Buy

Retro Dodo about 9 months ago

The new TJD T80 is an Android-based handheld monster that is giving us déjà vu, as it is nearly identical to the TJD T101. But where the TJD T101 focuses on Windows gaming, the new T80 will have its focus on Android applications and pure emulation po …

Guide to using a Gotek floppy emulator with an RQDX3

VCFed about 10 months ago

Hi, I recently was able to make the Gotek USB floppy emulator work with my microPDP-11 using an RQDX3 controller and thought I would share how I did (and the issues I ran into) it so that others could use it as well. I used the Gotek model with an OLED s …

What is this motherboard ?

VCFed about 10 months ago

What is this motherboard? I am looking for information for this motherboard. 6 isa, AMD 286, 1MB ram, chipset winbond Thank you. …
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Rediscovering Fightin’ Spirit on Commodore Amiga

Retro Arcadia about 10 months ago

We arrive here by way of the Team17 Collection 1 cartridge for Evercade, released right at the end of May 2023 and featuring a diverse mix of ten of Team17’s 16-bit titles, first published on the Commodore Amiga in the early nineties and spanning fighti …
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Info on this SIO-3 Combo Controller board?

VCFed about 10 months ago

Any info available on this SIO-3 Combo Controller board? Uses a UMC UM8388 floppy controller chip and HM83C452L chipset. Marked SIO-3 on the front and IDE IO 345 on a paper sticker on the solder side. …
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Aya Neo Embraces Android With The Pocket AIR Handheld

Time Extension about 10 months ago

Could be an emulation powerhouse.Chinese hardware maker Aya Neo has made its name with a series of powerful Windows-based handheld systems, but it's about to venture into new territory with the Pocket AIR (thanks, Tom's Hardware), which will use Google's A …
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AYN Odin2 Has Been Fully Revealed With All New Design

Retro Dodo about 10 months ago

After a tense week of teaser images, AYN has finally revealed their upcoming Odin2 handheld on their IndieGogo campaign page. And many within the handheld community were quick to notice that the Odin2 design is essentially what AYN had offered last yea …

Amiga (Minimig) • Let’s make Amiga CD32 support happen

MISTerFPGA about 10 months ago

After purchasing the A500 Mini console the other day (it was on sale, it’s adorable, and runs CD32 games), I was reminded that we still don’t have CD32 compatibility in the Amiga (Minimig) core, and that there are quite a few games on that platform th …
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Star Wars fans unite! BSzili releases an unofficial Amiga port of Dark Forces (High end Amiga required?)

Old School Gamer Magazine about 10 months ago

It feels like it was only just yesterday that we announced through Indie Retro News that BSzili had unofficially released not just the full version of the classic ID Software game of ‘Wolfenstein 3D’ and ‘Spear of Destiny’, but als …
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Aya Neo's Kun Might Solve The Biggest Issue With Steam Deck-Style Handhelds

Time Extension about 10 months ago

Power to the people.Aya Neo's new Kun handheld is entering a pretty packed marketplace, what with the Steam Deck, ROG Ally and OneXPlayer 2 already available – not to mention Aya Neo's other devices, like the Next, Air and Air Pro.However, the Aya Neo Ku …

General Old Hardware • mysterious (386) CGS chipset, info needed

Vogons about 10 months ago

not able to obtain any information about CGS labeled chipset on what appears to be a Magitronics 386 motherboard.i wont be able to test it for some time, so nothing more to say.Can CGS be Citygate in disguise ?Filename20230725_073337.jp... size1.78 MiBV …

Video • ARK2000PV full datasheet

Vogons about 10 months ago

Does anyone have the full datasheet for this video chipset? I have only been able to find a partial copy online.Statistics: Posted by jasa1063 — Yesterday, 19:11 — Replies 0 — Views 37 …

General Old Hardware • Win95 build

Vogons about 10 months ago

Have Win98 and WinXP systems running. Now, I'm looking into a Win95. Thought about getting a Socket 7 with Pentium 200 MMX but I have a spare Asus P3B-F with a PII 400 MHz and 64 MB RAM. The P3B-F CD has Win95 chipset drivers so that would help. I could g …
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Dump Rom's of chipset, IDE controller ...

VCFed about 10 months ago

Is there a method how to dump the content of the rom's from a e.g. 386SX laptop (Walkom NP-903 clone of a NoteStar NP-903)? Mainboard: Espe... the chipset (Headland HT21) which is in a QFP 208. Do I need to desolder the chip and use a testsocket for …