I’m Hans/Adam and like messing around with retro-tech/video games, old Thinkpads, synthesizers, and other way cool stuff.
I like to write about projects I’m working on, write guides/tutorials for things that were hard to find for me on the internet (for the greater good), talking about ideas/links that I find cool, game/movie journaling, or just writing about stuff I’m collecting.
What? You mean your BIOS splash screen isn’t Banjo Kazooie? Since the x200 supported by coreboot I decided to free the BIOS via hardware flashing, specifically using the skulls project as the base. Pretty risky but since I got the x230 for semi-cheap ($200ish?) I thought I might as well try. I got an SOIC clip from Amazon (this one), opened the x230 and exposed both BIOS chips, and flashed both of them with the help of my T480 as the host....
tldr; Game stats website/server: https://ut2004.thevorticon.com/ Hell Yeah Dude UT2004 Server Ever since I played a giant fun instagib server I’ve wanted to find/play all those fun simple yet crazy maps. It took a lot of effort to go through 15+yr old forums and downloads but I think I’m at a good place where I’ve got a pretty big collection of content to go nuts with. I’m still in the process of changing the server rules/addons....