Was watching a video about Atari’s 50th anniversary…and got nostalgic. So I dug out my old Sears Cartridge Tele-games System Video Arcade built by Atari, sold by Sears and bought by my parents.
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Blue blocking glasses and eye strain
I was listening to a Podcast I enjoy and they had a sponsor who sold blue light blocking glasses. This got my attention because I often have eye strain from staring at the computer screen too long. So I went to the website and was put off by the over $100 price even with the …
Typing special characters
Ctrl+shift+u (a underlined u will appear) release the key combo (the underlined u will remain) Type the HEX value of the character (it will appear next to the underlined u) Press Enter the special character will replace the underlined u and HEX code For example using the HEX value…2186 will display the down arrow ↆ266A …
60 Year old AA battery
Apparently others don’t think this is as cool as I do. Posted on Twitter and not a single reaction. Here’s what I said… “I found this old AA battery (probably from the 1960s) in some old electronic device. Very surprised at no sign of leakage and my meter showed it had 1.43V. My dad worked …
AliExpress signup
Can’t ignore this Chinese company’s prices. Apparently you need a phone to signup. Can’t slide with a mouse.
Playing old games
It seems to me the easiest way to play old console games is to buy one of these retro game machines already setup and preloaded with thousands of games. They are android or tiny MS-Windows computers running various emulators to play games from many different consoles. I never intended to get deep into this topic. …
Installed dolphin game emulator
Thank goodness for the repositories. Because I didn’t realize it existed at first and tried to install manually. I’ve lost all patience for some manual installs such as this one which reminds me a little of the old days. You install something missing only to find it goes a little farther until something else is …
USB2/USB3
I guess I should have known this…but I didn’t. From here…”The USB 2.0 Connectors is colored white or black inside, while the USB 3.0 is colored blue inside”. So from a previous pic…my 2 front connectors are USB3.
Colecovision emulation
A few things I’m learning: Game emulation is a topic new for me I guess I shouldn’t be shocked, keeping in mind the era (early 80s) of these games. But very surprised at how small these ROMs are For example Donkey Kong is 16K.Although I’m somewhat familiar with ROMs because of the TRS-80 emulator (sdltrs) …
My first calculator
Probably one of the first thing I owned with some type of processor in it. The Commodore US*8. I read here – “It utilizes a single Texas Instruments chip, the TMS0103NC, which is one of TI’s first-generation of single-chip calculator IC’s, for its calculating brains”. The article also states “was likely manufactured in the early …