Jonnycat99
Limp Gawd
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I think of it fondly,
I do too, it was like a real-life version of Portal that you had to solve on your own.
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I think of it fondly,
I do too, it was like a real-life version of Portal that you had to solve on your own.
I'd rather have something recapped than the caps leak and eat the traces causing it to be unusable which is pretty common with old ass pcbs.wouldn't the recapping and rechipping cause it to lose historical value for being unoriginal form?
The journey is half the fun!having lived through a tonne of this "retro" stuff, i say they can have at 'er and experience all the PITAs that come with it. id rather not deal with dips and jumpers and irqs and all that...
I’ve got an Amiga 2000 and 3000 in my closet. I need to get those and my older Commodores out and play.Nah, it is similar to old cars being sold at Barrett Jackson. People want a working example of something, not a rusted out chassis that is un-usable.
Meanwhile, sitting next to me from the article..
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yeah, it was fun at the time. ill give you that.The journey is half the fun!
Then you find out your software or game won't run without installing an add-on FPU, and the cake is a lie.Except you had to build the Portal Gun yourself, and then figfure-out how to turn on the GlaDOS playback
Portal Gun preassembled on a pedestal presented by GlaDOS is equivalent to using Memmaker
I don't, that crap takes up space and I don't have room for a museum in my house.
Anyone want to buy a Sega Saturn?
XD
You both might find this to be an interesting read about the SuperH CPU used in the Sega Saturn (and 32X and Dreamcast as well):I think my Voodoo 3 3500 TV is going for $200 on Ebay. I have two Sega CD's as well. Hmm....
In the summer of 1993, a slight incident occurred. Sega stated that the performance of the SH-2 (25 MIPS) was insufficient for a next-generation home console (this was right around the time when Sega’s biggest rival Nintendo announced that they were including a 64-bit CPU as well as a graphics processor jointly developed with Silicon Graphics, Inc. in their next console, the Nintendo 64). They wanted to increase the performance of the SH-2 by raising the frequency. However, to do that, it would be necessary to re-examine the chip design, and the SH development group did not have the time remaining to do that.
The decision of what to do was left for the top-level meeting between Hitachi and Sega executives that took place in Hakone in September 1993. The SH group had prepared a secret plan to resolve the “performance improvement problem.” Their solution was stated as follows: “If we use the multiprocessor function that is included in the SH-2, we can operate two SH-2s linked together. This should satisfy the request for higher performance.” Nobody had expected that the multiprocessor function, which they had been reluctant to include, would prove to be this useful.
In this way, Sega’s next console, the Sega Saturn, came to be equipped with two SH-2s.
I see you are a man of culture who has invested wisely.Yeah it does take up a lot of room, sadly my place is full of retro computing history. Although at least when I retire I can sell this stuff for a big pile of cash. Plus a lot of it I got for free or very little, as I was the crazy guy that takes old hardware.
Then you find out your software or game won't run without installing an add-on FPU, and the cake is a lie.
Ah, 1990, and the Intel 80486 and Motorola 68040 - both with integrated FPUs at long last!Yeah, I'm forever gratefulthat my family couldn't afford a computer until to 486 /. Dos 6 Win 3 era. all you had to do was tweak your memmaker scripts to create a batch file fr each game (because the fpu was integrated, and 4mb ram was plenty). I remember one game being such a hog you had to disable smartdrv (so had a custom script fr that one shitty game)
I didn't eve have to worry about IRQs until we tried installing a CDROM drive and sound card!
Try shooting a message over to the guy running badcaps.net. I know he's been doing motherboards for almost 20 years, he might be able to help.Anyone know where someone might get a vintage Apple II+ recapped and rechipped? At the very least I'd be shocked if the belts in the Disk][ Drives are still good, figure I plug it in, it starts to make that familiar boot-up sound...........and explodes, releasing the all-powerful Blue Smoke that we, in the know, understand is the magic that computers run on........
So long as I don't plug it in and try to get it to work, it still works in my mind.
It is now being used with solid state storage
NY Warriors, It Came From The Desert......good keeper............wait is that an A500?Nah, it is similar to old cars being sold at Barrett Jackson. People want a working example of something, not a rusted out chassis that is un-usable.
Meanwhile, sitting next to me from the article..
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I dunno man, we found a way......Kids these days have it too easy, I wonder how many of them would still be "gamers" if they had to learn about using "loadhigh" and "himem.sys" before they could play their games.
Yes, it is my A500 with a HC508 II 50MHz 68000.NY Warriors, It Came From The Desert......good keeper............wait is that an A500?
I get the nostalgia for this stuff. But I've had so much stuff go through my hands that I would have no place to sleep if I held onto it all. Good for all those that do.
Bragging about your free lowmem was a thing for a long time!
I remember having a few different boot profiles, each for a different case. Max lowmem gaming, EMS based gaming, word processing (had to load a print spooler TSR!), etc.
I think of it fondly, but... I don't want to go back really.
Only way I could get Ultima 7 to boot on my 386 system with only 4mb RAM.Kids these days have it too easy, I wonder how many of them would still be "gamers" if they had to learn about using "loadhigh" and "himem.sys" before they could play their games.
Anyone know where someone might get a vintage Apple II+ recapped and rechipped? At the very least I'd be shocked if the belts in the Disk][ Drives are still good, figure I plug it in, it starts to make that familiar boot-up sound...........and explodes, releasing the all-powerful Blue Smoke that we, in the know, understand is the magic that computers run on........
So long as I don't plug it in and try to get it to work, it still works in my mind.
amd licensed 8088 from intel so intel gets the copyright stamp.
I'd rather have something recapped than the caps leak and eat the traces causing it to be unusable which is pretty common with old ass pcbs.
I'd rather have something recapped than the caps leak and eat the traces causing it to be unusable which is pretty common with old ass pcbs.
I have a Sharp PC-5500 sitting beside me./
No power supply yet for it, which is annoying as I believe it works
Those are such wonderful machines. The natural and spiritual successor of the Atari 800 hardware. Jay Miner , Joe Decuir, and crew did such great work. The stuff Joe Decuir and his guys did with Atari's SIO interface was visionary (as it is essentially the first version of USB).Finally got my A500 with the original monitor plus games and hard drive. (Took awhile but got it )
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Sorry for the poor pic, was kind of late when i took it.
Nice!Yes, it is my A500 with a HC508 II 50MHz 68000.
This is one of the reasons I've resisted the urge to fire this stuff up.....I don't need to do it.....I'm not going to routinely game on these things, so for right now its about storing them where its never too hot or too cold. While it would be nostalgia to get into them, I know the thrill would last a few days or a few weeks. And then it's like.....is this worth smoking the whole thing versus take it to an electronics guy to probe first, replace caps as required, etc.....that's above my pay grade.Old computer gear releasing the magic smoke or having various explosions internally when powered up after 30-40 years is a common issue. RIFA caps in power supplies shorting out and detonating is a common issue, as are exploding tantalum capacitors. When bringing up any old computer gear, it's imperative that the power supply is vetted first, ESPECIALLY external bricks types like Commodore used. Those things are known to fail in such a way they crank high voltage through the logic board and kill everything.
This is one of the reasons I've resisted the urge to fire this stuff up.....I don't need to do it.....I'm not going to routinely game on these things, so for right now its about storing them where its never too hot or too cold. While it would be nostalgia to get into them, I know the thrill would last a few days or a few weeks. And then it's like.....is this worth smoking the whole thing versus take it to an electronics guy to probe first, replace caps as required, etc.....that's above my pay grade.
Old computer gear releasing the magic smoke or having various explosions internally when powered up after 30-40 years is a common issue. RIFA caps in power supplies shorting out and detonating is a common issue, as are exploding tantalum capacitors. When bringing up any old computer gear, it's imperative that the power supply is vetted first, ESPECIALLY external bricks types like Commodore used. Those things are known to fail in such a way they crank high voltage through the logic board and kill everything.
e failed because the rubber plugs used to seal the bottoms rot and allow the electrolyte to leak out. The general PC market came out mostly unscathed, but Apple machines are notorious for these caps killing logic boards because Apple for whatever reason used them on everything from around 1988-1989 onwards. There were several PC peripheral card vendors that did use SMD electrolytics though and suffered similar problems, 3dfx being one. I've had to recap all of my Voodoo cards because they've all leaked just as bad as all of my Macintosh machines.
The second capacitor plague on the other hand, completely wiped out basically every industry that used capacitors for a span of about a decade from 1999-2009. It's why you don't see a lot of electronics gear from around that time, because most of it died and was tossed. It got worse towards the end of that period due to the compounding 2006 ROHS regulations causing solder failures on an epidemic scale.
Grab a V9958 and really bump up the performanceI have a 1981 TI 99-4/A complete with original games and crappy joysticks
trying to find a F18A for it