Notices by Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social), page 2

Phase 2, 3x 5.25" Greaseweazle box, with
💾 1.2MB - IBM Spec
💾 360K - IBM Spec
💾 160K/320K/640K (40/80 track switchable) Acorn Spec:

It's 1991, I just got back from school:
'Press' 🔴
'CRT flickers to life with an assuring thud'
Beep, boop, Beep, whir
C:\
cd Games 
cd Monkey
Monkey V A
LETS FREAKING GO.........

@thanius only interested in CD to be honest, be cool to play an audio cd on the A600, never down that before.

Congrats to everyone who saw the issue I've got to repair, no hard drive fun without these:

It's lunchtime and also time to think and plan about my weekend retro project.
Here's my Commodore Amiga 600 motherboard, I have a repair to make, but as a challenge, can any of you eagle eyed folks spot what's wrong? 🤔

1 hour later and it's out! I think I used about 100cm of braid, jeez that was not fun!

Back of the A600 board:

Happy Friday folks, I hope your week went well and get to do some chilling at the weekend!?
My first Retro job for my weekend is to fix this Commodore Amiga 600: new IDE port install, let's freakin' go......

I finally have the parts to finish my Commodore Amiga 600 repair, three weeks I've waited on the Amiga Kit! 😲

It still boots, that's always good to know! 😃
I just need to wait until the weekend for the new header and some time to prep a compact flash card. 👍

Heck Yes, it works, it booted straight off the CF card!
*Excuse me while I do a little dance*

If it explodes, please don't judge me, I did my best, risk it for a biscuit and all that! 😳

Well, it's soldered in, the question is, did I destroy my A600, will it explode, or will it work!?
Only one way to find out! 👍

I wonder if this will work on the Amiga 600 🤔

I'm trying to make a concerted effort to add 'Alt Text' to all my images, making my posts more accessible to people who are blind or low-vision. It's taking more time (especially as I post on three Social media platforms), but I hope more people can enjoy my random ramblings.

We're Getting A "Classic Edition" Of The PC-88, Japan's Iconic '80s Computer - The PC-8801 mkⅡ SR:

https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1592643.html

ICQ will stop working from June 26
https://icq.com/

Star Trek: Judgment Rites [1993]

Ok, I had to at least have a sneaky peak of retro parcel 2 of 4, Jeez I'm so happy! You know that fresh pencil case smell, well that's what the inside of this 30 year old Big Box game smells like. More pics tomorrow, but damn......

Sun SPARCstation LX / Linux update:
Today I've programmed OpenBoot NVRAM settings for my Sbus card, to force it to stay in 100 mbit mode (it was defaulting to 10 mbit).
I've now confirmed that the network card is working with my switch setup, as I can ping internal addresses: