Got up to a few things actually , I ended up swapping my ABIT BF6 mobo (450 mhz 256mb ram) for a ASUS P3B-f 1.04.
The ASUS had a 800 mhz 100 fsb pentium 3 with 384 mb of ram.
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I figured it would be kind of dumb because I heard some horror stories of windows nuking itself after a motherboard swap.
Luckily aside from windows having to reinstall the drivers again it all went off without a hitch and I managed to migrate seemingly okay ,
might have helped that the mobos were very similar and I kept all the rest of the configuration the same expansion card and storage wise.
I'll need to do some more tests but so far so good.
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My amiga tank mouse that I had wasn't working on the X axis after checking that the amiga was fine and after measuring the resistors realized that they were fine and it couldn't be that ,
so I figured it must be the photosensors.
I did some more research and found a YouTube video where the poster explained that the sensors could fail and how to open up the clip holding them in and what model to replace them with.
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https://youtu.be/XUjqIohxCrA?t=660
It turns out there was an ebay seller near me who sold them so I could get them very soon and for cheap but they were all precut and the legs were on the short side. So I ended up finding some old scrap leds and cutting the legs off them and after much swearing and shouting managed to solder the legs on to extend them , one of the legs was a bit on the loose side solder wise but I managed to put the rotating light slot back in and the sensors and very carefully soldered them back in and reassembled the mouse.
I loaded up a mouse test program on the amiga and amazingly even with my dodgy hack repair job the mouse was suddenly working.
Had a bit of fun after that playing some lemmings , cannon fodder and hired guns so the mouse is working for the most part though the left click is a bit dodgy , I might replace the crappy Bremen metal caps for some microswitches at some point.
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But yeah I'm glad I can play a few mouse games now , and I've got a game pad on the way so hopefully then I can play most stuff.
My Gravis gamepad also had weird drift issues , after opening it I figured I might try rotating the contact pad and reassembling , somehow that fixed it maybe I didn't line everything up the last time I opened it for cleaning.
Anyway I had a pretty productive 2 days I'm glad I got a lot of stuff working , seems like most of my gear has been bodged or fixed in one way or another.