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Thought I would mirror this as this subject is of great interest to me and any improvements or information is very useful, until now I have been using a laserjet and a crappy modded Asda laminator which has worked ok, also tried a few other methods (Mapl… more »

We like to cover these things regardless of system because they show methods of creating and doing such a thing. Even though there are universal floppy drive emulators available today with all many of add ons (SD,CF,IDE, etc). In the case of the Oric it… more »

We like these things, and this ones build quality is very high, so I thought I would post it. A home made Mini-Mame cab made using acrylic with a ITX PC as the base providing the emulation. See more here : http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/stepnanocade.h… more »

Interesting read. Guy designs and builds a CPU based on 7400 discrete logic series chips with some EProms thrown in & home made PCB's. Quite a detailed read up.  Orig :  Mirror : shift/jump unit previewI've decided on the fina… more »

Following on from here : Ultim809: Ultimate 8-Bit Computer (home made 8 bit computer based on Motorola 6509 cpu) Since the last report on this system, it now has video and sound output so is way more useful now :) A TMS9918 does the video and a… more »

Had this one lying about for a wile but never got round to posting/mirroring it. Another reprogrammable cart much simpler than the other USB version we recently posted, but then this is just for games and it works, much easier to work with :)   more »

GameBoy LCD screwing about... well its nice. Not sure how many of these things are left about mind you in working condition, maybe a phone may be good, but this does cover some good bits and bytes :p   A peculiar aspect of the original Gameboy is… more »

Extremely cool home made laptop based on the Z80, looks really well finished, is quite a powerful system too. Quite simply a must see if your into these kind of things.   The V4Z80P – A Z80 Based Laptop A Z80 laptop? Why not :)  I had reduced… more »

Home made Nintendo NES reprogrammable cart. I know it looks like a simple NES cart with too eeproms sticking out and yes that works, but this version is reprgrammable via USB while INSIDE the NES now thats pretty cool, so I thought I would post it up, be… more »

Literally massive post this loads of info on the PSGroove, PSGooPic etc. pics, files all sorts it is a massive read, might take some time, but it really does give you all you need to know about the things.  Load of info mirrored from all over the p… more »

Another old system in FPGA form. As always nice :) With the falling costs of FPGAs and there dev. kits there seems to be a rise in these projects which is a good thing. Last few attempts I seen at a Atari 2600 failed due the system having some kind of we… more »

Found this while Googling about something else, might have to start building a gallery of all the home made computer systems soon theres quite a few to go up yet. This one seems to date from 2003/4. Interesting though  The prototype :Orig. articl… more »

I'm guessing most of our readers are not old enough to remember the IBM XT or even adding your own I/O cards, I bet a large percentage of them have never even seen a IBM brand PC, oh how time moves on, but some people want to go back and thats what this… more »

Interesting device this, I know there are many different floppy drive emulators out there and most can be "made" to work with different systems with some magic and stuff, but heres another that has a speaker to make the noise that your old Amiga drive di… more »

Matthew Sarnoff has built an 8-bit computer based on the Motorola 6809 processor. This processor was chosen because there are a lot of Z80 based home made computers about he wanted to try something different.Ultim809: Ultimate 8-Bit Computer :[adse… more »

A I think German guy, made up his own Super Nintendo multi tap and fitted internally into the console, THE only way to play Bomber Man at a party.. oh the memorys :p The SNES multi tap was a fairly unpopular piece of gear and commands high prices today,… more »

Thought I would post this up as its quite interesting, yes, yes I know you can grab then Sega on a chip things from questionable sources with 3000 built in games for less than a McDonalds, but this is nice. Reminds me of my attempts 7-8yrs ago which stil… more »

DIY 32 bit games console based on the ARM Cortex CPU (thats a $1 CPU). Video generation & sound done in software, the things actually capable of 3D graphics, not bad for $3 ;P all you need are the CPU, crystal and few caps & resistors.More on… more »

While looking up some ISA related stuff to do with soundcards today I found this, a man has a old ISA FM tuner card and wanted to use it, now being that ISA slots went out of fashion in the mid to late 1990s and kind of hung around until the mid P3/Athlo… more »

Guy makes tiny arcade like machines based on the old cocktail format, yes arcade machines before you think its a childrens beer cabinet or something as not many people are familer with the naming type :p The finished unit is being auctioned on eBay. It's… more »

PLCC chip used as replacement for the ROM in the cartridge of the Gameboy, I know you could have just gone and got any number of flashcards/multicarts etc. but working with whats to hand and low costs, this is really cool :)  … more »

Just throwing up the first post as its 11:50 pm which means we got the blog up running on Christmas day '09 Yay or something :) more »