Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-07, 12:37

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by brostenen

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Yeah.... So wonderfull when recieving a package of retro hardware, packed in bubble wrap. NO antistatic bag. NO cardboard box. The testprogram tell a tale of possible defect chips. I have contacted the seller, and attached photos of my issue. The board makes wierd lines and some games will not run …

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

Posted on 2017-07-07, 12:07

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by brostenen

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Recieved new Amiga600 (or just Amiga) rubber feet's. Now my 600 has some new shoes... The old ones were shit, was begining to turn into some surt of gue. The previous owner had attached filt rings in order to counter out the guish old ones. Need to clean old glue up. Filename New-Feet.jpg File size …

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Re: [Help me confirm] Resizing HDD that are not Seagate, and not using Seatools.

Posted on 2017-07-04, 08:59

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by brostenen

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Jorpho wrote: brostenen wrote: Finally.... You sometimes have a computer that will require a drive that do not exceed a certain size. You do..? Not at the moment. I am in the process of testing other stuff, so I can not do it at the moment. Perhaps I will have the opertunity to do it 2 or 3 weeks …

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Re: [Help me confirm] Resizing HDD that are not Seagate, and not using Seatools.

Posted on 2017-07-03, 15:55

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by brostenen

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I have installed DOS 6.22 on 20GB hdds without doing anything special. DOS just makes a 2GB partition and leaves the rest of the drive unpartitioned. Is this different than what you are trying to accomplish? You know... Sometimes you can only get drives larger than 250gb and sometimes you do not …

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Re: [Help me confirm] Resizing HDD that are not Seagate, and not using Seatools.

Posted on 2017-07-03, 15:43

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by brostenen

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I believe you can size limit Western Digital drives as well by creating an HPA. Seagates and Samsung drives are much easier to do this with, though. I have no idea if other drives will be able to be resized. But yeah. Samsung/seagate can be resized to 32gb in one click, compared to using the custom …

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[Help me confirm] Resizing HDD that are not Seagate, and not using Seatools.

Posted on 2017-07-03, 13:06

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by brostenen

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It has been up here a couple of times, and for most of the part, people have said that Seagate drives and Seatools are the only way to modify a 120gb, 80gb or 20gb drive into something else... In other words, unless you have a Seagate drive you are out of luck. My search for changing stuff on a …

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Re: How can I force a HDD into permanently "PIO 0" mode?

Posted on 2017-07-03, 12:57

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by brostenen

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I have been on this, using Hirens and UBCD for the last day or so. No progress. Though I have found some tools on those disks that can change a lot of stuff. The sad part is, that it is only stuff like size and disable 48bit that I can change.

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Re: How can I force a HDD into permanently "PIO 0" mode?

Posted on 2017-07-02, 22:38

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by brostenen

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Normally, setting PIO-0 can be done in the CMOS setup of modern computers also. Yeah. It confirms my thought, that an UDMA drive are set to UDMA as default in the harddrives firmware/bios it self. When you boot a normal pc, the BIOS will go out and set the appropriate setting on the drive. (wich …

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Re: How can I force a HDD into permanently "PIO 0" mode?

Posted on 2017-07-02, 22:26

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by brostenen

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please forgive my ignorance.. ;) It all right... No worries there. :-) Anyway... A bit more digging around, as I remembered that I used a couple of tools in 2013, to unlock a harddrive that was locked at hardware level. The master password bit had been set high. Because I was so stupid to cut the …

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Re: How can I force a HDD into permanently "PIO 0" mode?

Posted on 2017-07-02, 20:52

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by brostenen

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i don't think You need to do anything, this should work out of the box; I do not think it is that simple on an Amiga600. A 1gb IBM laptop drive from the late 90's works, though the Seagate that I tried with, does not do this. So it seems. So it seems.... One other thing that can cause this issue, …

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How can I force a HDD into permanently "PIO 0" mode?

Posted on 2017-07-02, 19:21

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by brostenen

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Hi all... This seems like a kind of reverse question, as a lot of question revolves around people not setting DMA transfer and so on. Though I have a computer that can not accept newer HDD's that are UDMA compatible. I have found out that the controller does only handle PIO mode 0, so I am trying to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-01, 19:38

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Purchased some Commodore related stuff the last few weeks.... (all sellers pictures, items not recieved yet) Replacement feet for my A600 feet.jpg My first thought was "Ooh, nice package of aspirins!" :lol: Looks like one of those strips where you press in one side and the pill bursts through the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-06-30, 23:31

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Purchased some Commodore related stuff the last few weeks.... (all sellers pictures, items not recieved yet) First up, a C64 system board C64-Board.jpg A new Kickrom for my A600 Kick-37-350.gif Replacement feet for my A600 feet.jpg SD to IDE 44pin adaptor for A600 44-SD.jpg Finally a 4gb SD card for …

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

Posted on 2017-06-30, 23:08

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Been deeply buried in my Amiga600 these past few days. I had it completely dismanteled and cleaned a lot of rust off the RF shield. What I used was one of those steel spunges that comes with some hefty white soap. Cleaned it all up and used some mild hand dishwasher soap to get the white film off. …

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

Posted on 2017-06-24, 21:06

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by brostenen

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Playing 1 hour of Giana sisters on a real Amiga, with my son. He did not want to stop, untill my woman served fresh baked homemade cake. We tried a couple of different games too. Pinball fantasies and Lotus-III was not really his cup of tea. Though Lotus-II was something that he loved to play.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-06-22, 19:20

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That doesn't look like a tank... :evil: Yeah I know... It is not a tank mouse. Tank mice, came with the OCS machines and some early models of ECS. (yet shipped standard with 500+) Later A600's and AGA machines came with a more rounded and modern mouse. On the mouse. Yup, it is an official amiga …

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

Posted on 2017-06-22, 11:24

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I created a fully working standard workbench installation on a CF card for my Amiga600. Just the standard, nothing like whdloader and other software. For this I used my Linux laptop, with FS-UAE emulator installed. Kickstart ROM 37.300 and Workbench 2.05 and a 32mb CF card. I ran into some quirks …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-06-22, 11:08

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Just recieved this. Not shure if it is NOS, yet I have a feeling that it is. For a new and never used Amiga mouse, it is an ok price. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Amiga-mouse-All-Amigas-400-DPI-high-quality-/132167021613?epid=1488969744&hash=item1ec5c4b42d:g:HwoAAOSwvKtY-w2Z Amiga-Mouse-01.jpg Amiga- …

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

Posted on 2017-06-15, 23:40

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by brostenen

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Been messing around with the background music in "Retro Orange PI"... Instead of playing old game tunes, my RetroPI is now playing Africa by Toto. This is totally awesome, as it can be used for some 80's party entertainment. Just go into the desktop, find the music folder and replace the OGG files. …

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

Posted on 2017-06-15, 20:15

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by brostenen

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Sorting through the collection, to find parts I know that I will never use. They need to get out in the wild again, for other people to use them. Taking pictures of the items, and setting up sales add on local sites. Interesting. Yeah... Most of the stuff is up on a local site and a couple of items …

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