Episode 11
May 24, 2017
Jerrika
video games
retro gaming
Ru Paul's Drag Race
Jerrika
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 Notes
- Ru Paul’s Drag Race
- High-dynamic-range video (Wikipedia)
- Super Nintendo (Wikipedia)
- PlayStation 2 (Wikipedia)
- PlayStation 3 (Wikipedia)
- PlayStation Vita TV
- PlayStation 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)
- Perfidia
- Jerrika’s incredible modded SNES
- Steve Jobs and the back of cabinets
- Upscalers
- XRGB-mini FRAMEMEISTER
- Chun-Li (Street Fighter Wiki)
- Anti-Anti-Aliasing
- N64 Anti-Aliasing
- SCART 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 UltraHDMI
- Computer 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.