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Category: Hardware
Posts about old hardware
Dos(PC) Emulator for Raspberry Pi Released
Homebrew Coder Pate who first off released a DOS Emulator for the Nintendo DS, then moved onto the Android has now posted a release of his DOS Emulator for the Raspberry Pi.
SEGA of Japan Launch Range of Console-Themed Laptops
SEGA of Japan have teamed up with ebten to launch a range of SEGA NOTE PCs. The laptops are themed around 3 SEGA consoles with an additional SEGA-themed laptop. The 3 consoles are Mega Drive, Saturn and Dreamcast
HxC Floppy Emulator Firmware v1.7.2.0
A new firmware for the HxC SD card floppy emulator has been released. It features some bugfixes regarding SD card handling. The HxC floppy emulator
Donating computers to the collection.
If you would like to donate a machine to me or to the computer museum in Cambridge, do feel free to contact me. You can contact me
Russian ZX Spectrum Clone at Spectrum 30 (Westa IK-31)
The Westa IK-31 was one of the many interesting ZX Spectrum clones at the Spectrum 30 event in Cambridge, 8/9 September 2012. These machines were exhibited
The Commodore 64 EasyFlash Cartridge
With some money I had left in my PayPal account, I decided to buy one of the EasyFlash programmable cartridges for the Commodore 64 from
VIC-20 Talk-Back speech synthesizer
This is the VIC-20 Talk-Back, a speech synthesis electronics kit sold by Maplin way back in 1983. The board was designed by Mark Brighton.
Action Replay Mk 4.1 to 6.0 upgrade (C64)
This is a very easy upgrade for your Action Replay 4.1 device. With version 6 of the software you get a few updates and a few bugs are fixed.
The SD Card based HxC Floppy Emulator
This is the latest addition to my collection. Ive wanted to buy one of these for a long while. Here is a brief description of the device taken from the designers website. The SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator is n universal 3″, 3″1/2, 5″1/4 and 8” Floppy disk drive emulator based on SDCard. Most of disk formats can be emulated bt this emulator.