Displaced Gamers

The same thing happened to me with my copy of Legend of Valkyrie years ago. Cleaning multiple times did nothing. I still need to replace it.

VLB VGA card #4 arrived. Trident 9440.

With jumper set to <= 33 MHz, DOOM and Quake froze at launch, sadly. I jumpered to > 33, and everything was stable. My motherboard has some really tight settings from using the Cirrus Logic, so I may relax those and jumper back to <= 33 at next opportunity.

Oh nooooooooooooooooo

I kept wanting to respond with “voltages are derived off b+ and <blah blah blah>” but I’ve only worked on maybe five sets and my knowledge falls off quickly.

Nice work, man!

I purchased X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter as soon as it was released, and the two discs included had the labels swapped. Single Player disc was the Multiplayer disc and vice versa. I guess it must have been a trend.

YouTube video by Displaced Gamers NES Metroid - Lag of the Bosses and Scrolling Jitters - Metroid Lag Part 2

Ridley, Kraid, and Mother Brain Life Support slow down! But why?

Let's do a performance dive to answer this question and also find out why scrolling seems to lag when Samus is flipping through the air... but in reality does not!

Part 2 of Metroid Lag - youtu.be/1oCE-hYT3LY

Here is the feedback I write for everything:

“Thanks”

Turns out Sound Blaster Re:imagine is sadly what we kinda knew it would be.

Ceramic white 6502 CPU from 1975

Happy birthday to the MOS 6502! It was 50 years ago today that people were able to buy their first samples of the chip from a jar in a hotel room at WESCON.

Here's my oldest 6502 from the 52nd week of 1975. Still works perfectly!

Found this while cleaning out the basement at a family member’s house. Any of my computer buddies here on bsky use one before?

So it turns out I may need to replace this RAM and possibly another chip on the opposite side of the PCB.

And boy, does the “I don’t have the equipment for this” feeling hit hard.

Well, it is time for that once every five years cleaning, I suppose.

Those are the best builds.

Yeeesssss.

Are you gonna have a playable copy with rumble going at RWE?

You may want to put it on archive . Org more so than YT.

But I guess we gotta get you a drive or somethin’

How's the performance in the mansions?

Putting in a d-key order for new surface mount caps soonish. Considering adding more to cart.

Any specific recommendations for flux type, soldering tip (I have chisel on it now and a cone around here somewhere...), braid for cleaning pads (why won't these pads get CLEAN), etc?

Well... gimme some recommendations!

Do flux pens “expire,” really?

..y… yes.

Guess who ordered an entire set of surface mount caps only to realize he used the wrong measurements...

Well... I guess I will try that again. Might as well include some new flux, desoldering braid, and other items in the order this time.

I think I may have reached the point in life when I need a microscope for fine soldering work. If you have any recommendations, lemme know.

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Wait, what?

Oh yeah. No microscope used. Take that.

Image artifacting after maybe 8 tests, though.

Fan sounds like it is destroying itself, and there are capacitors hanging off the card, but you know…

(I guess I need a 1500uf with… something voltage rating. Or a full recap. Need a decoder for that writing)

One day you just mind your business. Next day… you acquire an engraving tool and grind down RAM on an AGP video card.

I so want to do this at some point.

Look forward to reading more about your experience with this one in the future!

Gosh. First fully 3D FPS. Never thought about it, but yeah... I guess it was.