Re: Amstrad Adlib Clone: Restoration and Testing

Posted on 2016-04-30, 19:55

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keenmaster486 wrote: Whoo! That's a very nice card you've got there... Try playing some tracker music on it and see how well it can rock 😎 I know nothing about FM tracking - did a lot of composition back in the day with my GUS but have only recently heard about the Adlib connection. Where can I …

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

Posted on 2016-04-30, 16:29

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HighTreason wrote: I It's bloody fast on this SCSI drive. Shame it's not a 10,000rpm drive. Those things scream along.

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Re: The 286 Laptop Restoration Thread

Posted on 2016-04-30, 12:59

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matze79 wrote: Any Progress ? Waiting for parts. 😀 Plus I keep getting distracted by other projects (the list gets longer every day).

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2016-04-30, 09:55

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Sweet catches mate, particularly the last one - she's a beast! I'm not even an Apple dude, but this is cool i guess. Computer, Printer, keyboard and even the VGA adatper. Only missing the mouse. The later Blue & White version of the G3 is nicer, mostly because of the inclusion of USB. I hope you are …

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Re: Amstrad Adlib Clone: Restoration and Testing

Posted on 2016-04-30, 08:25

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You did a fantastic job! Saw that auction but the condition put me off. Re isopropyl, Maplin sells it in an aerosol. But I reckon vinegar/acetic acid would have had more cleaning power in this case anyway. Cheers, man. To be fair I won it by accident. Had I seen the pictures properly I might not …

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Re: Amstrad Adlib Clone: Restoration and Testing

Posted on 2016-04-29, 22:25

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Step three: I removed the metal items from the vinegar, rinsed and dried. Most of the actual rust had come off but I used the scouring pad additionally to get off as much of the actual corrosion as I could, as it had darkened the metal. Step four: resoldered the pot, which was looking much better …

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Re: Amstrad Adlib Clone: Restoration and Testing

Posted on 2016-04-29, 22:13

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Step one: remove the metal items and the capacitors: 20160429_171954-1200x2133.jpg The silkscreen indicated polarity and gave each component a number, so I wrote down each corresponding rating for each capacitor. The bracket and game port shield came off easily and I submerged them in vinegar. The …

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Amstrad Adlib Clone: Restoration and Testing

Posted on 2016-04-29, 22:08

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I alluded to this card recently in both the 'I recently bought...' and 'What retro activity...' threads, but thought it was worth documenting the process of restoring this card. I will also add it to the Wiki :) So, the eagle-eyed bristlehog posted up a link to an eBay auction for a ' Vintage …

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

Posted on 2016-04-29, 20:20

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Skyscraper wrote: Nice! That turned out to be a decent deal! 😀 And, best of all, it works. Just played Wolf 3D and I was 13 again. Glorious.

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

Posted on 2016-04-29, 18:58

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Spent the last few hours turning this: Filename Adlib Clone.jpg File size 236.24 KiB Views 1621 views Into this: Filename 20160429_195411-1600x1203.jpg File size 396.35 KiB Views 1621 views

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Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-28, 22:14

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Thought I'd provide a happy entry to this thread. Because I'm brassic again (I was flushGamer for a short while) I was unwilling to pay £50+ for a machine that may or may not work properly. There were some really nice boxed items going and some weren't even yellowed! In the end I found a somewhat …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-28, 21:34

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lolo799 wrote: bjt wrote: Bootable CD is your friend 😀 It can only boot from the Floppy drive (internal or external) or HDD. Yeah I've got no floppy either. Had to remove the HD, copy the Windows installer files, reinstall the HD and then install the OS. What a faff. I should just get a floppy …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-28, 16:51

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Rhuwyn wrote: Apple G4 Tower If you don't keep all of them, keep this as it makes an awesome retro Mac gaming machine. It can run OS9 and OSX (probably up to 10.4) plus the built in ZIP drive can be handy.

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Re: Growing up as DOS gamer in the early 90s, I once...

Posted on 2016-04-27, 21:39

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...wrote my GCSE music coursework using Scream Tracker. I got 90% for it. I also helped my mate write his and he got 95%. Want happy about that.

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Re: 386 Midi Tower Question

Posted on 2016-04-27, 15:03

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jheronimus wrote: Chewhacca wrote: SCSI CDROM too. 😀 How do you know it's a SCSI just by looking at this photo? Just curious. To be fair I looked and thought a similar thing but it was more "IS that the SCSI version?" It came in an IDE flavour, too, and they look identical from the front.

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Re: Saying hello

Posted on 2016-04-27, 12:53

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I'll add some socket 3 and super / socket 7 models this week. But I imagine gbeirn has all of them anyway!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-27, 08:51

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19rsn007 wrote: Cool freebee yesterday!! An IBM Thinkpad 380XD laptop. it has both a cd-rom player and a floppydrive, runs a Pentium 233Mhz (with MMX) and has 32MB's of RAM, 3GB harddisk, 2MB Graphicscard and win98 as the OS. Awesome DOS gaming laptop!!

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

Posted on 2016-04-27, 06:45

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Holy crap. And some people here have wives that limit them to 2 desktop computers!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-26, 17:36

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Not so much bought as traded, this arrived from a Vogons members today, complete with the benchmarker's favourite socket 3 CPU and a bonus item of a Cyrix 5x86 100 (great packing, mate - arrived in one piece). A VIP board to replace my pretty much dead previous VLB board, which I'm still sad about. …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2016-04-26, 17:23

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A little newer, my wife's ex was emitting l emptying out his dad's garage and came across a Satellite 110CS. He knows about my interests and said he 'didn't have the heart to throw it away'. Thank goodness! CMOS battery is dead of course but it boots. Has been upgraded from the stock 8mb to 24mb and …

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