danby

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by danby 10mo ago
> I think it's a mistake to apply power to them in their current state since that could cause damage. One big issue is that these old electrolytic caps can leak and damage the motherboard and this is a common fail state for both th
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by danby 10mo ago
FWIW amiberry is probably a better option for Mac/linux these days. At least until FS-UAE v5 is released
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by danby 10mo ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/wiki/index#wiki_vendors.3A_re...
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by danby 11mo ago
That and the fact that the CPU was nearly a decade old by the time they were buying them in bulk
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by danby 11mo ago
FWIW when wire wrapping you can get handy little hollow tools. You feed the wire in to a hole in the tool, drop the tool over the pin and just spin the tool to wrap the wire round the pin. It's all very neat and tidy and requires prett
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by danby 1y ago
To be fair it's mainly just a case of changing the pin spacing
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by danby 2y ago
The Amiga's audio reproduction is an odd beast. Incredibly sophisticated one hand then completely hamstrung by the fact that stereo planning has to be done in software. So you either run it as 4 independent mono channels, or you devote
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by danby 2y ago
Your PSU issues aren't actually all that common. The A1200 PSU being trash was a prime example of commodore's decades long costing cutting horrors.
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by danby 2y ago
Having different products for different market segments is often a good idea. But in many cases Commodore released simultaneous products to compete for the same market segment.
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by danby 2y ago
To be honest there's lots of little factual inaccuracies in that piece. The notion that the A600 was "fully software-compatible with the A500" just isn't true.
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by danby 2y ago
> * The A600 was squeezed in between the A500+ and the A1200, which means that in 1993, you could buy an A500+ for £199, an A600 for £199 or an A1200 for £299 - all of them supposed entry-level machines. Very confusing for consumers. If
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by danby 2y ago
I think this the best analysis of the Vampire. To my mind it is more of an Amiga-compatible computer (with some odd graphics and CPU incompatibilities) than it is an actual extension of any Amiga platform ideas or plans. Their odd instance
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by danby 2y ago
It isn't true though. C64 PSUs would fail high and fry downstream chips and passives. Amiga PSUs are designed to fail low, and with the exception of some exceptionally rare faults, they won't fry your computer if the capacitors fa
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by danby 3y ago
Is the pi usually on it's own power supply?
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by danby 3y ago
As I understand it the issue is that when the old c64 power supplies failed the 12v line would go overvoltage and fry your computer. The amiga power supplies are designed differently and don't have this "feature". Though it i
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by danby 3y ago
Most amigas users are using some kind of solid state storage these days which will ameliorate this a little. But many/most are using assorted expansion and accelerator cards which can substantially increase the power draw. It's a
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by danby 3y ago
It's hard to make a modern comparison. You simply can't visit most of the web because javascript doesn't work. This limits you to the handful of sites that are configured for amigas to visit. Those usually use very small page
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by danby 3y ago
If you're willing to mod the case (or buy a new case you're willing to mod) I can strongly recommend a CF2IDE relocator https://retroready.one/collections/adapters-interfaces/produ...
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by danby 3y ago
Ok so it's worth noting that the AmigaOS has two completely separate branches in use today: 3.x and 4.x 4.x is targeted to amigas with PPC CPUs or PPC based accelerators (mid to late 90s accelertors and some newer things like the X5000