In the post xmas sales rush here in Australia, one deal that got my attention was from Jaycar, who was offering the Retro Arcade Game console for $50 on clearance! Since it is normally $250, I thought it worth picking one up and quickly checking it out!
Welcome to my first blog post of 2025. I hope you and your family had a great Xmas and new year period and got some much needed rest and relaxation.
I had planned that also, but it didn't quite turn out the way I had hoped...but it started out well enough, with a planned train trip just after Xmas 2024 to Melbourne on the Overland train to see family.
I am finally finished with work for the year, and so this weekend I am finally able to finish some 2024 blog posts I had been working on, but never had time until now to complete!
So for regular readers, you will get a bunch of posts all at once! Hope it makes up for being a bit too quiet this year because of my workload..
There is an interesting yearly tradition in the country town of Strathlbyn, a short drive from Adelaide. It is called the Great Duck Race. I haven't never seen it before now, despite living in Adelaide since 1994!
At the beginning of this year I bought the new Atari 2600+ console, looking forward to using my homebrew and old Atari 2600 carts in it.
Sadly I was disappointed, as per my blog post here - a lot of titles didn't work at all.
Fast forward to December 2024, and they have now released the Atari 7800+ console. Does it work any better? Let's find out!
I had planned to do this next part much earlier, but I had to travel to Prague again for work in late September and much of October.
Where time allows this year, I have been doing PC build projects for Compaq LTE Elite laptop (486), IBM Aptiva (AMD-K6 500), Compaq DeskPro (P3-1Ghz), Core i7 PC I built back in 2011, and Pentium 200MMX setup on IBM PC300GL with OS/2, plus adding a parallel ZIP, HP iPAQ, Sony Clie Palm into the mix.
Whew.