Recent content by Damion

Awesome news! 🍻 Declaring interest, 1 x full set in white 9002.

Servus laskr1999! 🍻 It sounds like you have an awesome collection. Funnily enough, my old Socket A stuff is the only PC gear I didn't part with over the years. I still have my original A7N8X-E Deluxe (a workhorse for many years) and a Lanparty NF2 Ultra I rescued 20 years ago (unfortunately an...

Original Commodore SMD caps have been a no-brainer replacement for 20+ years already. Several years ago I broke the warranty seals on both a NOS A600HD and a Petro A1200 and found minor leakage. Felt bad opening them up, but it had to be done - I have a small stack of A600 boards that are...

It's definitely not you - good equipment (iron, tips, solder, flux, etc) will absolutely make all the difference in the world. I remember jumping from a cheap Radio Shack iron to a Hakko 937. I suddenly felt like a magician.

I must say that I was reluctant to give Perifractic credit at first, but boy I was wrong! What an amazing effort pulling this all together. I still use original hardware too, but the Ultimate64 feels like a C64 to me (I like it better than the MiSTer core, amazing as it is), and it's simply a...

Declaring interest in 1 x AmiGUS.

Sounds like I dodged a few bullets! The Wicher was out of stock by the time I got around to it, and I've considered the Furia a time or two. Most hair-pulling for me was the Delfina Lite. Tried every software combination possible and couldn't eliminate the random crashes during MP3 playback...

Received, and feedback left. Thank you @doctorchase! 🍻

Declaring interest. I'll take it! PM incoming.

Definitely some sort of wizardry, I think by bypassing Gayle entirely in some respects. With the latest update I'm now getting 8.2 MB/s in SysInfo with an old SanDisk Ultra II card, and write performance is just as good (or even better, according to DiskSpeed).

I remember skipping the scsi.device update when running 3.9 on the A1200 for the same reason, and sticking with the 3.1 device with IDEFix. There are some alternate/patched scsi devices you can try (Doobrey's or this one), though they might add a little boot delay.

bdb nailed it. I often use SysInfo as a quick generic test just to make sure I didn't screw something up while testing, but SysSpeed is a much better general ballpark (especially with CF cards, write and seek performance can vary quite a lot). I say "ballpark" because the results aren't always...

There might be something of value here (about 14:13 in). I don't have a FastATA though so can't verify.

Yeah, the choice we have now is ridiculous compared to 15 - 20 years ago. I'm more interested in nostalgia, so it's Motorola under the hood, and seeing how well it can run when the surrounding hardware is dialed in. For me the A1200/060 was all about demos, so this card ticked the right boxes...

Internal IDE with ACA1260, and a full weekend trying to remember all the little A1200 tricks :p Not all CF cards I've tested perform this well with reads (and conversely, some of the "slower" cards perform better in other metrics) but... not bad! The IDE speeder is still being actively...