Category: Projects

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Retro PC

During the last couple of months I’ve been playing around with the idea of building a DOS based retro PC. Now I’ve finally gone and made a start. My aim is to have a good, fast, DOS/Win98 compatible PC for...

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Upgrades on Upgrades

I’ve taken a little timeout this weekend to play with my Amiga 1200 Tower. Recently I got a very cool Apollo 1260 Accelerator card with a 80Mhz clocked Freescale 68060 CPU. One downside to the A1260 over the Blizzard line...

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The PSIO Flash cartridge for PlayStation

I finally got my hands on my own PSIO flash cartridge for the PlayStation. This little cartridge allows for game booting from an SD card. It needs a little bit on installing other than just plugging in, but on the...

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USB-GDROM board

I’ve managed to get more time to play with my USB-GDRom. Its a great device and well worth the cost at the moment. Its replaced my Dreamshell setup as by default Dreamcast system. Click here, or the images above to...

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The Prefect Sega Saturn

I set about making the perfect Sega Saturn. This unit now features: Full motherboard capacitor replacement Phantom modchip Region Free BIOS Switchless 50/60hz selection FRAM save memory mod Click Here or the images above to see how all this was...

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PS2 HDD IDE to SATA Upgrade

And now for something a bit different. After finding a few problems with the old IDE HDD in my PS2, I decided to install and new SATA drive. To do this I upgraded the existing IDE+LAN adapter with a SATA...

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Dreamcast IDE mod

I managed to get a little time to do a mod on one of my own consoles 🙂 Installed an IDE HDD system and bios bootloader for Dreamshell. So far its working great with only a few program issues. Click...

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Sonic 3 Complete reproduction cartridge

Ever heard of Sonic 3 Complete? Its a combination Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles with loads of additions, tweaks and fixes. I’ve just got this working by programming a new EPROM and installing in a donor PCB. Click here...

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SNES Reproduction Carts

I’ve been playing around making my own English copy of Mario RPG for SNES. Also a Star Fox 2 cartridge while I was at it. Click the image or Here to see more details on this little project.