Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-14, 20:00

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Got my keyboard in the mail. Just under 25 euro. Not bad. 😜 And yes. It is a Mitsumi Red Light. Even the Caps lock is red and not green. 😀 Filename GermanKeyboard.jpg File size 587.79 KiB Views 678 views

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

Posted on 2018-09-13, 22:31

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by brostenen

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Last night I streamed The Magic School Bus Explores the Ocean on Twitch. I cheated and used 86box. EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alDJGJdTPnI What exactly are this Twitch thingy? For what I know, it is some kind of chat roulette. It's a live streaming audio and video service that some …

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

Posted on 2018-09-13, 21:34

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oeuvre wrote: Last night I streamed The Magic School Bus Explores the Ocean on Twitch. I cheated and used 86box. EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alDJGJdTPnI What exactly are this Twitch thingy? For what I know, it is some kind of chat roulette.

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

Posted on 2018-09-13, 21:30

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I got this in the mail yesterday: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nuovo-con-Licenza-Doppio-Kickstart-Rom-1-3-3-1-Amiga-500-600-2000-Switch-567/123236445791?hash=item1cb176ee5f:g:qj8AAOSwBARbP9B3 And tested it out today. It is working flawless in my Amiga500 Rev. 8a.1 as well as my Amiga600 Rev. 1.5 So I …

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Re: Are my system Right for retrocimputing?

Posted on 2018-09-11, 21:16

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by brostenen

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ONLY ONE machine for the best games title of the '90->'95 Forget anything past Doom on that bridgeboard. You might be able to run the Amiga version of Doom, released in some 2001/02/03, using the PPC board you have. The bad part, is that native music sounds like crap on Amiga-Doom. That is why so …

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Re: A computer I built i felt like sharing

Posted on 2018-09-11, 21:02

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by brostenen

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Clint would never do that style of cable management. Just saying. 😉 Yup. Somebody have really been watching LGR. As someone stated. He would aprove. It is just not my style using vinyl.

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Re: Are my system Right for retrocimputing?

Posted on 2018-09-11, 20:45

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by brostenen

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Amiga4000.... Sweet machine, though not really what I would go for, when dealing with Dos. The 386sx CPU that you have on the bridgeboard, might be enough for stuff like Dynablaster and Civ1. You can easily run Monkey Island, loom and Indiana Jones 3 on that machine. Those three titles can even run …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-10, 10:14

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by brostenen

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A8N-Sli.... Sweet. Not the best caps, and the standard edition have a bad chipset cooler. Other than that, they are good. I had a chance to work with them, a week or two, before they were released to the public back then.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-09, 19:48

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Heh'... Vintage is something that are utterly incapeable of modern ways of computing. Think of the computerworlds answer to a Ford Model-T, and you have that vintage machine. Retro is more like relative for people, as far as I can understand. Seems like retro is nostalgia and vintage is "really old …

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

Posted on 2018-09-09, 19:35

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Duouk2000 wrote: Are Apple bad with repairs now? I've only every used them once when I had an iPhone and the service was impressively good. it's a shame if they've gone downhill. Yup... Releasing stuff, they do not have any spareparts for, and even if people pay they will not repair a broken …

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

Posted on 2018-09-08, 22:11

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Read an article wich were about bad service (rotten apples) and the right to repair... And decided to do the retro-thing of creating a meme with my initial thoughts. Filename iFix4.jpg File size 93.63 KiB Views 260 views

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

Posted on 2018-09-07, 11:17

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Audio ports are now changed as well... I still have to change the ports for external floppy, serial and parallel. That however is a job for the future, as I have no spare parts for those. Next up, I need to find a new floppy drive and I need to get that keyboard and the shield. Finally. I need to …

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

Posted on 2018-09-06, 21:01

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I hold little hope of being able to restore my backup tapes on the Packard Hell's Conner tape drive as I cannot remember what backup software shipped with the computer and it looks like before it went into storage ~20 years ago, I had nuked the drive and installed Windows 95 and so no backup …

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

Posted on 2018-09-06, 20:06

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#Turbo-> Well done sir. 😀

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

Posted on 2018-09-06, 19:39

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More soldering work. The Amiga500, that I am in the process of bringing back to life, was missing one joystick port, and the other was in bad shape. It was rusty and green and had a white layer here and there. I removed the one remaining one, and cleaned all solder pads up with IPA. Found some spare …

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

Posted on 2018-09-06, 17:04

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I hacked together this ATX-To-Amiga PSU-cable today. Tested and working flawless. Going to need more power for my Amiga's in the future, and my original a500 PSU are dead. Took a couple of hours, taking the dead PSU apart, and doing the build. Filename Homemade-AtxToAmiga.jpg File size 386.17 KiB …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-05, 21:58

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One of these... https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Licensed-Dual-Double-Kickstart-ROM-1-3-3-1-Amiga-500-600-2000-Switch-567/123235816403?hash=item1cb16d53d3:g:qj8AAOSwBARbP9B3 Then one of these... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Commodore-Amiga-Replacement-Feet-A500-A600-A1200-NEW-3M-Self-Adhesive/162619597233? …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-04, 22:18

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by brostenen

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Recieved my TF-530 in the mail today. I must say that this is quality soldering. That red PCB looks so sweet. Still waiting for the new A500-Floppy drive and I need to get a new solder iron, as the old is nearly worn out. And I need to modify a PC power supply in order to give this baby enough juice …

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Re: How many times in ebay you bump to a odd seller ?

Posted on 2018-09-03, 22:15

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by brostenen

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Only strange sellers that I have encountered on eBay, are all chinese... Shure it can be cheap and all... Just that they allways respond with something like I get 60% back from a thing that was obviously not working/tested in the first place, and then I can keep the item or something. Even if there …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-02, 20:33

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I fully agree it's tasteless and tacky, but there are people out there who like this stuff and to them I say "YKINMKBYKIOK" ;) Yay... Tasteless it is. Let it be on Apple product's, what I am saying. And yes. It has it's justification on an iMac G3, because that is how it was designed. Everything …

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