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Online Gaming Is Not All Doom And Gloom: The Benefits Behind The Gaming Culture

Retromash about 3 days ago

So, online gaming often gets lumped into the “bad for you” basket, but that’s just one side of the story. Did you know that these virtual worlds are actually packed with some pretty solid benefits? From boosting your brain power to connecting you wit …
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Latest look at the gorgeous Heart Forth Alicia

Portable Gaming Roundup about 3 days ago

I've been in love with the look of Heart Forth Alicia since the early days, when it got funded back in 2014. Even the long-dead promise of a Vita release in 2018 won't put me off. Now coming up to its 10th anniversary, Alonso Martin and team have put …
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PC 486SX (ao486) • QNX 4.25 (Unix-like OS) on ao486

MISTerFPGA about 8 days ago

Hello community,Preliminary notes:QNX is a Unix-like microkernel real-time OS, primarily targeted for embedded devices and which some of you might remember for its amazing 1.44 MB floppy demo from mid '90s sporting a fully bootable OS, GUI, mouse support, …
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Top 12 Disney Games on the Sega Dreamcast

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 1 month ago

The Sega Dreamcast's short lifespan (relatively speaking) didn't lend itself to a large number of "big" licenses coming to the console. Alongside Sega's own franchises, we received a third-party lineup that was - again, relative to other consoles - not hug …
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We Have Yuji Naka To Thank For One Of The Coolest Genesis Intros Of All Time

Time Extension about 2 months ago

Introduction would have been canned otherwise.Back in the Genesis / Mega Drive's early days, we didn't see many cool introduction sequences because developers were limited when it came to cartridge ROM sizes, and preferred to use up that valuable memory wi …
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10 Very British Games for the Sega Dreamcast

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 2 months ago

The British are an odd bunch. We're not really a country (look we're not, you have to admit it. It's like someone got a bunch of nations together who don't really like each other all that much, told them the same rich pricks are in charge of them all and e …

How long did CP/M have a hold before MS-DOS became a thing

VCFed about 2 months ago

I've had it in my mind that each had its own "era" in a sequential thing like "CP/M was it for 8 years, and then MS-DOS was it for X years", but the early date of the IBM PC in 1981 seems to throw that idea out the window. Obvious …
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Cover artwork for the officially licensed 1992 gamebook “Unjust Desserts” in the Nintendo Adventure…

Supper Mario Broth about 2 months ago

Cover artwork for the officially licensed 1992 gamebook “Unjust Desserts” in the Nintendo Adventure Books series. Note Bowser in the window.Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: twitter.com user “gamescanner” …
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Fragmented Almanac: Teaser Trailer and an Interview with Developer Roby Provost

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 3 months ago

Last month, the Junkyard office was abuzz with excitement when we caught wind of the news that Fragmented Almanac, a compilation of two eerie narrative-based puzzle games, was soon due to be released by fledgling indie studio ANTIRUINS on our beloved Sega …
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How best to display a working Raptor X windowed HDD ?

VCFed about 4 months ago

I have one of these Raptor HD's with a window that shows the arm/head moving inside. It has always been a shame to hide this drive in a case. I would like to be able to see it doing its thing in a working system. Are there any suggestions about how to show …

Window 7 Ryzen Build (Part 3)

VCFed about 4 months ago

6) Select “Browse my computer for driver software” opting for “Let me pick from a list of drivers on my computer”, then select “Have Disk”. 7) Open the desktop folder containing your “.inf” and click on the desired selection. 8) Upon compl …

Real mode dos command line LFN file copier

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hi People, It recently occurred to me that if I could copy a directory structure full of LFN files from a real mode dos command line (The way xcopy would for SFN files) it would be very useful to me. The real mode dos I'm using is Win 98SE (4.10.2222). A …

Win98 on P4 systems: COM ports not working

VCFed about 4 months ago

I'm looking for some help to debug an issue I have seen twice now on 2 separate hardware. I am trying to run Laplink from a windows 98 machine to an old 8088 laptop, using serial transfer. I have two different Pentium 4 class systems, both with windows 9 …
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Amiga (Minimig) • AROS m68k on MiSTer/Minimig?

MISTerFPGA about 4 months ago

Hey all,I thought it would be interesting to run AROS m68k on the MiSTer. I got the boot floppy and iso from here: https://aros.sourceforge.io... system boots and shows an AmigaDOS window, apparently it loads the AROS kickstart. After that, t …

32-bit acorn hardware • Single stepping the !Boot sequence

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi,is there a way to single step the boot sequence to find an error, I tried the boot logging but that just told me the same as the error on the screen which is a ‘No such variable’ it comes up after the banner but that is all I can determine so far. …
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6 Games that Scratch the Shenmue Itch

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 5 months ago

There really isn't anything quite like Shenmue. As most Dreamcast fans know by now, the gameplay of Yu Suzuki's magnum opus, which juxtaposed snail's pace sleuthing around Japanese suburbia with frantic Virtua Fighter ass kicking, was polarising back when …
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In Super Mario Bros., the castles after the flagpoles appear in two varieties: the regular…

Supper Mario Broth about 5 months ago

In Super Mario Bros., the castles after the flagpoles appear in two varieties: the regular single-story castle found in most levels, and the three-story castle found in the third level of each world, representing the castle level of that world.However, int …

32-bit acorn emulators • Arculator v2.2 for Raspberry Pi 5 ‘menu’ not working

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hello all,I've built the linux version of Arculator (v.2.2) for the Raspberry Pi 5 and all appears to be okay, except for the menu. Whenever I right-click I get the following error in the terminal window and no menu pop-up:(arculator:179053): Gtk-WARNING …

32-bit acorn hardware • A3000 to PC file transfer options

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi, and season's greetings!Now that my A3000 is working great thanks to many helpful people here I'm on a quest to find ways to transfer files between it and my PC. My current process is CFCARD -> Amiga 1200 -> 720K DOS disk -> A3000 . I bought …

Upgrading my main PC

VCFed about 5 months ago

I've no problem spending on vintage hardware, but when it comes to the current stuff I'm notoriously cheap and usually subsist on castoffs. However while doing my Altair video I finally reached the limits of my patience with the GTX 1650 I've had for 2 ye …
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Review: Polymega - Now With N64 Support, But Is It Still Worth A Look In 2024?

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Updated with impressions of the N64 EM05 Ultra Module.Originally announced back in 2017 as the RetroBlox, Polymega has endured a fairly tumultuous journey to market. While the system's objective has always been the same – to offer players the chance to a …

32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • MEMC and RISC iX

Stardot about 5 months ago

Previously, there was some discussion of the MEMC's virtual memory management architecture, mixed into a thread about Motorola where it was only tangentially relevant. I was thinking about this again recently, considering the remarks made by reviewers abo …
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A Return to Arcade Odyssey

The Arcade Blogger about 5 months ago

My recent trip to the USA allowed me some time to check out a few arcades, specifically one of my favourites in Miami, FL. The last time I reviewed Arcade Odyssey, was a good five years ago. You can check that out here. The upshot I concluded back then, w …
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The Best Dreamcast Merchandise: a Post-Christmas Breakdown

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 5 months ago

As a group of proudly obsessed Dreamcast fans here at the Junkyard, we don't simply leave our admiration for Sega's 128-bit box of wonders at talking endlessly about the games, hardware or accessories that most people associate with the console. For us, th …

modern implementations of classic programming languages • Variant behaviour of VDU31 (PRINT TAB) in VDU5 mode

Stardot about 5 months ago

Richard Russell is holding a poll on the BBC BASIC forum concerning the behaviour of PRINT TAB when in VDU5 mode.In BBC Micro OS 0.1, and in MOS 3.20 and later (including RISC OS) PRINT TAB moves the graphics cursor to the text cell so subsequent characte …