I just needed a place where to ramble and dump all my crazy stuff
In a world that keeps going forward fueled by neural networks, LLMs (or, as many people like to call them, “AI”) and other assorted technological wizardries, I seem to keep going backwards. I wanted a small pocketable camera to always have with me and I quickly realized that I either had to spend a thousand … Read more
I’ve been a long time user of PiHole: it’s a fantastic and lightweight tool which, used in conjunction with dnscrypt-proxy, elevates the security of your browsing tenfold. All your DNS queries become encrypted, anonymized and non-traceable. And, of course, your browsing experience is also vastly improved, both in the browsing itself and the security: by … Read more
Lately I’ve scratched a personal itch of mine: writing some kind of fiction or short story. I started with a fan fiction named “IVO” (which should give you quite a big hint what it’s about) which is currently stalled and then transitioned to writing short stories which, I must say, I’m enjoying much more. One … Read more
In this last brief article, I’d like to address what made me start studying Z80 assembly and take interest in how to modify the Master System BIOS. As many of you probably know, I’m the founder and maintainer of the 16-bit Audiophile Project and while we’ve always been focused on Mega Drive, our mission has … Read more
In this second part we’re going to take a more practical approach on how to make your own custom SEGA Master System BIOS. Bear in mind that the Master System BIOS can only be as big as 32KB so we’ll only be able to fit games which are 32KB in size. The tools we need … Read more
In this series you’ll learn how to make a custom SEGA Master System BIOS so that you can change the built-in game and replace it with any game or software you like! This is going to be a long post, split into two parts. The whole ordeal started because I wanted to hack a SEGA … Read more
After losing almost another entire day due to erroneous information on the interwebz, I decided to write a small guide to help you understand (and convert) this old dinosaur known as “MIDI Sample Dump”, sometimes referred as MSD or MDSD. Now, a quick crash course/refresher about Decimals, Hexadecimal and Binary formats. Decimal is the system … Read more
I used to DJ a lot between 2009 and 2012. In 2011 I even landed a one-time job at new year’s eve in an amazing place which was excavated through big rocks underground and seemed like an ancient catacomb. Back then I used to play with a small, cheap Hercules DJ console and VirtualDJ, a … Read more
Following the suggestions of several people I know, I decided to (re)watch Slam Dunk, the original 101 anime episodes. I already watched some of it when it first aired in Italy on MTV, but unfortunately I missed most of the beginning and the ending and lots of episodes in between. It was also a lot … Read more
There’s a recurring question in my life which never seems to find a proper answer: “Why?” Thanks to a certain someone on Twitter, I got the itch to get my hands on a PowerPC Mac and while browsing the various wikis and websites about vintage macs, I already had in mind what I was looking … Read more