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

Posted on Today, 09:49

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by brostenen

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This is so cool... My son actually love C64 over Amiga. Right now he is playing the original Atari version of Pacman for C64. He was not that happy with Super Cycle. He thinks the sound of the SID and the GFX of the VIC-II is the most awesomme in vintage gaming. He does not like OPL nor Paula or …

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

Posted on Today, 07:03

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by brostenen

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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 Yesterday, 22:51

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by brostenen

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Just found out that the SID chip in my breadbin are defect. I had a replacement on hand.

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

Posted on Yesterday, 21:08

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by brostenen

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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.

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Re: What made you join VOGONS?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 11:37

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by brostenen

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I joined, because I had issues with SB Live.

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

Posted on 2021-02-24, 11:04

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by brostenen

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Updated my Amiga500 in PC desktop case, by installing a panelmounted internal HDMI extension cable. Now I have HDMI port on the rear of the machine. The machine is beginning to take shape as a kind of big box Amiga. As of now, the specs are kind of the same as an Amiga2000-HD, just with some extra. …

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

Posted on 2021-02-23, 18:11

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by brostenen

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Well.... True Miner was behind a lot of Atari's 8bit stuff, yet he had nothing to do with any Atari 16bit stuff. He actually resigned from Atari because of Atari being unwilling to move into 16bit territory. Jack Tramiel was the man, who we can give credit for the AtariST.

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

Posted on 2021-02-23, 16:39

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by brostenen

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Uhmm... What? Look at the spec's for AtariST, Amiga1200, Amiga500/600 and Atari Falcon. This is no fight/war or anything, it is just facts, that the Amiga1200 is way more powerfull than an AtariST. If I may use a different platform as an example, then the Pentium eats 486 for breakfast. In the case …

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

Posted on 2021-02-23, 14:34

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by brostenen

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Careful, put an Atari this close to an Amiga and you'll have a war going on... The 1200 eats ST's for breakfast.... 500/600 is a totally different situation. (It is much the same as the Falcon eats Amiga500/600 for breakfast) OK, here we go again ... who'll bring the popcorn? Uhmm... What? Look at …

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

Posted on 2021-02-22, 22:21

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by brostenen

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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... The 1200 eats ST's for breakfast.... 500/600 is a totally different situation. (It is much the same as the Falcon eats Amiga500/600 for breakfast)

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

Posted on 2021-02-22, 22:19

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by brostenen

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Found a recapper for my Amiga1200. Going to have it recapped with organic polymer caps, for minimum leakage in the future. Also... Fixed the mouse that came with the Amiga1200. I had to change one switch, then I was able to get working by having the other switch soaked in IPA. Cleaned the PCB with …

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

Posted on 2021-02-19, 17:59

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by brostenen

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I made some progress on my Amiga 2500 puzzle. It looks like there were 2 reasons why I was having trouble and that made it difficult to figure out since changing configurations displayed different issues, and worse yet intermittently. Problem 1: Despite researching ahead of time I didn't find out …

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

Posted on 2021-02-19, 09:35

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by brostenen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I made some progress on my Amiga 2500 puzzle. It looks like there were 2 reasons why I was having trouble and that made it difficult to figure out since changing configurations displayed different issues, and worse yet intermittently. Problem 1: Despite researching ahead of time I didn't find out …

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

Posted on 2021-02-18, 16:52

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by brostenen

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Done testing and putting my newest purchase back together. Need to have following things done. - Full motherboard recap. - Buy a new Floppy drive. - Buy a new keyboard membrane. - Buy a new case. - Upgrade to kickstart 3.1.4 - Buy a scandoubler. - Buy an 8mb Ram upgrade. - Buy an angled IDE/CF …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-17, 18:46

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by brostenen

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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: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-15, 23:05

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by brostenen

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This is surreal.... I never thought that I would get an Amiga1200 for the price of shipping plus what I then decide that it is worth. Right now it is stripped down and the board is hooked up, in order to let it sit idle for that fishy smell. If it needs a recap, then the price will be lowered. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-15, 23:04

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by brostenen

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Done testing the 1200. There are some issues, that need to be fixed. First it gives a slight smell of fish from one capacitor, so it needs a full recap. Other stuff that needs to be fixed, are a new membrane and a new floppy drive. Else it is in perfect shape. Cosmetically it needs a new case. I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-15, 19:58

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by brostenen

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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 2021-02-15, 15:38

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by brostenen

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This is surreal.... I never thought that I would get an Amiga1200 for the price of shipping plus what I then decide that it is worth. Right now it is stripped down and the board is hooked up, in order to let it sit idle for that fishy smell. If it needs a recap, then the price will be lowered. After …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-12, 11:10

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by brostenen

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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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