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  2. Posted

    47 minutes ago, _The Doctor__ said:

    Sorry Decker, your just not Starfleet Material

    Don't fly over this house then - your non-shielded starship will melt :) 



    Earth calling, pilot to co-pilot
    Looking for life on this planet, sir, no sign of it
    All I can see is a bunch of smoke flyin'
    And I'm so high that I might die if I go by it
    Let me outta this place, I'm outta place
    I'm in outer space, I've just vanished without a trace
    I'm going to a pretty place now where the flowers grow
    I'll be back in an hour or so

  3. Posted

    Looks at this and laughs (or cries).  Think to myself - the people that never saw CRT screens before, probably don't know that you used to pick up a phone and get this thing called a dialtone.  Also, when driving, we would stop at a gas station and find a phone bolted to a pole in a glass box in order to make a call in an emergency.  Wanders back into my retirement home, screaming at the clouds.

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  4. Posted

    1 hour ago, rensoup said:

    My bad, Xbios speed is fine... Did a quick compare with a bunch of ATRs and all speed patches disabled in Altirra and it's the same (I even attempted a quick optimization test of the Xbios load function and got 0 benefit). 😅

     

    Seems like I had forgotten how slow the 1050 was!

    Slow yes.  Please tell me, when these speeds were common all the way back in 2010, the OS allowed for higher speeds all the way back in 1979, and now in 2021 we have 90kB/sec HDD loaders, why single speed SIO seems a good idea?  I know we can drop all the way back to 600 baud loading of CAS files, but seriously, why?

     

     

  5. Posted

    46 minutes ago, atarialoha said:

    (It's so amazing to be able to write casually about 1050, ANTIC, etc. and actually not have people look at you weird.

    Welcome back.  Another beta member for all 3 of the Mytek boards here.  If you have any questions about this or the new stuff, just ask.  If you've really been gone for a decade, you are in for a surprise in all the new toys we have :)  Better strap that wallet down if you get carried away.

  6. Posted

    4 minutes ago, moonlight_mile said:

    I just so happen to be flipping around YouTube and came across flashjazzcat’s recent uav video.

    The one he was working in was displaying the same symptoms as mine when the color line was connected. He determined that the composite and Luma wires were switched in the terminal block. I switched mine plugged the color in back in and wala perfect screen.

    I am still going to search for that apc.xex and test it but at least I know all the lines are now connected.

    Thanks again for the help.

    Here ya go - acp.xex

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  9. Posted

    10 minutes ago, -^CrossBow^- said:

    My thought on this is that the SDcards are fine but that your OS is formatting them using ExFAT or NTFS and not FAT32 as is usually required by these devices. There is a program out there to force format large capacity SD and flashdrives to FAT32 format. That is how I got my 128GB SDcard working in my RHEA on my Saturn.

     

    I own the MODE and yes it is expensive. But you know what? I really like how darn simple the thing is to use. Like the GDEmus it is a reversible mod as it just literally plugs in place of the original GDrom drive. I also like the fact that the MODE can use an actual 2.5" HDD and SDcard media at the same time. It is easier to update in most cases etc. So it is expensive, but its cost shows in how it all works, the options it has, and overall ease in its use. So far it seems to work with every game as well and I don't have to mess with Region changing the images or any of that jazz as I still have to do with my RHEA on my Saturn for instance.

     

    I'll try again - I did use an external SD card formatter, and according to that program, it was forcing FAT32.

  11. Posted

    2 hours ago, str0m said:

    The cheap chinese clones off ebay work fine, just don't try and update the firmware.

     

    Get a proper Sandisk card off somewhere like Amazon, not ebay. I had a 128GB before which was clearly fake as I kept getting corruption over 32GB. Got a couple of sandisk off Amazon which are fine, 128 and 200

     

    Then get the SD Card maker program, it is literally drag and drop, see on this page for a guide https://retrogamesultra.com/2019/02/17/sega-dreamcast-gdemu-installation-and-setup/

     

    Well, I tried that - including the SD Card Maker.  It seemed any card over 32GB I tried, the GDEmu just refused to boot the menu, it acted like there was no card installed.  PC could read the card just fine.

  12. Posted

    Yep - we already have the above mentioned three projects by Mytek.  There's also two FPGA recreations (Eclaire XL and a core that runs on Mister).  There's a potential 130XE PCB recreation in the works.  Hopefully, by announcing the idea of it, before building it, design by community could stop anything from happening, because if you ask 20 people for ideas, you'll get 50 differing ones then the arguments happen.

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  15. Posted

    1 hour ago, leech said:

    This is more of a 'could we as a community build our own Pro System based loosely around the goals of the VCS (modern hardware stuffed inside a good looking case, with a Linux based operating system (we can use GamerOS or something else if we get some designers for that).  Let's put our money where our mouths are and see what we, as a community, can do better?

    Pretty funny then, that every time someone suggest doing something worthwhile with the VCS, the immediate answer is "use it as a PC, i.e., install Windows".  I know though - maybe 2021 will be the year of Linux on the desktop.

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  16. Posted

    On 1/16/2021 at 10:28 PM, eightbit said:

    While I do not burn games anymore (my DC is modded with a USB GDROM and an internal 500GB hard drive now) when I did I never had any issue. There was always talk that the GDROM would die if you used backups. I call BS on that.

     

    I had three Dreamcasts (all launch units) and used backups for years and years. This one I own included. The GDROM drive was perfectly fine when I removed it too.

     

    If you use quality media you will be fine. If you use quality game images (images that are dummied to fill the entire disc you will be fine. The burning speed matters too sometimes. The Echelon rip of "Skies of Arcadia" would glitch if not burned at 4X or lower speed. That may be hard to do nowadays however unless you have an old computer with a burner that supports those slow burning speeds.

     

    And Discjuggler was and still is the defacto standard to burn .CDI images. Alcohol 120% can burn them as well...and just as well. Or, if you want to use Nero you can use the command line tool "cdi2nrg" (google it) and then they will be perfectly converted to Nero images to burn using that software. I used to convert them so that I can burn them in Linux (using Nero Linux).

     

     

    Same here.

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    Never had an issue with the drive - it still works like new.

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  17. Posted

    On 1/29/2021 at 6:17 PM, sn8k said:

    If your Dreamcast was built by a certain date, it plays burned games. Just need CD-R's. Though I don't recommend this. Laser burns out. And the actual motor itself can die out pretty quick if you get the settings wrong for a certain game.

     

    Not every game burns on the same settings. What worked for the first 20 games, will be different for the next 20. Games burned incorrectly will make your already loud dreamcast way louder. You can hear it stressing the console. Most games should be burned at the lowest speed possible. Some refuse to be burned at 4x  and require a slower speed.  Some drives dont even go that low. Others want to be burned at 8 or 10 if they refuse 4x. 

     

    After burned games killed my white DC, I purchased every game I play on DC so I could actually own the originals. I refuse to put burned games in my black Sega Sports DC. Unless its a boot disc, no CD-R goes into it.

    Did someone mention CD-Rs?

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  19. Posted

    I recently got one of the clones.  My Dreamcast was working, but it's sure easier to store 300 games on a micro SD card rather an 300 CDs.  The only issue I am having, is finding a card > 32GB that works.

     

    Like you, my original drive was working.  But I had no qualms taking it out.  It's sealed and stored safely and the mod is non-destructive.  If I want to use the original drive again, just plug it back in, so no harm there.

  20. Posted

    I tried to zoom in as best as I could on the picture - that power supply they have sitting behind it is definitely not an original unit.  The machine runs on a 9VAC supply, I believe 31 watts.  When the 400 was sold new, I do believe it came with a BASIC language programming cart, as the original models did not have BASIC built in.  The unit has the standard Atari SIO port (serial port, pre-cursor to USB_ for connecting cassette drive, disk drive, printer, modem, etc.

     

    I don't know what the current ebay prices are, but I would certainly not pay $180 for a 16kB 400 with the original membrane keyboard.

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  23. Posted

    2 hours ago, Mr Robot said:

    Well this came out OK. 

     

    Thanks to Eric Nikolaisen on Facebook for sending me his Sys Check to model.  

     

    This will be coming to a website near you soon.

     

     

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    Damn it - you are going to really crank my arm and reverse my thoughts that all 3D printed stuff is shit.  I'll buy your products, but not another 3D printer :)

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  24. Posted

    5 minutes ago, leech said:

    Writing a game has zero bearings on if you own the rights to it.  He was contracted by Atari to do Tempest 2000.

    Atari did not own the rights.  It was not in their IP collection.  Regardless - suing somebody, and then stealing screenshots of their work, while faking controllers, is absolute bullshit.  If you cannot see that, and you cannot comprehend why this completely sours me to the brand, then I feel bad for you.

  25. Posted

    2 hours ago, leech said:

    Ha, that was a joke.  We assume Rob Wyatt actually did any useful work for them.  He was supposed to be working on some sort of sandbox mode, and as their 'lies' were pointed out was never a thing.  So how much of that was his fault?

     

    Basically the showing of t4k to me was them needing to show 'something' and having nothing else to show, so plucked the new version one of their most successful titles on the Jag.  But hadn't actually cleared it with Minter.  So shit was flung from both sides.  I just ate popcorn.

    They showed Tempest 4k AFTER suing Minter for saying his game was too close to tempest 2000 (he fucking owns the rights, he WROTE T2K).  Also, the lying bastards showed a game running on a WINDOWS only system, but acted like it was a native Linux (or Atari OS) port.  100% bullshit.  The controllers they showed were fake.  This is as devious as it gets.

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