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Radioshack UK?

This weekend I was back in “project” mode. I was reading about a hack/alteration I would have to make to the 5″ PSOne screen to add it into any of the portable consoles. It sounded quite tricky but doable - there were a few mentions of doing this part or that part wrong would wreck [...]

Its Time For Web Accelerators

Now this probably old news to some but as a Firefox user I had not realized that Microsoft had taken IE8 out of beta and actually made it available to everyone.
As I type this, I am currently installing IE8. Now I have sort of got into the Firefox thing, just by habit more than [...]

And the winner was….

The Megadrive.
I did want to go and see Watchmen but time and the kids permitted that happening. My brother did however go see it and his review left me intrigued, all he said was…
“Yeah, it’s weird………”
So, that is still on the list to do, but back to the megadrive. After some helpful advice from the [...]

Clean the Megadrive, See Watchmen?

Its a bit of a random choice this weekend. I get to either clean out an old megadrive I purchased while in a bit of a retro mood on eBay or go to see Watchmen at the cinema.
Both of these involve doing them while the kids aren’t around because well the movies an 18 cert. [...]

Old Consoles = Problems

So my lovely old, retro NES arrived last week. I was eager to play on Mario 3 with the tiny square controllers so I hooked up the machine, slid in a game and hit the power button………
Nothing! Just a white screen.
I did what all people who have experienced a Nintendo games console would have [...]