Technology
Welcome to Season 2!!! This week extra-special guest Jerrika Mizrahi (Facebook) (Twitter) (Instagram) (YouTube) joins Morris to answer one not-so-simple question: How do you play 90s games on a modern TV? It’s a retro console and retro cable extravaganza!Show NotesRu Paul’s Drag RaceHigh-dynamic-range video (Wikipedia)Super Nintendo (Wikipedia)PlayStation 2 (Wikipedia)PlayStation 3 (Wikipedia)PlayStation Vita TVPlayStation 4 Pro (Wikipedia)Sega Saturn (Wikipedia)Sega Dreamcast (Wikipedia)ファミコンミニ Famikon Mini (Engadget)NES Classic Edition aka ‘NES Mini’PlayStation 1 (Wikipedia)Nintendo Switch (Wikipedia)PerfidiaJerrika’s incredible modded SNES:Steve Jobs and the back of cabinetsUpscalersXRGB-mini FRAMEMEISTERChun-Li (Street Fighter Wiki)Anti-Anti-AliasingN64 Anti-AliasingSCART connector (Wikipedia)RGB 21-pin connector (Wikipedia)RCA connector (Wikipedia)BNC connector (Wikipedia)Coaxial cable (Wikipedia)10Base2 (Wikipedia), Ethernet over coax cables with BNC connectors.S-Video connector (Wikipedia)D connector (Wikipedia)VGA connector (Wikipedia). Morris incorrectly refers to this as a ’d-pin connector,’ perhaps because it’s a “15-pin DE-15 connector.”Dreamcast VGA Box (Wikipedia)The Toro connects to a Sega Dreamcast and has both SCART and VGA outputs.List of Dreamcast homebrew games (Wikipedia), including a number of tiles released in 2017 (!)Jeff Atwood on TIS-100, an assembly language programming game. Recent discussion on Hacker News indicates that the TIS-100 architecture is in some ways similar to the GreenArrays GA144.This American Life Episode 284: Should I Stay or Should I Go? has an excellent story about golden masters.John Siracusa talks in depth about game controller design on Episode 49 of Hypercritical, “Pinching the Harmonica.”Season 1 of Ru Paul’s Drag Race was shot with very, very soft-focus.N64 UltraHDMIComputer History Museum (Silicon Valley)The Living Computer Museum (Seattle) maintains a number of historical systems in working order. In fact, they’re even online! You can request an account to log in remotely here.Information Processing Society of Japan Computer Museum is an excellent (albeit online only) source of information about historical Japanese computer systems.