Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-27, 09:43

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by brostenen

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I have not recapped any of my 500's yet. I bought a recapped replacement systemboard for my Amiga600 though, as the original was in a poor and sorry state. I will guess that my 500's need recapping within the next 5 to 6 years from now. You know, there's this big topic on A600 and A1200 capacitors …

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Re: Merry x-mas 2018 everyone....

Posted on 2018-12-27, 08:39

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by brostenen

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By the way... This is one of the things that I will be serving for that lunch at 1pm (13:00 hours) on the 28'th. It is called "Frikadeller", and if anyone wants the recepie, then I will be giving it out here in this tread. Think of them, as roasted pork-meatballs, that are oval in shape. Sounds and …

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Re: Merry x-mas 2018 everyone....

Posted on 2018-12-26, 22:24

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by brostenen

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Personally. I do not have time for any retro gaming or tinkering with hardware. I am fully occupied with cleaning, washing clothes, doing the shopping and making the food ready for our X-Mass lunch, on the 28'th of December. And then I will be occupied with getting ready for new years eve. Tomorrow, …

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-26, 22:05

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by brostenen

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Among these choices I went for the ACA500plus and never regretted it a single bit.. Mine overclocks to 42MHz without a hitch and performs absolutely beastly for what it is.. I mean, a 030 CPU is nice and all what use is it on a non-AGA Amiga? I know... An 33 to 50 mhz 68000 CPU are fast enough, yet …

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-26, 21:58

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by brostenen

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It really comes down to eighter 68000+8mb or 68030+2mb. http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?7158-A500-IDE-adapters-PS-2-mouse-adapter-A600-CF-adapter With this, you can source an 68010 which are cheap enough. Thanks for the info, brostenen. It helps me to get a good overview about all the amiga …

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Re: The perfect computer

Posted on 2018-12-26, 00:26

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by brostenen

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I'll make my own perfect computer..... With hookers and blackjack. No wait, forget the hookers and blackjack. You know. Just forget the computerpart all together. 😉

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-25, 19:41

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by brostenen

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Yeah... S3-805's are decent cards. I always recommend them over any CL-54xx-VLB. They are faster and have a better VGA signal.

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Re: Merry x-mas 2018 everyone....

Posted on 2018-12-24, 22:41

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by brostenen

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We celebrate Christmas morning which is still about 15 or so hours away before I wake up for that. Yes..... True. I actually have no idea, why in some countries you wait until the morning of the 25'th for presents. As to here, we attend at church around 2pm (though not all do it), then a good …

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Re: The perfect computer

Posted on 2018-12-24, 21:22

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by brostenen

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Ozzuneoj wrote: oeuvre wrote: the perfect computer is in the eye of the beholder You mean like an Apple smart eye implant? Call it iEye. Or just i. 🤣 You mean like.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctiSz7CUIgY

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

Posted on 2018-12-24, 21:19

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by brostenen

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Attended at the annual X-Mass dinner party, at my girlfriends parents place. Not computer related, though still retro.

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Re: Merry x-mas 2018 everyone....

Posted on 2018-12-24, 21:16

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by brostenen

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What did people get? I got two shirts, money for retro hardware, a bottle of 15 year Glenfiddich single malt, a pair of shoes and a couple of big spoons for food serving.

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Re: Nice 8-bit Soundcard

Posted on 2018-12-24, 10:56

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by brostenen

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Yup. I vaguely remember those cards. What year was it? 1988/89/90-something'ish? As far as I remember, only few people had it back then.

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Re: Merry x-mas 2018 everyone....

Posted on 2018-12-23, 00:39

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by brostenen

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You can tell the difference bc Danes sound like they're talking under water (when speaking Danish). As someone in a YT comment put it, "Wow, the Sims language is real!" Anyway, I hope everyone's getting cranked up for Christmas. Danish language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk I think …

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Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2018-12-22, 08:03

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by brostenen

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gdjacobs wrote: Check caps. True that ALWAYS on 00/05 hardware, and especially SocketA.

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Re: K6-2+ upgrade not what I was expecting?

Posted on 2018-12-22, 08:00

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by brostenen

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Have you tried running 3D-Mark-99 ? I think you will get a totally different score. 😉

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Re: Floppy Drive Cleaners...

Posted on 2018-12-22, 07:53

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by brostenen

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Whenever I clean a floppy drive. Then I take off the top shield, and carefully clean the heads with IPA and a cue tip. The drive mechanism (that snail driving the heads back and forth) will be oiled with one of those acid free oils. Americans call it gun oil. Europeans some times call it sewing …

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Re: 63/37 or 60/40 solder tin?

Posted on 2018-12-21, 09:26

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by brostenen

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Thanks all.... Now I know what to buy in the future, and what to use. 😀

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Re: Amiga500 on steroids

Posted on 2018-12-21, 09:23

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by brostenen

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some good info there, thanks for taking the time to write it up, especially its aimed where reading websites and other forums there is alot of piecing the information together. the 4 in 1 link is the one I was looking at, probably really only need 2 1.3 and 3.1 but its always cool to also have 2.04 …

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Re: 63/37 or 60/40 solder tin?

Posted on 2018-12-20, 22:59

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by brostenen

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So far 63/37 are the best way to go? I am thinking, if 60/40 is what I am used to use, and have mastered it, then 63/37 will get me even better results?

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Re: The perfect computer

Posted on 2018-12-20, 22:56

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by brostenen

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Sounds like you need something in the neighbourhood of an Thinkpad. You can find one with over 50% of those requirements. As I mentioned earlier, then I am happily running an Thinkpad R61, that is from the time period in where Lenovo took over from IBM. This was typed on a ThinkPad X200 which fits …

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