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Reply 8160 of 27186, by xjas

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R56 is also missing, although those pads look awfully clean - maybe it was never there.

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Reply 8161 of 27186, by havli

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Next up I made a last desperate attempt in seeing what might be causing artifacting on my Riva128. I have made numerous checks before and got a refund from the seller, but only now I discovered some remnants of a broken-off capacitor R66. I went ahead and de-soldered the remains, but don't know what to replace it with. The other Asus Riva128 that I got has a capacitor with the numbers 103 (same one like in R60) on it and that's it. Does anyone have an idea of what sort of replacement I need?
EDIT: stupid me, that's a resistor. Still don't know what to replace it with...

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It is 10 kΩ resistor -> 103 = 10*10^3
https://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/smdcalc.php

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Reply 8162 of 27186, by brostenen

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Playing Great Gianasisters on an Amiga500. And writing disks from ADF files.

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Reply 8163 of 27186, by bjwil1991

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ADF is the Amiga standard format that's a disk image, right? Basically similar to the D64 or PRG file for the Commodore 64?

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Reply 8164 of 27186, by Munx

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havli wrote:
Munx wrote:

Next up I made a last desperate attempt in seeing what might be causing artifacting on my Riva128. I have made numerous checks before and got a refund from the seller, but only now I discovered some remnants of a broken-off capacitor R66. I went ahead and de-soldered the remains, but don't know what to replace it with. The other Asus Riva128 that I got has a capacitor with the numbers 103 (same one like in R60) on it and that's it. Does anyone have an idea of what sort of replacement I need?
EDIT: stupid me, that's a resistor. Still don't know what to replace it with...

P_20180219_210134.jpg

It is 10 kΩ resistor -> 103 = 10*10^3
https://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/smdcalc.php

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Reply 8165 of 27186, by brostenen

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bjwil1991 wrote:

ADF is the Amiga standard format that's a disk image, right? Basically similar to the D64 or PRG file for the Commodore 64?

Yes... That is correct. I transfer them to my Amiga600's harddrive, and write it from there. Eighter using ADF-Blitzer or ADF2DISK.

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Reply 8168 of 27186, by Gered

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Reply 8170 of 27186, by creepingnet

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Well, snow permitting......

Today I plan to hit Computer Surplus again and take up their offer on CRT's as the Retro system I'm building for a friend (Gateway 2000 P5-100) needs a CRT now as we're going FULL Retro with his setup. Just like circa 1995. Hopefully they already have one around the surplus pile and I don't have to dodge out on a lunch break to pick one up.

Plan to pick up their SATA to PATA converter as well and see about using those soon. I have some SATA 80GB drives in my pile, and might be cool to start putting those to use on my 486 - will report results here later to let people know how that goes. It's only $5 there.

Also plan to see if I can dig up a PCI graphics card while I'm there, something in the 2MB Range so he does not need to worry about putzing with refresh rates/resolutions.

And lastly, going to grab a DVD drive at the local goodwill because the white bezel matches the Gateway's case. It's not like he's going to be burning discs on it.

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Reply 8171 of 27186, by brostenen

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Virus scanning on my Amiga600.

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Reply 8173 of 27186, by brostenen

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oeuvre wrote:

got an infected MBR?

Nope... Well. Unless you are thinking about floppy bootblocks. 😁
I wanted to scan all the old floppy disks that were created way back in the late 80's and early 90's.
Two games had a virus named "Glasnost", and I cleaned them, getting non working disks in the process.
Not a big deal, as the games can be found all over the net.
That's how things sometimes play out, when cleaning bootblocks. (Paperboy and Batman the movie was sick)

EDIT:
Actually a pretty sweet program, the way it is working.
After the program have been loaded, one only need to insert a disk in any of the drives.
Then the program scans automatically, and the only user action is yes or no, if a virus is found.
Then one only need to eject the floppy and insert another one.
Everything is kind of automatic. It reminds me of the old term "disk jockey" we used to call
the process of installing a multidisk program (like MS Office 4.2 on floppy disks)

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Reply 8174 of 27186, by oeuvre

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Spray painted the top and it came out quite nice.

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Reply 8177 of 27186, by jaZz_KCS

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oeuvre wrote:

Sweet! How do you like yours? What do you use it for?

I use it as one of my last main systems, which still have a floppy drive controller so it can help me transfer apps and drivers whenever I fiddle around with old laptops and luggables.

I switched the P4 631 with a Presler D 940 so I can at least do some browsing on the side and don't have to completely switch machines whenever I have to do more "modern" stuff.

It's awesome. Last mainboard of the series to have FDC support as well as last one in the line with IBM branding iirc.

I am browsing this very forum with it now, and I even have Debian and more modern windows on side partitions if need be. Pretty versatile machine. It is RIGHT NOW it feels like that this machine feels like it's "getting old".

Reply 8178 of 27186, by Skyscraper

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I thought it would be a great idea to buy a few DOMs for my 286, 386 and 486 systems.

Looking at the big auction site on the Internets it seems many cheap DOMs are no name units or fakes from China. I found an auction with used Transcend 256MB units which seemed real enough. These DOMs have probably been written to once and spent some time in a router or some sort of machine so they are as good as new.

The auction description didn't mention power cables but I hoped for the best as it didn't say they didn't come with the cables either... Well they didn't come with the power cables and that's nothing I'm going to argue with the seller about as I could have asked. The router (or what ever) probably powered the DOM through the IDE cable pin 20.

These Transcend DOMs use a special cable costing $7 each (+25% VAT +import handling fees) when ordered from China... Ehm no... just no.

Half of a jumper header, a jumper and a bit of cable later the first DOM is running fine powered through pin 20. Perhaps I will open them and solder a normal jumper header or something but for now I'm satisfied with this half assed kludge.

Transcend DOM power kludge.

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Reply 8179 of 27186, by gdjacobs

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Skyscraper wrote:

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It may not be the nastiest thing I've ever seen, just the nastiest today!

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