FitzOblong

VU-Meters are so silly I love them!

how did you end up on mars?

An Amiga 500 computer with a fitting screen, a construction of three additional external floppy drives, one an emulator, a non fitting 1541 Floppy drives, and a box of DD2 Floppies, along an unrelated CRT monitor. On the screen the Program X-Copy copying from one floppy drives to another.

Doing it like in the old days. My screening, sorting and cleaning of the old library of software is close to be finished…

#retro #Amiga #floppies

Whad DID belong to a setup like this back then? Like, what do all these components do?

Oh nice a Trabbi!

If the skin gets any more smooth it looks like a pooltoy…

Thats… a Bit disturbing even considering everything else before 😅

Though how was she able to replace her whole had?

I wonder how long till they either trick or force you into subscribing game pass…

Could be worse… my old Huion had a special cable, USB-C on one side, and a splitter to full size HDMI, USB-A, and DC Barrel plug on the other side.

My local castle ruin has something similar to this. Most of its towers are at least partially destroyed since the napoleon period, but in the courtyard you can see how it used to look like.

We used to have technology. Then things needed to get cheaper

You would probably loose me to one of the arcades 😅

You should also consider a used Intel Macbook. I think the last ones are now around the price category. And they still support installing windows or Linux via bootcamp. Although no windows 11 since no TPM chip…
Maybe not very performant, but great screen and good keyboard, speakers, solid shell.

That’s a nice colour mix indeed

Alles genauso wie die letzten 25 Jahre also…

I am daily driving linux too, that’s why I know I am right. Just the fact that literally every problem has already been asked by someone shows how difficult things often are. And sometimes it’s little things that you simply need to know.

Average Linux experience. Doesn’t even matter if Arch or debian based, nothing beyond the browser and rythmbox works, and you will spend hours troubleshooting something that should have worked from the getgo.

So does a gamer, to be honest…

Got my test tapes. Should be 3,15kHz, is 3,19kHz. I think I got pretty close when setting the speed yesterday just by listening to the music…

Then I also see more and more using AI slob as pfp or for their artwork.

I guess there is a realisation that many don’t really care as long as the results look „good“. It’s an improvement in workflow at the end. Art is a business, too, for better or worse.

An AKAI GX-32 Tapedeck.

A commodore datasette in very good optical condition, and a 1541 floppy drive.

Picked up a newer tape deck today! Ran a bit slow but I got that roughly adjusted. No more humming and hissing, it’s capacitors are certainly in a better shape than the ones in the Geracord deck.

Also, along the way I also picked up some commodore stuff. One seller had six brand new datasettes!

After just ruining my tape deck I am now getting more excited about what better features I could get on a newer one (relative speaking) than being excited at the new technology that I am supposed to grave.

Using old technology just feels more peaceful lately.

Ok, upon further inspection of the service manual this coil pack was for the dynamic noise reduction. So I guess it might still work for playback and maybe even normal recording

Aahhh… well RIP Geracord GC6131.

I did intend replacing the capacitors to get rid of the terrible hum. Instead I broke off a set of special coils, that I could only replace with the same ones.

That means this tape deck is now for parts 😞

Well - the deck undeniably could benefit from a recap. This whole thing hums worse than a bumblebee, but the recording sounds alright. Maybe a bit too bright even…

This might have some relation to this new thing I got. As pretty much all of these new tape capable devices it’s can’t record tape for its life, but the playback might be alright.

Time to make a new mixtape! Let’s see if that deck still works like it used to!

Note: that thing is calibrated by my ears years ago. On the grand scheme of HIFI decks it probably makes terrible recordings because of that. I am looking into properly calibrating it, but it’s difficult.
#tape #HIFI

I liked the windows royale theme. The default blue is iconic, but also kinda meh….

One thing I never seize to wonder is the sound CD drives make…

With floppy drives or such, it’s kinda obvious, but CD drives make strange noises that are mechanical hard to explain… wonders of technology from yesterday…

nooo! I missspelled, of course I did...

its a GERACORD 6131... East german Tape deck. From the 80s, somewhen...