hints & tricks in no particular order
10/10/2026
I recently picked up an unknown-condition Sega Master System from a thrift shop. Since it was a French console, I naturally expected an ordinary European 50 Hz machine. Opening it up, however, revealed something rather more interesting. The motherboard is marked: SEGA 1986 MS POWER BASE/NTSC Strangely, there is no RF […]
08/10/2026
Flameshot is my favorite Linux screenshot tool. It provides interactive region selection, annotations, and the ability to save screenshots or copy them to the clipboard. Unfortunately, getting it to work properly on Ubuntu 26.04 with GNOME Wayland wasn't straightforward. Depending on how I launched it, Flameshot either […]
02/10/2026
I run RomM on Unraid to manage a fairly large MS-DOS games library. Pressing Play on a DOS title in the browser gave me a cryptic error, then an emulator with nothing in it. It took a few evenings to get to the bottom of it. This is the write-up I wish I'd found at the start. TL;DR: two separate problems. First, the […]