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Dicty Bojangles posted:This was the last-gen 160gb iPod Classic (video?). I had assumed it would be like the 5/6th gen which I did a long time ago but now I'm wondering if they glued the whole shebang together on the last gen or if I'm just mis-remembering how tedious it was to change the battery like I did 10 years ago... or maybe I'm just too old anymore. Anyway, had to deep-six the poor thing after all the manhandling. Yeah, I can understand, the last-gen(160gb) and I think the 120gb gen come apart similar to the earlier ones except that there’s about 250% more fuckiness. When they went to a metal front case, they used a similar clip arrangement as the early ones except they used way more clips and each clip has more spring tension. So instead of slipping a pick or plastic tool around the perimeter a few times and having them come apart easily, you need several guitar picks simultaneously on one side to loosen all the clips and allowing you to slide the top off a bit, then move to the other side and do the same thing, repeat several times and it will come apart. Eventually. I found than thin and medium guitar picks work better than any of those cheap Chinese toolkit plastic dealies. They’re tough as poo poo and cheap.
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Moo the cow posted:Coincidentally, I've been looking at upgrading my elderly android phone because it really struggles with podcasts, but that is the only thing i has a problem with, so it seems a bit silly to spent $200 on an upgrade. Then I realised that I have a 5G ipod with a dead HDD and it's cheaper to upgrade that. Sure -I’m assuming you’re referring to the 5th gen classic-type iPod rather than the 5gig OG ancient iPod that was FireWire only, right? I originally used the Ifixit guide for teardown https://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPod_5th_Generation_%28Video%29 but there’s a bunch of them on YouTube that seem about the same. I highly recommend a thin and a medium guitar pick for disassembly rather than the triangular tools that everybody sells/gives away with batteries. I start with the area of the case near the 30-pin connector and work my way around the perimeter a couple times, and they come apart fairly easily. The only thing you really need to be careful of is the thin ribbon cables - if you pull too hard when the case halves split, it can tear them. I used to use the normal cheapie ZF 1.8 hard drive-to-CF adaptor cards: https://www.ebay.com/itm/274379695241 Then plug a CF——>SD card adaptor into it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/163451752952 And finally use a SD—>microSD adaptor which often came free with the microSD card.: https://www.ebay.com/itm/174271542342 Then I used some doublestick foam tape to take up the extra thickness that the OG hard drive needed, snap it back together, then plug into iTunes and go. I found that the really large memory cards, like 128gb, take forever for iTunes to recognize and go to the ‘would you like to initialize this iPod’ dialogue, but it eventually works fine. This sounds like a nightmare of adaptors, but it all hooks together cleanly and compactly and I had a 100% success rate over using CF cards, which are hit and miss as far as compatibility. The adaptors are also very cheap, like under $20 for all of them if you’re willing to wait for the Chinese sellers to ship. I would highly recommend also installing a new battery at this time, since it’s apart and new batteries are also pretty cheap. ——however——- Since I don’t do this much anymore, I haven’t had experience with all the new adaptors available for the iPod 5g which hook directly to the MicroSD card and some of them will use two(or more) of them for added capacity. Like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/112307262964 This: https://www.ebay.com/itm/172563414155 Or this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/133107891148 There’s no reason those won’t work great, I just haven’t personally used them and some of them seem pretty pricey. quote:You don't need to share your guide with me, though.
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Over the years I've acquired a few pieces of Quadraphonic stereo equipment, but I never really understood much about the technology. I managed to piece together a full quad setup today with an SQ decoder and SQ records. It was neat, but I totally understand why the technology didn't take off. Anyway, I made a video about the whole experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFpg0Fe4ARM
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Mak0rz posted:I saw this meme and thought of this thread hell yeah
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JnnyThndrs posted:Sure -I’m assuming you’re referring to the 5th gen classic-type iPod rather than the 5gig OG ancient iPod that was FireWire only, right? Hey, thanks. I really appreciate the effort: you are a cool dude. I've already ordered the hard drive adaptor from China and I may try a CF card first (I have a few lying around). I also need to track down a battery for a reasonable price.
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LifeSunDeath posted:I like that Miis got more low-fi over time not the opposite Jason from sleaford mods was a Mii?
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Moo the cow posted:Hey, thanks. I really appreciate the effort: you are a cool dude. I just find a popular one on eBay or amazon, I have a suspicion they’re all made in the same couple Chinese factories. I started converting iPods back in ‘07 or thereabouts when CF cards were pretty pricey and a lot of them didn’t work, but when they did work, it was great. I used a 32 gig 4th gen CF conversion when I drove semi trucks longhaul for a couple years after the economy poo poo itself, and after 150,000 miles of vibrating down the road strapped to the dashboard of a Freightliner, it still worked perfectly. No way would a spinny HD stand up to that abuse. Once it got so much cheaper for memory cards, I did a slew of them for people I know, seemed like everybody had a dead 4th or 5th gen in a drawer somewhere. The OG iPod Mini is a good one too, you can use a CF card/SD adaptor plugged directly in to the unit and the form factor is a little smaller. I prefer the longer battery life of the full-size iPods, personally.
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JnnyThndrs posted:I just find a popular one on eBay or amazon, I have a suspicion they’re all made in the same couple Chinese factories. That sort of stuff is cool and I wish I'd known about it back when my 80 gb classic bought it. Then I got a 3rd gen Touch which lasted nearly 10 years until 3.5mm jack broke and at that point it was cheaper/easier to just buy a 128 gb micro SD card for like $20 and use my phone for music, since I'm combination too cheap to pay for enough data to stream while driving and drive through a couple dead reception places
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Gonz posted:More retro box art! I had that one! None of the four games I had were featured in it, but I would read it cover to cover and imagine how much fun those games must be
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I had thought I was pretty well versed on 2600 games, but this one is new to me. Found the back cover blurb:  Thanks to good old Virtual Atari, you can play it right in the browser: http://www.virtualatari.org/soft.php?soft=Bobby_Is_Going_Home Review: A few sprites are stolen from Activision, and that's unfortunately the highlight. The gameplay is... well, it's pretty much what you'd expect.
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peter gabriel posted:Thought this was genius This is awesome.
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JnnyThndrs posted:I just find a popular one on eBay or amazon, I have a suspicion they’re all made in the same couple Chinese factories. This sounds so much like half the plot of Gibson's Spook Country.
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https://virtuallyfun.com/ is a cool blog about old computer stuff which I've linked to before. The author recently set up a Discord which may be of interest to those thinking about places to talk about some of this stuff which aren't run by serial abusers (hopefully!).
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I have physically have a 2U HP dual xeon server if we need something to restart/mirror this place, I will ship it anywhere in Aus at my cost. I can't think of another place with such a rich amount of community etc. I hope the place continues and Lowtax gives it up to the admins to own.
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While obviously you would not be as popular, I think there is still room for LGR clones covering other similar things that he did not specifically cover. "This week on Casual Game Ratings we focus on this piece of Strangeware: an e-fishing rod or something"
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Clint got super burnt out on doing videos so now's the time to jump in if you want to show off some weird old PC games
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Dr. Quarex posted:While obviously you would not be as popular, I think there is still room for LGR clones covering other similar things that he did not specifically cover. "This week on Casual Game Ratings we focus on this piece of Strangeware: an e-fishing rod or something" You could probably gain a nice following by just reviewing all of the terrible Mad Catz and Nuby peripherals.
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Bloopsy posted:You could probably gain a nice following by just reviewing all of the terrible Mad Catz and Nuby peripherals. Downside: you'll have to purchase and play with those terrible peripherals.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:One of my great regrets in life is not being LGR before LGR became LGR I've got Silly-Balls of Steel!
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Sweevo posted:All you need to do to have a successful retro channel is talk about things besides the NES, which is apparently impossible for 95% of retro youtubers BUT DID YOU KNOW HALO 2 WAS ACTUALLY MASTER MASTER CHIEF IN JAPNAN?!?!?!?
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Sweevo posted:All you need to do to have a successful retro channel is talk about things besides the NES, which is apparently impossible for 95% of retro youtubers I mean I know on some level his character is a gimmick, but the gimmick is normally not whining about minimal viewership But yes, clearly this is the time to strike the retro computing YouTube world, with LGR slowing down and 8-Bit Guy locked in that alternate universe feud with TechMoan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIXOH1tJJu4
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8 Bit Guy could have had a whole video series about his custom commodore computer thing. Instead he had one video where he talked about designing it, and then the next video was "So we designed it, here it is" and then nothing after that.
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Randaconda posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNI18uLhkt8 I guess I know what I'm doing with my spare A1200 motherboard now.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Beware taking this too literally, lest you become the insufferable Top Hat Gaming Man who literally had a like five minute rant at the start of one of his videos about how much work he put into his like Atari 800XL video only to discover that apparently you ungrateful swine only want more NES content More of that needs to be made. Maybe bring Clint into it too. Clint sneaks into their houses and woodgrains random poo poo
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Bargearse posted:I guess I know what I'm doing with my spare A1200 motherboard now. It ain't a cheap thing to do, but cheaper than the 499 Euro add-on board that Dan Wood reviewed the other day for the A1200. Today I did a big clean down of my 1084 monitor. I realise the before pictures were done in the shade. Oops. Before:   After:  
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