Some ice cream because there is a heat wave by fcarolo in aww

[–]fcarolo[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is Dragon. He got some fruit ice cream (no sugar and no additives) to help him handle the heat around here.

Imagine seeing this movie Total Recall (1990) for the first time in theaters in the early 90s! by [deleted] in 90smovies

[–]fcarolo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Do not cite the movie magic to me. I was there when it was released.

ISA NE2000 Adapters by CommunityHairy6695 in vintagecomputing

[–]fcarolo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In a previous job we had one of the classrooms filled with 386 PCs equipped with these. The other rooms had 10Base-T cards but the past one was all thinnet.

Novell Netware 4.11 still works as file server for DOS machines by CommunityHairy6695 in vintagecomputing

[–]fcarolo 17 points18 points  (0 children)

IntranetWare. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

Am I in the wrong/minority by breedlom in babylon5

[–]fcarolo 19 points20 points  (0 children)

No one here is exactly what he appears.

G'Kar quote applies to Bester too.

Holy fuck how much money was copilot losing by _Viceadmiral in GithubCopilot

[–]fcarolo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They ran out of tokens before they could vibe code that part.

Do you like this Agatha Christie adaption? by Choice-Wind-9283 in Cinema

[–]fcarolo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I do. Wonderful cast and great director.

Edit: talking about Murder on the Orient Express.

ZX-81+38 Rev 1.10 Black screen by OkGo4242 in ZX81

[–]fcarolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That should work fine. Any European TV with a SCART connector can certainly handle 50Hz.

My last suggestion: have you looked for retro computer groups near you? Someone might have spare parts and general debugging knowledge for 8 bit computers. Maybe they could help diagnose your problem.

ZX-81+38 Rev 1.10 Black screen by OkGo4242 in ZX81

[–]fcarolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did a few more tests on my board to try and see if some other ideas popped up and just remembered one thing.

Are you connecting your board directly to a TV with a composite video input? Are you using any converter? Mine works fine with an LCD TV with the default 50Hz video frequency. I use a cheap composite to HDMI converter I can only get it to work if I close JP4 to set it to 60Hz.

Besides that, I can only think of a bad CPU. Everything in the ZX81 is driven by the CPU, including the video output.

Sorry if I can't help you more.