Bluetooth Playstation Controller for Axim PDA
Engadget reports that Aximsite “rookie” kryten007, “who wanted a Bluetooth controller for his PDA but was unhappy with the fit of the only commercial model available, the GamePad”, has modded a $3 hollowed-out Playstation controller using the guts of the GamePad. Then he managed to attach the modded controller to his Axim x50 PDA by using altered, spring-loaded mechanical pencils. How cool!
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Xbox 360 Mod Chips Available
At least in a few weeks… maybe. The “hack-proof” Xbox, at least as Microsoft deemed it initialy, will probably be hacked soon. They have admitted that “sooner or later someone will work out how to circumvent security”, but it seems to be sooner than later. “SPOnG is reporting that the first mod-chips for the 360 will be available within a month, allowing the play of “backup” game copies, which, with the recently released software that allows Xbox 360 game data extraction, means that Microsoft might have some piracy on their hands before too long. Though, if it’s any consolation for the boys in Redmond, SPOnG is reporting that ‘Microsoft’s security is the best we’ve seen to date for a disc-system. It it weren’t for the fact that DVD is used, it’s likely that further development wouldn’t have been worth anyone’s time.’”
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Fix your xBox 360 crash problems
Having trouble with your xBox 360 blue screening, locking up, crashing, or just generally freezing? Voodoo Extreme presents the likely hypothesis that this is caused by power supply overheating. If so, it’s a design flaw that Microsoft will have to fix in their next hardware iteration, but for now, you just want your black-friday cheap xbox 360 to work as planned. The solution is to lift your power supply off the flow to give it air circulation on all 6 sides. Voodoo reports over 7 hours of gaming time in this configuration.
If anyone wants to send me an xBox 360 for scientific testing, I would be more than happy to write up a protocol, conduct the experiments, and write a lab report on the crashes, resplendant with statistical significance tests…
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Heckendorn’s Atari 800 Laptop
Ben Heckendorn, hacker extraordinaire of the Portable PS1, PS2, SNES, Sega Genesis, N64, and Nintendo NES, has now turned his magic loose on the Atari 800. Measuring 11 3/8″ x 7 1/2″ x 2″, the Atari 800 laptop is one kick-ass piece of nostalgia. The Atari laptop boasts an 8″ TFT screen, dual speakers, a CompactFlash “disk drive” storage (16 megs currently), a built-in Ni-MH battery that can charge while running, a full keyboard, a built-in player 1 & 2 controls, joystick ports, a cursor control knob (the thing below space bar), a slim SIO floppy drive port for hooking up extra drives or a PC, a brushed aluminum & woodgrain case, and an “Error list” printed on case in reference to old portable/pocket computers.
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Mr. Heckendorn Presents: Portable NES
Ben Heckendorn, maker of the Portable PS1, PS2, SNES, Sega Genesis, and N64, has hacked an original Nintendo NES and managed to make it portable by packing it into a tiny case that measures 5.25″ x 2.625″ x 1.625″, which makes it just big enough to accomodate a NES cartridge. This is his smallest portable to date, and is half the size of his previous NOAC portable. It has a 2.5″ LCD screen, runs off just 4 AA’s, and sports a headphone jack.
