Recent content by slipstream56

Think I have started a little bit of a competition here!!!

I am grabbing a second hand quad core soon and I will see how that measures up.:help::help::help:

Yes and not the for first time. I am a technician by trade with 40 years in the game and I am not really sure if the expense is worth it to fix an old thing like this as something else may blow soon after that.

Just remember this is AmigaOS XL, NOT WINUAE, and it is a damn site faster as it is not realy an emulation nut the Amiga OS written for the PC. And I would love to try it on an I7.

Numbers are a little scary Dhrystones - 578513 MIPS - 552 MFLOPS - 246 Thats fast! Celeron PC running QNX6.1 with AmigaOS XL. You should see it rendering in Cinema4D.

No, old drive is a Quantum Fireball Trailblazer, really old and does not play well with others. ---------- Post added at 12:25 ---------- Previous post was at 12:23 ---------- For the education of those who do not know the diff between AmigaOS XL and WinUAE. WinUAE is an emulation, AmigaOS...

With both drives in situ the original drive would not show itself, and I think it was because of the very early drive type not working happily with the microdrive on the single IDE bus. ---------- Post added at 15:57 ---------- Previous post was at 15:54 ---------- Tried that and for some...

I had been running a 1200 for a few weeks connected to a 15" LCD TV. I decided to get around then to resurrecting my old A4000 but when I tried to fire up the 1084s (the A4000 has no composite video out) it had no screen and a whistle which suggested a dead EHT. Damn. Ah, but I could connect it...

Static Static As a technician I was trained in the dangers of static and used to wear a wriststrap 24/7. I gave seen just what can happen via electron microscope images and beleive you me, the damage can be fatal but not always immediate. What can happen is a degradation of integrated circuits...

Bricks and walls Bricks and walls It was meant more as a general music reference. We are the bricks and the forum is the wall and even though the bricks are all the same no two are in the same place. (Very deep) Plus the fact that the other brick reference does not apply to me as in "thick as...

I work in a mobile phone call centre and have come across customers who have tried to dry out wet phones in microwaves duh.

My first upgrade My first upgrade My first computer was a Casio PB-100 and it came with basic 2.0 and 512 bytes of RAM It cost $99 Thats not so bad but in comparitave terms the RAM expansion I brought for it would make RAM today be worth more than gold. Yes, a 1k RAM expansion (yes 1k) cost...

Do I have an Amiga!!! Do I have an Amiga!!! I am just north of your family in Kingston. OK, so, I have a collection of computers Working backwards 2 Acer tablets 3 laptops 6 desktop PC's 2 Amiga 600's 2 Amiga 1200's 1 amiga 500 1 Amiga 4000 3 C128's and 1 C128D A number of C64's, an SX64...

I do have a couple of these but I do not happen to be here to profit of others so here is free info on what I brought and how well they worked Good old eBay and those wonderful Chinese suppliers Just search cf adapter (44,40) Then selected "buy it now" and "price + shipping lowest first"...

Hi all. Yes, I am a nerd. I started when I was a kid. pulling apart old radios and the like. I built my first computer at age 13 in 1970, a 4 bit binary counter with lights and switches. When I was 15 back in 1972 I began an apprenticeship as a Telecommunications Technician and spent 22 years in...