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You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

Jonny 290 posted:

actually it's war on terror and pretty much sounds the exact same

CYLINDER 7 WAS AN INSIDE JOB

The pushrods and rockers were in the conspiracy

# ¿ Feb 17, 2014 23:09

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 05:25

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

Jonny 290 posted:

it has five basement compartments and a person could easily curl up in each one

There you go Jello, you can finally escape the south!

# ¿ Jun 13, 2014 12:49

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Jonny 290 posted:

i got a sick deal on a thing called a Brake Buddy thats basically a remote braking system for your toad, and an 8,000 lb tow bar with almost all the riggins for $500 total. fuckin great deal, about 25% of retail. all we need now is a first gen CR-V (i think our top contender) and a $300 bracket to go on the front of it and we are 100% ready to pull it

Pulling an AWD is gonna be messy. You really need to disconnect the drive shafts if you are going to be doing long stretches of towing.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2014 06:18

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spankmeister posted:

what about RWD or do you just put the car in the other way round?

FWD is easiest, as you just put a dolly under the front wheels and no need to worry about locking steering then.

RWD you can drop the tail shaft between the gearbox and diff

# ¿ Jun 18, 2014 06:54

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I have a Goot soldering station.

It's always set to 420 :weed:

# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 08:53

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Doc Block posted:

he's legit mad on twitter about getting banned

ahaahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha

*gasp*

ahahaahahahahahaahahahahaahahahahahaha

# ¿ Jan 27, 2015 12:15

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echinopsis posted:

that's sad bro

Then don't post furry porn you dumb shithead

# ¿ Jan 31, 2015 13:16

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Trig Discipline posted:

good lord that is bassy as gently caress

dangers of mixing after you've been tweaking knobs for hours

same, but ur mum

# ¿ Mar 1, 2015 08:45

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Jonny 290 posted:

if you get paranoid smoking weed you're probably suppressing some child abuse or something like that.

One of my friends used to get paranoid as gently caress when smoking weed, to the point where I refused to drive him anywhere if he had been on it. His old man has bipolar, so wouldn't surprise me if the weed didn't kickstart something there.

# ¿ May 21, 2015 00:13

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

all weed does is make me happy and laugh. never got the munchies from it, nor the idea the government is watching me (they are)

# ¿ May 21, 2015 04:18

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Jonny 290 posted:

For folks who really like Cuttwood Unicorn Milk ( strawberry cheesecake milkshake more or less) Here's a damned close clone recipe.

Capella Sweet Strawberry v2 8%
Capella Vanilla Custard 3%
Capella Cheesecake 1.5%
Capella Graham Cracker 0.5% ( BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THIS ONE IT CAN TAKE OVER)
The Flavor Apprentice Bavarian Cream 3%
The Flavor Apprentice Sweet Cream 3%

Mix it about 70/30 and go to town.

You always have to be careful of those crackers

# ¿ Jun 16, 2015 23:50

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echinopsis posted:

how is "I like how" even a meme it's like if someone made "see ya later" into a meme

I miss your Jesus IT avatar

# ¿ Nov 9, 2015 04:30

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Mister Sinewave posted:

I'm building some droid helmets for a Star Wars themed contest and here's my dumb way to get around having to actually make something that looks like an actual droid head:

Use a face shield and mock up a droid looking face, print it out, and stick it to the inside of the face shield.

Test mockup with a couple chopouts so I can sorta kinda see:

That is mostly an R2D2 "shoulder" from a papercraft R2D2 pattern as a face, I think it - hilariously - actually looks pretty good.

Looks more like a robot from the Borderlands series

# ¿ Jan 14, 2016 23:06

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Trig Discipline posted:

i may start a thread in the election forum for this tomorrow, time to chug rum and watch venture brothers now

Good man. Rum and Venture Bros are a great mix

# ¿ Jan 22, 2016 11:14

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Trig Discipline posted:

that's what she said lol

niiiiiice

# ¿ Jan 23, 2016 02:16

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I wonder what happened to that goon Markov Chain Chomp

# ¿ Feb 11, 2016 02:55

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Sagebrush posted:

also charge time, holy poo poo. back in the day with ni-cads you had half an hour of charging for at most like 3 minutes of full throttle driving. enough for 1 race and that's it. and those things were heavy as poo poo. now you got batteries that can charge at 3c or more and last four times as long so you could probably drive all day for like $50 in cells

Lipos have really helped the electric RC car scene. NiMH cells kept on popping, destroying $80+ packs, which would only last 3 months before they were toast. One Lipo pack can last over a year of constant use

# ¿ Mar 6, 2016 12:18

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Sniep posted:

also my clear lexan body showed up that i got, gonna put up the stock one as a spare

so the clear one you're supposed to paint...

but i don't think they meant like this

all better, both sides 2 coats this is just coat one

Ummm, that's the wrong paint. It's going to crack off. And you've painted the wrong side.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2016 01:40

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Sniep posted:

Then I'll hit it with another spray.

You need to use polycarbonate paint, usually Tamiya branded stuff.

https://www.tamiyausa.com/articles/feature.php?article-id=72#.VuYQCMcq7Bs

# ¿ Mar 14, 2016 02:12

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Luigi Thirty posted:

now I just need actual storage other than a bunch of 720K floppies lol

Is there an IDE connector on the ST?

# ¿ Sep 27, 2016 23:31

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Luigi Thirty posted:

fun fact: the Atari TT was designed to be a high-end Unix workstation powered by a 16MHz 68020 with FPU

They decided halfway through this wasn't fast enough and decided to slap in a 32MHz 030 instead (with advantages like a full 32-bit bus and instruction cache)

Unfortunately for compatibility reasons the TT still needed to use the ST chipset for some base functionality, which couldn't run at 32MHz

so you ended up with a system that had a blazing fast CPU and FPU and a gimped 16MHz system bus to talk to a chipset from 1986. it also didn't even get an official Unix release until 1992, 2 years after it came out and right before Atari threw in the towel. lol

it also had a LocalTalk port for some reason??? but no drivers were ever released so it didn't do anything

Sounds like what Commodore tried to do with the A3000UX

# ¿ Sep 29, 2016 00:57

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C.H.O.M.E posted:

or:

New Half Life movie is looking good

# ¿ Oct 12, 2016 04:52

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Luigi Thirty posted:

Atari ST update: I got my 16MHz accelerator. It's a replacement 68000 with a daughterboard soldered to it. There's a pad for a switch - floating or 5V and it operates at 16MHz, tie it to 0V and it operates at 8MHz. There's no fast ROM kit for my motherboard model so it's not as fast as it could be.

Unfortunately, I thought my ST's CPU was in a socket and it's not... so I've got the same problem as the XEGS: I need to de-solder a 64-pin DIP in order to install it. :/

at least my reversi game is coming along well! i can click on tiles on the board and it places a white tile if there are any adjacent black tiles. doesn't flip the tiles yet though, that's DLC

I don't know much about the ST, so they don't have a trap door like the Amigas had?

# ¿ Oct 21, 2016 02:59

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Luigi Thirty posted:

I'm buying an Amiga 2000 with 030 accelerator hell yeah gonna make hella demos

nice.

Although the 3000 is the one to get with the built in scan doubler

# ¿ Oct 25, 2016 22:47

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Luigi Thirty posted:

there's a "computer preservationist" across the state who has just a buttload of Amiga parts, he's building me an Amiga 2000 with a Fat Agnus and Kickstart 3.1, a 40MHz 030 accelerator plus an onboard SCSI adapter and 4MB of fast RAM, a scan doubler card that outputs VGA, and a SCSI HD with Workbench preinstalled, mouse and keyboard

not too much more than a "as-is" Amiga system that's been sitting in a basement collecting dust and battery acid for 25 years either

someone in Games said I should just get a Video Toaster and one of the PC emulator cards while I'm at it lol

Nice grab there!

I always wanted to get a scan doubler for my A1200, but cost of that device is prohibitive

# ¿ Oct 26, 2016 02:22

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ahmeni posted:

it's like that here in Aus
I can do my own plumbing and electrical work but I need an electrician or plumber to sign off on it or my poo poo won't be covered by insurance

Pfft as if you tell the insurance company. Always use the excuse that the previous owner did the work :v:

# ¿ Nov 16, 2016 11:46

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

Managed to find an old Mitsubishi monitor at work that will work natively with Amigas without the need for a scan doubler

# ¿ Nov 29, 2016 22:50

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Replaced all the capacitors in my Commodore 64 today:

It didn't got bang when I switched it on, but I don't have a cable to connect it to my CRT TV, so off to the electronics store next weekend.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2017 12:44

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Got the C64 finally running on my CRT TV

I can get the tape drive to work, but the two floppy drives I have won't work for different reasons. The 1541 will try to read disks, but errors out. The 1571 II won't even detect on the C64.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2017 02:22

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I found out the issue with the 1571 was the DIP switches had been set to device 9, instead of 8, so no wonder the C64 couldn't recognise it. However it sounds like death trying to read a disk, so I might stick with getting the 1541 cleaned up and worry about the 1571 later

# ¿ Oct 7, 2017 04:45

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I can't get either drive to work properly, even after cleaning the heads down. Both drives just refuse to read disks properly. I wonder if this is an issue with the C64 rather than the drives. Also noticed that the space bar isn't working on the keyboard. Ah well. I'll check out the 1571 document, see if that helps me with the issues I am having.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2017 07:25

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

Thanks, I'll give that a try tomorrow

# ¿ Oct 7, 2017 11:15

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Cross posting from the retro computing thread in Games, currently working on an Atari ST 1040F that's been sitting in the previous owners garage for years. Native Australian wasps had built nests in the floppy drive and where the mouse/controller ports are. However it is clean instead, other than surface rust on some of the metal covers

# ¿ Mar 11, 2018 23:25

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Jonny 290 posted:

oh thats totally restorable. nice grab

Yep, going to give the case a good wash down next weekend, and clean the surface rust off the covers. That particular model of ST is the most compatible with ST software out there, unlike the E models.

Endless Mike posted:

nope

Trust me, the Australian wasp is probably the only Australia creature that's more calmer and friendlier than its overseas cousin. European wasps are real fuckers, whereas Aussie ones are chilled.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2018 00:11

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Finished off the refurbishment of my Atari 1040STf

Here's what it looked before:

After:

Bonus Amiga A1200 photo:

The Atari powers up, but waiting on a cable order to come in so I can see if it displays video.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2018 14:08

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Got a massive amount of cables in today. Mainly Atari ST, Amiga, SNES and MegaDrive to SCART, and female SCART to 9 pin RGB adapter.

Fired up my A1200 for the first time for ages, looks like something has died in it. No power or HDD LEDs. drat it.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 06:48

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Sweevo posted:

bad power supply would be my first guess. the 1200 PSUs were pretty weak and get worse as they age.

Yeah, going to throw a multimeter at it tomorrow to see what it is coming up with. There's a bloke in the US who can do aftermarket PSUs for Amigas and C64s (even combined with 1541 v2 support) but it ain't cheap.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 13:53

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Sweevo posted:

just buy an A500 supply on ebay. they're compatible and have a higher current rating so they're not running near max all the time.

it might also be the caps on the 1200 motherboard. if one has failed then it might be shorting the +5V to ground and making the power supply shut down

I have heard the A500 power supplies poo poo all over the A1200s. My friend has been hoarding A500s, will see if I can grab one off him.

I do have a new caps kit coming in the mail for the A1200, so will replace those as well.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2018 02:38

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Is there a chance I may have toasted my Amiga 1200?

Just checked the power supply for it (which worked fine back around 2010) with a multimeter and these are the voltages I am getting from the power supply:

12V rail - 12.3V
5V rail - 5.4V
-12V rail - -12.22V

I have a feeling that the 5V rail may have caused damage to it. I haven't opened up the A1200 yet. I haven't found any concrete information on the net about safe ranges for the rails, some people say anything between 10% should be fine, others saying 5.2V should be the max on the 5V rail.

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 05:25

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Minnesota Mixup posted:

is that with our without any load on it? It may settle closer to spec with a load on it.

Without load, I was reading the voltages straight off the pins

# ¿ Apr 15, 2018 04:54

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