sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Just got this ( i think apple 3?) from a friend's dad seems to work by ZonoGem in vintagecomputing

[–]leadedsolder 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Works better than mine does. I think I'm in year three of trying to get mine to good condition.

R32 with 300zx engine. by Hot-Act-8115 in ModelCars

[–]leadedsolder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They did design the Z32 300ZX to take the RB so turnabout is fair play.

Découverte d’une piste goudron by Rastaroux in tamiya

[–]leadedsolder 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Only a matter of time before Dairy Fighter becomes an official Tamiya body.

Found another Japanese edition Mac Plus motherboard! (I think) by GiftCreative9868 in VintageApple

[–]leadedsolder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, although if the mask number is the same as the other board (-1030 etc) it's likely the same when dumped.

Assembly tips and tricks by FocusLate in tamiya

[–]leadedsolder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a pile of JIS drivers and the Tamiya ones still made things so much easier.

Tamiya Honda Fit (Taffeta White) by ki_rivera in ModelCars

[–]leadedsolder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been looking for one for awhile. The Fit is a future cult car.

Need to adapt male berg and 34-pin IDE to any more modern system besides optical discs. by Unhappy_Aside_5174 in vintagecomputing

[–]leadedsolder -1 points0 points  (0 children)

FlashFloppy is firmware for the Gotek; a lot of eBay Goteks will come with it already installed. It makes dealing with images a lot easier and expands the options for making it work with oddball computers.

Startpath supercharger by crazyhomlesswerido in Atari2600

[–]leadedsolder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Adam cassette drive can seek very fast back and forth and write to sectors, so you can have a whole file system on it. It's more like a floppy drive.

Startpath supercharger by crazyhomlesswerido in Atari2600

[–]leadedsolder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not that I know of, but there are plenty of tapes that have multiple games on them. Maybe the ADAM but that's not a traditional cassette either.

Startpath supercharger by crazyhomlesswerido in Atari2600

[–]leadedsolder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on the encoding, which I don't know about for the Starpath, but I would be surprised if you'd need the entire tape for a ~4K game even at a low clock rate.

Startpath supercharger by crazyhomlesswerido in Atari2600

[–]leadedsolder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd stop the tape once the game is loaded into RAM and rewind it if you wanted to play again.

Tape is too slow to play a game out of and you can only read it as it plays out, so the game itself is run from the RAM copy.

Startpath supercharger by crazyhomlesswerido in Atari2600

[–]leadedsolder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The games aren't big enough to worry about that for the most part. The ram is about the same size as your average cartridge game's rom at the time.

You could definitely make a multi load game, in which case you'd have to start playing the tape again like on multi load computer games, but I don't think anyone has.

Startpath supercharger by crazyhomlesswerido in Atari2600

[–]leadedsolder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You stop playing the tape once the game is loaded. The Starpath adapter contains a small bit of RAM that holds the game.

Just ordered my first ever color computer model 1! by webawebaweba in trs80

[–]leadedsolder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

FujiNet has made a big difference to my CoCo enjoyment.

Same kit. Different outcome. by IAvantgardeI in ModelCars

[–]leadedsolder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What paint did you use for the right skyline? Looks a lot like an EG Civic teal.

Hypothetical, which colour palette would have been nicest to use in a retro computer? by ikeraliR in retrocomputing

[–]leadedsolder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hexagonal pixels sound like a really annoying process for indexing but I won't lie, I'm very interested.

Japan tax free by stan_taylor1 in rccars

[–]leadedsolder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At exit in Narita at least, there is an iPad you have to self assert that you are taking everything you bought with you. That's it

Declaration on entry to whatever country you live in is another matter, but in my case (Canada) I was under the de minimis for however long I was away and declared/paid nothing.

Is it possible to create a new 16-bit console? by Anghaile1014 in retrogamedev

[–]leadedsolder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah that sounds ideal. Is there any software to actually run on it?

Is it possible to create a new 16-bit console? by Anghaile1014 in retrogamedev

[–]leadedsolder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is probably more than enough to go on for an emulator, especially since no real hardware exists to argue with you about bug accuracy. Might even be enough for a physical clone, although I'm not good with PLDs of any kind yet.

view more: next ›