Author: volt
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
I’ve sadly finished Wild Hunt and its two main DLCs: Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. A fantastic and enormous work by CD Projekt Red that does justice to the world created by Sapkowski — an immense, detailed, richly layered adaptation, capable of keeping you company for over a hundred hours. Without ever growing…
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Movie Mania! for Android Is Now Live
Taking advantage of the (TOO MUCH) time stuck at home during the Covid emergency, I developed Movie Mania! for Android, a new app on the same theme as the Movie Library Manager for Windows — but with a completely different approach, designed for smartphones. A New Concept: Ready-Made Reports If there are a hundred apps…
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Movie Mania! v.3 Arrives on the Windows Store
My Personal Movie Library Manager reaches its third edition and moves to the Windows Universal format, finally landing on the Windows Store. A long but satisfying journey. What Changed from Version 2 The old version was built for the legacy .NET 2.0 framework, making it primarily suitable for older versions of Windows. Porting it entirely…
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MovieMania! v.2 FREE
Good news for anyone who’s used Movie Mania! in the past: starting with this version, MovieMania! v.2 is free software. You can download and use it without any limitations. What Is Movie Mania? Movie Mania is a film library manager, developed as a personal project. It lets you catalogue your downloaded films, DVDs and Blu-Rays.…
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The Retro Console Is Finally Complete!
In the end, the case arrived too. Reading the parcel tracking feels like an epic: shipped from Hong Kong, stocked in London, arrived at Fiumicino, then Peschiera Borromeo and finally… here. Incredible when you think about it, in an era where all of this is considered perfectly normal. The NesPi Case: Unboxing and Assembly Perfect…
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The Right Controller for the Ideal Retro Console
While waiting to get my hands on the NES-style case reviewed in the previous post, we moved forward on another important topic for the retro console: the controller. And thanks to Black Friday, we made a purchase we have no regrets about. 8BitDo N30: The Controller That Bridges Past and Present Anyone who’s followed the…
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Who Is Clyde?
A blog opening story told from the unusual perspective of one of the most iconic characters in the history of video games. “My name is Clyde and my profession is being a ghost. Not everyone knows that we ghosts have names too, not just that terrible ball-shaped being everyone calls PacMan. Because he really is…
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The Ideal Case for the Dream Retro Console…
Anyone who’s followed the previous posts on this blog knows exactly what we’re talking about: the dream retro console is the perfect retrogaming console at a reasonable price. And it wouldn’t be complete without a case to match. Aesthetics Matter Too We’d already chosen a standard case recommended by Raspberry — functional and understated. But…
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Building Your Dream Retro Console with Raspberry Pi
Here is a complete guide to building the retro console you never dared to ask for — all the arcade and home console experience of the 1980s and 1990s, in a compact device you plug into your TV for under €90. 1. The Console of Wonders Remember the ’80s and ’90s? It was the dawn…
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Raspberry Pi: The Wonderful Single-Board Computer
Back in 2006, a group of teachers and academics in the United Kingdom decided to create a low-cost tool that could contribute to the study of computer science and electronics in schools. The idea was essentially to create a mini-computer capable of being used for almost anything: from small independent workstations to the management of…