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

Posted on Yesterday, 19:18

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Today I tried to get a CF card working with a generic 16-bit ISA I/O controller + XTIDE Universal BIOS on my IBM XT build & a Turbo XT clone also. I tried 3 different controllers, but failed with all 3. XTIDE would either recognise the CF card with a blank name or a partial name and it was …

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

Posted on 2021-03-02, 16:56

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Retro related activity - I recently purchased a crappy cheap external power supply with a molex connector from eBay, to attach an IDE CD-ROM drive externally. It was as expected - pretty dreadful and introduced interference to the video signal, so I had no intention of using it long-term and opted …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-02, 05:48

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Yeah, the fun is the process ;) well, as I'm an electronics engineer, and the C64 being relatively simple, some debugging should be doable. But then again - will a recap of the power supply help anything, or is it just a transformer? And where would be the right place to find and ask for …

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

Posted on 2021-02-27, 13:21

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The caps on my board look good, however there is a faint smell of fish from one spot. Nothing really bad. The machine is otherwise in working condition. I have not really been on Vogons that much, so I have not read about your issue, or I have sadly forgotten that I have read about it. But what are …

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

Posted on 2021-02-27, 06:37

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Finally packed my Amiga1200 motherboard for shipping to a recap service. I have chosen a recap with organic polymer caps. Going to ship it out tomorrow, and then I hope to have it back again just before the first of April. This is probably what I'll end up having to do soon also, if the new PSU …

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

Posted on 2021-02-26, 18:38

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Today I received a simple passive Phono Mixer from China that I'm going to use to mix the sound from my Amiga 1200 & the attached external IDE CD/DVD-Rom drive for CD audio playback on CDTV & CD32 games. Tested it out and it works well enough - won't win any awards but it works. And then I started …

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

Posted on 2021-02-23, 11:45

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xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-02-22, 18:43: Careful, put an Atari this close to an Amiga and you'll have a war going on... Haha, yeah. Though in the case of a war, I wouldn't want to be on the poor STE's side when faced with an Amiga 1200. I'm not a big fan of crushing defeats. 🤣

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

Posted on 2021-02-22, 18:35

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Today's retro activity for me - properly fitting a Gotek into my Atari STE. I ordered a 3D printed mounting bracket from eBay, which arrived today. Looks much neater now and sturdier too. I was missing most of the floppy screws and the bottom right screw was the incorrect type so I had to improvise …

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

Posted on 2021-02-22, 18:16

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The magic needed is 8bit IDE option in XTIDE build what forces IDE controller to 8bit mode. It needs support from drive, AFAIK only CF-cards and microdrives do. I tried couple of modern HDD - no detection. Ah, that is interesting. I never tried a CF card with 8-Bit mode on XTIDE, I'll have to give …

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

Posted on 2021-02-21, 18:53

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Turbo XT clone build. Installed XTIDE ROM (27C64) to "ROM BASIC" and that seems to work fine with random 16-bit I/O controller. It boots DOS 6.22 just for testing. There is no support for HD floppy drives. Just wondering could I just burn XTIDE + HD-Floppy BIOS to single 27C128 ROM ? EDIT: I answer …

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

Posted on 2021-02-18, 00:02

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Today I removed the floppy drive from my recently acquired Atari 520STE and added a Gotek in it's place. I've ordered a bracket to fit it properly, but for now I had to improvise... with sellotape. :lol: When the bracket arrives, I'll remove the tape and use IPA to clear off any resulting sticky …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-17, 12:49

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I've finally added an Atari ST to my collection. Never owned one back in the day, I've only ever used emulation briefly. Ordered this a couple of days ago and received today - https://i.imgur.com/kF4lyW1h.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Vz7kFKKl.jpg It's a 520 STE with 4MB RAM upgrade and a 4160 STE badge …

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Re: Gotek Floppy Emulator with FlashFloppy

Posted on 2021-02-17, 05:11

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Not sure why anybody would deliberately want to either backup or restore the original firmware, as it really is garbage.

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Re: Help with a N64 Controller on 98SE.

Posted on 2021-02-16, 14:39

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I haven't played the game in years, does it have any menu options to remap buttons? Failing that you could try software like JoyToKey, to map the keyboard keys that the game uses to the buttons on the pad.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-15, 18:29

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Have you tried powering the Amiga on yet? Will be interesting to see if it's working or not. Definitely replace the HDD with a larger CF card, then you can use WHDLoad to load all your games and not have to rely on Floppy Disks or Gotek. I went with a 16GB CF card for mine. Regarding Kickstart, I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-12, 10:53

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I might have gotten the deal of the year. An Amiga1200 for the price of shipping and what I then want to pay once I recieve it. The thing is, that it is in unknown condition. I will post some images, once it have arrived by mail in the next week. The only thing I know about it so far, is that it is …

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

Posted on 2021-02-11, 19:35

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Today I was getting intermittent power on my Gotek that I'm using externally on my BBC Micro. The culprit - cracked solder joints on the Gotek's power connector due to a shitty design. The Gotek might be a great device, but they didn't think the power connector design through properly, absolutely no …

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

Posted on 2021-02-06, 20:46

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Today I made some further tweaks to my Amiga 1200 CD-ROM setup. Modified/cut/spliced an analog audio line out cable (the type you'd otherwise use internally to a PC sound card) to attach phono plugs to 1 end, allowing the CD Audio to output much neater from the back of the now-external IDE drive and …

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

Posted on 2021-02-05, 17:08

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Some more playing around with CD-ROM on my Amiga 1200 today. A rather inelegant setup, but it works (gonna replace the ATX PSU with a more suitable 5V/12V Molex DC adapter): https://i.imgur.com/VRucaOEl.jpg Had some issues with IDEFix 97, so uninstalled and reinstalled. Reconfigured and it's all …

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

Posted on 2021-02-03, 21:07

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Some experimenting with my Amiga 1200 today. Decided to experiment with adding a regular IDE CD-ROM drive externally. Ran the IDE cable out the back of the case and powered the drive with a spare ATX PSU for now just to test it's functionality (will buy a proper external PSU with molex connector …

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