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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️
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Aka "Lily"

💻, 🧠, 🍕, 🕹️, 🎹, 💡, 🏳️‍⚧️. Absolute wreck of an entity. ΘΔ. AuDHD, CPTSD, Schizophrenia,
She/Her, plural being. PG-13 succubus, needs your emotions!

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Yeah, it's period accurate though, the last known sales of Orange Lazarus were around 1994!
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I would also love to know why the capacitor looks scorched in a 6 volt device! Maybe some liquid got inside the device but I don't think I see anything else odd.
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This electrolytic capacitor looks ~concerning~ with the shiny stuff around the leads, maybe leaked electrolyte or maybe just flux
November 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The HC139A seems to be just a 74xxx series logic chip, a multiplexer. I imagine it's being used to select which ROM is active. U7 and U9 might be RAM or ROM then..? Just spitballing here lol.
www.onsemi.com/pdf/datashee...
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
TDA7502 is definitely an amplifier!

www.digikey.com/en/products/...
www.digikey.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Aww it's almost entirely blobbed! The Phillips chip in the bottom left is probably an amplifier.. TDA7052. U8 in the top right is HC139A? U5 and U6 at the top are probably LCD display drivers. U1 on the center left strikes me as most likely for the CPU, but..?
November 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
So hey, guess what IT TALKS
November 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
YEP!
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Ooh that hadn't crossed my mind! It does have a speaker and a volume control, lemme see...
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
9503.. Lol these things are 30 years old

They test at 1.2 volts, this is wild. That's why radio shack went out of business, you only need to buy their batteries once and you're set apparently! 😆
November 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I need a moment lol
November 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Those batteries 👀 those batteries of my childhood! Those are old Radio Shack brand, goodness. Well, the copyright shows 1993 and 1994 so that.. tracks I guess, assuming it never needed batteries after 1994 lol

I hadn't tried to turn it on but there's no corrosion...
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Well the ROM is different lol. Original on left, LR on right. The lack of copyright really adds to the bootleg vibe! Loll 🤣
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I can't find the exact Altera part either! Intel owns Altera now and Google says the part is obsolete and discontinued lol. I guess limited Run is sitting on a bunch. It's a programmable logic device, and probably pretending to be the MMC but no datasheet, sorry! 😭
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The big AMIC chip I couldn't find exactly but I think it's likely very closely related to AMIC's other flash memory chips:

www.farnell.com/datasheets/3...
www.farnell.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Insides are pretty Spartan! Or.. Altera, I guess, Spartan is xylinx I think? Room for lots of stuff that hasn't been added, I wonder how much the lack of battery is gonna affect this one. Having to do "Legion of Evil" in one sitting without save states when you know it could have a battery was bleh
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Dumb as it is, we know for a fact business practices have "evolved" or changed over the years and autism symptoms seem to have remained constant :p
October 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Nanoblocks usually give you extras but this much left over makes me nervous lol

Night night! 🦇
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Ta daaa! .. the arms and legs are kind of being held on by hopes and prayers lol, about to kragle™ this if her hammer falls off again
October 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It's a whole head! Lol
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
We have a face! Banana for scale — this thing is small, fiddly and feels like it's going to explode if I press too hard lol
October 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM