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Jim Silly-Balls posted:OK Amigaknowers, help me out here, because I've never seen any of this stuff before. That is one expensive chunk of retro computer you have there! Pretty much the ultimate dream Amiga. I believe it won't take a PC keyboard, but it should with an adapter. Keyboard is the large DIN socket in the front. For mice and joysticks Amiga uses the more horizontal "Atari" connectors also in the front.
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and one on what I am assuming is the CPU card? Its the thing with the big SCSI looking connector on the back. And a big mess of ribbon cables
cards and I cant really tell what they are. One has RCA connections on the back, and the other has BNC
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I just realized I dont know if I can use any keyboards I have with this. Will it take a standard PC XT keyboard? How about a serial mouse? Do I need adapters for that stuff? No, you need an Amiga keyboard and mouse. The mouse is easy to find, the keyboard slightly less so. I believe there are adapters that will let you use USB keyboards and mice though. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 23:18 on Mar 30, 2022 |
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namlosh posted:YouTube.com/regularlaptopreviews "It's got 4ghz of power... BUT IT'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF GIGAHURT"
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I’m really striking out for in-stock mouse and keyboard adapters for the Amiga 2000 Anyone have adapters or the actual keyboard and mouse they want to sell? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3998294
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Lowen SoDium posted:"It's got 4ghz of power... BUT IT'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF GIGAHURT" This makes me think of Mr. Electricidad in Sharkboy and Lavagirl going "bring on the mega-huuuuuuuurtz! Hurts? As in hertz? The unit...of electrical...frequency?"
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It lives! Fortunately I found adapters to allow me to use a modern keyboard, mouse and VGA video, but before I pressed the order button I had to see if it works Unfortunately right now it can only output mono video over composite but it boots and didn’t complain about it at least. I don’t really know much about any of those programs on screen, but it seems like there’s a lot there
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:It lives! Fortunately I found adapters to allow me to use a modern keyboard, mouse and VGA video, but before I pressed the order button I had to see if it works One more hurdle you should be aware of. Amiga uses 15KHz signal for video. Most VGA and modern monitors only support 30KHz signal. Here's a site with a large list of monitor support: http://15khz.wikidot.com/ Back in the day you had a device called Flicker Fixer or Scan doubler that made Amiga's work with VGA monitors. Here's a bit more detailed info on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fixer Amiga 3000 included a built-in flicker fixer so it worked with VGA out of the box but your A2000 will need a proper monitor.
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anyone know what the proper name is for the two screw post antenna connections on old tvs? like the kind you use to hook up an atari 2600 or such? tried searching a bunch of stuff and didn't seem to get anything terribly relevant. is it just like, vhf antenna connector or something?
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Light Gun Man posted:anyone know what the proper name is for the two screw post antenna connections on old tvs? like the kind you use to hook up an atari 2600 or such? tried searching a bunch of stuff and didn't seem to get anything terribly relevant. it's spade lug antenna connector, or something like that.
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Light Gun Man posted:anyone know what the proper name is for the two screw post antenna connections on old tvs? like the kind you use to hook up an atari 2600 or such? tried searching a bunch of stuff and didn't seem to get anything terribly relevant. I think it's a twin lead RF connector.
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300 ohm antenna connector. If you wanna hook up to something semi-modern with coax, you want a 75 to 300 ohm adapter like so: https://www.amazon.com/300-Ohm-UHF-Matching-Transformer/dp/B0002ZPIOG
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Light Gun Man posted:anyone know what the proper name is for the two screw post antenna connections on old tvs? like the kind you use to hook up an atari 2600 or such? tried searching a bunch of stuff and didn't seem to get anything terribly relevant. I once went to a Radio Shack with another Goon looking for one and the guy working was suuuuper confused until it clicked in his brain and he called it a "magic adapter" and pulled one out from behind the counter. I never learned the real name for them. Yeah this: spookykid posted:300 ohm antenna connector. If you wanna hook up to something semi-modern with coax, you want a 75 to 300 ohm adapter like so:
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Well it's RF, so it is literally magic. Probably just a strip of metal in there that becomes wider to change the impedance.
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke
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Any sufficiently primitive technology too, it would seem
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Saw this on Imgur today, he said it finally died on him: 
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More like commode, or For real though that is a long rear end time for that thing to keep ticking
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Cojawfee posted:Well it's RF, so it is literally magic. Probably just a strip of metal in there that becomes wider to change the impedance. Nah just a few turns of wire wrapped around a toroidal ferrite core. VHF only really gets magic-y at scales of a few meters. Those matching transformers are still really easy to find and cheap, btw, because TV antennas still need them to connect to 75-ohm coax and despite time marching on, terrestrial broadcast TV is still a thing people use.
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The algorithm bestowed this on me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWwzQyXAvXI I thought it was going to be about a company that shipped hard drives with a bad failure rate. Turns out the truth is stranger than that
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Fully expecting a shoot where Bret Hart buries Goldberg as a terrible programmer.
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BattleMaster posted:The algorithm bestowed this on me:  I guess that's one strategy.
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"What happens if I tell the truth?" "You get fired." "What happens if I lie?" "You get a lot more money!" The invisible hand of the market put those bricks there.
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I cannot unsee the Skyrim logo whenever you post that Edit: O.K. is anyone else having the Awful App randomly show them days-old new posts, because the last post is not, in fact, yet another shot of Jim Silly-Balls' Amiga desktop Dr. Quarex has a new favorite as of 01:39 on Apr 7, 2022 |
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I spent most of last night getting my Atari 1040STE working with an USB drive using the Centurion USBee adapter. Managed to get it to mount, read and write to an USB drive, but require me making a new "HDD" for my UltraSatan. Strangely enough, a nearly 40 year old GUI has issues with properly mounting an USB drive. Who would've thought that?
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A bit newer, but I just just grabbed my 2007 thinkpad T61 (Centrino Duo! Vista license sticker! 5:4 screen!) down from a shelf to rip a 2008 CD - it was the newest thing I had around with a working CD or DVD drive. The battery is completely dead, the bezel is cracked, and the hinges are iffy - but otherwise it Just Works. It booted into Ubuntu 11.04, and it's wild how nice my old linux desktop still feels. 11 years is apparently not that long - though the 15 years of hardware advances are more immediately obvious. e: I miss the full height keyboard, though - and while 5:4 may be a bit much, I'd love to at least get a 16:10 screen again. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 01:20 on Apr 8, 2022 |
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Cathode Ray Dude dug up an incredible tech relic (in multiple ways): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB-BRBmv34k
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Cathode Ray Dude's channel is very pro-click. He brings up some weird stuff.
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Computer viking posted:A bit newer, but I just just grabbed my 2007 thinkpad T61 (Centrino Duo! Vista license sticker! 5:4 screen!) down from a shelf to rip a 2008 CD - it was the newest thing I had around with a working CD or DVD drive. It’s weird how the change from say 2000 to 2020 is not as radical (hardware wise) as 1980-2000 I mean sure I can film and edit an entire movie in full hd 60fps on my phone, but going from pure text to live video at all is quite the leap
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Cathode Ray Dude's channel is very pro-click. He brings up some weird stuff. I’ve slowly worked my way through it all after he was linked somewhere back ITT and I wish he’d post more. Dude is the good kind of weird YouTube nerd instead of the awful grating kind and it seems to be super rare.
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F4rt5 posted:It’s weird how the change from say 2000 to 2020 is not as radical (hardware wise) as 1980-2000 I mean sure I can film and edit an entire movie in full hd 60fps on my phone, but going from pure text to live video at all is quite the leap This hits hard with that recent CRD video. That design of that device could pass for a modern laptop, and if not modern, within the last few years.
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History Comes Inside! posted:I’ve slowly worked my way through it all after he was linked somewhere back ITT and I wish he’d post more. Doesn't hurt that he's super personable and genuinely interested in what he puts out every video.
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CRD is extremely blessed and an ally and talks about interesting topics that no one else is covering. The YouTube trifecta.
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I went to look at a used 1996 BMW 5-series today and was very surprised to see it had a very fleshed out sat nav/infotainment system for the time. https://youtube.com/watch?v=mNy6tMA1xmw
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I really wish I could get into CRD. His content is extremely up my alley. But he just has a voice that grates me in all the wrong ways, and he looks like an overgrown middle schooler who's mom sometimes still dresses him... 
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I’ll take dorky over toxic any day. Ate poo poo Guy is dorkier than both and toxic.
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