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Hello! I am Godzil (or Gozilu) also known as Manoel. I'm the main (and currently only) member of 986-Studio, which allow me to put all of my serious projects (ok some are less serious) and to speak about electronic and computer things. I'm one of the few people that still works on the WonderSwan to document and make it working in modern environment, I make (useless) electronics devices, have a lots of project for the Oric computers, and tons of project to work on in general. My main work is software developer in the embedded market, I really enjoy working on the verge between hardware and software, and most of my knowledge on the hardware side was self thought (I still have a background in electronic from my diplomas) I'm also occasionally a game developer. I hope you will enjoy my blog, Cheers!
Wonder Project!, WonderSwan

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Hi everyone!

I’m searching for dead WonderSwan (when I say dead I mean really non working unit) whatever the version it is (B&W, Color, Crystal), to be able to go further on my project, if you have one that you want to give, don’t hesitate to leave me a comment, I will contact you back to define where to send it 🙂

A color/crystal with a non broken screen will be a plus, but it’s not that important.

The goal it to get the cart connector from the device, and try to transform the device as an emulator remote for a future project…

Thank you in advance for you help 🙂

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Server upgrade….

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I need to update the server, so please forgive any possible error that may come during the migration.

The old server will shutdown on 01/11/2013, and I already switch this blog on the new one, but problem may still exist.

Please don’t hesitate to tell of you found something weird!

Oric, People

Jonathan Bristow is dead…

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This the saddest news of the year…

Jonathan Oric Bristow
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The great Oric Programmer Jonathan Bristow also known as Twilighte died yesterday evening at around 18:00 from a long illness.

I wasn’t close to him, but meet him two times at CEO’s Visu, and was impressed by his love of the Oric, and all of his work. I never saw someone with such passion and such desire to share it.

He was going to be 46.

Rest In Peace

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More wishes!

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More Seeedstudio Wish! Seeedstudio had changed it’s web
front page, so it’s type to add a new fishio and spread an older one
😉 If you like the idea of thoses two wish, please, follow it,
spread it and vote for it!



The first one had been
accepted, but have still not been granted, don’t hesitate to vote
for it anyway!


AC, Convention, Retro Computing, WonderSwan

Welcome to “Trou Paumé”

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Today it’s the start of the RGC’s AC2013 a French convention of retro computing.

This year will be a great convention as there is a lot of new release and desmonstration, like SCPCD’s JagCF, the release of the Jaguar version if Orion_’s Elansar, etc..

Like each year there is a Speed Coding Compo, in which I participate, and I’m anger too see what the other team will be able to so this year with the imposed theme.

I will made my game on the Bandai’s WonderSwan using the WonderWitch cardridge. I hope to work with my own DevCart next time.

In exclusivity, for you the readers of my blog, I’ll give you he name of my project: こびつざに – Kobit Zany (name subject to change. Or maybe not :D)

I really hope that there will not be any Harlem Shake or other meme like this this year 😉

See you soon !

PS: As I am on my phone, it is difficult to add links to other pages, and there could be some writing errors. I will update and correct this post later, please forgive me about this.

* “Trou Paumé” is a french expression that can be literally translated to something like “Lost Hole” and is really meaning “Middle of Nowhere”

Electronic, Game Console

Make a Wish…

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… and do everything to make it happen!

I may have already presented you SeeedStudio they are a chinese webstore, selling a lot of stuff made by electronic homebrewer for electronic homebrewer. You will find there a lot of prebuild card with microcontroller, components, kits, … and they have too some services like Fusion that allow you to make batch of PCB at the chinese cost (i.e. low), but with as much quality as possible for such a service!

So, why I made this post? Not to make free ad to SeeedStudio (even if I like them) but because they have another service: Wish that like the name seems to be, it’s here to make wish, and try to make them happen. I recently made a wish, one that could help me, but I think other people too, about some custom connector that a lot of people use(d) everyday, the one that was made by Game Console maker like Nintendo or Sony. Apart for the NES, there is currently no 3rd party sourceable connector for SNES, PS1/PS2  gamepads. (and lot of other one) The only current way is to take them from broken (or even working game console) or if you are lucky find an extension cord and cut it to get the femmal connector.

So if like me you need a reliable source of such component, please vote for my wish and spread the word around you!