– Retrodrömmar
The Slik Stik joystick, often known as the “little brother” of the classic TAC-2, was created by Suncom as a part of its line of controllers for the C64 / Atari / Amiga etc line of computers and video games. As with other joysticks from this time, the Slik Stik may require some maintenance to work properly. I recently bought one of these on Swedish…
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One of my Commodore 64:s (C64) did not respond to pressing certain keys, so I decided to give the keyboard a good clean. In this post I will describe this cleaning process. Step 1: Remove the keyboard from the main unit As seen in the images below, I am working on a C64 model “C”, which disassembles by removing three screws below the unit. Then,…
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In this post we will describe how you format your Xbox 360 hard drive to make it compatible with original Xbox games. The context of the post is that we bought a new 3rd party harddrive for our Xbox 360 s, and per default it does not support original Xbox games due to it is lacking a compatibility partition (which results in a “This original…
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Nintendo 64 was released in Japan and USA in 1996 and Europe and Australia in 1997. It was the successor the Super Nintendo and introduced 3D graphics similar to other popular consoles at the time, such as SEGA Saturn and Sony Playstation. The reception of the console was generally good, and the transition from 2D Mario to 3D Mario in Super Mario 64 was deemed…
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The SEGA Master System 2 was a low-cost version of the Master System console. The console was released in 1990. I recently acquired a SEGA Master System 2 with a faulty RF unit. These systems does not have another AV port, but can be easily modified to output composite video and audio through an rca jack. In this post I will show how to make…
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I got my Hewlett Packard 1040 G1 laptop back in 2015-ish, and it is still a quite competent machine with its Intel I7 cpu. However, over time, it may require some service, including changing thermal paste on the cpu, add memory, replace battery and so on. In this post, I will disassembly my machine and add new thermal grease on the cpu. The reason for…
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In a previous post on Game Gear recap I briefly mentioned that I was working on putting a Raspberry pi in a broken Game Gear. In this post, I will describe this project with more details. Similar to when building a Gameboy Zero, the process of building a Game Gear Zero essentially involves creating a handheld emulation device through the use of a raspberry pi…
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The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer console was released worldwide in 1994. It was one of several cd-based consoles released in the mid-1990s that failed to gain large market shares and could not compete with Sony’s Playstation. Nevertheless, 3DO owners can enjoy a good mix of decent games, combined with some silly FMV-titles typical for the time. Today those titles are rather expensive, but for those lucky…
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In this post I am taking a closer look at the green “Gen Top 100 SMS Top 100” multi cartridge that, as the title suggests, contain 100 games for Genesis / Mega Drive and 100 games for the Master System. My experiences are written based on running the cartridge on my PAL Mega Drive 1 connected to a CRT TV. First impressions The label on…
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Everquest is an MMORPG launched on March 16, 1999. The game has received several expansions over the years, and in this post I will write a brief timeline over Everquest’s history. It should be noted that Everquest was not the first MMORPG, it had predecessors in Meridian 59 and Ultima Online (and text-based Multi User Dungeons, MUDS). Nevertheless, Everquest has managed to survive for over…
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