Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-19, 12:40

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Thanks for the input everyone! I guess I'll try to get an 1MB 500 model - they seem to be the best option for me since all I plan to do is run old games off a floppy. Not interested in running an OS, wifi or other neat things they can do. I'll try to snag a 600 if I can find a complete on for less …

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Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-18, 14:42

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I love Amiga's. One thing to remember if your getting vintage amiga gear is they want 15khz monitors by default. The 3000 had a scandoubler built in, and you can now get scandoublers for other machines from Jens via (amigakit, vesalia etc). Im in the process (i work on it so rarely... lol) of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-18, 01:13

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corrosion? doh. rottendog make spare boards. shame its not an 8ball deluxe! 8bd is fun. was never a fan of bally pacman or the babypac's. hows the playfield wear and tear?

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Re: Is anyone familiar with watcom c compiler?

Posted on 2016-04-17, 17:21

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openwatcom doesnt ship with the win32 headers/libs etc unless something has changed. do you have your watcom environment setup? (LIB + INCLUDE environment vars)?

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Re: Is anyone familiar with watcom c compiler?

Posted on 2016-04-17, 15:41

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I took a quick look, I cant build it because I dont have a windows install. It wants to run under nt/98 which none of my systems that have watcom on it are. but, in the mftg directory run setenv.bat, then run clean.bat then build.bat looks like you might need NMAKE from MSVC 4.2, as well as some …

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Re: What does your "workshop" area look like?

Posted on 2016-04-17, 14:46

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I'm in the midst of a wife ordered cleanup so it looks a mess. from left to right; the 'table that accumlates stuff that must go', roland sound canvases on top of 3 fluke power supplies, dc load, gpsdo server, loads of mouser parts, behind is is lots of amiga parts, pinball parts, 3d printer, top is …

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Re: Is anyone familiar with watcom c compiler?

Posted on 2016-04-17, 14:17

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that _printf is missing says your not linking in the base libraries. is your watcom environment strings setup correctly? ohh also, your compiling windows source, __imp__GetVersionExA, is a win32 call. I guess I assumed you were doing DOS, but its win32. do you have all the win32 libraries installed …

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Re: CF to IDE adapter - how to get HDD led working

Posted on 2016-04-17, 03:02

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the led cable should plug into the motherboard. the cf adapter has nothing to do with the led, the led is controlled by the ide chipset (northbridge/southbridge).. maybe you plugged the cable in back to front. its only two pins, did you try flipping it over?

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Re: Is anyone familiar with watcom c compiler?

Posted on 2016-04-17, 02:58

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watcom has two kinds of libraries, register based libs and stack based (for calling convention). cant help without knowing the real error your getting. my guess is your tring to link against the wrong kinds of libraries. but, again, you need to paste the real output from wlink or wcl.

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Re: What's your favorite DOS RPG?

Posted on 2016-04-16, 13:48

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Well DOS covers a large era, I mean late games like Fallout 1 had a dos port. For me 'classic' dos rpgs are my favourite, for me its Magic Candle 1, Ultima 6, Eye of the Beholder II (I have a long list of favourites so I wont post them all) I know you can get off GOG the Beholder Trilogy, so maybe …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-15, 17:59

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I ended up (painfully) paying $250 for the lot. It consisted of the following Silicon Graphics parts: awesome, nice deal on some sgi parts... It all came from a recycler...who forgot to mention he had already gone over the main boards and harvested all the VLSI chips.... oh :( what a ripoff instead …

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Re: Codename: Iceman and 300 points

Posted on 2016-04-13, 00:46

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thecrankyhermit wrote: Edit - holy crap, some of the later pictures are terrifying. Sharing the URLs to make the nightmares optional. […] Show full quote Edit - holy crap, some of the later pictures are terrifying. Sharing the URLs to make the nightmares optional. 110 http://i.imgur.com/DvrnVxN.png …

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Re: Codename: Iceman and 300 points

Posted on 2016-04-11, 13:58

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interesting about those 3 points. I would have thought the clue book written for the first version of the game. strange they would later retrofit the cluebook solution points into the final version of the game. Codename Iceman could have been pretty aweome but it bogs itself down more so than even …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2016-04-08, 18:29

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I need to test dosbox-x against imphobia 6+, dosbox has graphics errors on all imphobia disk mags over #6. something to do with its ega mode / colours. would be interesting to test -X and see if its any different.

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Re: Open-Source Retro x86 PC: Feasiblity report?

Posted on 2016-04-07, 16:43

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Ideally I want one "base" board which has CPU, VGA, sound card, ISA controllers... then you would have "extension" boards like ISA slots, etc. lol so.. a motherboard then? :lol: basically an embedded motherboard. amd geode, or pc104 or stuff like a picmg board. its like you suddenly did a 180 from …

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-04-07, 16:25

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I have some questions though: 1) What is a negative voltage and what is it's use? 2) Why was it phased out with ISA? 3) What is the -12V used for as this still in modern PSUs? 1 - negative voltage is good for many things, rs232 serial goes from -15 to +15! its good for sound/opamps too. (this is …

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Re: What's the best FM music you've heard?

Posted on 2016-04-07, 15:04

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I love most things done by laxity and jch of vibrants! jch also did some fantastic SID music too..

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Re: Open-Source Retro x86 PC: Feasiblity report?

Posted on 2016-04-07, 01:51

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what your really saying is, you want dosbox in an fpga?

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Re: Roland SC-88 repair

Posted on 2016-04-07, 01:41

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so uh... it was working but you decided to shotgun all the caps, rip a cap off with pliers pulling up a pad and or tracks.. then when you put it back together its not working correctly. sometimes I think people should have a license to use a soldering iron. the only think you can do is check your …

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

Posted on 2016-04-05, 22:18

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Not strictly retro as it involves modern components but I spent a few hours today piecing together some VHDL code to recreate in a cheap FPGA board a retro machine. So far I have a Z80 CPU, 4kB of RAM and a serial port. The goal is to make a CP/M machine :) But for that I have to add some external …

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