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  5. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    Did Atari reveal the exact chip they will use now?

     

    Sounds like it will be the AMD Ryzen Embedded V1202B

     

     

    Wouldn't surpise me since the Smach Z uses the V1605B. Both Smach and Atari have had their own mini displays in AMD's booth in past tech shows

    Pick one out of a hat doesnt matter whatever gets the delay
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    There's a video of LGR running MS-DOS on a a Ryzen cpu lol

     

    I run DOS 6.22 all the time on my FX and i7 machines

     

    not to actually run programs and whatnot but sometimes its just easier to set up a hard drive in dos on a newbox, pop into windows and dump the drivers and utilities that went with it I downloaded from compaq or whatnot and move on with life

     

    its still x86, it works fine ... within reason, bone stock forget USB, SATA in AHCI mode etc

  10. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    Well, I think I know what a CPU and a GPU are...APU? What's that? ... an ASS PROCESSING UNIT?

     

    all in one pu, tis intergrated graphics and cpu in one

     

    its not a bad deal, I made my dad a new ryzen apu box, cost about 200 bucks for the core system + windows reusing his case & drives, its a super gaming machine .... for a 76 year old who hasn't played a game since we got rid of the colecovision

     

    for the rest of us, a 2400G (which is the top dawg ryzen apu) will net rock solid 720p at low - mid settings in most lower end games, and can fit inside a NES shell ... so to fit it in a smaller than a laptop space, given their dipshit layer design, one could expect a hdmi dongle level of performance, which could be ok if they were not charging 300 bucks for something you can already buy for less than 200... for the last 5 years

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    Well wtf? I've seen individuals short, then force more current through them, then explode as expected. But for 26 to go bad in one shot? Why'd that happen?

     

    Did someone reverse the polarity or overvoltage a supply rail or something, weaken them, let them sit, then power on = poof?

     

    have no clue of the history of the board, AFAIK it was sitting in a plastic tub out in someone's garage for 2 decades, then I go and plug a 400 watt ATX supply (with an AT adapter) in and fireworks

     

    to be fair I got the entire tub and everything else worked fine, so imagine my surprise and the language I used when I hit that board ... I replaced them with ceramics since they were only 10uf and it now works fine

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    Okay, maybe I should have been a little bit more precise, how about ANALOG as in carried on an AUDIO CARRIER. For instance even as late as the 1980's home computers (like the TI-99/4A) used an audio carrier. I even remember using ANALOG audio to carry digital media over AX.25 radio transmissions. The only time I had trouble was with the ISS and Doppler shift.

     

    that's nice and all but they did have magnetic tape for computers BACK then as well which was what my original reference was to in the first place but thanks for being in left field with you FINGER up your nose

     

    whats with the random words being shouted anyway

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    That "permanent" old hard drive will fail if you drop it or even give it a solid knock. The new SSD, not so much.

     

     

    I have had hard drives randomly go into stiction mode just sitting in a drawer ... course they were almost 30 years old when doing so ... grease only lasts so long

     

    Also, its longevity decreases with write cycles, so if you just want to store stuff it will last forever

     

    um no, last I checked the general notion on flash memory is if you wrote something to it, and store it in ideal conditions, bit rot would start occuring in 10 years, magnetic media is much longer term storage, which is why you can read shit off of tapes from the 1950's

  23. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    I have made a number of computers in my life, I still have a 6809, a cpm compatibly z80 box (in brushed aluminum and pale blue) and a few micro controller based designs. Its fun to do, but making your ideal computer out of whatever is the easy part, its the decades of software and experiences that make our old machines special.

     

    Sure, right now in my garage, like if I could reach though the wall where I sit, I can grab my z80 single board computer that's got a 128meg compact flash card and a FTDI EVE2 graphics processor that does 640x480x who the cares amount of colors, open CL and GL acceleration and 16 bit stereo sound, and its not nearly as fun as my 65XE

     

    why?

     

    simple the only things I have for it is a crappy port of tiny basic, pong and a snake game with some bitmap display examples

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  25. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    FPGA is treated like a holy grail among fan's (for some reason) but at the end its all down to execution, good emulation will be good, bad emulation will be bad.

     

    In reality we are well past the point of a computer having too much to do that it can't properly emulate anything an FPGA could and its just another choice ... do you pay 225 dollars for 40$ worth of parts with 5 pirate games cause its magical special FPGA, or do you get a 50$ (or less) computer that runs robotron just as well, but have to deal with an OS and a bigger box

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