The ScooterBlog

Here’s the link rundown for the last couple of days:

• Nintendo E-Reader Development Tools - Like most things console, it even appears there are some serious development tools for the Nintendo GBA E-Reader! For those who never knew about this, it was supposed to be a way to getr 8-bit NES games onto the GBA, as well as enhancing games with “dotcodes” to allow more levels and enhancements. The only 2 games which really did that were Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire and Super Mario Advance 4.
• Restoration - This program, while I have not tried it, appears to be the perfect freeware enhancement to the Recycle Bin. It can detect still recoverable files, not only on hard drives, but also on memory cards and flash disks where the recycle bin isn’t even being used! So if you are a dope and delete something you shouldn’t, this may be your saving grace.
• Retrogaming with racketboy - A good looking site which talks about new stuff coming out from old retrogaming, as well as a seller of 1MB/4MB Saturn RAM cards, which typically are pretty hard to come across. He’s getting out of the business though, so get one while you can!
• OpenOSX - A port of the long-running PC emulator Bochs, but for OSX, and now apparently optimized for Intel processors, which may give it a heads-up on the Virtual PC in the very short term. I doubt this would work for anything on a G3 though!
• Handbrake - Mac users already swear by this as the easiest way to get DVD content onto their Macs, but now there’s a PC port too, and the Mac one will also be “universal” shortly, so now everyone can enjoy freeware conversions to a PSP or iPod.
• Windows XP Fixes, Tips and Tweaks - Another digg discovery, apparently has 350 good solid tips on optimizing Windows XP. Thoughts?

That covers 2 days’ worth of finds. Maybe a thoughtful post soon.