Month: December 2024
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Learn How to Redacted Drive! Part 1
If you already know what an acceleration lane is, don’t go ahead and skip this. I’ve been behind you and I know damn well you have no idea what the hell I’m talking about. Why am I the authority on driving? Let me share my credentials: Now that we got that out of the way,…
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Manufacturing an Atari Gamepad, Part 1
If you’ve played the 2600, you probably thought it was the greatest thing in the world, but those rose colored glasses likely fell the first time you picked up something even as simple as an original NES controller. The joysticks that come with the Atari have this large rubber boot on the bottom: When you…
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Fixing an Atari 2600 Cartridge
One of my sons are homeschooled, and while he’s a bit young to understand assembly, or building his own computer, or writing his own Atari games — I can start with the fundamentals. What a better system to learn about computers than a game system, and one so simple that the component count is incredibly…