Project MAM - alpha client hardware

I finally received my SparkFun GPS shield for Arduino so I can go on building my first Project MAM client! MAM is an acronym for Mappatura Automatica Mercatini which means automatic flea-market mapping in Italian.

Why would someone want to do this? I want to keep track of the size flea markets I visit and draw maps to show how and where the benches are placed. Doing this manually gets boring VERY fast, so a bit of automation is needed.

How to extract legal ROMs from Intellivision Lives

Intellivision Lives italian cover

Last flea-market I went was cold, there weren't many sellers and most of the interesting things were overpriced. Just when I lost all hope of finding something interesting I spotted a few games in a bin: one of these was the Intellivision Lives package for PS2. It's basically nothing more than an emulator bundled with around 70 Intellivision games.
So... What if You're not interested in playing these games on your Playstation 2 but want to try them on a different emulator?
Keep reading if You want to know more.

Alien 3 and Golden Axe 2 bootlegs

A month ago, while I was visiting a flea market (precisely Stellata di Bondeno, province of Ferrara), I spotted a bunch of Mega Drive games that caught my eye because of how fishy they looked... And I ended up right: two of them were bootlegs!

I tried them, dumped them and quickly verified differences with the "official" versions.
Read the rest of the article if you want to know more :-)