Those Toshiba drives are lemons. I had the same 30GB in an iBook G4 (mid-2005); it lasted only two years. The guy who sold me a new one acted as if the drives had a fairly high fai…

Indeed, here is one that is for sale throughout the US: Generation NEX. I've seen it at multiple local game shops. Click to expand... Beware the Gen NEX; I believe the company…

yeah it is pretty neat platform i think, only other alternative is to get one of the famiclones which cost about 40-50 bux and get a flash cart and do it that way...same difference…

IRDA is for data only. its a completely different device than the IR receivers used for remote controls.you can get the apple remote to work with a pismo if you can get your hands …

IRDA is for data only. its a completely different device than the IR receivers used for remote controls. you can get the apple remote to work with a pismo if you can get your hand…

I fired up Console and it says my video card is too old. Never have I had it say that Click to expand... try booting in verbose mode and you may see that message again. It isn…

I'm sure someone will come up with a CF or SD adapter for game pirates in the developed world. Click to expand... Playpower's working on one. And not just the developed world …

6502 / Z80 Click to expand... @ syntacsugar: as you're already dabbling in 6502 assembly, this looks like an ideal dev platform for you. @ porter: I was eyeing off a z80 dev…

All of the patents on the original NES have expired, worldwide. It is now 100% legal to clone an NES. The *ROMs*, however, still fall under copyright. But making a piece of hard…

but for almost $50 you're getting ripped off. Click to expand... Agreed - except that part proceeds go towards the Playpower project, which is developing educational software a…

None of those things worked, I tried them, and the Pram thing isn't an issue because the pram batter is gone and the factory battery that powers the thing is removed. I managed to …

I'll take it if you don't want it.

None of those things worked, I tried them, and the Pram thing isn't an issue because the pram batter is gone and the factory battery that powers the thing is removed. I managed to …

Christopher, What I would do is first is reset the P-RAM (Command + Option + P + R). Hold those 4 buttons down on the keyboard, until you hear the startup chime about 3 times. I…

I've never really liked the 6502, it's like an 8 bit CPU going out of it's way to limit everything to 8 bits. Click to expand... From my perspective (ie: a dabbler, not a progr…

What I did when I had this problem is take the hard drive out, put it into a tiger capable mac, then install tiger on that first partition, before the user setup process, just tak…

I did the same install on a beige G3 some back and had a couple of problems. I had to format a partition not at but slightly under 8 gb and it had to be the first partition on the …

I oonce had a pirate NES clone, stuffed into an n64 controller case. It's million games were really just 100's of unedited copies of the same games.

I wonder if I should partition the whole 80gb drive into 7.5gb partitions and see what that does. Click to expand... You'd just end up with a whole lot of 7.5GB patitions, whic…

I've never really liked the 6502, it's like an 8 bit CPU going out of it's way to limit everything to 8 bits. Click to expand... From my perspective (ie: a dabbler, not a progr…

I've never really liked the 6502, it's like an 8 bit CPU going out of it's way to limit everything to 8 bits. Click to expand... From my perspective (ie: a dabbler, not a progr…

I've never really liked the 6502, it's like an 8 bit CPU going out of it's way to limit everything to 8 bits. For a simple accumulator CPU the 6800 more closely matched my model of…

Just tried it. Screwed around with the drive configuration and got the same results as before. I wonder if I should partition the whole 80gb drive into 7.5gb partitions and see wha…

As for the accompanying carts, as long as they aren't sold in developed nations, noone is going to care if they are pirated. Most of those countries have larger concerns than enfo…

It does look cool, but I wonder whether Nintendo won't shut them down, what with it using the Nintendo architecture and all. Click to expand... If it's based on the NES, the pa…