Far back into last year (far longer ago than it should have been) I wrote about an idea I had to cover the BBC Computer Literacy Project here on Xadara. It being a major part of computer history and one that, as the title implies, is very much British, I felt taking a look at …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 46: The Wizard / Super Mario Bros. 3 – Episode Review
Finally back to the chaos that is my attempt to review every Angry Video Game Nerd episode, we hit the amazing Super Mario Bros. 3 episode! Yep, just as the Nerd himself says in the opening, he’s reviewing a good game. One of the best, if you ask me. It’s a bit of an interesting …
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What’s Coming For March 2018 On Xadara
I know, I know, it’s already March 5th, almost 6th as I write this, but hey, I haven’t done an update since last months “Coming Soon” article which I thought would feel more natural than these, but in retrospect was even more forced feeling! Instead of talking specifics, I’ll be a bit more general on …
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The Real Reason I Don’t Really Write About Space Anymore
I had a long post planned here, but didn’t feel it was quite right, so I’ll try to keep this as short as possible. No, I won’t have the usual in depth explanations of what I mean here – I’ve done enough of that, and and won’t waste my time explaining it further. People choose …
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March 2019 Xbox Live Games With Gold
We’re coming into Spring (or at least, should be soon, the weathers been a bit crazy recently) and with a new month comes new games in the Xbox Live “Games with Gold” program. A refresher for you — these games are “free” with an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. I say “free” in quotes because …
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Fixing Video Links For “Bits And Bytes”
This is going to be a quick one, but I wanted to update readers who may be interested (all 3 of them) that I did become aware of a few links in my Bits and Bytes article series becoming broken. I had sourced links from 2 different YouTube accounts and one (Canadian Toast, I believe …
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Installing Mac OS Leopard On The PowerBook G4 – The Hard Way
In my last article I went into somewhat excessive detail on my recently purchased PowerBook G4. The machine was quite “used and abused” and was running an install of MacOS X 10.4 Tiger which was somewhat broken. Also broken on the machine was the Superdrive, which eliminated my ability to actually reinstall Tiger, or upgrade …
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This Post Brought To You By A Very Neglected PowerBook G4
I’ve been on a big kick over the past half year of purchasing slightly older Apple computers for the hell of it. I enjoy the hunt that is trying to find certain machines for a good price and working them into my digital life in whatever way they can be, either as machines to actively …
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The State Of My Power Mac G5
I mentioned this past week that I was spending some time using the Power Mac G5 which I had been given for free by a work friend this past Summer. Off and on through the past week I’ve really been having fun just using it for what it is – playing some games, exploring early …
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“You Don’t Start On The Next One Until You Finish The Last One?” – A PlayStation 4 Repair Story.
We get in quite a few repairs at work. It’s not our focus by any means but alongside the normal business of the used game market we offer repair services. For reasons I won’t speculate on here, our most common repair requests are for PlayStation 4 consoles. Normally (as in, about 75% of our repairs …
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The Incredible Failure That Is The PlayStation Classic – A Follow Up
A few months back I wrote an article on the PlayStation Classic titled, as you would expect, “The Incredible Failure That Is PlayStation Classic” where I went over the almost comedic string of things wrong with the PlayStation Classic. Now, a few months later, post holiday season and now that the “hype” has died down, …
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Spending A Day With My Power Mac G5
I’ve been in the process ,over the past few weeks… er, months… of changing the front room in my house into a gaming room / office. It’s a small room, I’d say maybe 12×12, but is lined up in just the right way to lay out things the way I want to. The old entertainment …
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My Battery Is Low And It’s Getting Dark – #ThankYouOppy
Yesterday was a somewhat emotional day for those who follow current events in space exploration as NASA finally called an end of mission to the Opportunity rover on Mars. This little machine had been doing its thing on Mars for 15 years, roaming around doing science alongside its twin “Spirit” which reached its own end …
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So When Are Those AVGN Episode Reviews Coming Back?
It’s been 5 months since the last Angry Video Game Nerd episode review. 5 months since the last entry in a little pet project that on the surface seems so absurd yet when you think about it makes so much sense, as his “reviews” are really their own cinematic pieces beyond the nature of just …
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Gaming Memories: A Look Back At Final Fantasy VIII
Apparently today marks 20 years since the Japanese release of Final Fantasy VIII, an RPG with a mixed reception in the community but one that I absolutely adore. Let’s go back to the mid to late 90’s. RPG’s were big. Really big. The genre which had been a bit more of a niche in the …
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