Posts tagged "retrochallenge-october-2021"

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Make Your Own ColecoVision At Home (Bonus Episode - The Real Thing)

Through the more-than-generous offer of a ColecoVision, I now have a real machine to use as a basis for comparison. Just what is the real machine like inside, and could it possibly be better?

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Make Your Own ColecoVision At Home (Part 4 - Quadrature Controllers)

We got conventional ColecoVision “hand” controllers working well in the last entry. I’ve never used any of the ColecoVision’s more exotic controllers before; will they work properly on my clone machine, even though I didn’t really understand them?

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Make Your Own ColecoVision At Home (Part 3 - Joystick Fix)

In the last entry, I was left with a working ColecoVision-compatible board, albeit one with a very stuttery controller that would only work when connected to what I thought was the second controller port. Let’s fix that, and then enjoy the cheapo ColecoVision games that I spent all this effort building this thing for in the first place.