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From E-Waste to Emulation II

You may have seen the post I made a few weeks ago entitled “From E-Waste to Emulation“, which talked about how I bought a really cheap used Windows 8 Lenovo G505 laptop and made it eminently usable for playing retro video games.  I bought that laptop on purpose because nobody wants these things, and they’re […]

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From E-Waste to Emulation

I have an old cheap Acer laptop that I bought back around 2008.  It’s slowly dying, with the keyboard failing, the optical drive not working, and other problems.  I have to replace it, so I went on ebay to see if I could find something cheap. And I do mean cheap, since I’m ruled over […]

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About Those Cheap Retro Handhelds

You’ve probably seen videos, discussions, or (God forbid) ads for those cheap retro handheld devices that have proliferated the market over the last few years. I personally had been marginally aware of them, but hadn’t been interested because I wasn’t really a fan of playing handheld devices for video gaming. That changed after I had […]

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