@cosmicscale.bsky.social I have wondered. What is it in the HDD encryption that stops people from rebuilding a dead PSX? Also, why has no one done a BIOS and Xbars flash to make it region-free or put it in English?
@daibidothecm.bsky.social
Macintoshes are known as monolithic, hard- or impossible-to-upgrade machines - but this almost wasn't the case: at a point when the Mac seemed to be failing like the Lisa did, Apple experimented with a radically simpler way to upgrade and modify systems. Meet the Apple Jonathan.
The Apple Jonathan: A Very 1980s Concept Computer That Never Shipped
512 Pixels
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Now you can go between playing Gunhed and doing serious biz with just the flick of a switch. The Sharp X1 Twin (1987) is another neat dual hardware PC, incorporating a PC Engine inside its slim and stylish tower. As with the Mega PC, the X1 and PCE components do not interact with one another.
not sure why it’s taken me so long to buy an AV->VGA converter but i’m glad i did. been very fun playing old consoles through my monitors ₍ ..̮ ₎
