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Modifying a Dallas clock chip (DS1287) to work with an external CR2032 battery

vkirov

Sometimes bringing back old tech requires more than dusting and testing — it requires some surgery, patience, and a soldering iron. On one of our recent retro hardware excursions, we stumbled upon a dirty, early 1990s 386 laptop. It was rocking a cute monochrome display, a tiny keyboard, and all...

DaisyDrive64

Antonio Maiorano

DaisyDrive64 is an N64 cartridge emulator by nopjne (aka Scorp0rX0r on Discord), that uses a Daisy Seed board. It’s similar to the PicoCart64, except that by using a more powerful MCU with more memory, is able to offer a more complete flash cart experience, including support for loading all...

SFC Controller 8BitDo Mod Kit

Antonio Maiorano

After BlueRetro-fying most of my consoles, I realized that I much prefer using original controllers. 8BitDo makes some really great “mod kits” that are PCB replacements for controllers with Bluetooth support and rechargeable batteries. In this post, I’ll go over how I installed their mod kit for...

gbs-control - Take 2

Antonio Maiorano

A while ago, I wrote about how I built a gbs-control scaler. Although that post covers the basics, I mostly glossed over the details, expecting the reader to watch Voultar’s video. In this post, I’ll go over how I built a second gbs-control in a lot more detail, which should help anyone who wants...