Notes"Revolution owners will be able to relive their past gaming glories from the Sega Genesis console by playing a "best of" selection from more than 1,000 Genesis titles, as well as games sold for the TurboGrafx console (a system jointly developed by NEC andUnfurl
Notes"The codes translate into addresses and data in a game's program space (upper half of address space, 0x8000-0xFFFF) which the Game Genie fools the CPU into using rather than the byte which is supposed to be there."Unfurl
Notes"Akumajou Densetsu, or the Japanese version of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, uses the VRC6 chip, which provides for three extra sound channels (in addition to the Famicoms original five)."Unfurl
Notes"Though it has just 16-bit graphics and a CPU which can’t even power one of today's cell phones, this is arguably the best console gaming system of all time."Unfurl
Notes"Twenty years ago this week -- February 21, 1986 -- thousands of Japanese gamers played The Legend of Zelda for the first time, and their perspective on gaming was forever changed."Unfurl
Notes"Did the BBC use a cheap home computer from 1981 to simulate the advanced computing power of hundreds, even thousands of years into the future?"Unfurl
Notes"Kevin Reilly on comp.sys.sinclair uncovered some unintentional humour in season 1, episode 13 of CSI: Miami which UK-based geeks of a certain age will appreciate."Unfurl
Notes"At first glance, it appears to be a Gauntlet clone with primitive graphics (the Gauntlet of which I speak is the 1985 Atari Games arcade release), but it turns out that Gauntlet, not Dandy, is the clone"Unfurl
Notes"one could use such a board and an empty NES cartridge case to build a permanently-converted Famicom game for play on a regular American NES."Unfurl
Notes"Answering the call of my own inner geek, I have exposed Archon’s mechanisms and hidden numbers through days of experimentation with the game’s original and best version, that for the Atari 800."Unfurl
NotesWow. It's like Rush's 2112 meets Capcom's Mega Man! "Mega-Man. Rock Opera. Two terms that, prior to hearing the Protomen, I thought would never be allowed within a hundred feet of eachother as mandated by court order."Unfurl
Notes"Starting in the research labs of the University of Michigan, and moving out into the surrounding community, Ann Arbor's conferencing systems were among the first to make sophisticated computer conferencing systems publicly available."Unfurl
Notes"Lunar Magic is a level editor I created for Super Mario World (SNES). It's the first and, as far as I know, the only level editor available for this game."Unfurl
Notes"Initially I dismissed knobs as too complicated for everyday programming. However Future People discovered a glorious solution: cheat shirts that illustrate which way to turn the knob. Genius."Unfurl
Notes"So it is with great happiness I can now announce that artscene.textfiles.com now has over 1,700 pieces of RTTY art, dating from the 50s to last decade."Unfurl
Notes"This site was created with the intention of it becoming the hub for various projects based around the Elite series of games, particularly Frontier and First Encounters - including the release of the source code of the latter two games."Unfurl
Notes"Producer Mark Gordon (The Day After Tomorrow) is developing a big-budget feature based on Voltron: Defender of the Universe, a 1980s Japanese animated series about a team of pilots whose individual ships combine to form a giant robot, according to The HoUnfurl
Notes"Not everyone appreciates the thrill of making weird, silly or rude sounds with your mouth." Wow, I got a book from this guy back when little flimsy records came in them and you needed a penny to weight them down on the turntable.Unfurl
Notes"I've tried to make a decent, good, solid loaf of bread here, which tastes good, is what it says it is, and doesn't cheat you." Definitely happy I bought this.Unfurl
Notes"Because treating my customers/audience like moronic criminals is not what intelligent beings do." Hooray - almost makes me want to order the documentary again. Maybe I will, for a birthday gift or somethingUnfurl