Welcome

Hello, and welcome to my personal website! My name is Raphaël Assenat. I grew up near Montreal (Canada) and am now living in Japan.

I have always had a strong interest for computers and electronics, and over the years, I completed several projects in those fields. I setup this website to share some of them.

What I find most enjoyable is using C and assembly to program embedded systems (micro-controllers) and video games for old consoles and computers. I also love video games from the 80's and 90's, which is why a majority of my projects also have something to do with video games...

I hope that you will find something useful here, or otherwise worthy of interest on my website. Cheers!

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Extenmote 2.3.0 released
May 22, 2026 (Friday)

Last time I updated this project was 4 years ago, so it's pretty mature and stable. But from time to time a user requests a new feature:

Add a new button mapping (Mode 9) for N64 controllers. Enabled with L+R+Z+Joystick_left.

Half-frame photography with Kodak H35N
May 19, 2026 (Tuesday)

Half-frame photography with Kodak H35N image

After at least 20 years of all digital photography, I wanted to do some film photography again. So I got myself one of those cheap Kodak H35N half-frame cameras and had some fun!
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Series : Primary School Computing around 1990
April 21, 2026 (Tuesday)

Series : Primary School Computing around 1990 image

In this series of posts, I explore the mostly unknown world of french educational PC/DOS games that were used in Quebec (Canada) schools at the end of the 80's / early 90's.

In this 7th I present Orientation Spatiale, a game for preschool children to practice positional words published by C.R.A.P.O. inc.

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Raphnet adapter manager: Version 2.1.34 now available
March 25, 2026 (Wednesday)

Add firmware for new (v3) Atari/Megadrive/SMS controller to USB adapter
Add new firmware (v2.6) for NES to GC/wii adapters (New Mode 3 mapping and bugfixes)
New Classic controller to USB adapter firmware version 2.2.10: Add an angle-driven button output (button 15) which triggers when the adapter is pointing upwards (adjustable)
Add Gamecube controller to N64 adapter firmware version 2.4: Adjusted poll timing to avoid occasional interrupted GC communication (which in some cases causes rumble)
Rename motion sensitivity to tilt threshold in the UI and add tooltips.
Command-line: Document the -v,--verbose command in the help page and support multiple -v args to further increase verbosity.
Fix compilation under FreeBSD

Radio Listening (BCL / SWL)
March 18, 2026 (Wednesday)

I recently began BCL (BroadCast Listening), a hobby of mainly listening to the radio and collecting QSL cards from stations! To my surprise, most stations still send physical QSL cards to this day! (Or at least, stations in Japan do...)

On this page I present my QSL card collection and talk a bit about my BCL activities.
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Receiving meteo images over shortwaves (WEFAX/HF-FAX)
February 13, 2026 (Friday)

Receiving meteo images over shortwaves (WEFAX/HF-FAX) image

Even to this day (2026) weather images and maps are transmitted over short wave radio. When I heard about that, I immediately wanted to try receiving some of those. From Japan, I was able to receive images from Japan (of course), Korea, China, Hawai and Australia!
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Series : Primary School Computing around 1990
November 13, 2025 (Thursday)

In this series of posts, I explore the mostly unknown world of french educational PC/DOS games that were used in Quebec (Canada) schools at the end of the 80's / early 90's.

In this 6th update I looked at Les Mots-Gigognes, a game where the player has to fill blanks in a text, by Germain Savard and C.R.A.P.O. inc.

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Series : Primary School Computing around 1990
September 18, 2025 (Thursday)

In this series of posts, I explore the mostly unknown world of french educational PC/DOS games that were used in Quebec (Canada) schools at the end of the 80's / early 90's.

In this 5th update I looked at Fig & Form, an observation and shape-matching game developed by les Éditions Chrysis (France) and adapted for the Quebec market by les Logiciels CRAPO.

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