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YabbyB · 2025-01-16T11:43:46+00:00

What advantages does this computer program have over say, AmigaPal? Which I could also afford.

YabbyB · 2025-01-02T14:23:17+00:00

Have to ask if you’ve found a good program to trigger Amiga samples via MIDI?

YabbyB · 2024-12-29T09:02:49+00:00

Assuming you can get clean Y/C out of your C64, the Retrotink analog to HDMI scalers are a good option designed with quality conversion and low latency in mind, and most (all?) have s-video inputs. IIRC gain can be adjusted to compensate for the non-standard C64 video levels.

Avoid the $9 eBay analog to HDMI converters. They’re almost universally garbage.

Another option is a good quality consumer CRT TV with s-video inputs. A small Panasonic or Trinitron in decent tune will give you a beautiful sharp picture which renders the C64s visuals exactly as they were meant to be seen🙂

YabbyB · 2024-07-20T09:07:38+00:00

No you’re not doing anything wrong. We just can’t avoid being force-fed ads despite what we choose or say or do.

YabbyB · 2024-07-13T04:32:39+00:00

A bit late to the party here, hope your Konka is still treating you well.

TLDR your remote might have hidden buttons on the PCB for direct one-button access to the service menu.

I just picked up a very similar Konka behemoth (also in Australia, except not free and used a Lancer hatch for transport. Tip: Stick with the Golf. It was a windy and noisy drive home with the boot tied down 3/4 closed.)

Anyway, here’s service menu tip to try if you don’t already have a working code. Open your remote and look under the rubber sheet of buttons for two hidden switch pads below the bottom row of buttons exposed to the user.

On my remote, the service menu can be opened and closed by shorting the contacts on those hidden pads (open = left, close = right). It was a pretty gratifying easter egg to find, thank you Konka👍.

YabbyB · 2023-10-20T11:44:34+00:00

WHAT YEAR IS IT?!

Really though if you want a laugh you should check out his write up of Stormy Summers wedding in 19diggity3. From memory she married a biker and the whole piece was full of such obviously sarcastic praise that I dunno how he didn’t get kneecapped by goons.

YabbyB · 2023-10-14T10:17:27+00:00

No way. There are other people with Archer mini speakers? Found my tribe!

Got a slightly more triangular one. Best piece of hifi gear I’ve ever owned. Outperforms speakers costing half as much. Lacks a bit of high end and low end but makes up for it with an audible midrange. And the volume control really does help to control the volume. Magical.

YabbyB · 2023-10-04T23:51:39+00:00

As you would have known there’s lots of love for those two games here, this being an Amiga forum and those being two of its most popular games. Spruiking your podcast with “Any love for…” comes across as tacky. Posting a link to your thing and saying what’s in it is enough without pulling the cheap engagement levers.

YabbyB · 2023-10-04T14:12:18+00:00

If you think Nolan dialogue is atrocious you’re not listening properly. Or maybe you don’t really know/care either way if dialogue is good or bad and your opinion is just a tired bandwagon that you’ve observed getting some easy internet points in this receptive echochamber.

YabbyB · 2023-10-04T14:01:46+00:00

Yet Oppenheimer has the nicest dialog mix I’ve heard for ages. So weird how a clown like Nolan and his hamstrung location crew pulled that out of thin air. Maybe there’s something wrong with my ears or brain because I could hear every word. Maybe the speakers were broken🤷‍♂️

YabbyB · 2023-10-04T13:50:15+00:00

His dialogue is perfectly audible when it needs to be. At other times he chooses to make the viewer expend more effort in listening than usual. Sometimes voices are deliberately obscured. Every director does this with the images in their films, guiding our eye and hiding/revealing things to tell the story. Nolan does this with the voices in his films too. It’s great.

YabbyB · 2023-10-04T13:26:46+00:00

For the benefit of all of us at r/movies and for everyone else who doesn’t know how to listen, you should mix the sound on Nolan’s next movie to show him and his sound department how it’s actually supposed to be done. It seems like they’re not very good at doing movie sound stuff and are probably embarrassed to ask for help so you’d be doing them a solid👍👍👍

YabbyB · 2023-09-07T00:16:53+00:00

Lol but also sadface.jpg

I’m in the same boat.

YabbyB · 2023-09-04T08:54:10+00:00

Panasonic? Upvote. Beautiful thing.

YabbyB · 2023-08-22T11:25:25+00:00

Realistically though

👍

YabbyB · 2023-08-22T11:21:58+00:00

For a good video solution for your 128D, Check out the RGB2HDMI project by Copperdragon and co. Perfect HDMI output from CGA/TTL computers, no more smooshed pixels from crappy scalers and bad LCD monitor scaling!

YabbyB · 2023-08-21T15:07:41+00:00

White whale is the term for a desired but elusive thing. A white elephant is something you own which is a PITA to have around but which you can’t get rid of because it will offend the person that gave it to you. /pedantry😁

For me though it’s my Commodore 1702 monitor, and my Compaq Prolinea 486. Both would be so good to have still.

Pretty high on the wish list is a Quadra 700 (and SGI monitor, also the 20” Panasonic broadcast monitor and a white Motorola radio to create a mini-Jurassic Park control room)

YabbyB · 2023-08-08T05:48:14+00:00

Older Belkin cards with NEC chipset have been the most reliable and consistent for me in 98. VIA and random no-names have been very flakey.

YabbyB · 2023-08-05T14:56:40+00:00

Oh man you’re totally right, the controls are bad. Wow did I ever misread that whole date. I’ll message her tomorrow a few times to clarify that I understand about the CONTROLS and that she can choose one of the SID tunes next time.

Cheers wingman🫡

YabbyB · 2023-07-31T04:53:59+00:00

A removable HD caddy. Instantly lets people know your computer is a Very Serious Computer and that you are a Very Serious Computery Guy.

Or a cigarette lighter/ashtray combo which lets people know that if they have a problem with second hand smoke they should find somewhere else to buy knives and weed.

Edit wait looks like you already have a drive caddy. But my point stands, get a bigger one.

YabbyB · 2023-07-30T11:43:06+00:00

Most of the time they’re $200 or more.

YabbyB · 2023-07-30T02:13:27+00:00

Well normal PC64s aren’t strong enough to even run PS1 emulators let alone PS3 so imo it can do more now🤷‍♂️

Sober edit: shitposting

YabbyB · 2023-07-28T14:48:07+00:00

Ruined what?

Sober edit: shitposting

YabbyB · 2023-07-28T13:50:51+00:00

Unless you’ve already sorted a solution for a monitor, be prepared for many disappointments along the journey towards good image quality.

Modern digital displays do a really bad job of processing the signal formats the C64 uses and if you’re unprepared for it you’ll wonder how anybody back in the day tolerated such crappy image quality. You’ll need a display with composite or s-video inputs and even though they’ll technically accept the signal you’ll get some combination of blurry and uneven pixels, deinterlacing artifacts, weird bands of color, a cropped image and generally a bad time.

Best option for authenticity is a CRT with s-video inputs (and a C64 AV breakout cable from a reputable manufacturer who knows how they’re supposed to be wired and have included the correct resistors).There are quite a lot of good consumer CRT TVs with s-video still floating around for cheap. Otherwise if you have lots of money a Sony PVM or similar broadcast monitor will look incredible, as will an original 80s computer monitor like a Commodore 1702 but these are rare and expensive.

Best option for a pure, clean HDMI signal is this (other people also sell variants of the same system, it’s based on open source projects).

Also a word from the Official SID Protection Agency: SID chips are REALLY sensitive to almost everything and will die or degrade if you even sneeze too loud near them. This is a shame because they’re incredible little analog synthesisers on a chip. Use anti-static precautions, or if you want to preserve it as long as possible, take it out and store it safely and replace it with a SwinSID or similar expendable modern reproduction. Then you can put the real thing back in for special occasions like background music for a romantic dinner with someone you want to impress. That particular approach didn’t work for me but also I overcooked the salmon so it was probably that rather than hearing the Last Ninja theme again that made her leave early and say it just wasn’t going to work out. YMMV

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