#vintagehardware — Public Fediverse posts

Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]

Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]

Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]

Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]

Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]

ZDNet: How I turned my ancient Windows PC into a Chromebook for free – with FydeOS. “FydeOS is a Linux-based OS that looks and feels just like ChromeOS, down to the Material Me design. It includes background updates (so you don’t have to worry about remembering to update), seamlessly supports web, Android, and Linux apps, boots in 8 seconds, uses read-only access and ‘virus armour’ for hardened […]

At long last -- my Amiga 2000 has a CPU speed switch!

( Fast and Faster )

A "new" 40MHz 68030/882 accelerator with 8MB 32-bit FAST RAM is slotted in and wired with a switch, there on the front. Base 68000 system has 8MB 16-bit FAST RAM, a respectable fallback for cycle-exact OCS/ECS demos.

#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #A2000 #Amiga2000 #MC68K #MC68000 #MC68030 #GVP #onlyAmiga #accelerators #hardware #vintagehardware #tech #vintagetech #Commodore #demo #demoscene #scenedemo #hxc2001 #CRT #posters #gameroom #ECS #ByteCellar #video #nostalgia #retrogaming #Boogietown

The Register: Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory. “If you have wistful longings for the days when your songs carried the subtle hiss of the cassettes you listened to, we have some reel good news. A new project takes modern music back to the analog era. The project, available on GitHub, is called ‘Audio Cassette Simulation’ and uses FFmpeg to transcode […]

Ars Technica: All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity. “With today’s addition of Real Soccer 2009 to the project … all 54 official iPod clickwheel games are now available together in an easily accessible format for what is likely the first time.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/09/ars-technica-all-54-lost-clickwheel-ipod-games-have-now-been-preserved-for-posterity/

The Stubborn Commodore 64: Triple Freedom’s Latest Repair Challenge
#Commodore64 #RetroComputing #C64 #TechRepair #VintageHardware #TripleFreedom #RetroTech #Restoration #ClassicComputers
https://theoasisbbs.com/the-stubborn-commodore-64-triple-freedoms-latest-repair-challenge/?feed_id=2179&_unique_id=67d2d8425eb6a

The Commodore 1570: A Unique Stopgap Disk Drive for the C128
#Commodore #Commodore1570 #RetroComputing #C128 #FloppyDrive #VintageHardware #CommodoreHistory #TechExploration
https://theoasisbbs.com/the-commodore-1570-a-unique-stopgap-disk-drive-for-the-c128/?feed_id=1963&_unique_id=67c70850a2068