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programming • Weekend coding challenge: Unruly rulers

Stardot about 6 months ago

Back to some kind of arithmetical explorations this time. Maybe tabular, maybe graphical, maybe even some kind of sieve. It's another weekend coding challenge - write some code, and share it here, but only after the deadline. An extremely informal chall …
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Other 8-bit Commodore computers • Another C128 black screen

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

Hello everyone,I purchased a C128 without a PSU. The C128 was advertised as functional with supporting images. Instead of buying a PSU, I opted to create one using the Ismet C64 PSU, retaining the transformer in a way that I connected the 9V AC line to t …
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Embracer Games Archive Hits Significant New Milestone

Time Extension about 7 months ago

10,000 games have now been registered in its database.The Embracer Games Archive announced today in a blog post that it has hit a significant new milestone in its preservation efforts, having successfully registered its 10,000th game in its database.Embrac …

Why did graphics/monitors begin with digital and move to analog?

VCFed about 7 months ago

So CGA has a digital signal for each color and an intensity (4 bit?) and then EGA went in with an individual intensity for each color (6 bit). Are these TTL? Then when VGA arrived they decided to make the signals analog. My question is, why didn't they …
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Chit Chat • What is the 80s Hand-held game?

Lemon64 about 7 months ago

This thread is inspired by post MESS merger era MAME adding support for many handheld games from the 80s It made me remember that WAAY back in junior school some lad once brought it a handheld game to play in the playground that wasn't quite like any othe …

Super Famicom 25 game lot; Oshaberi Parodius, Gradius 3, Super Metroid, Square games, etc

Arcade Projects about 7 months ago

Part of my moving sale. Due to time constraints, this is one of those things where I'd either like to get rid of the whole thing or just keep it all. Any game that has a battery has had it replaced in 2022, and the time/labor for doing this is reflected in …
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Get square eyes with the new PowKiddy RGB30 handheld

Portable Gaming Roundup about 7 months ago

 Old games on modern systems do all sorts of tricks to get rid of the black bars down the side when displaying images meant for traditional square CRT screens on today's widescreen LCDs. For most players its just a settings tweak or something to …
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Review: Powkiddy RGB30 - A $90 Analogue Pocket Rival? You'd Better Believe It

Time Extension about 7 months ago

It's all about the aspect ratio.There are a lot of things to love about the Analogue Pocket, but one of the things we really like is the perfectly square 1:1 aspect ratio screen, which is absolutely ideal for playing Game Boy games.A display with this kind …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #103

Retro Arcadia about 7 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I’ll start with something new, and Cocoon, which came to Xbox Game Pass …
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Front Mission II Remake out on Switch

Portable Gaming Roundup about 8 months ago

You see this launch trailer is full of action shots. What's the betting if I buy Front Mission II, available from today on the Switch eShop, there will be about an hours' worth of chatty preamble between annoying characters before I get to the good stuff?& …
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Lost In Cult Announces New “The Console Chronicles” Book

Retro Dodo about 8 months ago

Lost In Cult, publisher of LOCK-ON and A Handheld History, has just announced their next incredible video game feature: The Console Chronicles. If you’ve never had the pleasure of holding a Lost In Cult book in your hands, then you are surely mis …
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A Fan Translation Of Square's Satellaview RPG 'Dynami Tracer' Is Now Available

Time Extension about 8 months ago

The game features music from Nobuo Uematsu.Update : The download link for the English fan translation of Dynami Tracer is now available on romhacking.net. So if you want to play one of Square's more obscure titles from the '90s, now's your chance! You can …
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All PSP Special Editions Ever Released

Retro Dodo about 8 months ago

With the recent announcement of Sony’s latest “handheld”, the Playstation Portal, many are left reminiscing of the days of the glorious PSP. It got us thinking about all of the PSP special editions on offer, and it just so happens that we’ …
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CRKD Nitro Deck Review

Retro Dodo about 8 months ago

A Superb Switch Accessory ... Nitro Deck For Nintendo Switch & Switch OLED ... …

ISA Archeology

VCFed about 8 months ago

Hey guys, thought you might be interested in this. I recently bought a 5170 and got a couple of interesting cards in it, one of which is this "Texas Instruments TMDS 34 7180 400 Graphics Module". Apparently it has something to do with displaying …
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Other 8-bit Commodore computers • Vic20 black screen help with repair

Lemon64 about 8 months ago

Hi everybody!Since here on this forum I have always found many knowledgeable people, who already helped me repair a bunch of different things, here I am again with a request for help.Trying to resurrect a new board vic20 here, that with the DIN power conn …

Parity SIMM with non-functional parity chip

VCFed about 8 months ago

I have been lucky enough to be able to purchase the IBM Enhanced Memory Expansion Adapter for my IBM 5170. I also ordered what should have been 8 3 chip 1Mx9 30 pin SIMMS. They don't work in the 5170... The 1Mx8 non-parity portion tests and passes fine i …
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Investigating Basic floating point accuracy (and finding a bug)

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

It’s one of my hobbies, really, to worry about accuracy and to try to find small differences. For example PRINT 7E7+1234-7E7 will give me 1234 when I’m using a Basic with 5 byte floats, but 1232 when using 4 byte floats. That’s more or …
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Investigating Basic floating point accuracy

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

It’s one of my hobbies, really, to worry about accuracy and to try to find small differences. For example PRINT 7E7+1234-7E7 will give me 1234 when I’m using a Basic with 5 byte floats, but 1232 when using 4 byte floats. That’s more or …
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Virtual lecture - Soviet Computing

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

Eventbrite Virtual lecture - Soviet Computing. Soviet Computing- Kateryna Yushchenko Event at The National Museum of Computing on Soviet Computing. Date and time: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 1 …
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MIGW23 – Big Games Night Out

Australian Retro Gamer about 9 months ago

A GAMES-THEMED WONDERLAND OF FANTASY AND PLAY IS COMING TO MELBOURNE THIS OCTOBER AT BIG GAMES NIGHT OUT From twilight to late on Thursday 5 October Big Games Night Out invites Victorians and visitors to come together in Melbourne’s iconic Fed Square an …
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Square's Satellaview Game 'Dynami Tracer' Is Getting An English Fan Translation

Time Extension about 9 months ago

The game features music from Nobuo Uematsu.Another "lost" Squaresoft game for the long-defunct Nintendo Satellaview service is being translated into English, the Super Nintendo fan translator Kroko has revealed.Dynami Tracer is the last of four games that …

SD Microsystems shutting down?

CPCwiki about 9 months ago

This arose from a Facebook discussion today: In May this year, SD Microsystems applied at Companies House to be wound up. Their eBay account hasn't sold anything since July, and their website displays the message:Quote[color=#000000... …
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Powkiddy RGB30 Review

Retro Dodo about 9 months ago

Super Niche, Super Fun ... RGB30 ... …
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Retroid Pocket 2S Review

Retro Dodo about 9 months ago

Our Favourite Handheld Under $100 ... Pocket 2S ... - $129 ... …