The problem I seem to have a bad habit of leaving my headlights on, and ultimately killing the battery. Usually this isn't too much of a problem since I drive a manual, but there have been a few times where I have been left stranded all alone at work, in the middle of nowhere. Part of the problem is that the car that I used to drive, an 88 Toyota Camry, had spoiled me by automatically turning off my headlights when I exited the car. A simple solution for a simple....

Good day and welcome to part 3 of my Intro to NES Development! I apologize for the long delay for part 3, I have had quite a bit going on, I ended up moving my “office” down to the basement and have been working on finishing a project out at work. Here in Part 3 of the Intro to NES Development, we will be re-purposing an NROM NES cartridge to make ourselves a nice development cartridge. For this guide, I used an NES Baseball cartridge that I picked up at the local game trading business. We will be....

A sad day at the office Today was a sad day at the office, after months of trouble getting started in the morning, a co-worker passed on. My Co-worker led a very busy life, from the time he joined the company in 2006 as a refurb unit, he has worked hard every day.... until he could no longer take the pressure and just blew his top. He was always a good monitor, with a nice 3:4 ratio and both D-Sub and DVI inputs. He is survived by both his partner, Acer wide-screen, and his parent Quad-Core....

Alright now, In Part 1 of Intro to NES Development, we went over setting up our development environment and did a quick overview of the NES hardware. Here in Part 2, we will be looking at both planning and coding our first NES Demo ROM. The Demo ROM we....

Welcome to my intro on NES development. In this multi-part post, we will look at different aspects of the home-brew NES development process. Setting up an NES development environment, planning your NES ROM, and assembling your NES ROM Creating an NROM development cart by re-purposing an actual game cartridge (or for a ROM swap) Creating a new development cart capable of running NROM, UROM, CNROM, and AROM using new parts from RetroUSB Programming....

Finding the perfect corpse Back on December 17th I was browsing the local craigslist postings and stumbled upon a broken Williams Stargate cabinet for $100 and contacted the seller. He had bought the machine himself only a few months prior, only to have the monitor go out on him. He had contacted to repair/service centers here in Eastern Idaho and got some fairly steep repair quotes, so he decided to put it up for sale. I sadly did not have the funds to purchase the cabinet when I had first....

Shortly before we moved in to the house we rent, the previous tenants had the carpets cleaned. While this made them look all nice and such, it also brought out the nice smell of wet dog that lingered for about a week. With my wife being pregnant and having a super sniffer, this was not a good thing at all.... so I used one of my favourite tricks I learned from my friends mom who used to clean houses. Things needed Forced air heating system Accessible heater....

The Ipsum: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..... haha! just kidding. I just switched over to the database version of the site, new posts will show on the front page as they are posted. The CMS this site is using was developed in-house and is nicknamed FiveCents. It is designed to allow for multiple sites to run on a single set of scripts and database, to allow user interaction in the form of comments, ratings, and submissions. It will soon have the ability to manage file attachments, both standalone....

Background Story: About two weeks ago, my wife, son, and myself moved in to a new 2 bedroom house. One of the bedrooms on the main floor is being used as an office while the other is my son's room. You may now be asking yourself, "where do you sleep?". Sometime ago, the attic was converted in to a loft. Its a fairly neat room (though not a bedroom as it lacks a closet) and is awesome to live in.... except for one small detail. there is no heater register and no duct work to add on. This....