Coburn's online journal featuring thoughts, opinions of a programmer upside down in the Southern Hemisphere.
In a little experiment involving a potentially dangerous BIOS flashing operation, I grabbed a copy of the latest version of the Supermicro X10SLQ-L Motherboard BIOS and flashed it to my unlocked Taito TypeX4 unit. Things happened. Flash goes the BIOS… After creating a BIOS update USB by using the wonderful Rufus formatting utility and then…
This is something interesting I found while playing around with my Taito Type X4. Normally, Type X-series arcade base units do not allow booting from USB/LAN or even show the Boot Menu. However, if you’re like me and like to play around with settings that you shouldn’t, then if you have your hands on a…
The first revisions of this post actually was about a specific arcade units’ motherboard, but I decided to simplify it down to something easier to digest with some arcade stuff sprinkled within. BIOS Passwords. They’re a pain in the ass and sometimes you’ll buy a desktop, laptop or some other device that has a BIOS…
Greetings. Well, since the last update a lot has happened. On my side of the world here, we’ve had hotspots of COVID flare up in various states. Victoria was dumb enough to hoo-hah and party hard during the initial lockdown period and they ended up getting isolated from other states. Play stupid games, win stupid…
Blue Vows is one game that I’ve had my eye on for some time, mainly because it’s literally a carbon chinese copy of KanColle Arcade, which is a 3D arcade adaptation of the Kantai Collection browser game hosted on the DMM Games platform. This game is in Chinese and has no English UI, so unless…
I’m looking to get my hands on a KanColle Arcade unit. I have a strong interest in the Kantai Collection universe and I am looking to get my hands on a physical arcade cabinet. This is what the arcade cabinet itself looks like from the official website. Shiny. If you know of anyone who deals…