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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 20:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hope that VLB card works. As a matter of fact, getting any VLB card at a decent price these days, are somewhat rare. Trident and Cirrus Logic cards are still pretty easy to find. S3 805 based cards are probably next easiest. Anything apart from those and availability starts to become an issue. Yup. …

Re: Shapeshifter on Amiga?

Posted on Yesterday, 10:40

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

And what classic Mac would it be emulating? I'm not sure how far work on Shapeshifter proceeded, or if it got the same amount of attention that Basilisk II received. But ultimately it would definitely be one of the 68k Macs – the high-end would be a Quadra running OS 8.1. Anything else would be PPC …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 00:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If it doesn't work, I'll make it work lol. But I have been pretty lucky with getting VLB cards lately for cheap. Just several months back I had been striking out. At some point in life, they will keep showing up. And then when the "party" is over, you will have a hard time finding cheap one. Yup... …

Shapeshifter on Amiga?

Posted on Yesterday, 00:22

in Macintosh Emulation

in Macintosh Emulation

Hi all. As I have recently gotten a Furia accelerator for my Amiga600, then I am wondering about setting up Mac emulation on it. My Amiga600 spec's so far: - Individual Computers a604n memory upgrade. (giving a total of 2mb ChipRam) - Individual Computers IndivisionECS-V2 scandoubler. - Furia-020 …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 00:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hope that VLB card works. As a matter of fact, getting any VLB card at a decent price these days, are somewhat rare.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-17, 23:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A couple of fans of different types and noise levels. All 40x40 mm. I have to lower the internal temperature of my Amiga600 machine. That active fan I bought for my Furia is keeping the accelerator cold enough, yet the surplus heat inside the case needs to be removed. And those 600's do not exactly …

Re: What will happen, if I run a mag-lev fan upside down?

Posted on 2020-02-17, 22:49

in Milliways

in Milliways

wiretap wrote on 2020-02-17, 22:21: Works fine.. I have a few and they have a pretty strong magnet holding the fan in place. So. It is not electromagnetic technology, that makes the bearing. Only electromagnetic technology for the driving of the fan? The "bearing" are constructed in conventional …

Re: What will happen, if I run a mag-lev fan upside down?

Posted on 2020-02-17, 22:47

in Milliways

in Milliways

Obviously the fan will stay still and the machine spins around, duh. Nahhh.... I was more thinking of, if it will fall out of it bearing or the magnets not being able to drive it anymore. Because it internally will grind surface against surface. I have no more exact way of explaining it, because I …

What will happen, if I run a mag-lev fan upside down?

Posted on 2020-02-17, 21:58

in Milliways

in Milliways

I have seen these maglev fan's around. As far as I understand, they run on magnetic levetation and not sleve or ball bearing. I don't think that I have ever had any maglev fan, and if I have had one, then I was not aware of it. The question that I have, are really simple. What will happen if I run …

Re: How to: Imaging/cloning a harddrive, using Linux only....

Posted on 2020-02-16, 13:15

in Milliways

in Milliways

It makes a big difference if there are bad sectors, since a single bad sector will cause the entire block containing it to be discarded/zeroed in the image. If there is bad sectors, you will have a hard time reading the data anyway. Like they say... Real men do no backup's, they cry instead. Morale …

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

Posted on 2020-02-16, 13:09

in Milliways

in Milliways

gdjacobs wrote on 2020-02-16, 05:28: Lots of varieties you can try. I find ketchup really overpowers the flavour of the eggs. Yup. Some times I like it with ketchup. Other days I don't.

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

Posted on 2020-02-16, 00:47

in Milliways

in Milliways

Lots of ketchup. With eggs? Heresy! Lots of ways to go. Simple salt and pepper. Thyme. Cheese. Cream instead of milk. Ketchup is something I would expect in a bad greasy spoon. Just salt and pepper, and scrambled on a pan. Personally I find cheese... How to say polite... Like a muslim look at pork. …

Re: Any ISA sound card sound as good as the Gravis Ultrasound ?

Posted on 2020-02-15, 22:22

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yup.... 1992 is what games the GUS is for. Possible into 1993. As I mentioned. The GUS is for a really small number of games. I think the GUS is for those that are really into a select few games (counting 1989 to present). Games that were released in 1992 and 1993. Else it speaks to those that have …

Re: How can i save a complete website with drivers?

Posted on 2020-02-15, 22:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Make sure no components are copyrighted. Like images and stuff. (Just a friendly reminder, so you wont get into trouble)

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

Posted on 2020-02-15, 21:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have been playing with my Furia accelerated Amiga600. When testing the IDE-Speed, then I get 2480k in transfer rate. That is with Fast IDE enabled in FuriaTune-Tool. With it disabled, I only get some 2300k transfer. Much faster than stock speed of 600 to 700k. The Furia is an awesomme upgrade. And …

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

Posted on 2020-02-15, 18:56

in Milliways

in Milliways

I am getting old and can not eat so much anymore..... I was only able to eat ten egg's, scrambled in butter and on top of 2 slices of toast. Lots of ketchup. When I was younger, I was able to eat between 12 and 16 egg's in one god. Meh'.... At least I got my daily bread. 😁

How to: Imaging/cloning a harddrive, using Linux only....

Posted on 2020-02-14, 16:51

in Milliways

in Milliways

For those that want a quick tip on how to use Linux for cloning a harddrive, then I have this easy command. Naturally there are a lot of people here, that know this, however if you are new to Linux or dont know. Then here goes..... First create a new folder in the Documents folder in your home …

Re: Any ISA sound card sound as good as the Gravis Ultrasound ?

Posted on 2020-02-14, 15:09

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

GUS are wonderfull. Great cards. However, there are a catch. Games support are not the strongest. It is mostly the best for circa 1992 games. (plus/minus some years)

Re: To find the right projects and retro computers AKA what should I build or focus on? (486,Pentium 1-4?)

Posted on 2020-02-14, 15:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would aim at a 486dx33 with pure ISA. Some good VGA card, 8mb Ram and a nice sound card. Add CF-IDE or SD-IDE and a good and reliable DVD-Rom drive.

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

Posted on 2020-02-14, 14:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I have been creating a 'Golden Image' on a Pentium 4 HP/Compaq nx9010 laptop with Windows XP and some open source software ready to image the other ones that I have in my collection :) What tool did you use? I am testing out image creation, using DD on my Linux machine. (Learning or trying to …

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