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The information you’re looking for is probably somewhere in the Projects section. You can also check out the Blog for the latest news and some of my rants.

While you’re here feel free to look around and check out some of the things that I’ve been working on. If you like what you see, leave a comment and let me know.

If you find some dead links, please accept my apologies. I lost the contents of the site a while back and I had to restore and partially recreate it and some pages may simply still be missing. I will be adding content here periodically and will eventually address this.

Thanks for visiting.

– pcbjunkie

Quick Links

Here is the information and links to my most popular projects:

If you aren’t sure about which adapter is required to convert your game, have a look at this page.

In addition, we have here a number of other projects that I’ve been working on.

I am adding to this page all the time. You may should see new links here or content reshuffled or moved. If you are looking for something specific, and can’t find it easily, please use the site search below.

To purchase an adapter and help support my projects, please visit my eBay page here.

At the moment, I do not sell anything from this site. If you want to purchase my products and help me develop my projects please visit my eBay page (link at the top).

Thanks!

Blog

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021

Arcade game resolutions

I did a bit of experimenting with setting different resolutions on the raspberry Pi for arcade emulation. This was in preparation for getting my standalone MAME image for the PJ adapter. So the idea here is that the video output would be set to the exact resolution of the game, before emulation is started. Now, …

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December 9, 2020

Retropie 4.7.1 images for PJ Adapter

I spent the last week getting the new RetroPie images working on the PJ adapter. This is the first RetroPie release with Raspberry Pi4 support. Unfortunately it wasn’t easy and it didn’t turn out well. The new release messes up the classification of my joystick driver, configuring it as a mouse. It somehow breaks scaling …

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December 1, 2020

Network migration completed…

Unfortunately though, it wasn’t a complete success. The storage on the new server is only about 8GB while it should have about 120GB. This is something I only noticed after the work was all done, while putting up the large PJ images. It was once again a screw up on the part of my hosting …

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About

I am a software developer by trade, with some background in electronics. I like to tinker with different things and build stuff in the garage. I have a large collection of video games, for several consoles and a pile of arcade pcbs. I also collect and repair vintage audio gear and synthesizers. I like to make music, and while I’d like to think that I’m good at it, the truth is that I still have a lot to learn. I’m also a licensed pilot and own a couple of motorcycles.

What I like to do is combine these skills to create something useful. Sometimes I’m successful, sometimes not so much. Life tends to get in the way and being a scatterbrain doesn’t help.

I created this site to document and organize my projects, and make them available to the public. It is quite possible that you may find something useful here. It will most likely revolve around the interests I listed above.