Retroid Pocket 3
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Retroid Pocket 3

So, I've been pretty heavy on the programming push lately, but it's not all I've been up to. So, back around the start of the pandemic, I started work making a PiGrrl handheld emulator device. PiGrrl is basically a Game Boy Clone that runs with a Raspberry Pi at it's core. I ordered a bunch of parts and a case, I already had a Pi (I have several), and then the Pandemic caused my parts to take forever to arrive. Plus I probably spent more on it than I really should have. Then I got a little bored and it…
Nintendo 3DS
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The End of the 3DS eShop

In a little over a day, the 3DS eShop is closing for good. I thought this had already happened around 9 months ago, but at that point they just removed the ability to add funds directly on the device. Funds can still be added through the website, though it's a bit of a hassle and it has to be done with certain denominations instead of exact values. I guess I am a bit spoiled by PC gaming, it seems really annoying that the shop is just, closing. I mean, I've had the same Steam account for 18+ years. The copy…
My Collection
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My Collection

This was originally a thread on Twitter but I've moved it over to the blog. It's a sort of virtual tour around my basement space and collection. We moved into our current home in 2017 and I've been slowly making small updates and upgrades here and there. It is not perfect, it's still a sort of constant work in progress, but it's getting better and better over time. My biggest gripe is the shitty ceiling. I have not come up with a good/easyish solution to the ceiling yet. I've had a few ideas but they all will take quite a…
New Desktop PC
Posted inOpinion/Journal

New Desktop PC

My new desktop I mentioned at the end of my last post arrived. I am fairly good about adjusting my workflow when changes or upgrades happen, but this particular change in it's nature, is incredibly disruptive. My whole process kind of stems out from a source, which for the most part, is either my laptop or my desktop. If I were to get a new laptop, not much would change. Most of that workflow runs off of shared drives or cloud files. On the base level, the desktop works the same way, the real trick I get to deal with…
20 Years of Blogging…
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20 Years of Blogging…

It seems like I should address this pretty big anniversary for this blog.  Lameazoid.com, is twenty years old, more or less, today.  I honestly don't have the exact date for sure, but I do have an old copy of the original site that suggests it was created on 10/09/1998.  More accurately, it's predecessor, The Chaos Xone, was created on 10/09/1998.  Back then it was just a random Geocities website.  It didn't really use a "Blog Engine" but it did use a "Blog format" of sorts, in the form of manually updated HTML webpages and a copy/paste archive of old posts.…