Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on Yesterday, 21:04

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At least you will have more time for retro gaming now. I am not really that into vintage gaming. I am more a kind of hardware guy. Gaming tends to get trivial after 15 to 25 minutes. 30 top. One of the reason why I never actually play any strategy games. Way more fun to build a 486 vintage machine, …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on Yesterday, 19:39

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Packing up my shit. Was thrown out by my now ex. She gave me one month to find a new place. For the record. What was the definitive reason, is none of my fault. All I can say, is that life happens.

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Re: What was the first computer you ever purchased?

Posted on 2020-05-30, 21:40

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Yes, Conner drives still exist as I have a few and they still work. Unlike old IBM, Matrox , Seagate , Quantum, and WD drives, The Conner drives don't make a "WHINNING" noise. Bull shit. I have over a dozen Conner drives in variuos systems from Acorn A4000-RiscPCs and x86 systems. Some are noisy. …

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Re: What was the first computer you ever purchased?

Posted on 2020-05-30, 21:13

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First computer that I bought, was a low price one, that I got in 1993. - Something-bigcat-name or something motherboard with soldered on CPU. (It had red resistor packs) - Cyrix 486slc2-50 - 4mb 30pin 60ns Ram (4 modules) - Tseng ET4000 ISA Card - Sound Galaxy NX Pro - 1.44mb Floppy - 80 or 120mb …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-05-29, 09:39

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Oh my freaking f*ck... Brant Bjork released a new solid album this year. How the, can he keep pumping out this quantity of quality in this rate? They say eighter quality or quantity. Bjork is just like THE exception of that rule. https://youtu.be/LSP_Bw-hXfM EDIT: By the way.... Brant played all …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-29, 08:04

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already had a Fat Agnus upgrade I saw that there are an Fat Angus recreation in the works. It is FPGA based and will be an 2mb Chipram compatible chip. As of now, it is only the firmware that needs to be written. I think it is the creator of TerribleFire accelerators, that are develloping it. Else …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-28, 10:46

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Took my Ps3 for a spin. Playing these games: - Ratchet and Clank Tools of destruction. - Tekken 6 - Gran Turismo 6 - Dead Or Alive 5 - Burnout Paradise City The reason being, I bought some of those games this week at my job on the recycling center that are a second hand shop or thrift shop as well. …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-25, 23:05

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pan069 wrote on 2020-05-25, 20:52: Does anyone have any PS2 games to recommend? - Black. - Dead or Alive 2. - Medal Og Honor Allied Assault. - Futurama. - Virtua Fighter 4. - Tekken 5. - Testdrive Unleashed. - Outrun 2006 Coast To Coast. - Crazy Taxi.

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-05-25, 17:12

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imi wrote on 2020-05-25, 17:04: brostenen wrote on 2020-05-24, 20:15: My question to Vogons is. Would someone eat a burger that looks like that? Personally NO FREAKING WAY. Looks like... Disgusting. huh? what's wrong with that burger? it looks delicious. I don't like the looks of it.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-25, 12:14

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I know... Yet they are not always in the correct ratings. And for something like a Commodore64, you really need to use the correct type of parts. Like you do not ever use tanteleum caps were electrolyt is supposed to be. So the coil need to have the exact same ratings as the original one. I have …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-25, 09:01

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brostenen, That is common mode filter choke! You can use any of these, works same at 60hz at any voltage from old power supply ac input filter, small PSUs have these. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=common+mode+choke https://images.app.goo.gl/SvsW23WX1p5RmXtq6 Intent is to block …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-05-25, 08:52

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I have a question for Vogons.... A Danish michelin restaurant have temporarely opened up again, as a take-away burger joint. That is so they can restructure for the time when everything is opening up again. So, they server these burgers in this article (linked below my post).... My question to …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-05-24, 23:03

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Well... I would expect more, from a michelin restaurant in Denmark.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 22:57

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Did some more work on my SixtyClone 466 board. One of the few components that are near impossible to get as a original commodore component. Are the choke coil, at the correct ratings as the original one. The 250425 and 250466 boards, use the same coil. You can get modern coils, however, they do not …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-05-24, 20:15

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I have a question for Vogons.... A Danish michelin restaurant have temporarely opened up again, as a take-away burger joint. That is so they can restructure for the time when everything is opening up again. So, they server these burgers in this article (linked below my post).... My question to …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 19:19

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I don't think he is being a jerk. He is right in that it is a bad idea to overclock retro or even vintage hardware. He sounds like he's in the l33t mob, ie one of those over sensitive snowflakes I mentioned a few days ago. derSammlers' advice was sound. Nothing wrong with it at all. Wow, i did NOT …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 18:29

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No need to be a jerk :rolleyes: I don't think he is being a jerk. He is right in that it is a bad idea to overclock retro or even vintage hardware. He sounds like he's in the l33t mob, ie one of those over sensitive snowflakes I mentioned a few days ago. derSammlers' advice was sound. Nothing wrong …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 17:08

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I did some more solder work today. Soldered in all the components that I have at this moment. Everything in the picture is brand new components, except for the two joystick ports. As they are reused from a different, yet broken, Commodore64 board. The bracket/shield that goes on top of the cartridge …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 16:52

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Overclocking attempts? But people don't listen, no matter how often you warn them that overclocking can cause permanent damage. Might not be a direct result of overclocking, but from all the fiddling that would not have happened otherwise. No need to be a jerk :rolleyes: I don't think he is being a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-23, 15:54

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And so it begins.... I am still missing to buy parts, however I have enough to start this build. When finished, I will have a newly build Commodore64 1986-Model-C in nearly exclusive black. Systemboard in black, case in black plastic and keyboard in grey'ish black. Mmmmm.... Black and gold. So far, …

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