Retro Sup Forums thread.
Retro Sup Forums thread
Dylan Lopez
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Camden Green
Did anyone have any of these graphics cards? Matrox MGA Impression/Ultima Plus?
Samuel Hall
gimme retro gombuda
Grayson Sullivan
I have one of those. Probably going to get a dremel and fit a floppy emulator to it
Noah Campbell
Adrian Flores
Lucas Kelly
My 1080 monitor died a while back, so I haven't been able to use my A500 in colour. Anyone have much experience fixing CRTs?
Aaron Perry
Taken on my Sony Digital Mavica.
Christian Anderson
How exactly did it die?
My Phillips CM8833 slowly lost its vertical deflection and just crackled when it was powered on, the flyback transformer had blown.
Noah Powell
Just died down while I was using it. Now it just gives a high pitched noise when I turn it on.
Parker Price
You can use an Amiga with any VGA display, you just need a line doubler box.
Nathan Watson
I love photos you cant date
Carson Sanchez
A Gotek? I think the HxC is overall a better option but Goteks are cheaper and more abundant, plus they use USB sticks for storage instead of a CF card. Problem is, there's a lot of variations of them. Some don't have the drive select jumpers while others do and there are 720k and 1.2MB versions in addition to the 1.44MB version, although that's probably just the firmware. There was one guy who had written custom Gotek firmware for the Amiga 800k format.
TRS-80 Model 4 with an HxC. Remember, these things were designed for common PC compatible floppy formats which explains the need for custom firmware. In this particular case because the TRS-80s, like most 8-bit machines, have a floppy format with 256 byte sectors rather than the PC standard 512 bytes. The reason being that 8-bit machines are generally too slow for 512 byte sector disks while it wasn't an issue on the 16-bit IBM PC.
Benjamin Hall
Sup nigga.
Thomas Baker
>dremel
Fucker, don't even think of this. Get an external floppy enclosure, fit Gotek into that and install boot selector into Amiga, so that you can boot from external drive (make it DF0 essentially). Dremel can be avoided (and should).
Ryan Price
Henlo
Jason Roberts
That thing doesn't have the original drives anyway--it had single sided Tandon TM-100s which have obviously been replaced with Teac half-heights.
Oliver Gomez
There's a firmware you can flash for compatibility with the amiga.
Wasn't aware of this, but knew there would be problems if I couldn't run it as DF0.
I'll look for one of those
Justin Gonzalez
Why do people give a fuck about the A500 again? I know people with collections who have a A500 and even they say they rarely even power it on, but nobody that uses it as a single Amiga machine.
Luke Williams
>Why do people give a fuck about the A500 again?
The real extreme fanboys are all Europeans since Americans only bought Amigas to use Video Toaster.
Caleb Hill
This is false, but what does this even have to do with it?
Austin Hughes
Incidentally, why were 1.44MB 3.5" disks so shitty? You couldn't even use them more than about three times before they crapped out.
Joshua Ortiz
Hey! I recognize that desktop!
Anthony Cooper
Brody Jones
it seemed OP liked Sony cameras
Jose Hall
Shitty manufacturing quality and also it may be that the physically smaller size of 3.5" media reduces reliability because the data is being jammed into a smaller area. I've heard people say on places like VCFED that it was always pretty well known that 5.25" media was more reliable, probably because the disks are bigger.
Properly made 5.25" disks can take at least a few hundred rewrites while based on my experience, you can rewrite a 1.44MB disk about 5 or so times before it dies. I mention rewrites because writing to a floppy puts more wear on it than reading it.
Hunter Gray
Kevin Brown
Isaac Morgan
Luke Evans
Sebastian Jackson
>turbo c++ on 5.25" disk
>only has a single 3.5" drive
why?
Daniel Perez
Love you too, hun
Parker Richardson
>IBM printers
As I understand it, these were mainly sold to the government and companies/private customers rather seldom bought the things.
Jonathan Mitchell
I bought the software before I swapped my drive.
When my Seagate ST-225 finally kicks the bucket and I replace it with an XT-IDE I will put a 5.25" drive in my bottom bay.
Andrew Richardson
James Johnson
Ryder Hernandez
TRS-80s look cool but the shipping costs for one on Ebay would bankrupt you. Those things are _heavy_.
Jayden Campbell
Gavin Cooper
I really don't like floppy disks and I'm glad we have some 21st century storage solutions for our retro boxen now.
Josiah Edwards
Jackson Bailey
Suncom and its shitload of crappy accessories
Daniel Gutierrez
This is not entirely correct. While unexpanded A500 is rather unappealing, in last few years a lot of decent expansions for A500 were released. Consider ACA500 or Wicher 500. These cards make A500 perfectly usable since they incorporate fast RAM, storage controllers and somewhat faster CPUs...
Owen Sanchez
Here on the backside.
Lucas Taylor
I'm not a big ricing enthusiast unless it's something like an Apple IIgs where the stock machine is so slow that you basically have to have a CPU accelerator.
Jacob Moore
Justin Gutierrez
holy shit I remember this, didn't know it was actually OC, nice setup user!
Ryan Martinez
I’d say that’s the case with A500. Stock configuration is just too limited to support comfy work (even comfy by Amiga standards). Adding relatively cheap CPU+RAM+IDE board makes A500 almost as comfy as A1200.
Luke Rivera
Eli Gray
Jaxson Hall
I mean, you would seldom find a home user with an IBM PC let alone a first party printer.
I had to import the printer and the official glass stand from the US. I've got it hooked into a Stepdown transformer.
Ryder Williams
Anthony Nelson
Cooper Jackson
>DOS 5.x
Nah, that shit is for a 286/386 PC. DOS 3.3 is the best one for an 8086.
Luis Morales
CGA composite out on an XT. 80 column text is black and white unless you switch the border to a color other than black. This is apparently a hardware bug in the original IBM CGA card and does not occur on clones.
Caleb King
What distro are you guys using?
Aiden Collins
Hopefully will be able to get this online Monday
Ayden Roberts
On some of those shitty chink 1.44MB disks, the magnetic coating is so thin that if you hold it up to a light, you can see through it.
Jordan Williams
Uh huh. I've found that with 1.44MB disks, they're perfectly reliable as far as reading data from them but you can't write to the things or you'll quickly start getting errors.
Daniel Flores
>There was one guy who had written custom Gotek firmware for the Amiga 800k format.
880k actually. The Amiga uses MFM but it's a weird variation that can't be read by a PC floppy controller.
Brandon Rodriguez
based druglord
Luis Lee
Not to sound like a massive hipster, but something about retro computers just seems more "computerish" to me.
Andrew Gutierrez
who /luggable/ here
Zachary Hill
>not to sound like a massive hipster faggot
you had one job
Nathaniel Murphy
I tried to get my hands on a P70 awhile back but the seller never got back to me.
Jace Wood
Amiga fans are weird and obsessive.
Jordan Russell
How much where you gonna get it for? Someone offered 200 for mine and I turned it down
Jackson Barnes
50 dollars believe it or not. The thing is it had an issue when booting which gave an error code. That said the error code was related to the keyboard so it could have been as simple as a loose connection or a fuse needing replacement.
Ethan Rodriguez
we've already peaked as a species
Juan Adams
That'd be your Johnson flange
Asher Powell
It's common on floppies to see rings in the disk surface where some of the magnetic coating has been rubbed off. Usually this will be most visible on the directory track (track 0 on PC disks which corresponds to the outermost track on the disk). It should be noted that although floppy drives are a contact media, the head has an extremely light touch and barely brushes the disk surface. Simple use of a disk in of itself wouldn't wear the magnetic coating off, but dust and other gunk can do this.
I once saw a Commodore disk where track 18 (the directory track) was completely gone and there was nothing left but the bare Mylar underneath. When this happens, the magnetic coating gets stuck on the drive head and will have to be cleaned off.
Joshua Wright
>LCD monitor
William Baker
It's starting to get crowded here
Mason Russell
How much did you get the typewriter for?
Justin Martin
$15 USD With case
Jack Perez
Did you get it at a garage sale or something?
I can't seem to find one in my area under $70.
Adam King
Comfy lighting, pham.
Benjamin Sanders
check craigslist. mine has several for under 30 bucks
Gavin Hughes
I had one of these almost 30 years ago.
I threw it out. :(
Aiden Gutierrez
Chruch sale.
I used it for work when I was still in the Army reserve so it's just my beater.
It has mold in the sound-deadening and there's a spring missing so the ribbon gets loose. But it works for forms and such.
Gabriel James
How do you run ubuntu on one of these?
Anthony Green
I'll check both of these.
Thanks.
Isaiah Lewis
What the fuck, how did you manage to cram so much power in a Macintosh SE/30?
Aaron Richardson
Here's a card that has actual Panasonic 3DO hardware on the board. youtube.com
Aiden Long
I sure hope you don't like the content of those VHS tapes
As a side note: Stacking magnetic media next to or on top of CRTs is a really good way of telling if someone's just pretending to be cool with the "retro" stuff they got on ebay or if they actually enjoy it.
Kayden Green
Too bad you can't make an Amiga thread on /vr/ without it becoming a horrible shitfest.
Ian Hernandez
Hunter Cook
Is this bait?
Chase Brown
Owen Robinson
Yeah mate try a bit harder. I use a Sun Ultra Enterprise 250 from 1997 running Debian as my homeserver.
Installing Debian on a Pentium II isn't anything special. I used a Satellite 4000CDS (233MHz PII, later upgraded with a 300MHz) with Debian as my daily laptop up until 2011.
Ian Thomas
Sexy, always wanted a SPARC box, but they're hard to get for cheap here.
Have something a little more unusual than Debian.
Angel Ramirez
Okay, gotta admit that is pretty cool.
>they're hard to get for cheap here
Judging by your ANSI boards I'd say you're in the states. I always thought Suns were cheaper over there. But again I happened to find a reseller near me who sells them at like €5 a pop, so yeah.
Jaxson King
Australia. While they do exist, they're expensive for what you get, and it's either a few hundred $ in shipping or a 12 hour drive to pick it up. Such is life.
Grayson Evans
Connor James
Heh. I have a dual PIII Dell that boasts about being made in Europe. Go figure.
Ian White
Or... maybe those cases don't have tapes in them. See anything on that desk that looks like a VHS player, retard?
Dylan Perez
Even in the case of the primitive Model I, advertisements clearly showed that Radio Shack were pitching it at the small business market, which was why it had a fairly sophisticated BASIC, RS-232, Centronics, and other "serious" computer features.
Back in those days, every computer manufacturer wanted the business market--it was immensely prestigious and profitable.
Brody Parker
They have a much more machine-like look to them in general, there's nothing bad about appreciating that unless you're a tryhard.
Benjamin Brown
They were suffering a form of planned obsolence mid to late 90's
Bentley Richardson
Not that you could use the things for serious work anyway. The Model I was slow, had no DMA, and wasn't terribly reliable either. The disk drives often had difficulty retrieving data from the narrow inner tracks and the cable connecting the computer to the expansion module was flimsy and would often come loose when jostled, causing the entire machine to lock up. The monitor was a hacked-up RCA TV that didn't have very good picture quality and would lose sync if you had too much white on the screen.
Logan Gutierrez
After giving up my search for an original AC adapter I'm finally getting off my ass and making one for this fucking thing. I hope it works. I'm ready to embrace the thin meme.