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Post by The Doctor on Sept 1, 2020 9:47:41 GMT
Run a Level 2 Diagnostic!
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Sept 1, 2020 15:12:52 GMT
I'll meditate on it for a while.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 1, 2020 16:44:16 GMT
Indivision scandoubler has shipped...
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 3, 2020 20:29:43 GMT
And has been installed, I can now use HDMI with the trusty A1200.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 8, 2020 22:53:53 GMT
Keyboard pcb membrane is here - will install either tomorrow or Thursday night and then I can hopefully get the CF harddrive working.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 10, 2020 22:27:22 GMT
The keyboard membrane is now working.
So just the harddrive to go, and then a few bits and bobs and we are good to go.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 19, 2020 14:51:33 GMT
Harddrive fitted - but catastrophe - my WB 3.1 disc is borked and won't copy the necessary files across. I could go online and cheat but that's not the point. Next pay day a set of WB 3.1 discs will be reacquired.
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Post by Stomski on Sept 19, 2020 19:32:24 GMT
I have no idea what condition my old floppies are like. They've been stored in lofts and garages for 25 years.
I gotta start getting ruthless and chuck this stuff out!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 20, 2020 18:28:40 GMT
Yeah mine had been in the loft as well.
It's fine Cloanto do official WB 3.1 discs still.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 20, 2020 20:16:05 GMT
My first thought would be to clean the disk and the drive heads. If the discs have been in storage for a long time they've probably oxidised and clogged the drive heads. I found this with my BBC. It was reading floppies okay until I hit a bad batch that had visible oxidisation, now it won't read anything. I'd got that far at the point iso alcohol became the rarest thing in the world during lockdown.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 26, 2020 14:32:30 GMT
Seems to be okay with other discs just not that one.
I'd seen there's some new roms and an os3.1.4 done in 2018 so have sourced those from an Amiga retailer in France.
Ordered and hopefully with me by the end of next week.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 1, 2020 19:23:37 GMT
Sadly it will be next week.
However, being delivered by CHRONOPOST so some kind of time travel is involved I assume.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 1, 2020 21:00:27 GMT
What? Chronopost??
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 3, 2020 8:59:52 GMT
French mail firm, sadly the end drop is being done by DPD so slightly less impressive end.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 4, 2020 8:16:54 GMT
Delivered, but c'est un catastrophe!
The roms are there, but no disks - out of stock...
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 4, 2020 9:51:26 GMT
Non!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 10, 2020 8:58:48 GMT
Oui, J'étais absolument vidé.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 10, 2020 10:25:35 GMT
La vérité que les yeux rencontraient auparavant.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 10, 2020 14:53:48 GMT
Je pensais que j'aurais pu compter sur le soutien moral de l'autre moitié de la Gestalt.
Pour la honte chum, pour la honte.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 10, 2020 15:46:14 GMT
Vous niez la gloire de SeaQuest DSV.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 10, 2020 17:03:42 GMT
Il n'y a pas de gloire, seulement pish.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 24, 2022 18:39:44 GMT
Sorely tempted by the A500 mini after seeing a few videos |
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 24, 2022 21:16:21 GMT
Big piece on that in Retro Gamer this month. I had a C64 mini but found it a bit restrictive once I got my actual BBC Master up and running. I've been playing Amiga games on my Evercade recently. Really got into Chaos Engine again.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 8, 2022 14:02:31 GMT
Arriving tomorrow.
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Post by Stomski on Apr 8, 2022 19:31:27 GMT
Would get one if it handle iso/cue/bin/wav/mp3 files for cdtv/cd32 images. Need that Xenon 2 Cdtv soundtrack!
WinUAE does this, but everyone else just wants whdload it seems.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 8, 2022 20:19:27 GMT
Hoping they see sense and expand it's functionality a bit after a while. Be good to have these as proper replacements given the age of the original hardware and it would be a wee shot in the arm if fans of the classic hardware had a focal point to get behind.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 20, 2022 18:37:30 GMT
Been reading the Retro Gamer article on the A500 mini and it's making me twitchy and reminisce. Have you tried WHDload on yours yet, Andy? £120 for 25 games I'm not sure about, but if it's define that the WHDload method works easily I can see appeal in reconstructing my A1200 games collection. That's a definite hole in my video game collection these days.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 20, 2022 19:24:28 GMT
I have indeed.
Cannon Fodder has been played quite a bit.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 20, 2022 20:10:21 GMT
and Turrican.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 20, 2022 20:15:03 GMT
And Turrican 2, I hope?
-Ralph
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