Author Archives: Shep

Articles

New MAME Brain

A few months ago, my MAME cabinet died; it was either a motherboard or CPU problem (I suspect a motherboard issue, since it was a cheap + cheerful Asrock board) … but once I’d diagnosed the fault to that degree, … Continue reading →

Email, RSS Follow
Pin It
Posted in Fixing Stuff, Gaming, Making Stuff, MAME | Leave a comment
Articles

Newcastle Gamers, 31st August

(Gulp… less than five hours to go until the next Newcastle Gamers… better get cracking with logging my last visit then…) Trias I hadn’t heard of Trias until I saw Olly mention it in a pre-meeting Google+ post… but he … Continue reading →

Email, RSS Follow
Pin It
Posted in Board Games, Newcastle Gamers | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment
Articles

Newcastle Gamers, 10th August

(in which I attempt to re-start my regular blogging of things that happen at Newcastle Gamers meetings…) 10th of August was an all-day session, officially to celebrate the 100th meeting of Newcastle Gamers… but also, I suspect, because we were … Continue reading →

Email, RSS Follow
Pin It
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Beltane

Last week we went to the Beltane festival on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. It’s a modern re-invention of the ancient Gaelic celebration, which welcomes in the summer on the eve of the first day of May. It wasn’t a particularly warm … Continue reading →

Email, RSS Follow
Pin It
Posted in Travels | Leave a comment
Articles

Not this Newcastle Gamers, but the one before… (13th April)

Argh! … after a year and a half of dutifully blogging my trips to Newcastle Gamers, I finally let one slip. My excuse: a crazy-busy couple of weeks, much of which was spent in the pursuit of a cool new … Continue reading →

Email, RSS Follow
Pin It
Posted in Board Games, Newcastle Gamers | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment