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by tyingq
1524 days ago
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If you get into it, it's interesting how many sort of sub-niches there are and the amount of available info. Like, for example, bleaching yellowed plastic...there's a whole "retr0brite" culture. Or being able to recreate old undocumented PAL chips because somebody took the time to feed in every possible input and map the outputs. |
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It's only really popular because "The 8-Bit Guy" makes 45 minute videos painstakingly showing you this process, because he lacks the technical ability or background to tell you anything insightful about the computers he's working on---usually common 80s home computers that were poorly stored in someone's attic for decades.