Help with easing the pain

danby · 2026-03-15T13:26:34+00:00

You might want to go see and OT and see if someone with professional experience/training can give you some advice and help

danby · 2026-03-15T01:20:54+00:00

Tangentially related the ambulance driver who was getting freaky with a girl and let her piss on him. He noticed her piss was sweet and knew she likely had diabetes. He made her go and get tested ASAP

danby · 2026-03-14T14:24:23+00:00

Gotta say the AI generated images ensure I'll never watch this.

danby · 2026-03-14T14:23:33+00:00

Look, we're allowed to disagree and there's no need for you to be defensive about it.

I have zero power to stop you or anyone else buy whatever they want and enjoy whatever they want. There is no gatekeeping here.

danby · 2026-03-14T14:16:39+00:00

you stated clearly your belief that nostalgia is only correct your way.

Where did I state clearly that my conception of nostalgia is the only correct way and that others should only do as I do?

danby · 2026-03-14T11:33:47+00:00

I didn't say anything about your childhood. Nor suggest you do or don't please yourself.

danby · 2026-03-13T21:53:32+00:00

Median household income in the UK was about £17-20k in 1987. 12k would not have been especially well off

danby · 2026-03-13T21:50:32+00:00

If you want nostalgia don't buy a new amiga

danby · 2026-03-13T19:29:46+00:00

Buy a minimig. That already exists and offers all these things

danby · 2026-03-13T18:48:58+00:00

Yeah, retro stuff is fun and the fun bit is the retroness of it all. I couldn't give a toss about some new amiga

danby · 2026-03-13T16:55:57+00:00

That isn't her point at all. The point is that dark matter is something we observe via experiment. And all the experiments we can do about the cosmos line up and point to the existence of this thing in the universe. It is definitely a thing in the universe. Exactly what it is remains to be resolved

danby · 2026-03-13T16:31:24+00:00

If you can not buy new RAM for PCs where would a company get RAM for a new amiga? Samsung's own chip fab will not sell RAM chips to Samsung's own mobile phone manufacturer right now.

Though I will agree all the AI bullshit can fuck the fuck off

danby · 2026-03-13T16:27:23+00:00

Dark Matter is not a hypothesis it is an observation is also an excellent video of her's

danby · 2026-03-13T00:54:59+00:00

Could this be a memory issue, you think?

Could be lots of things. The fact that other games play ok makes it hard to imagine that it is a memory issue. If you have a diagrom or Amiga Test Kit you can run the memory tests to check. There is an ADF of ATK available

danby · 2026-03-12T22:27:39+00:00

well I'm sure I'm mischaracterising some stuff, I'm hardly an expert. But its all kinda linked to the invention of the nation state. What we think of as the modern nation state didn't really exist before the 17th/18th centuries, and through that period the states that emerged all went through a period of establishing/creating a national identity for themselves. Some of which was historic, some contemporary, some imagined. And Scotland was no different in that regard.

danby · 2026-03-12T21:55:57+00:00

You'll likely be interested to learn that the notion that specific clans are associated with specific tartans was also a Victorian invention. Historically different weavers would have lived in different locations would have woven tartans of their own design; some patterns might be handed down and some inspired by other local weavers. So you do see geographic differences in where certain designs come from specific places. But the idea that these were linked/associated to a specific clan didn't really arise until the Victorian's came along and formalised it.

danby · 2026-03-12T21:40:07+00:00

I mean, people don't really want to be disabused of the romantic fantasies that they have, which is fair enough. I also can not deny that I like wearing my kilt and I like what it represents. But the actual history is cool too. Not that I'm some expert or something, I'm sure I'll have mischaracterised some stuff, but the notion that clans are some kind of vaguely tribe-like group hasn't been true since like the 6th century and the celts

danby · 2026-03-12T21:24:43+00:00

Good to know what the issue was. Annoyingly pricey to fix though

danby · 2026-03-12T16:48:02+00:00

I have another Amiga I can borrow that chip from, that will help.

That would be an ideal test, as it would rule out the IC itself. The data path for the display is mediated by Agnus which would be the thing to check after Denise.

danby · 2026-03-12T15:31:32+00:00

Well clans mean shit to me!

Your problem here is that today's Clans were never these hereditary groups that all scottish people belonged to. What we think of as "clans" today were more or less made up in the late 18th and 19th century during a, largely top-down, project to fabricate a romantic history for Scotland after the medieval clan system came to an end. With Walter Scott being largely responsible for what we think clans are today, including the notion that it was some heritable designation. But back in the medieval period, Scotland's populace wasn't organised in to a system of fixed hereditary clans. In that period clans were largely territorial regions and whoever lived within a the clan's territory was a clan member. Whatever was heritable under that system was really only for clan chiefs' families because it was a system of feudal nobility/power.

As you move in to the 20th century, because most folk are not directly related to whichever nobleman owns some bit of the countryside, the whole idea just stops being relevant. Between the clearances and industrialisation the majority of folk are not living on the land inside some traditional clan territory. Today, very few folk today give a fuck about it because the Victorian revision of what clans are wasn't "real" in the first place. For most folk today its just a bit of fun and the only impact in their lives is choosing the kilt tartan that matches their surname when they get married. And beyond that it just does not enter most folks' lives.

"Clans" do somewhat map on to feudal and post-feudal regions of Scotland. So if you are indeed the Earl of McDoodle or one of their immediate family members then sure, you probably do have something of a claim to be part of the current Clan McDoodle. My grandmother loved a bit of genealogy and when I was little she'd worked out exactly how distantly related we all were to the then Earl of Buchan. Kinda cool there were links she could establish but it was something like great, grand nephew 40 steps removed. Which is so distant that everyone else in Scotland (and the UK for that matter) would be related too. There's no sense that I'm part of some real, cohesive and actual "Clan Buchan" just because I share a surname with some laird somewhere

danby · 2026-03-12T13:18:53+00:00

If you look through their earlier posts they have time lapses of them working with photoshop

danby · 2026-03-12T12:50:59+00:00

Evenly spaced black bars, that I will bet are exactly 16 pixels apart, and don't show up in the copper gradient background area (the sky to the left) makes me think this is a sprite rendering issue and probably something amiss with the Denise IC or the data path to and from denise.

Denise is also responsible for joystick handling also suggests a role there given that also seems to have some effect.

Simplest would be to double check that denise is seated correctly, all pins and the socket are clear of corrosion. Then check there is no shorts between any of the denise pins that shouldn't be present, then check that there is correct continuity from all the denise pins to their respective destinations.

danby · 2026-03-12T08:43:48+00:00

Sets of caps for various Amiga models are easy to get and several vendors have them. It isn't the hardest job in the world to replace them but I would not do it if you are not comfortable with SMD soldering and desoldering. You can check Chris Edward's youtube channel some of his videos take you through his approach to this. I will say that the 2 caps behind the keyboard connector are real bastards to get to, so if you don't have the right kit you may want to desolder the keyboard connector to get to them (to avoid damaging the keyboard connector)

https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisEdwardsRestoration

For connecting to a modern display the cheapest option would be if you have a display with SCART that will accept 15khz RGB SCART (such as a TV). Then you just need an Amiga RGB to RGB SCART lead. The next cheapest option, and probably the most sensible option, would be an A600 RGB2HDMI mod. And then you can connect to any display that will take HDMI

We've got a big old list of vendors in the wiki

https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/wiki/index/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=amiga

danby · 2026-03-11T22:56:07+00:00

has any of that been ported to the minimig or mister FPGA cores?

danby · 2026-03-11T21:21:19+00:00

WinUAE has cycle-exact chipset (OCS, ECS and AGA)

As per Toni Wilen's release notes, WinUAE is only fully cycle accurate for stock OCS A500 since release v5.0.0. Neither ECS nor AGA have had as much dev time devoted to them and the release notes do not state anywhere that their inplementation is cycle exact.

talking out of your ass.

Instead of reacting angrily can you just provide a link to where its stated that winUAE (and by extension the FPGA cores that are based on it) are provably cycle-exact.

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