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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

A new project I have been working on, which I recently completed: using the Sega Saturn Audio chip DSP to process 3D polygons. Finally we can use ALL the chips and the Saturn is more powerful than the PlayStation! 😉😉 youtu.be/7ve8xyCD7ME

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AVR is real: how to use the Saturn audio chip to accelerate 3D graphics

YouTube video by jollyrogerxp

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I deleted from my PS5 FF7 Rebirth. I know I suck at games, but my level of frustration in the boss battles is beyond belief. I absolutely adore the art, the music, everything and I completed FF7 Remake twice. I hated XVI as well, so I doubt I will buy more FF games.

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

After EIGHT YEARS of intense, continuous use, the "T" key on my Matias QuietPro keyboard stopped working. Called them up, they sent replacement switches (cheap!), I whipped out the soldering iron... good as new. Kudos to Matias, great products and great customer service!

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Finally proud owner of a “This is COOL” Saturn. Not only it has very cool looks, but for a parallel computing nerd like me it is special. The cost-reduced VA15 board hosts a dual-core SH2. Not many dual-core (single chip) systems before this, I tell you…

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Replaced the dead BIOS battery with a battery holder and a new CR2025, replaced the old 120MB HDD with a 4GB CF card and IDE adapter (formatted as a 540MB drive), swapped the German Keyboard for the US one, cleaned and reassembled everything. Good as new (except the battery)...

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The BR1225 that is supposed to hold the BIOS configuration and system clock is long dead, so I had to pull the motherboard to replace it. Neat design, as expected the 486SX is on the bottom this time and it touches a large shielding at the bottom for heat dissipation too.

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

First task: testing monitor transplant. The old machine has a SHARP LM64P83, decent industrial panel with separate adjustable contrast and lamp brightness. The newer (broken) one is a SHARP LM64183P. The sheets say they are compatible and sure enough…

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Also interesting to note: the older motherboard has the 486SX right in the middle, whereas the newer one it’s not visible at all, and may be under the floppy drive or on the other side of the board. I will find out when I remove the boards to change the dead CMOS batteries.

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Ok let’s start analyzing the differences. The older AcerNote 730 sold in the US uses a C&T 65520 display controller and PhoenixBIOS. Acer did not use a branded BIOS for this model. I will try to dump both BIOSes.

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Starting to work on the AcerNote 730i identical to the one from my 90s summer escapades. The LCD and some other parts are in bad shape so I purchased an AcerNote 730 to swap in some parts, I mean how different can it be? 🤦‍♂️

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Aaand the LCD is toast. Time to replace it I guess.

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

For myself one of these beauties. It’s an Acer AcerNote 730i, a 1993 486SX laptop that has sentimental value for me as it is the exact same as my very first laptop. I worked on my first ModeX 60fps scrolling game on its insanely laggy LCD. Good times…

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Next on my reading list 👍🙂 “Like a Hurricane: an unofficial oral history of Street Fighter 2”

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Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It’s important we tell our own stories if no one else does. Here is my memory of the Unisys ICON and some ICON games, a computer that only Xennials from Ontario would have used. They were almost all destroyed and no archives or emulators exist. True lost media. postgamecontent.com/post/7717260...

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The Unisys Icon: One Canadian Xennial's Memories of Ontario's Obscure Computer

One topic that often comes up in retro gaming circles is how aspects of gaming history not part of the American story don't get enough attention. I personally feel it's mostly up to the people to whom...

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I haven’t touched my NES game in more than 6 months, time to get back to it… 👍

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

1980s and 1990s for me, any day of the week…

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Santa delivered these, it’s going to be a great 2025! 😁👍

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Really interesting dynamic here. It's very true that I post very seldom here (as of yet), but I did post something I thought would interest a niche of retro gaming nerds like me, and I had zero likes, zero. On the other app I am approaching 70, hmmm.

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Ken Shirriff @righto.com · 23/11/2024

I was studying the Pentium processor's die and I noticed strange connections that I didn't understand. These turned out to be "antenna diodes", special diodes that protect the chip from damage during manufacturing. Let's take a look... 1/6

A closeup of the Pentium die showing transistors and metal wiring. Arrows indicate two places where the wiring is connected to the silicon substrate.

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PandaMonium @pandamonium.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

CAVE, a developer known best for its shmups, used to make drift racing games. Using translated Japanese material and other weird sources, I take a lengthy peek at CAVE's first racer, Touge King The Spirits — known in North America as High Velocity: Mountain Racing Challenge. youtu.be/vizSYWLRMgY

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High Velocity / Touge King | PandaMonium Reviews Every U.S. Saturn Game | Episode 34 of 246

YouTube video by PandaMonium Reviews Every U.S. Saturn Game

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Good memories: this is when I repaired a Sega Prologue 21. Such a crazy machine, so many logic boards! I had fun disassembling parts of the BIOS to see how it communicates with its peripherals.

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Reignbreaker @reignbreaker.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

roguelike fans! 🎲 we put together a starter pack for games & devs in this exquisitely random & endlessly replayable genre more suggestions welcome, shares greatly appreciated! 💪 🔗 go.bsky.app/7wn2WaN

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I hope the Bluesky developers have the opportunity to include a language translation feature. On the other app, I follow many Japanese folks and unfortunately my Japanese isn’t very good (to say the least), so I use the “translate” button a fair bit. I have not seen an equivalent here (yet)?

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Jollyroger At Times @frioglobal1.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

First post here! Hi everyone, I am a (old) software engineer. In a previous life (career) I developed videogames and now I work on AI systems. In my little spare time I play with old hardware and write retro games. Hobbies: - Retro computing - Retro games development - Anime/manga - Motorcycles

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