The Atari 130XE sio2pc project
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Jepstone is emulating an Atari floppy drive with a Linux box and a fancy serial cable he made. The two Atari floppy drives are emulated on his Linux system using AtariSIO. Link.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
100lb working Gameboy project
Nice project via Kotaku It’s over 3 feet tall and weighs 100 pounds with a working cartridge. Guess this Game Boy isn’t exactly portable. No wonder they call it the “Game Man.” Designed by an art student named Jeff, this massive machine is his senior project. He was planning to make it seven feet tall, but didn’t have enough cash. Price for Game Man construction? $500. Link.
In game virtual game coming to the GBA
Kermitt Quick made a game called “Tringo” in Second Life (an online multiplayer world) – Tringo is like Bingo and Tetris all in one. In the virtual world it was a huge hit, and now cell phone companies and gameboy game publishers are licensing it from the Maker. The cool part about all this – residents in Second Life own all their own content, so things like this can flourish. Link.
Amazing Mac based arcade cabinets – This MAME machine has, at its core, a Macintosh Powerbook. The display is therefore an LCD display and the motherboard, power supply, and hard drive diminutive. For these reasons I was able to keep an overall small machine… [
HOW TO play games from other consoles and backing up UMDs for the PSP
Good round up…it is also possible to play games from the Game Boy Advanced, NES and SNES, Sega Genesis, and other consoles? What about playing PSP games like Lumines — without the UMD? With the use of emulators and ISOs it is possible. If you are a PSP owner, you really can’t afford to miss this article that shows you how to set up an emulator and create backups of your UMDs to play directly from Memory Sticks. Link.
Play old arcade games with MAME
New MAME! From its initial release in February 1997, MAME has grown to support over 5700 different arcade games from the early days of the 1970s through to today’s high-action 3D games, meaning it is the largest arcade machine emulator project in the world. The 0.100 release has been humourously titled “1.00”, poking fun at the MAME team’s statement that as long as new arcade machines are being released, their emulator will never be finished. Link.
PSP UMD Emulator V0.8
For 1.5 PSPs (I still haven’t gone to 2.0, very glad). Following in the footsteps of the Fastloader, here is another fine homebrew app for your pleasure. This time we present you a full featured UMD emulator, reboot & exitgame tight – you have to turn off your PSP completely (or crash it :p ) to get it back to original state. This is a semi-final version, some things are known not to work properly for now… Link.
