Making a copy of a purchased game used to be as simple as copying a disk. As the game industry grew, so did fear of revenue loss which drove investment in countermeasures.

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The Nintendo GameCube was the first console from Big N with disc-based media. Gone were the cartridges that were absurdly expensive to manufacture. In theory games could be cheaper (yeah, right), and would hold more textures, pictures, and video.

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Being involved with retro computers, I have a few floppy disks (of the 3.5-inch variety) that I would like to preserve as faithfully as possible. Of course, I know there are dedicated devices for doing that, such as the Kryoflux or the SuperCard Pro.

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Modern DDR3 SDRAM. Source: BY-SA/4.0 by Kjerish During my recent visit to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, I found myself staring at some ancient magnetic core memory.

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Recently, I have been working on my EFI GPT boot code and needed to update the image files. Throughout the years, I have made many utilities to create and/or modify various images and file formats.

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The concept of creating a gaming portable out of a home console has been around for some time, but it’s hardly seen the other way around. There have been a few devices that dared to straddle the line (i.e., Sega Nomad, Nintendo Switch, etc.), but the two worlds typically remain separate.

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A good friend of mine had put together several components along with a Raspberry Pi in order to decode RS232 protocol to TTL.

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Instant photos are magical. They develop before your eyes. You can share them, gift them, spill water on them, draw on them.

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