– Retrodrömmar
I decided to give ChatGPT (3) a go, to explain why the Dreamcast failed. It generated the following response: The Dreamcast was a video game console developed by Sega and released in 1998. Despite receiving critical acclaim and having a strong initial launch, the Dreamcast ultimately failed in the market and was discontinued in 2001. There were several reasons for its failure, including: Competition: The…
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I recently acquired a Compaq Presario 460 from Swedish eBay. I did not know this model existed before I saw it online. As a kid I owned a Presario 433 while my buddy owned a 425. A few years ago I bought a Compaq Presario CDS 520. The difference between the “CDS” range and the regular Presarios is that the former has integreated sound card…
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My recapped Game Gear had a problem with scraping sound when adjusting the volume with the volume control. There is a relatively straight forward way to fix that: replacing the volume control wheel. To do so, you need some basic soldering skills and tools. The volume control is a 10KA (log) Potentiometer. My potentiometer was a bit slimmer than the original, but that is not…
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The PS Vita slim, or PCH-2000, was released by Sony in 2013, two years after the original Vita. The slim variant is 20% thinner and 15% lighter compared to the original. It has a lower cost LCD screen, an hour extra battery life and 1 gb of internal memory. Moreover, the charging jack is a micro-USB type B port compared with the odd format of…
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The PS Vita, released in 2011, is a very capable handheld console, and you can really benefit from softmodding it, allowing you to play homebrews, backups, emulators, etc. In this post, we will show how you softmod the system, step by step. The following steps will be performed: Update firmware to 3.65 or above. Install h-encore and Vitadeploy Install Ensō Finalize setup Install NoNpDrm +…
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The Playstation Vita (PS Vita), released in 2011, was Sony’s successor to the Playstation Portable (PSP). I recently aquired a cople of these consoles, 1x original PCH-1000, and 1x PS Vita “slim” variant. The PCH-1000 had a serious problem: the charger port was broken. It is not uncommon that these ports fail, and replacing them is a bit of a hassle. I looked around online…
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The Amiga line of computers from Commodore are getting older by the day and their parts need maintenance to function properly. The keyboards are no exception. In this post I write about my experiences of making my Amiga 600 keyboard working again. The problem I had was that some of the keys did not work. There was no logic to which keys were functional and…
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I recently wrote a post about repairing Amiga 600. Now, the time has come to make use of the machine and to install some software on it. My goal is to create a stock machine with Kickstart 2.05 and Workbench 2.1 that is able to run games via WHDLoad (a program that enables running games and demos from a hard drive). Initially, I do not…
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In this post I focus on how to get your Playstation 2 SingStar cd:s to work on Playstation 3. While you can technically play PS2 versions of SingStar on some backwards-compatible, or softmodded PS3:s, these games do not work with the original PS2 usb microphones. These microphones work perfectly with the PS3 versions of SingStar though. Now, depending on your setup and software, there are…
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This post is a collection of notes I made during the recap and repair of an Amiga 600 I bought on Swedish eBay. If nothing else, it contains a useful collection of links where I gained a lot of information on recapping and repairing the Amiga 600. The unit I bought looked to be in good condition, but suffered from a black screen according to…
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