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The last 10 months of my life

Posted by mos6507, 17 April 2011 · 98 views

You know the running joke in The Blues Brothers: "We're on a mission...from gawd."

Well, that pretty much explains the last 10 months of my life. It's been so intense that literally everything else has fallen by the wayside. I really thought at some point that what I was doing would pave the way for a new career, and while...

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My Future in the Hobby

Posted by mos6507, 14 January 2011 · 132 views

Well folks, this blog post is a long time coming.

I'm formally announcing that I'm bowing out of the classic gaming scene.

Well, I am kind of describing what I've already done by default. Over the last few years I've become increasingly distant from the hobby. My involvement has waxed and waned. Chimera was going to be the big...

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Starblazers (Yamato) Producer dies

Posted by mos6507, 16 November 2010 · 83 views

The irony of this is unreal.

I mean, falling off his own ship called Yamato. I guess that's the way to go, albeit tragic, like so much of his life after he found fame with the show.

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Yamato Rebirth

Posted by mos6507, 27 August 2010 · 92 views

After shutting down my MySpace page, and in recognition of the nonexistent blogging potential at Facebook, I thought I'd use this blog as my dumping ground for observations about gadgets and pop culture, especially when they tie into nostalgic themes.

Last year when "JJ Trek" came out, I was quite merciless in my criticism of it,...

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The Madness of PCs

Posted by mos6507, 23 January 2010 · 115 views

PC hardware

I was a little hesitant to try building my own PC. Every time I do it, I run into some snag somewhere, but this was the only way for me to really be choosy about components. The ASUS H57 motherboard has a lot more slots in it than the Gateway and Dell systems I considered. Anyway, sure enough, I've hit a snag. Because graphics cards keep...

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If it seems too good to be true...

Posted by mos6507, 28 November 2009 · 33 views

Last year I got sucked up in the hype over the E-Fix dongle to effortlessly build hackintoshes. This was after the boot drive on my main XP machine bit the dust and I didn't want to restore it because it's an old AGP/PCI motherboard that will never be HD-ready. When I got my business laptop I decided to hold off on building out a system...

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AtariVox status report

Posted by mos6507, 11 November 2009 · 37 views

atarivox

I'm about to ship out the AtariVoxes I built for the 25th anniversary 7800 project.The problems we were having with the PIC turned out to be firmware-related. So after we got the firmware resolved, I went back and fixed all of the boards that seemed not to work by soldering on the 10-pin headers and reprogramming the PICs with the good...

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Youtube Demos

Posted by mos6507, 03 November 2009 · 36 views

atarivox

We're making some progress now.

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AtariVox is coming

Posted by mos6507, 31 October 2009 · 45 views

atarivox

This is the first batch of 25 AtariVox boards earmarked for the 25th anniversary 7800 project.

All the boards are assembled. They still need to be individually tested, and I am 4 Speakjets shy. Also, I'm troubleshooting a...

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The Treadmill

Posted by mos6507, 13 October 2009 · 55 views

I think one of the reasons I'm still into classic videogames is I've always stayed on the sidelines of the computer hardware treadmill. I had a Playstation 1 when it first came out, and then proceeded to get very few games for it. I had a PS2 as well and didn't buy many games for it. And don't get me started on PC games. My rig...

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