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Post by Sarge on Dec 13, 2020 1:30:41 GMT -5
My understanding is that the SNES and PC Engine cores are already really, really good. It also has a 486 core! It'll only go up to 33 MHz, but darn if that isn't interesting. Probably won't replace a proper retro PC setup for those later DOS games, but probably pretty spiffy for older games or Windows 3.1 stuff.
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Post by Ex on Dec 13, 2020 1:32:50 GMT -5
Very interesting. Yes indeed this is some interesting tech to play around with. LEGOs for circuit nerds.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 6, 2021 20:55:08 GMT -5
It liiiiiiiiives! Got the rest of the parts for my MiSTer setup. Currently have tested on HDTV and VGA monitor, both working perfectly. Gonna be spending a lot of time testing, I'm sure. I do know, though, that I'm probably going to end up ordering the USB board and a case - it's a little ungainly as it's currently configured.
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Post by Ex on Jan 6, 2021 21:18:34 GMT -5
Glad you got your stuff Sarge. After you get it all hooked up and emulating, maybe share a photo of the setup?
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Post by Sarge on Jan 6, 2021 22:12:32 GMT -5
I was thinking about it, but it's uuuuugly right now...
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Post by Sarge on Jan 7, 2021 0:38:00 GMT -5
Well that sucks. My VGA CRT probably just died. Could have been the MiSTer, but I don't think so? The IO board is still working fine hooked to an LCD panel through VGA. Maybe it just sat dormant for too long before I started using it recently.
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Post by paulofthewest on Jan 8, 2021 20:26:13 GMT -5
I couldn't find a sad face to express how bad that is. I never like opening those things to try and repair.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 9, 2021 0:05:02 GMT -5
Honestly, I don't plan on opening this one up. I may have a CPE degree, but I'm not super enthusiastic working on stuff that could kill you. My major professor always said, "Five volts is enough for me!" (He was an embedded systems guy, and I did a lot of that too.)
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Post by Ex on Jan 9, 2021 0:57:51 GMT -5
"Five volts is enough for me!" It's not the volts though, it's the amps! Biggest voltage hit I've personally had was 220vAC 150amps while working on a service panel back in 1998, when I was an assistant electrician. Just a slight contact and dry, but still knocked me right on my ass, hurt quite a bit. I was hit by 120vAC quite a few times as well back then... I was young and working too fast. My now job used to entail working within multi-door control panels for heavy industrial machinery very often, but nowadays not as much as I used to, due to working from home. These large panels are built in the same control shop I technically work for. We keep all the automation stuff 24vDC separated by plexiglass on one side of the panel, but the drives (for motors) are 480 volt and push loads of amps - that stuff is kept separate to the other side of the plexiglass, and accessed by unique doors. Multiple defibrillators are kept in the shop in case somebody contacts live 480 while working in the panels.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 9, 2021 1:06:42 GMT -5
True dat.
And ouch. I've been popped by a bare spot plugging in an appliance, and that was no fun. I remember when we were working on the house, Dad cut a wire he thought was off and it sent his wire cutter flying. He was lucky they were insulated.
At the university, we have a high voltage lab. I've only been in there a couple of times, but that is some scary stuff - basically touching off lightning bolts.
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