New blog post! Are x86, ARM, and even PowerPC too mainstream for you? Let's all say hello to LoongArch, by getting a Loongson motherboard from a Chinese scrap market. www.leadedsolder.com/2026/04/14/l... #loongson #3a5000 #linux

If you've ever wanted to make a game for the Epoch Super Cassette Vision (tumbleweed passes) then may introduce SCeVe, a sort of SDK for it. It's written in, possibly, the worst way ever but it does work codeberg.org/Jonn-reenthu... #RetroDev

RESIN PUNKS, the latest Zimmerit 'zine, is out and available now from garagekit.club and select brick and mortar shops. 40 pages of '80s garage kit culture including profiles, translated period material, and photos. Grab it here: garagekit.club/products/res...

Old blog post! Remember when... I bought a broken Coleco clone of an Atari 2600 from the local flea market? That little Gemini still works pretty well! www.leadedsolder.com/2020/04/06/c... #retrogaming #retrocomputing #atari2600 #coleco

aquanaut's holiday switch port let's goooooooooo

With BlueSky being like ~this~ and search engines being like ~that~, please make sure you bookmark your favourite sites/sign up to their email lists/feeds/newsletters! Anything that saves creators from the fickle whims of algorithms and helps you stay up to date with cool people is a good thing!

STREAM LIVE! gonna do something different and stream me reading a book today; Guards, Guards! by Terry Pratchett! come join and chill with me pls :3 www.twitch.tv/terrible_robot #Twitch #readingstream #ENvtuber #pngtuber

SORD m5 用ROM/RAM/シリアル カートリッジ基板【基板】 | まごころせいじつ堂 keisanki.booth.pm/items/4596306 #booth_pm ５枚追加しました。

It's a long bank holiday in the UK, so all versions of Jurl and Mille are pay what you want (incl. nothing) over on tonsomo.itch.io #IndieDev #RetroDev #IndieDev #RetroGaming

New April 1st "byte" post! Lock-on technology on the Master System? That's right! nicole.express/2026/april-f...

New blog post! It's part five of my quest to make my very own #ColecoVision. This time, I let other people build one too, and make sure I actually included all the parts! There's still some bugs to work out, but I do still love my first clone system. www.leadedsolder.com/2026/03/24/c...

UPDATE: BEEP has confirmed they are moving soon xcancel.com/beep_akihaba...

Every time it comes up I just gotta remind people that it's extremely expensive to license filming in Shibuya, which the team making this game couldn't afford, so they filmed this game by stealing shots and running from the cops.

Successfully opened SSH connection to my Linux box from my Panasonic FS-A1 #MSX via #FujiNet. This means network functions are working as expected. Now our apps can start to be ported. #retrocomputing

New blog post! A what-if scenario where we try to see how a home computer designer might've dealt with the field-sequential color television, had the Korean War not stopped that standards' rollout. Enjoy! nicole.express/2026/the-app...

if you're buying numarathon it's incredibly important that you fully internalize the timeline you can't even leave the tutorial if you don't understand this

New blog post! This TRS-80 Model 1 was found in the bottom of a trash bin, smashed to bits by heavy printers and cash registers above it. Will it ever run again? #retrocomputing #trs80 #tandy www.leadedsolder.com/2026/03/03/t...

As it’s now left the festival circuit our last short Everything Must Go is now available youtu.be/D7Y4uKjd1u8 #Film #Short

New blog post! Two cases of a modern motherboard to upgrade or replicate old Sega consoles. How do they stack up? nicole.express/2026/people-...

Go Sam! I can’t wait to see what he comes up with. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New "byte"-sized blog post: A rant about AI making it impossible to search for information anymore. Alas... nicole.express/2026/not-my-...

as announced by online Sega history zine Beep21: Hideki Sato, the "father of Sega hardware" who stewarded the design of Sega's home consoles from the SG-1000 through to the Dreamcast & presided over the company from 2001~3, passed away on Feb.13 aged 77 🇯🇵 R.I.P.

New blog post! Fujitsu made a wildly complicated machine in the FM-77AV2, and this one defeated me. I did narrow the problem to a bad custom chip! Come along and see the heaviest 8-bit computer I owned before I got even heavier ones. www.leadedsolder.com/2026/02/10/f... #retrocomputing #fm7

The PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign is now live! Back the project to be among the first to get yours! PicoIDE is an open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for retro systems. www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

New blog post! Taking a look at the Yamaha MR10, a preset drum machine from... 1982? That can't be right... nicole.express/2026/yamaha-...

This is pretty neat. Someone on AliExpress is selling a Soggy-1000, my open-source #Sega SG-1000 clone, with the 3D-printed case that keegs made. They even went ahead and modified an NES-clone controller to work with the SMS pinout. Hope they liked building it! #retrogaming #kicad #retrocomputing

New blog post! Can you play Sonic Invaders on my clone of Australia's favourite 1980s computer/video game hybrid? Yes, at long last, you can. It is time to re-enter Dick Smith's fabulous world of Wizzardry. #retrocomputing #kicad www.leadedsolder.com/2026/01/20/c...

Did you know that LoopyMSE, the Casio Loopy emulator, has printer emulation? You can customize what it runs on the exported image so here it's using Python to send the image to this bluetooth printer which can print full-colour 3"x2" stickers! www.youtube.com/shorts/zzCtG...

Old blog post! Remember when.. I spent a lot of time trying to mod a PlayStation before accidentally buying one that was already modded? Good thing it was broken too, or I would have nothing to write about. #retrogaming #playstation #modchip #artdink www.leadedsolder.com/2021/04/20/p...

Damn. He was my grail of Sega interviews. I was able to interact through a 3rd party but never got to spoke to him. He was a true coin-op legend and will be missed. R.I.P. 🙁 www.replaymag.com/segas-dave-r...

This is unreal. In this month's @romchip.bsky.social: This author was researching "superguns," unofficial devices used to play arcade games at home Sooo they built their own, following the instructions from vintage Japanese electronics magazines from the 80s/90s romchip.org/index.php/ro...

🎶 New blog post / it's one you can read / this Sun's Timekeeper is toast / so why don't we / cut a hole in it with a Dremel? 🎶 #sparc #sunos #sparcstation #retrocomputing #powertoolabuse www.leadedsolder.com/2025/12/30/s...

Surprise, a new "byte" post: a little writeup on a color LCD game from 1999. The mirror vision trick to get more brightness on a color LCD didn't die with the Panorama Screen, it turns out. nicole.express/2025/stop-in...

🎁 FIRMWARE UPDATE! A gift to all my Floopy Drivers out there, this update greatly improves flashing speeds, ex. •Harihari Seal Paradise 59s→18s🔥 •Little Romance 102s→36s🔥 To update, just plug in your Floopy like normal, and click the update notification. Give'r a reload if you don't see. #CasioLoopy

New blog post! A smaller one, taking a look at some LCD games and how the segmented LCD game declined over the course of the 1980's. nicole.express/2025/gentlem...

New blog post! As everyone knows, the Commodore 64 likes to get sick and die. How many C64 boards in a free pile can we fix in three hours? #commodore64 #c64 #retrocomputing #itsthepla #itsnotthepla www.leadedsolder.com/2025/12/09/c...

Fixing Commodore 64s is some kind of fun, but not a normal kind of fun like fixing broken Japanese computers. #commodore64 #retrocomputing

New blog post! The Jakks Pacific "Atari Paddle"; it plays only the games that used the less common of the major Atari controller. How well does it do it? nicole.express/2025/paddle-...

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...

New blog post! It's a Samsung CRT TV/VCR that rolled out of the swamp of eBay. Some kids shoved Christmas ornaments in it. And Starburst candies. And a... Pokemon card? That's not what's wrong, though! #retrogaming #crt #crtrepair www.leadedsolder.com/2025/11/18/s...

“Retrocomputing Repair” themed claw game. 🤪

The MC-10 also does this "put the 1372 in the RF modulator" shenanigan. It even puts the master clock source in there. Perhaps closer cross pollination than I first thought. Great job!

New blog post! The Apple III was perhaps the most unloved machine of Apple's early-80s losing streak, but that doesn't mean this one should have been used as a toilet for mice. Just how bad can it get? #retrocomputing #apple2 #apple3 www.leadedsolder.com/2025/10/28/a...

New blog post! Taking a look at a Coleco tabletop game... but is it actually a Coleco? It's time to face off against Mario in Donkey Kong Junior nicole.express/2025/you-got...

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I released a Public Service Announcement video on why you cannot use a Macintosh Portable without a good battery, on a Powerbook or after-market AC adapter: youtu.be/ed7-AqrY70s

New blog post! I got a FujiNet adapter for my Coleco Adam. Then I immediately dropped my homemade power supply on the ground and broke it. Will it ever net the Fujis again? www.leadedsolder.com/2025/10/07/c... #coleco #retrocomputing #kicad

This has to be the first one of these remotes I've seen where all the streaming services are actually available in Canada. Too bad I found it in a park in pieces. #elitter

Old blog post! Remember when... I fixed a buddy's clock radio and it had exactly the faults you think it did? #stereorepair www.leadedsolder.com/2023/10/24/b...