Hyundai P5000M
Dreamcast In this post I will write some notes on the Hyundai P5000M series PC. I recently aqcuired a machine from Swedish eBay, and I have conducted a few restorations and…
Dallas RTC battery replacement
In a Swedish post about my Victor 386MX PC, I wrote about replacing the battery in a dead Dallas RTC. So, I figured I would devote a post to this…
Update: Repairing a TAC-2 with a broken stick
In 2018, I made a video and a post where I repaired a TAC-2 joystick with a broken stick. This process was performed by using tire valve, a screw eye,…
Slik Stik cable repair
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 /…
Cleaning the Commodore 64 keyboard
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…
How to play original Xbox games on your Xbox 360
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…
Nintendo 64 (N64) disassembly and recap
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…
SEGA Master System 2 AV mod
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…
HP 1040 G1 disassembly
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…
Game Gear Zero
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…