If you want, you can even try/experience using it!
A few years back I wrote an emulator for it.
"my site" -> Downloads -> "Older downloads from previous site"
Look for "Simulators and Emulators" ; "D6809"
It is a 16 bit DOS program, but it runs under DosBox very well!
This will let you see my CUBIX OS in action. Back when I designed it, I was working on
VAX mainframes, so the interface does look a little vax-like 😀
Just in case anyone is interested, or like me is a "big fan of the 6809 CPU",
just advising that I've updated my D6809 simulator to have my full MON09 6809
debug monitor as an availabke boot ROM.
I've also added better support for simulation of interrupts.
This means that if you want to "play" with some 6809 code, you can do like I often
do and run/debug it in the D6809 with capabilities you wouldn't have on a real
6809 development board.
So I took a detour and threw together a speaker enclosure in about 30 mins... I wanted to mount the test speaker somehow so it wasn't just rattling around on the bench. So, this happened.
Haha, hilarious and genius at the same time! 😀
Reminds me of the images I used to collect back in the day from There-I-Fixed-It / Cheezburger network.
I think the first enclosure I saw like that was a pair of coke bottles with their bottoms drilled and speakers installed in there.
While in college, I also ran into a similar ordeal as you - basically had a small speaker that I wanted to test, so I quickly whipped up an "enclosure" just like you. In my case, the enclosure consisted of an empty 1 Gal. milk jug. Held the speaker in place with hot glue.
Sound quality? - Better than just the speaker sitting on my desk and directing the high frequencies towards the ceiling. But that's about all. As for the bass response... what bass??? 🤣 It's a PC speaker.
Then a year or three later, I wanted to a small amp board from a scrapped Sony CRT TV (that I found broken in pieces on the side of the road), along with the 3.5" speakers from it. I didn't have an enclosure and wanted to make something real real fast. As if by total miracle, I had an old ATX PSU opened on my bench (waiting for a recap) with its board out and its case sitting off to the side. It was one of those PSUs with a 92 mm fan on top. I removed the fan and simply dropped-in the speaker. It was almost a perfect fit, too. 🤣 Again, I can't say this "enclosure" did the speaker proper justice... but it was better than just the speaker running open-air. And for the 5 minutes of "work" I had to do, it was wonderful.
Hah yeah, I remember those pages, also there was one called ghettomods, which sometimes had some things that were fairly innovative and practical even if done roughly. A couple of decades back, I had a couple of nice cones mounted in coffee cans, driven only by the amp on an opti sound card, and those sounded nice. They were ex car audio, maybe phillips speakers. I miss the days when there were a lot of "kids" ripping out factory audio from their cars and putting the latest fad speakers/amps in. Because unless it was the real base model that only had an AM radio, the speakers they discarded were often quite good, pioneers, warfdales etc.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
Finished reverse engineering obscure 386RC-16 memory board for super rare (not even in retroweb) Modular Circuit Technology C386-33 motherboard from Story about C386-33 and me thread by pictures alone 😀
Reached a good stopping point on rejuvenating my QX9650/Win7 system.
I've given up trying to revive the P5Q PRO, and also fed up with the frequent stuttering of the G41M board in it, so managed to secure an inexpensive good condition Gigabyte EP45-DS4. Another DDR2 board (as I wanted to use my DDR2 RAM), on par or slightly more feature-rich than the P5Q PRO.
What I like: (compared to the ASUS board):
Onboard power/reset/clear CMOS buttons for easy initial debugging on a stand
More heatsinks and heatpipes for the MOSFETs and all the chips
What I don't like:
Don't like the Gigabyte BIOS of that generation. It's this Award BIOS that looks like it's from the mid-nineties. Tons of confusing menu options, very few of which are useful. They don't even have the ability to disable boot-up numlock. POST takes longer than expected. It seems the board resets itself 3-4 times before finally completing POST and proceeding. When the SATA controller is configured to AHCI, the drives don't show up in the main BIOS, only in the secondary post-POST BIOS, which delays boot further.
It wasn't smooth sailing setting it up. I was getting no POST / crazy beep symptoms / reboot loops. Went away after carefully cleaning the RAM slots and connectors on the sticks. Also, there seems to be something wrong with the main PCI-E x16 slot. It POSTs 100% of the time, but Windows almost always gets with black screen after boot, when powering off from shutdown or from soft reset (graceful restart). Strangely it almost always boots correctly from hard (ungraceful) restart. I tried several revisions of nVidia drivers, and even tried replacing the GTX 660 with a PCI-E x1 GT 710. Same symptoms. However, when moving the card to the secondary PCI-E (x16 @x8) slot, it always boots and restarts with no issues. Fortunately, the cooler on the Zotac card has just barely enough clearance to not hit the PCI slot below (PCI slots are slightly taller than PCI-E).
Still a couple of unresolved things - the GTX 660 always shows x4 in GPU-Z even when running the stress test. Incompatibility or slightly faulty card? No idea. I didn't find any BIOS setting that can explain that. Will try again later. Also the VIA USB 3.0 PCI-E x1 card doesn't work in any slot - it is detected and the driver is installed, but the 3.0 Hub always gets a "device cannot start" error. Here I am also willing to assume the card is faulty or incompatible with the board, as I've gone through several such cards from various manufacturers. They just don't seem very reliable. Will live without USB 3.0 in this system for a while.
Got my Capacitors (all Nichicon) and will now continue working on my ECS K7S5A. This will be the first motherboard I've ever had re-capped. I'll be practicing on junk while my brother does the serious work, since he's an expert; I don't want to mess it up.
xa3dwrote on 2024-11-08, 18:19:"...just advising that I've updated my D6809 simulator to have my full MON09 6809
debug monitor as an availabke boot ROM." […] Show full quote
"...just advising that I've updated my D6809 simulator to have my full MON09 6809
debug monitor as an availabke boot ROM."
Date&File size not updated.
Still shows as... "D6809 Dunfield 6809 simulator (10/1/30 272.2k)"
My apologies & thanks - the file was actually updated, but since it was a "simple one file change" I didn't think to re-upload
the HTML page which has the times showing within it (my site is mostly hand-written but some parts are auto generated - like
inserting the times into various html files) - it would have updated the next time I made an actual change to the html file,
but thanks for noticing - I've updated that file now.
Hmmm. Tested a "broken" card before taking the heatsink for the working one (6600 AGP). What is this?! It crashes at POST, but always works; would a BIOS flash possibly fix this thing? The computer works with other cards, of course. Have not tested it in another computer.
messing around with picogus, sounds nice unfortunaely not a soundcard in windows 98 environment but for dos. sounds nice, loaded up jazz jackrabbit, omf 2097 and epic pinball
"What's all this racket going on up here, son? You watchin' yer girl cartoons again?"
Did some sound card testing today with a Terratec Maestro 32/96, Sound Blaster 16 (CT2290) and Gravis UltraSound.
The Terratec Maestro 32/96 is a quite a resource hog requiring three address ports and IRQs in order to use digital audio and both MIDI ports. Managed to get them all working concurrently, but it took some resource juggling.
Installed my fully populated SB16 CT1740 (DSP v4.04) with ASP/CSP chip and Creative Waveblaster II CT1910, including the CDROM port to a Matsushita CR-563-B. Love hearing different variations of midi music.
Did some sound card testing today with a Terratec Maestro 32/96, Sound Blaster 16 (CT2290) and Gravis UltraSound.
The Terratec Maestro 32/96 is a quite a resource hog requiring three address ports and IRQs in order to use digital audio and both MIDI ports. Managed to get them all working concurrently, but it took some resource juggling.
Beautiful! Yeah Maestro is a bit of a pain initially. You got to try FM with Doom. It's really funky.
zuldanwrote on 2024-11-09, 23:08:Installed my fully populated SB16 CT1740 (DSP v4.04) with ASP/CSP chip and Creative Waveblaster II CT1910, including the CDROM p […] Show full quote
Installed my fully populated SB16 CT1740 (DSP v4.04) with ASP/CSP chip and Creative Waveblaster II CT1910, including the CDROM port to a Matsushita CR-563-B. Love hearing different variations of midi music.
Today I repaired an old 2006 second hand Fujifilm S5600 camera using a second not working unit. Had to only change the internal battery plastics/cover but unfortunately I've broken a button metal pin from the inside of.the working one and had to switch all the hardware into the second unit (when I was supposed to do the opposite) whole optic included. A painful work in such compact case space with flat cables and old fragile components. Now at least one unit is fully working and with a just bought brand new 512MB memory card quite expensive too. This camera is interesting cause one of the early Super CCD sensor based cameras from Fujifilm, an interesting concept discontinued after various versions a decade ago. Of course not great compared to nowdays standards but still has a good optic (F2.8>3.2 at 10X zoom).
Today I repaired an old 2006 second hand Fujifilm S5600 camera using a second not working unit. Had to only change the internal battery plastics/cover but unfortunately I've broken a button metal pin from the inside of.the working one and had to switch all the hardware into the second unit (when I was supposed to do the opposite) whole optic included. A painful work in such compact case space with flat cables and old fragile components. Now at least one unit is fully working and with a just bought brand new 512MB memory card quite expensive too. This camera is interesting cause one of the early Super CCD sensor based cameras from Fujifilm, an interesting concept discontinued after various versions a decade ago. Of course not great compared to nowdays standards but still has a good optic (F2.8>3.2 at 10X zoom).
That was my first "real" digital camera (S5200 is the North American model) after 2 or 3 years of using an Olympus D560 Zoom. My mother still has that S5200 . It's in a box somewhere. I need to ask her about taking it for a spin again after all this time. Hopefully, the coin cell hasn't leaked.
EDIT: Those 🤣 cards sucked, speed wise, especially the slower M variants, AFAICR. RAW was painfully slow, AFAICR. Not sure if the faster H variants actually were faster in the S5200 (or if they even worked, they might have required s firmware update). Anyway, this is all stuff you probably already know or can still find in the Internet.
I wonder what drew you to this camera in the ccurrent day and age? Was it something you used back in the day ? Fascination with SuperCCD ?
EDIT2: AF speed and accuracy was very good in decent light, for uts time, AFAICR. I am really starting to miss this thing. As, I have archives of all the photos I've taken, I might just have a go at reprocessing some RAWs. DXO Pureraw does not support this, so I will have to rely on RawTherapee and NeatImage.
darrywrote on 2024-11-10, 14:39:That was my first "real" digital camera (S5200 is the North American model) after 2 or 3 years of using an Olympus D560 Zoom. My […] Show full quote
Today I repaired an old 2006 second hand Fujifilm S5600 camera using a second not working unit. Had to only change the internal battery plastics/cover but unfortunately I've broken a button metal pin from the inside of.the working one and had to switch all the hardware into the second unit (when I was supposed to do the opposite) whole optic included. A painful work in such compact case space with flat cables and old fragile components. Now at least one unit is fully working and with a just bought brand new 512MB memory card quite expensive too. This camera is interesting cause one of the early Super CCD sensor based cameras from Fujifilm, an interesting concept discontinued after various versions a decade ago. Of course not great compared to nowdays standards but still has a good optic (F2.8>3.2 at 10X zoom).
That was my first "real" digital camera (S5200 is the North American model) after 2 or 3 years of using an Olympus D560 Zoom. My mother still has that S5200 . It's in a box somewhere. I need to ask her about taking it for a spin again after all this time. Hopefully, the coin cell hasn't leaked.
EDIT: Those 🤣 cards sucked, speed wise, especially the slower M variants, AFAICR. RAW was painfully slow, AFAICR. Not sure if the faster H variants actually were faster in the S5200 (or if they even worked, they might have required s firmware update). Anyway, this is all stuff you probably already know or can still find in the Internet.
I wonder what drew you to this camera in the ccurrent day and age? Was it something you used back in the day ? Fascination with SuperCCD ?
EDIT2: AF speed and accuracy was very good in decent light, for uts time, AFAICR. I am really starting to miss this thing. As, I have archives of all the photos I've taken, I might just have a go at reprocessing some RAWs. DXO Pureraw does not support this, so I will have to rely on RawTherapee and NeatImage.
The 512MB card I've bought is an H variant and I've read even the 2GB version might actually work, probably depending on the camera firmware indeed. Maybe not officially I'll see to find one. On the speed size it doesn't look much fast but of course we're used to modern Micro SD speed; I imagine just a bit faster than the slower ones like the original 16MB sold with it. I suppose the various interesting IC processors running on the main PCB may be also limited, it never felt much fast like the zoom speed on the internal gallery app while decoding a full resolution image.
I knew about this digital camera because in the early 2000 I bought many other ones from the cheapest Trust early VGA cameras to the great Canon A70 (great camera but on a fragile zoom mechanism) and ended up to the Fujifilm S5500, the previous 4MP standard CCD version that many were talking really good about and I bought it at release brand new (quite expensive too), I still have that one fully working. After a while I remember reading about this new Super CCD tech and at that time on paper it looked like the future and a smart way to get more data captured on a compact camera sensor like these. So I wanted to buy the S5600 but still it wasn't that much different from the S5500 to buy it so I didn't. I've bought the first working unit a week ago in a second hand retro store; it only needed to fix that battery door which seems quite a known problem on both the S5500 and 5600 projects where plastic will eventually break given the force the four AA batteries will push and at the end I've broken the main silver button pin removing that internal battery case.
