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  • Gotek Flash Floppy Drive Emulator Review – Part of my Amstrad CPC Retro Restore

    Gotek Flash Floppy Drive Emulator Review – Part of my Amstrad CPC Retro Restore

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    What are Gotek drives? In this video we take a look at the Gotek Flash Floppy Drive Emulator. Gotek drives are essentially floppy disk drive emulators. Instead of using physical floppy discs, the disk images are stored on a USB memory stick as files. These images can be accessed by the Gotek and read and…

  • Venom 1TB SSD RetroPie Raspberry Pi 4 4GB/8GB & Pi 400 Supreme Ultra based build from Kio Diekin

    Venom 1TB SSD RetroPie Raspberry Pi 4 4GB/8GB & Pi 400 Supreme Ultra based build from Kio Diekin

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    Today we are taking a look at a recently released RetroPie image based on Supreme Ultra. It’s called Venom and made by Kio Diekin. It’s compatible with Raspberry Pi 4 4GB and 8GB models and also works on the Pi 400. The image is around 635GB, so it will require a suitably large Micro SD…

  • Amstrad CPC 6128 Retro Restore – Part 1: The Repair and Clean Up

    Amstrad CPC 6128 Retro Restore – Part 1: The Repair and Clean Up

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    In this short video series I start with giving this Amstrad CPC 6128 a good clean up. The Amstrad CPC 6128 is working fine so just some minor repairs, but it is not the best looking with very yellowed keyboard keys and dirty logo. I take the whole lot apart, clean everything up, retrobright the…

  • Dragon 32 Home Computer Retro Restore – Does it breathe fire again?

    Dragon 32 Home Computer Retro Restore – Does it breathe fire again?

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    In this Retro Restore video I take a look at the Welsh made Dragon 32 home computer. The Dragon 32 and Dragon 64 are home computers built in the 1980s. The computers are similar to the TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo) and were made for the European area by Dragon Data Ltd in Swansea. The two…

  • Jaguar Game Drive Flash Cartridge Review

    Jaguar Game Drive Flash Cartridge Review

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    We check out the Jaguar Game Drive Flash Cartridge by RetroHQ. It is a flash cartridge for the Atari Jaguar that allows you run all your Atari Jaguar ROM’s from a Micro SD Card! The Jaguar Game Drive is easy to set up, just copy your ROM files to a FAT or FAT 32 Micro…

  • Wolfanoz 1TB RetroPie SSD Image for Raspberry Pi 4

    Wolfanoz 1TB RetroPie SSD Image for Raspberry Pi 4

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    We take a look at the Wolfanoz 1TB RetroPie SSD Image for Raspberry Pi 4 which has over 24,000 retro games for just about every retro gaming console and computer from Fairchild Channel F to Dreamcast, N64 and PSP. The video is an overview of the different consoles and computers, how many games there are…

  • DivMMC Future Review – Sinclair ZX Spectrum Instant Tape Loader Interface

    DivMMC Future Review – Sinclair ZX Spectrum Instant Tape Loader Interface

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    We check out the DivMMC Future Sinclair ZX Spectrum Instant Tape Loader Interface from The Future Was 8bit. The DivMMC Future does away with slow and unreliable cassette tape loading and stores your tape image files on a SD Card which can be instantly loaded on your ZX Spectrum. It is a jumperless board which…

  • RG280V Retro Gaming Handheld Unboxing & Demo

    RG280V Retro Gaming Handheld Unboxing & Demo

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    We take a look at the recently released Anbernic RG280V retro gaming handheld from DroiX who are taking pre-orders (available Dec 7th) with a special Black Friday sale price. Grab one at https://droix.net/products/rg280v-retro-gaming-handheld while you can!

  • Darksoft Neo Geo MultiAES Review

    Darksoft Neo Geo MultiAES Review

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    The Darksoft Neo Geo MultiAES Cart is an expensive flash cartridge for your Neo Geo. But have you seen the prices for some original games, over a grand for some of them!!!! Find out if you should invest in this multi cart, or re-mortgage your house to buy all the games. Darksoft Neo Geo MultiAES…

  • Commodore Vic 20 Retro Restore

    Commodore Vic 20 Retro Restore

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    We restore a very yellowed and dirty Commodore Vic 20 back to its former glory. It’s got all the usual stuff; disassembly, cleaning up, more cleaning up, retrobrighting, assembly, and then seeing if the bleedin thing works OK. We also briefly check out the Pi1541 Disk Drive emulator. Commodore Vic 20 Retro Restore Video Commodore…