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Ultimate iCade Raspberry Pi bartop arcade mod – Part III – LCD screen

One of the hardest things to choose right for me was LCD screen. There are so many of them to choose from, but there is no much choice if you are looking for 4:3 format screen in a compact form.

Since most of the retro games is made for 4:3 aspect ratio this was a must, so after a long search I found Towin L8009 8 Inch TFT Color LCD monitor at eachmall.com website that fits perfectly with it’s 8” size and 800×600 resolution.

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Migrate Outlook AutoComplete list to another computer

Look into following folder on your PC:

[YourDrive]:\users\[YourProfile]\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Search for the file with extension .nk2

Close Microsoft Outlook then select yourfile.nk2 file and copy it to external drive or over network to another computer in the same Outlook folder.

Start Microsoft Outlook again and your address book will be available again on your new computer.

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Excellent protective ABS Case for Raspberry Pi 2 / B+ for multimedia use

Beside retro-gaming I am using Raspberry Pi 2 as my always on media center running Xbian.

I weighted between OpenELEC and Xbian and at the moment of my decision Xbian won me over with file-system. Xbian uses btrfs snapshot system which proved to be quite useful if you run into any kind of trouble since it is really easy to do a fallback to previous file system snapshot. Continue reading “Excellent protective ABS Case for Raspberry Pi 2 / B+ for multimedia use”

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Ultimate iCade Raspberry Pi bartop arcade mod – Part II – iCade cabinet

Ever since I have discovered beautiful usage of Raspberry Pi for retro-emulation gaming I wanted to build my own bartop arcade cabinet. Bartop of course because I don’t have so much space and it will be portable at least from room to room.

My first attempts were just to put everything up together and see if it works, therefore I constructed a cardboard box which would serve as LCD monitor stand and house all cables and Raspberry pi itself. My first attempt looked like this:

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