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

Posted on 2023-05-20, 21:20

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Got friends coming around in a few days for drinks & 1 of my retro gaming nights that I hold each year. So today I've been doing some spot checks on the hardware I'm going to be using to ensure there's no problems. Mostly Microcomputers & a couple of PCs for this night. Good job I did test in …

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Re: Why floppy drives are important

Posted on 2023-05-05, 09:45

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I have floppy drives in a bunch of my retro systems, purely for case cosmetic reasons so as not to leave a hole. :lol: I pretty much never use actual floppy disks on any of my PCs though, as I have an abundance of ethernet cards for easier file transfer. Last time I set up DOS on 1 of my builds, I …

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

Posted on 2023-04-20, 22:05

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I once dropped a piece of wire on the back of an open MacBook Pro and the whole thing burst into flames. I just kind of stared at it for a moment, my brain not really comprehending what just happened. Then I realized that I had forgotten to unplug the battery from the board before working on it. …

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

Posted on 2023-04-20, 21:02

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My retro activity today was doing a motherboard swap on a dead Sony PSP 3000. I bought a PSP recently that had an issue with a very simple fix... until it wasn't after I screwed up with the soldering iron. Lessons learnt and all that, so I put that motherboard aside until 1 day when I have the …

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Re: DVD ROM issue, any help appreciated.

Posted on 2023-04-17, 12:51

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It might be something to do with the NForce chipset drivers, particularly those for the onboard SATA & IDE controllers. Try getting the latest chipset drivers from the Nvidia site or uninstalling them if you are already running the latest ones. You might have to play around with different driver …

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

Posted on 2023-04-11, 05:09

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It lives. :) Had to glue the case back together in a number of places, add a composite out mod and a PAL/NTSC converter, and also build a US-compatible power supply. The cassette player/recorder is still busted. But the "computer" part works fine. Good work! The cassette deck will probably need a …

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

Posted on 2023-03-27, 18:38

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Today I received a bunch of spare pinch rollers for an audio cassette player, from China and set about repairing a spare Commodore 64 Datassette. I fitted the new pinch roller, which worked fine but then I discovered that the heads were out of alignment. I didn't have an alignment tape to hand so I …

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

Posted on 2023-02-21, 18:00

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Today I perfomed a quick and easily reversible modification to my Neo Geo CD console. I took 2 pieces of jumper wire, soldered a toggle switch onto 1 end and then soldered the other end of the wires to the region selection jumper pad inside the console. Now at the flick of a switch, I can select the …

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

Posted on 2023-02-18, 16:16

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I had trouble recently with a Neo Geo CD console that I imported from Japan, which was slightly damaged in shipping with a broken CD spindle hub. I'd substitued it with a PS1 spindle while waiting for proper replacements from Aliexpress. The original spindle hub's plastic stem had snapped into 2 …

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

Posted on 2023-02-16, 13:47

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This is the thermal paste I use for all of my general purpose applications. The tube is enormous and, despite using it very liberally, has lasted years. I can recommend this highly. Does anyone have any information on it? I'm pretty sure I ordered it from either eBay or AliExpress a long time ago. …

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

Posted on 2023-02-15, 13:17

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Been repairing a new addition to my retro collection, a Neo Geo CD console: neo geo cd.jpg It was sold in working condition, but during import from Japan it must have taken a knock and somehow damaged the CD spindle hub. The spindle hub had been pushed down too far and the plastic leg had snapped …

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

Posted on 2023-02-06, 06:08

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Today's retro activity for me was finally starting to capture some recordings from old VHS tapes that I found last year, utilising a bunch of retro hardware. I grabbed the nearest PC to hand - an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 with 4GB RAM, running Windows 7 and installed a spare PCI Analogue capture card …

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

Posted on 2023-02-05, 17:39

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Today's retro activity for me was finally starting to capture some recordings from old VHS tapes that I found last year, utilising a bunch of retro hardware. I grabbed the nearest PC to hand - an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 with 4GB RAM, running Windows 7 and installed a spare PCI Analogue capture card, …

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

Posted on 2023-02-02, 16:46

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Network sharing files is honestly the best. It makes life simpler without having to use a floppy, zip, CD, or USB drive just drag and drop your files and your all set. If you want to get deeper into the weeds you can store your CD ISO's on one machine and just mount them on the system you want to …

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

Posted on 2023-01-24, 19:31

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Just a bit of experimenting today with my Amiga 1200. I used WinUAE on my PC to setup a 16GB CF card with AmigaOS 3.9 and then transferred it across to the Amiga. Basically I just did this to test out AmigaOS 3.9 on real hardware and see how it performs with just 8MB Fast RAM. It looked prettier …

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

Posted on 2023-01-14, 22:38

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I recently purchased some Kickstart 3.1 ROMs for my Amiga 1200, which I fitted today. The main reason for doing so is that I wanted to use the Boot Menu + Arcade Game Selector but Arcade Game Selector didn't play nicely with the original 3.0 ROMs. Immediately after fitting the new chips, it refused …

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

Posted on 2023-01-09, 19:08

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Wasn't today, but at the weekend I was working on replacing the digitizer on a Nintendo DS Lite. Is it retro yet? :lol: Ever have 1 of those jobs that you just wished you'd never started? Should have been a simple job, but it quickly became a pain in the backside lasting hours. I accidentally broke …

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Re: DigiPOS adventures!

Posted on 2023-01-05, 23:56

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Can't really add much, other than to say those DigiPoS machines are pretty cool. I've got 3 of the later DigiPoS "Power PoS" Socket 370 Tualatin-based Celeron systems, the internal layout and case design is very similar to yours, I guess DigiPoS didn't want to make any radical new designs over …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2022-12-14, 17:13

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Computers like the Plus/4 (among others) always make me glad that I'm not older. I can only imagine if I was old enough in 1985 to ask my parents for a Commodore 64 for Christmas, I'd have most definitely been lumbered with a Plus/4 instead as all the stores were reducing them to get rid of them! I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-28, 19:03

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Added another computer to my collection: ti994a.jpeg A TI-99/4A. Came in the original box, with all of the original parts and even the original advertisement brochures for software etc. Special offer on some of the newest games if ordered by July 1985 - I think I might have missed the deadline a bit …

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