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At the end of last year I officially became a PhD student at The University of Bath. In addition to my full time day job of being a Lecturer. I decided to do it a while ago, but it took a lot of form filling to actually get started. I will be researching the impact […]

In the previous two parts I’ve shown the progress of my conversion of a Sega Dinosaur King into a NEO GEO MVS machine. In the previous part I finished with the wiring of the control panel. That just leaves the artwork. I had an idea of what I wanted and sketched it out. Olly Cotton […]

In part one, detailed the first few steps of my conversion of a Sega Dinosaur King to a NEO GEO MVS machine. I left the story with an empty rebuilt cabinet. Time to add some internals. The only electronics I kept was the original CRT monitor, of course. It’s a 15KHz display so ideal for […]

In September 2020, just before the start of what would be a full academic year under the Covid restrictions that would mean working from home and doing all my teaching remotely, I purchased a Sega Dinosaur King from ebay. The game is aimed at kids and involves using cards with a magnetic stripe to battle […]