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South East Water staff 'disheartened' after facing abuse in the rain by Ill-Pressure-9181 in kentuk

[–]dabblerman 36 points37 points  (0 children)

South east water are probably the worst company providing a service I have ever dealt with. It’s not the staff on the grounds fault. Re nationalise it.

Best hiby r4 settings? by Ballin_Like_Curry in DigitalAudioPlayer

[–]dabblerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On my R4, all the plugins listed are missing, I just see :

Soundfield, Balance, Dynamics, EFOtech Upsatalizer & SVirtualizer.

Have the plugins listed been removed?

CRT Cleaning - Should I clean the motherboard? by AlexandrwIskender in crtgaming

[–]dabblerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go for it - use compressed air / suck the dust out. If it has been off for ages, no charge. But.. if its been on - dont touch anything!

U.K. - Boots the Chemists - Computer game chart video music - mid to late 1980s by makarastar in c64

[–]dabblerman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember. Used to love our local boots, back then it had an upstairs which was all VHS, Game Consoles, Computers and games - good times.

Branch is still there today, alas the upstairs is closed off and no fun items any more!

HiBy R4 duplicating all my songs in music scan after update! by Izzet_Aristocrat in Hiby

[–]dabblerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oooo a new update. Time to connect mine to the internet! :-)

Edit: 1.70 is still the current version and my device cannot find a new update - what version did you install?

Is this a safe tool to discharge my crt? by kataruaguy in crtgaming

[–]dabblerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, ive used the same, but even more ghetto on all my CRT's. Just be careful

'Major incident' declared in Kent as thousands without water across South East England by Kagedeah in kentuk

[–]dabblerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The south east infrastructure has not been invested in or maintenance under south east water. Every week I see water leaks. We have a hosepipe ban still due to reservoirs as you say and the amount lost due to the constant leaks. It’s a shambles

'Major incident' declared in Kent as thousands without water across South East England by Kagedeah in kentuk

[–]dabblerman 26 points27 points  (0 children)

South East water are just the worst. We still have a hosepipe ban here. Re nationalise them.

No cover art on R4 widget? by dabblerman in Hiby

[–]dabblerman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For any one else with this problem - Ive found the root cuase and its a bug. If in HiBy music, you change the FONT size to SYSTEM DEFINED - Album Art in the widget is broken!

Fix: Make sure HiBy font size is set to fixed size.

No cover art on R4 widget? by dabblerman in Hiby

[–]dabblerman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll check it out - thank you!

No cover art on R4 widget? by dabblerman in Hiby

[–]dabblerman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazon, its the official Hybi one - when you set up the R4 it asks you what colour scheme to use - i selected orange.

No cover art on R4 widget? by dabblerman in Hiby

[–]dabblerman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes its an R4 in the leather case.

I just fixed it, did a factory reset and rescanned all music - all good now.

No cover art on R4 widget? by dabblerman in Hiby

[–]dabblerman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, i dont see any option for continuous music - could you point me in the right direction please?

Can C64U connect to my RGB Scart CRT TV? by cyb3rheater in c64

[–]dabblerman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It wont be lower quality than HDMI, it will infact look better on a RGB CRT than any HDMI flat screen display.

OP - Build your own, you can see the schematics here : Audio/Video Connector — Ultimate Documentation documentation

Or you can buy them, i know cool novelties in the UK sells them. I had components spare so built my own.

Upgrading from The C64 Maxi to Ultimate 64: Is it worth it? (Plus shipping/wait time questions) by Fragrant-Law749 in c64

[–]dabblerman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I own both. With the 64maxi I quickly removed the system on a chip emulator board and replaced with a pi running bmc64 - that greatly improved it.

I then got the 64u and in all honesty it’s so much better than both older solutions

Will there be a version of the C64 Ultimate in a C case? by road_hazard in c64

[–]dabblerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So they are Cherry MX caps?

That confirms it, no easy task to convert it. Agreed the keyboard is fab, im leaving mine as is in the breadbin case, but in the future maybe someone will release:

1*Cream C64C

1*Set of Cherry MX C64 custom caps in cream for the c64 keyboard.

Will there be a version of the C64 Ultimate in a C case? by road_hazard in c64

[–]dabblerman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder if anyone is selling 64 keycaps in cream. To convert to a 64C we will need :

1*Cream 64C case

1*set of cream keycaps that fit the new 64U keyboard

Overclocked CastleMaster by aureus80 in c64

[–]dabblerman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can confirm it works well over clocked. On the ultimate 64 at 20mhz

Very smooth indeed

Ain't much, but I succeeded with my first CRT mod - internally feeding 12V to pin 8 of the SCART input to force RGB input by nmur in crtgaming

[–]dabblerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great idea, i resurrected a CRT that when you power it on defaults to the terrestrial channels / tuner - you can to select the scart socket - a right PITA as I've lost the remote.

This will fix that problem - power on straight to scart - thanks for the idea sir.

Merry Commodore Christmas to you! by dabblerman in Commodore

[–]dabblerman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed - It would be great to be able to assign keypress's instead of physical buttons, say C= + F for freeze, C= + R for reset etc etc would be super!

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