I was able to locate a tape with the UTIL program as well, and transferred it to my PC via WAV file into a CAS file. Although it's a different version, it's substantially similar. Maybe I should annotate a disassembly.

Well, Y2K wasn’t a big problem, but Showa 100 turns out to be !

This just in - Google is about to break to gmail for POP3 users: www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...

The beginnings of a new MiSTer core. I'm not the lead developer; for now, I'm just supplying technical information and tests, but I expect that I'll contribute code at some point. (Don't get too excited; this is just the earliest sign of life).

Alright, I ordered my Tenshi no Uta. Fingers crossed for a top-notch translation ! limitedrungames.com/collections/...

Finally starting to (slowly) dig into that TRS-80 TC-8 tape device from JPC Products, circa 1980. Reading the EPROM was a challenge; National Semi MM27C16Q was reading on my TL866 programmer, but verify (to confirm) was coming up with LOTS of different data, failing to verify.

🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has highlighted some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026! More ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... @dukelaw.bsky.social

I've been following Renesas' SLG479xx FPGAs since they were announced in 2021, and infromation has been hard to find for most of this time. The 2K LUT devices now have published datasheets, much more quickly than the 1K LUT devices did. But sadly, none of these are aimed at prototyping.

Supper has made his Emerald Dragon translation available now ! This is one of the most long-awaited translations for the PC Engine platform, and I'm looking forward to playing it ! stargood.org/trans/emdr.php

Tenshi no Uta is coming to Switch. Hoping this will be great. The Cosmic Fantasy translations were "stretch goals" on the Japanese crowdfunding, and I wasn't a big fan - this wasn't done as a stretch goal, so maybe it'll get better treatment. limitedrungames.com/collections/...

I just realized that Winter Comiket is happening now. It looks like High Risk Revoloution has produced some new Hudson Densetsu books, available at Comiket: www.highriskrevolution.com/wp/gamelife/...

Each time I feel that life is becoming too serious, I remember some paintings in Japan which are important cultural artificats, and hang in prestigious museums and art gallerys. ...the subject of the paintings ? "He-gassen", or "fart battles" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-gassen

shel silverstein was a prophet

The compression used in (PC Engine) Ys 4 and Emerald Dragon (etc.) was pretty simple. But when I wrote a compressor for it, I found that my compressor had a better compression ratio than the actual game. WHAT !? Hudson's compressor must have had some kind of bug.

Good article on how to disable AI features on Chrome/Google search: (Some items are different than my install - the author may be on a development build - but most work great) www.theregister.com/2025/12/26/d...

The french for eggnog (at least on the cartons here in Ontario) seems to be "lait de poule". Each time I see this, I think "chicken milk", which seems wrong on several levels...

Starting with the original, Lafcadio Hearn, I suppose...

Just a first peek of the TC-8 internals - not a full teardown yet. Earlier, I didn't remember where the driver software was - after opening it up, I realized that this had a daughterboard with a PROM on it, so the driver software didn't need to be loaded from tape.

Watching YouTube videos in French makes me feel terrible about my French ability, even though I studied it all through school. HOWEVER, I realized: Turning on (French) subtitles improves my comprehension substantially ! ...In-person interactions don't come with subtitles though.

The Pro Fighter Turbo SNES copier has "Gold Finger" ROM patches for 350 games built-in. Both the game names and codes are mostly stored in plaintext format in the copier's ROM. When loading a game from disk, the copier gives you the option of auto-patching the game (with all codes at once for it).

There were really a lot of hardware add-ons for the TRS-80 Model 1 back around 1980, most of which nobody remembers today. I found my old Model 1 packed away, and it has the "Holmes Engineering 48K Internal Memory". Here's a longer list of those hardware items: www.trs-80.org/category-har...

Back in the days of do-it-yourself PC Board etching, long before CAD for PCBs, it was a different world. One method was to use photoresist; it was possible to buy dry-transfer templates of footprints to apply to a clear layer, and expose it to light.

Cleaning up some memories from the basement of my parents' house. I wonder if anybody else out there knows what this is, or perhaps had one ? (I know what it is, but not sure where the software driver is at the moment). It seems to have been somewhat rare even back in the day.

Can we squeeze in one last article before the end of the year? I think so! Let's take a quick look at Rockman 2: The Power Fighters for the CPS-2 hardware, which has a couple of disabled debug tools leftover for us to play with. 🔗 sudden-desu.net/entry/rockma...

Happy Friday! We're thrilled to announce the full run of Marukatsu PC Engine is now available to download/view. We believe we have now scanned every Japanese PC Engine focused magazine completely. Enjoy and please spread the word by liking/RT'ing. www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/12/m...

Necros no Yousai - English Translation (TG16) Added

This game is a tribute to RPGs that came before, the action RPG to END ALL action RPG's, the game that reminds me why I play video games, and a celebration of gaming! This time I'm finally doing the original PC-88 version of Falcom's classic, Popful Mail! youtu.be/spMcKsh1R-4

This evening, my Windows 11 computer displayed a series of popup messages stating that there was a "problem with an app" so it "updated the file association", over and over until it had re-associated all files back to Microsoft defaults. What problem? Using other software is a problem?

Thanks to all our viewers for following us over the years. Perhaps this is not a huge milestone compared to other channels, but quite frankly we never thought our channel would ever make it this far! Hope that you will continue watching in 2026, and beyond!

I backed the "Solder Ninja Pen" on CrowdSupply, and I just wanted to share the latest progress report, which reveals a lot of details of the production process (which I find interesting). www.crowdsupply.com/sitron-labs/...

Raspberry Pi release the Pi Zero W in 2017, and the Pi Zero 2W in 2021; so when do we think that the Pi Zero 3W will be released ? Soon ?

At a HardOff I caught a glimpse of an oldschool Japanese mechanical typewriter. The Nippon Type PanWriter types in 3 colours and somehow impacts one of the over 2300 glyphs onto the paper after the user manually slides over the rows & columns and presses down to type it. (Zoom in for the details)

Hmm... What is Qualcomm changing at Arduino ? Let's take a look... www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/a...

Any interest in a PCFX PSU? Surely there are more of these in existence than the CDI 350

It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

Judging by how many #itwasdns shirts I've sold this morning... Is the Cloudflare outage DNS-related too? www.redshirtjeff.com/shop/p/it-wa...

A couple of decades ago I created a 'font engine' that allows anyone to create text images using 179 (and counting) fonts from arcade (and etc) games. nfggames.com/games/fontma...

I was switching between Famicom & PCE/TG16 games and was annoyed at how PCE screens were shifted to the left compared to Fami. So I did some measurements: the Fami's active pixels start ~7.6us after the end of HSync while the PCE's can be 7.0us (early) or 8.47us (late), but never the same as Fami :/

I agree with pretty much every point that he made in this article. www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/d...

This time on PC-88 Paradise, it's LAST ARMAGEDDON! Can I make it through this infamously player-unfriendly game? And how does the original version compare to the ports for the PC Engine, Famicom, and other systems? Find out in the video! youtu.be/L03amxANZqs

I just realized that Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" was released 50 years ago (plus a few days). Time flies...

It's apple season, so I made an apple galette. Much faster/easier to make than a proper apple pie.

I've spent the last two years developing firmware and software for a WS/WSC/PCv2 flash/development cartridge. Now, it has finally been announced and will be sold by 49bitcat in Germany. Sales start November 24th! Learn more here: 49bitcat.com/news/2025-10...

Quick update on a few interesting crowdfunded electronics tools: TermDriver 2 - received yesterday, about a week EARLY! (Now waiting for firmware repository to be published.) www.crowdsupply.com/excamera/ter...

New episode up! Ben and Matt talk about Pachio-kun FX, a competitive pachinko title featuring fantastical anime girls using their skills and magical powers to gamble. We cover how Pachinko works, our experiences with the game, and how it uses the PC-FX's capabilities. youtu.be/jTOZ2zoPO5o

Who Did What At Irem: A (Semi-)Comprehensive Thread Today, we're going to be doing a deepdive on one of the premier arcade giants of the 1980's. We're all familiar with enduring classics such as R-Type and In The Hunt, but who were the talented men & women that created them?

Japan-Only TAITO Quiz Games Just Hit the #MiSTerFPGA F2 Core! Thanks @wickerwaka.com Read more here: metalgamesolid.com/fpga/mister-...

Started getting a lot of spam chat requests here, so I had to change settings to "only users I follow". Just so you know. It would be nice if BlueSky had an intermediate choice - for example, people who follow me for a certain period of time first (or something like that).