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Well, RAID-1 has been working fine for me for years. Drive fails, swap in another one, keep on going... If I were to loose both drives, I wouldn't have lost anything that can't be replaced, since all _MY_ files are on Dropbox and Google Drive. What RAID-1 saves me is all the trouble of reinstalling ...

I have really bad luck with hard drives (especially WD), so I just use RAID mirroring and be done with it. It seems expensive at first (double the price for the same capacity), but when you hear a drive going clickity click, you know you don't have to waste a day setting up your environment again. I...

it is incompatible with standard cartridge hardware? It's still running on an NES CPU. A lot of the important hardware is the same. If you treat 8000-FFFF as read only, and don't need the extra sound or IRQ, it's kinda trivial to port something that runs on FDS to any cartridge mapper. Even the RAM...

Are any of the pins left floating? (not connected to anything) That can cause problems. If they're floating, tie them to +5V or GND based on what your EPROM spec sheet tells you. (Usually PGM is tied to +5V). There is one floating pin on the 27C010 , pin1 that according to the datasheet is "VP...

Are any of the pins left floating? (not connected to anything)
That can cause problems. If they're floating, tie them to +5V or GND based on what your EPROM spec sheet tells you. (Usually PGM is tied to +5V).

So, my first job was doing assistant Unix sysadmin work at a small ISP. They really needed tech support, so I bargained with them to do both. If it is really your first job in a particular field you don't have much leverage, so do whatever it takes to get your foot in the door. My friend did somethi...

I use XMplay too mostly but I use Winamp for MODs and some other music modules. I need to see if importing Winamp MOD plugin is worth it. I've found the stock MOD plugin for Winamp incredibly buggy. I'd recommend trying out this MOD player plugin based on MODPlug, http://wks.arai-kibou.ru/modplug.php

Been running DD-WRT since it came out.

Been wondering if its dead, since I haven't seen any updates for a while now.

http://www.callanbrown.com/index.php?op ... &Itemid=61

This is exactly what I did to my Famicom -> NES converter cart.

Might be a good modification for the PowerPak too.

I'm noticing the flaws I wrote in that doc years ago.

I originally wrote it as a reference so I wouldn't have to re-figure things out every time I was modifying a board. Ugh... Sorry to haunt this board with that horrendous thing.

This is really neat, but that's about all. It could definitely spark some kids into programming, like the C64 did with me. But...

I wouldn't want to write anymore games without a decent language and IDE (yeah, I like my IDEs).

Edit: Heh, shortly after the announcement, someone started massively downloading all of the content from numerous hosted sites here (nesdev, nesworld, JE in specific) using wget, which is absolutely the wrong thing to do (such utilities get stuck indefinitely on forums/boards). I just had to firewa...

This is pretty neat:

http://youtu.be/rznYifPHxDg

I've never had any problems with all the carts I've made. I've mostly used 40 pin IDE cables. Some of them were solid cat5 and crappy radio shack wire wrap which was also solid core. Most of the lockups/problems I had were from either bad grounds, a pin I thought I could leave floating on an EPROM e...

Bummer, I'm still in SoCal.