Much more than crafting Ice Cream.
Artist: kingin
For awhile now, I have been debating on getting a PowerPC G4 upgrade for my PowerMac G3 B&W, but I either couldn’t find it or they were too expensive. Since I kind of wanted a portable PowerPC Macintosh to run my older games. While I saw the unsupported Mac OS 9 boot hack, I wanted something that worked, so I decided on the iBook G3 that I picked up for $22 on eBay plus a power adapter for it, which is about $8.
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Artist: 大気ken
Just recently, I discovered that Connectix Virtual Game Station, which is a program that emulates a Playstation. It works great for Playstation games, especially Japanese imports after applying the patch. Since I have a PowerMac G3 Blue and White lying around for mostly for older gaming, I decided to upgrade it with an ATI Radeon 7000 since that card is easy to flash to make it Mac compatible. Not only that, ATI Rage 128 GL that came with it is just slow for games.
You can pick up a ATI Radeon 7000 PCI for cheap on eBay opposed to getting a Mac edition, which costs significantly more. However, most PC versions of the card only have a 64k ROM and since Mac ROMs are 128k, you will have to solder a new ROM so it will fit. Since I don’t feel like soldering, you can use a reduced ROM. Depending on the OEM, it might not work, but I managed to get mine working under Mac OS 9 and OS X.
For this project, I got a Visiontek ATi Radeon 7000 64 MB from eBay, which costed me $14.50. You also need the ATI Flash utilities, which you can get from this page, ATI Radeon 7000 drivers for Mac OS 9 and Radeon 9200 ROM Updater installer (for the ATI Rom Extender to make the card work fully). Lastly, I got the appropriate ROM files from Mac Elite wiki. I used the gotoh 7000 reduced rom. You also need a PC with a free PCI slot.
From the looks of it, the forecaster got it wrong this time. Where I live, only about 6 inches fell, which is a far cry from the 2 feet they were predicting. It makes me wonder if they hyped the storm up just so that people would panic and make a run to the supermarket to get bread, milk and eggs.
As for New England, that is a different story since they got hit hard with 2 or more feet of snow.
Artist: wankoba
Considering that Playstation Vita games are like full console games, there might be some people who want to play them on the big screen like the Playstation Portable. Moreover, it seems that Sony wants to compete with the Ouya by making a separate console called the Vita TV (also known as Playstation TV outside Asia) instead of incorporating HDMI functionality for the Vita.
Like the name implies, the Vita TV allows you to play most Vita or digitally download PSP/PS1 games on the big screen, but is it worth the $69/100 dollars? Let’s find out.
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Video Games:
2 CDs: Ore Twintail and Kyokai no Kanata OP CDs
Here is my secret base in Pocket Monsters ORAS, which is located on the upper part of Route 119 (１１９番道路). The battle rules are rotation. There is not much since I’m trying to beat the game first and will be providing an update at a later date.
I have decided that I’m going to rename the blog to Atelier Shiori (and I have decided on using the new .moe domain since the .me domain costs almost as much) and plan on redesigning the sideblog theme. I will be moving stuff not related to my Anime blog to this blog during Thanksgiving Weekend. So please take note of this change.
Artist: namie-kun
Instead of doing individual posts I have done in the past, I will do a live blog. With this, I will show my current progress. First impressions posts will come later on the main blog. For now, please do not refresh this page. It will load updates automatically.
