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Checking that the Micral N is working properly and starting up for the first time

By Philippe Dubois, Chairman. In this, our eighth article, we're going to get a little more to the heart of the matter, because after studying and reverse engineering the Micral N's boards and even replacing a few components, we're finally going to get our almost 50-year-old model up and running for the first time.

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The MO5 Micral N restoration team

In this, our sixth article, we take a look at the members of the MO5 association who are working to restore our Micral N and get it up and running again! Jean-François Del Nero: Jean-François is our chief technical engineer. Give him anything with a bit of electronics in it, and he'll fix it, put it back together and make it work again.

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MO5 Workshop: First aid for the Atari ST

Welcome to this new article, which we hope will inaugurate a series dedicated to first aid for our dear old machines to keep them in good working order! To be more precise, you won't find in these articles how to repair a power supply that's out of order, change some

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MEMO5 #5 - Presse Start : The history of video game magazines

In the company of the two co-authors, Yves Breem (member of MO5.COM) and Boris Krywicki, we take a look back at 40 years of the French video games press and go behind the scenes of the writing of the book Presse Start, published by Omake Books.

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Podcast #47 - The French touch

After our last show over Christmas, what better opportunity for MO5.COM Podcasts than to make a comeback and brighten up this forced confinement, albeit by chance? When pre-orders opened for Une histoire du jeu vidéo en France, we pointed out that

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Interviews: Asenka & MrQuaRaté, Emmanuel Martin

To conclude our series of interviews, here are three players who occupy very different roles in the video game world, but who share the same passion for its history and the preservation of its heritage: Guillaume "Asenka" Dorison, and MrQuaRaté, who between them represent 2/3 of Hard Looters,

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Interviews: Michaël Newton and Matt Murdock

This week, two personalities from the world of video games and retrogaming, each in their own way, talk to us about their relationship with our association and the preservation of our digital heritage: Michaël Newton, President of the Loisirs Numériques association, Matt Murdock, former journalist (Player One), musician, etc.

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Interviews: Florent Gorges and Laurent Charrier

This week, two well-known retrogaming fans, each in their own way, talk to us about their relationship with our association and the preservation of our digital heritage: Florent Gorges, author, biographer and manager of Omake Books, and Laurent Charrier, Resident Evil fan and actor,

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Interviews: 2080 and Cyril Drevet

This week, two personalities, each a fan of retrogaming in their own way, talk to us about their relationship with our association and the preservation of our digital heritage: 2080, a chiptune and electro musician, big fan of video games and author of the song "My Megadrive" Cyril Drevet, alias "Crevette",

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Interviews: Conkerax and Edward

This week, two Youtubers talk to us about their relationship with our association and the preservation of our digital heritage: Conkerax, a gamer, collector and fan of the GameCube, and Edward, a fan of video game history and columnist for JV.COM.

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