I can't believe I got it working. Sony Walkman WM-F8 picked up super cheap because it sold for parts. Broken gear, missing e-clip, leaky caps, and a corroded battery terminal. Anyway it works with the one tape I have on hand: 2 Live Crew's "As Clean As They Want To Be". The Funk Shop indeed

I was going to play Raft for the first time in like 6 years after watching @willsmith.fun and @vinnycaravella.bsky.social play it on stream. When I searched for 'raft' in my library Planet Crafter showed up first and now it's nearly 2am and I've been terraforming all afternoon/evening.

oops, i cloned another sound card! this is the Beavis Ultrasound, an open source clone of the Gravis Ultrasound PnP. yes, i know there are already clones of this card, but mine provides the full schematic and matches the original board layout. github.com/schlae/Beavi...

This is good advice for anyone. Throughout my career I've seen too many people who make their job or *where* they work a huge part of their identity. Don't do that as it'll inevitably end.

RIP Sam Neill. His performance in Jurassic Park made me believe that modern day dinosaurs were a possibility and in Event Horizon that Hell is real

I'm working on a similar but not nearly as complicated restoration and recognizing that outside of monetized videos, patronage, or personal satisfaction this level of labor is just not economically viable youtu.be/FsDpHmRhBtg?...

An amuse-bouche in prep for the appetizer and the main course

Thanks to everyone who came out and most importantly buying stuff! PET went to a guy who taught his daughter basic on one they previously owned. Byte magazines were also super popular!

Me rn

As I try to fall asleep early I'm reminded of the time I did the newsletter for a regional used game store in the early 90s where I ran a column called "Pennyman" in which I speculated that some of the NES games that rarely showed up in inventory would be worth a lot someday 🤔

Testing a Darksoft CPS2 setup. I enjoy Mars Matrix even though I'm terrible at it.

Something a bit more personal than usual: For the last 10 years my dad has been struggling with a version of ALS, a terrible neuromuscular disease. He's kept up his spirits by making photo books chronicling his life as a photographer+traveler. I'm helping sell them now to pay for nursing care:

Are you in the Bay Area? Do you like old electronics? Come to the Electronics Flea Market tomorrow in Saratoga where we’ll be selling a bunch of stuff with proceeds going to Tech Exchange in honor of Gordon Mah Ung. Along with the Commodore PET I’m bringing a lot of other fun stuff. A sample:

Tons of lead, principal, and senior roles. Who's left to mentor the folks that remain?

Distracting myself from the news by working on a project that has a mechanical component that can only be accessed by removing the (soldered on) motherboard. I've gone through the process so many times during adjustment I'm a little afraid of getting complacent and messing something up.

I just spent a few days filling bins for the Electronics Flea next week but when I saw this Convergent Technologies WorkSlate and printer at the antiques faire I couldn't pass it up. It works but even if it didn't I'd keep it for the aesthetic alone!

We're used to some pretty impressive local fireworks. Someone in the neighborhood just set off a "Malcolm in the Middle" Komodo 3000-sized thing and to you, fine person, 🫡

TIL the USS Enterprise toy I had as a kid is now worth hundreds of dollars. I obliterated the one I had growing up and picked up this boxed one decades ago. Super fun toy that has a bunch of sounds and reconfigurable saucer, hull, and nacelles. Released in conjunction with The Motion Picture in 1979

MARVEL RIVALS CHARACTER ARTIST: "Cap needs more pixels."

Just paid $230 for a pinball machine Lego set and remembering that I bought my full size Data East Hook pinball machine for $450 back when almost nobody cared about pinball 😅

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

My back is already asking why I lifted, among other things, 5 arcade CRTs today. Getting this ready for some new owner. Could it be you?

Immortal life advice

Sophie Cunningham pointing at Schumer and Jeffries

@jpengine.bsky.social you need one of these?

it's finally time to reveal my birthday gift to the community! I present to you the RGR ezBuff. A disc polishing and resurfacing machine, which can restore your scratched discs back to work.

This is such a cool project!

Quick unfortunate update but I can't get used to the ortholinear layout especially since all my other devices are traditional. Love this for what it is but will be gifting this and a backup I was building to those who can better adapt

A keyboard nerd likely died and their stuff ended up at the flea market for $20. @jerf.xyz just making sure you're okay.

When @wes.readonlymemo.com shared his idea for this with me my reaction was like the food critic in Ratatouille when he took a bite of the ratatouille. Super cool initiative and looking forward to discovering new things!

Is the Steam Frame coming out just because they announced it? I'm getting one because the lighthouses of the Index are cumbersome and I'll never buy a Meta product but I feel like I'm in a very tiny minority?

It is now time to begin the solemn task of ranking 64-BIT VIDEO GAMES. Let's rank every single Nintendo 64 game released in North America, that shouldn't take too long, right? Kicking things off: Star Fox 64, Cruis'n USA, and more! Live! Now! twitch.tv/jeffgerstmann

Steam Machine emails going out. I'm waitlisted

The Steam Machine random drawing is happening now. I wish they would live stream Gabe Newell on a yacht in front of a big box of swirling ping pong balls

I'm bad at self promotion. A couple weeks ago I joined @adampatrickmurray.bsky.social to talk about handheld gaming! I utter the words "Mega Duck" a lot. Please enjoy. youtu.be/75tyYD97cPU?...

The recent celebration of Destiny 2 reminds me of an old news clip I saw of the last car coming off an assembly plant and the workers cheering. They pan to a guy and he was like "I don't know why they're clapping, we all just lost our jobs."

Californios has long been high on my list of Bay Area fine finding recommendations and congrats to them on a third Michelin star even if it means a reservation is now even harder to obtain

Finally experiencing Blazing Lazers the way it was meant to be played: On a heavily modified Zelda Game & Watch

TIL Elmo's Letter Adventure and Elmo's Number Journey make up 1% of the top 200 selling games on the N64

Someone make an early 2000s Shuttle XPC faceplate for the Steam Machine please

That... that's certainly one way to convert a 6-player X-Men arcade cabinet

Quick update I saved ~$1700 by buying these drives just 3 months ago

Steam Machine review. They considered a barebones version without storage/RAM: youtu.be/8PpCZxQ-lrE

Tapping the "Valve doesn't lose money on hardware" sign

I've been making little piles in the garage for Electronics Flea Market, VCF, CAX, PRGE, and recycling. Excited to get this stuff out of my bins and into the wild.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Setting up a MiSTerCade I had sitting around and with all the new cores and especially the config scripts it's quite nice. Thanks to everyone in the community for providing some great options! Side note: I did this because my SuperStation arrived and I realized I had 5 MiSTers in the house

Bounced off Control pretty quickly when it was released but picked it up again this week and ended up finishing it. Looking forward to the sequel. Perhaps it's diminishing skills but I did have to give up on the AWE boss. My partner watched me play for a bit and was like "But you're suffering!"

This man’s direct line from Quatermass 2 and Thunderbirds to Alien and Empire Strikes Back is the coolest shit in the world. Special effects are so monumentally important, trailblazing in every new trick they try, in ways still undermined and under-appreciated by even the most passionate movie buff.