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TM Crusoe Posts: 618   Location: Hull, UK | |||
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TM Crusoe Posts: 671 | And.... The result. :-P (IMG_20170908_210946708.jpg) Attachments ----------------  IMG_20170908_210946708.jpg (454KB - 475 downloads) | ||
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Intel P5 Posts: 68 Location: N.E. Pennsylvania USA | |||
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IDT WinChip Posts: 237 Location: USA | |||
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Chips 386 Posts: 34 | I wish I had a pentium pro motherboard  All I have is the CPU and that's all. I just changed the case of my 5x86. The previous one was a giant tower and I really liked it, but the PSU died and is in an odd format. While this PSU isn't fixed, I won't be able to use the 5x86, so I thought, why waiting since I have many empty AT cases. I chose one that wasn't yellowed and that just looked nice to me. It contains an Aopen/Acer AP43 with a 5x86@133MHz, a dual head S3 PCI video card from 1995 (quite an oddity isn't it ?) a 3c905B-TX, a sound blaster 16 CT1740 with a Korg wavetable and last but not least, a GUS MAX 2.1 Unfortunately, I can't make those two to work right together for some reason ... the SB16 tolerates the GUS, but the GUS doesn't tolerate the SB16 ... How could-I fix this ? Here's the finished product (It looks yellowed on this photo, but really it's not ^^) : Edited by Deksor 2017-09-10 2:17 PM (V2gIgZv.jpg) Attachments ---------------- V2gIgZv.jpg (197KB - 488 downloads) | ||
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Intel P5 Posts: 68 Location: N.E. Pennsylvania USA | |||
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TM Crusoe Posts: 671 | |||
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TM Crusoe Posts: 618 Location: Hull, UK | I have some nice new stuff coming, some of it is boring like capacitors and wires so I won't bother showing those, we all know what they look like and what they do, these are worth showing though;  Broadcast monitor (Sony BVM-9044D) to use in place of that old portable TV, basically it does everything I wanted the TV to do, but said TV never did. Inputs should be Composite, S-Video, Component and SDI, so I don't think we'll have any problems there.  Panasonic AG-5700, this isn't the one I got but the images I have suck and this is the same model. I would have liked an AG-7750, but I can't afford one and really can't think of a good reason to get one, the AG-5700 does literally everything I want to do with a VCR, presumably it can also rewind and fast forward tapes properly. A scene removed from the WinTV video demonstrated that my old JVC, the one used in that video, is unable to do some things because of worn gears I'd have a hard time replacing.  Rack mount quad monochrome Composite monitors. I have grand plans for these, but those plans might be some ways away because the focus is mostly on other things for the time being. Otherwise I've been recording Nitemare 3D for the second channel, I have finished the second episode. I might have seen it break once, a panel doesn't seem to have opened in a level that should, but I'm starting to suspect I just wasn't facing it properly. Still enjoying the game, though I have a feeling Episode 3 is going to really ramp up the challenge. While I'm here, mad props go to 486u for aiding with some CSS improvements, images shouldn't exceed the width of the message cell anymore. There are a few things left to tweak on these boards, namely I want to find a way of getting the more common IMG tags to work and a few small optimizations behind the scenes. Edit: And now one tweak is done, notice that Discord link up at the top there. Hopefully it doesn't get shit up by loads of bots or something. Edited by DXZeff 2017-09-15 5:03 AM | ||
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IDT WinChip Posts: 237 Location: USA | |||
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TM Crusoe Posts: 618 Location: Hull, UK | I'm not at all surprised, the image quality is brilliant and everything I've thrown at it so far has worked.  Looking at the controls my first impressions are "Is that it? Really?" but they only look minimal because they pretty much only put controls on that you'd use, as in they all do something useful instead of doing something pointless. Most of all, the thing I've wanted the most, the outputs are something which will definitely see heavy use in the future. Unfortunately I can't get a good photo of it working, but I'm sure there are many on the web. This is more just a proof it works kind of thing. The VCR was less fortunate than the monitor. In fact it got here first and I was almost glad, in a way, because it meant the monitors were statistically more likely to survive the journey, CRT screens sometimes don't.  However, I have been refunded so I shall mail it back later. I'm not that upset, it isn't a very well made unit, there are better plastic pieces in the cheap Crown unit (CRV2250) I bought from Kwik Save years ago. The down side being I'm not sure what other models there are out there within the range of what I'm willing to pay. I want something with the features of the AG-5700 but the build quality of something at least halfway decent. The seller didn't pack it well, in fact, short of a thin layer of bubble wrap, that's how it arrived with the box torn up. Still, I think if it were made better it would have stood up better and may have been repairable, the JVC I was using has been slung around, stood on, knocked over and all manner of horrible things and nothing beyond the bezel unhooking itself ever happened. I'm not sure all the AG-5700's were like this, mine seems to be late in the run, so they might have made cutbacks by then. It certainly seems more plastic-ridden than the photos I looked at online anyway. Overall I have more immediate use for the monitor than the VCR, so I can wait if needed, just want to move from that JVC eventually because getting new gears printed will cost more than the VCR is worth, may as well just get a better one. There are some units on eBay I'm looking at and again (I think I mentioned this on Discord a few days ago) I see the prices raising without the bid counter increasing. Something funky going on there. Floppy emulator arrived. Can't get it to do anything, the software is useless and the emulator itself doesn't work in any machine pre-2001 for some reason (in testing, there may be boards it works with) and all it does is corrupt USB drives, report a "Not Ready" in DOS and break any other floppy drive on the cable until it is removed. Not a fan, not wasting my time or money on these anymore. I think I'll install it in that P4 I use for testing things as that has no floppy drive, at least then I can use it to simulate floppies in Windows XP... something I could have done in software for free, assuming it doesn't just corrupt the USB stick again. Not annoyed or surprised by this whatsoever. The entire second episode of Nitemare 3D has been completed. | ||
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TM Crusoe Posts: 671 | 8 Dollars... (shipping not included) (Controller.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Controller.jpg (580KB - 449 downloads) | ||
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TM Crusoe Posts: 618 Location: Hull, UK | |||
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Intel P5 Posts: 85 Location: UK | |||
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IDT WinChip Posts: 237 Location: USA | |||
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Intel P5 Posts: 85 Location: UK | If I had to take a guess, I'd say DXZeff's stuff was delivered by Hermes, they are bloody dreadful for parcel handling, but the most common courier here now because of price. I got the old Amiga 500 out today, not been used for 4+ years, fired straight up and been playing Lotus turbo & Jaguar XJ220 for most of my free time today along with a few beers(pistonhead & Marstons IPA). another day not wasted  Best, Chris | ||
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TM Crusoe Posts: 618 Location: Hull, UK | It was Yodel and the guy was shifty as hell, I did hear a bang a while before he knocked on the door and he was parked halfway up the kerb, so I suspect he slipped in the rain and dropped it off the back of the van. The seller refunded me but hasn't replied since I asked for a return address, so if I've heard nothing by Friday I'll just assume he doesn't really want it back and gut it for spares. As I noted, it was packed pretty much as you see it, small wonder it took damage really.  I got another one cheaper, bought as untested. Lesson learned, buy broken shit because it costs less and usually works. I think the heads are dirty, there's a visible mark on the drum and a noise line shoots through the image at a regular interval, this is clearing up with use but I'll give cleaning a go. I might also pillage a belt off of the broken one because one of them is audibly slipping. It appears a particularly weak part of the mechanism made from flimsy white plastic in the other VCR has a strip of metal inside in this one and the rest is made of a stronger black plastic. Odd to see, it's a later unit so you'd think they'd have cut back, I guess Panasonic realized it wasn't a good idea, I'd be interested to see if it was that way in earlier units and the change was made late-on or whether the broken one featured a design change which was later reverted. With the floppy emulator I've seen other people get it working and it should just look like a 1.44M floppy to the BIOS, I have no idea what its problem is, but it looks like I'll be stuck with continually degrading floppies for the foreseeable future. I'm still going to try it with the sampler, or maybe I'll just stuff it in the DX7 for a laugh, that thing is useless enough already so it can't hurt. Lots of people on Amigas and stuff lately it seems, starting to feel like I'm in the minority with my inefficient x86 hardware - not that this is a problem at all. Still haven't found an excuse to degrade myself into using the 520 STE yet, not even the MIDI is all that enticing, the T3200SX is tedious enough to use for that so the idea of moving to an even slower platform with an even worse display and limited compatibility isn't exactly much of an incentive. I'll take up that challenge some day, I know, just not yet. Edit: Oh, it seems I forgot to mention, I have fixed the IMG tags, so now you can just Copy/Paste those from your image host and they should work 90% of the time and also be resized by some CSS sorcery from my uneducated fumbling and much more knowledgeable input from 486u. This should prove a massive time saver and hopefully will work consistently, given the tags aren't really using the forum software in its intended fashion. Edited by DXZeff 2017-09-20 6:04 AM | ||
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IDT WinChip Posts: 237 Location: USA | |||
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TM Crusoe Posts: 618 Location: Hull, UK | Thought about Video Toaster stuff, but as I sold the Amiga years ago I doubt I'll ever get one. I like doing things the hard way, x86 seems to be the hard way, the original designers of the platform clearly had no regard for media in the future and it shows on early attempts at such hardware. My plan was exactly that, to pillage the head assembly from the broken unit if it was in better condition, it does seem that this is a mere dirt problem though as those bars have pretty much disappeared and that weird fizzing noise (best way I can describe the racket VCRs make when the heads aren't happy) is going away. Probably just leave it looping a tape for a few hours (yeah, has a switch to do that) and see how the picture looks at the end. Then I might have to try and bodge something together for the RS-232 control, something else it does and the manual describes how to do in depth. Basically, no shortage of connectors;  No SCART, but that's not really useful anyway, even the VCRs that have it rarely output real RGB over there (even less have pins for it to be fed in, the JVC only does composite on SCART 2 for example) and the ones that do usually look like shit, I'd rather have an S-Video circuit that's really good than have an RGB one that isn't. That Sony monitor has definitely seen use, it took a battering wherever it came from, that wasn't done in shipping, no way I'm paying the regular full price for one of these, I'll just beat the dents out. Nothing wrong with it though, Their history, to my knowledge, seems to be that the monitor is from a CCTV system, the broken VCR has a label stating "Mental Health Trust" with its last PAT date somewhere in 2001, the newer VCR I'd guess was used in home editing for something, small business type stuff, wedding videos maybe. I'd be very interested to know where that quad monitor came from, but its from a generic reseller and there's no way to find out, it shall prove very useful if I can set things up as planned. Seems I didn't post this here, but I managed to cobble something together; https://soundcloud.com/high_treason/gems-rag Basically the fast paced part from the end of "In my Dream" as close as I can get it to how it sounded in the actual dream. Very eerie hearing it in the real world even if it's not 100% accurate. Looks like I will finish Nitemare 3D today, surprised at how well it has held up all the way through. - Forum software just bugged out and gave me a Flood Control warning when posting... Might be time to do a backup in case something goes wrong, hopefully my recent tampering with the software hasn't broken something. Edit: For the hell of it, this is what that JVC does when trying to rewind due to worn gears; Edited by DXZeff 2017-09-21 7:58 AM | ||
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