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Retro-hardware aficionado.

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Latest posts by jbenam.bsky.social on Bluesky

I had a boatload of trouble converting a Radeon 7000 from PC to Mac. I had to switch the EEPROM (I don’t think it was SPI flash?) from 64kb to 128kb to fit the Macintosh firmware, then the card had to be flashed from the Mac as it wouldn’t work when directly flashing it from my programmer

10.11.2025 06:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I still need to replay Terranigma because it has been 20 years since last time and I am still grinding my teeth that I didn’t resurrect Mu

09.11.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also FF5 is one of the best and most underrated (because Americans usually skip it because of the FF3/6 thing) games in the series. Highly recommended

09.11.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@museumjoe.bsky.social Cory answered to my PM. He says that you can contact him via the PM system on 68kmla (if you need help with activation let me know and I will tell him) as he gets an email notification when he gets one, and that you can contact him there for any matters pertinaining the site.

09.11.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…

08.11.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I do have one. It also has the switch, but it’s missing the shroud and it has a long-ish cable. It also has the screw holes in the side to attach the usual switch/shroud to it. Weird thing

08.11.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I actually need to order one for my 286 case, it came without one :(

Does anyone know the part number for it?

08.11.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, Vobis Computers. That takes me back.

08.11.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great game, loved unlocking all the post-game content. Too bad the second game was lacking the charm of the first one

08.11.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have used it with three GPUs (Virge GX in AGP slot + 2x Voodoo 2s) and the rest of the PCI slots filled to the brim: SCSI card, USB2 card, Gigabit Network and an AWE64 Gold. That thing never flinched. RAM is 256MB, iirc but I can’t be sure, might be 128MB.

05.11.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have a P5A and it has been always bug-free for me - but I know ASUS made a mess with revisions so I might’ve just lucked out.

05.11.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sent him a PM and told him to contact you via your website but he hasn’t logged on 68kmla.org since Aug 22. I hope he’s okay.

05.11.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

No problem, I can send a PM for you. What’s your user? I will send a PM to Cory asking to get it approved

05.11.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember chatting via PM with him after registering on 68kmla about an email issue and he was very nice and super responsive. Might be worth signing up and PMing him there?

05.11.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

At this point I don’t think it will ever come out, and even if it does, 86Box is so far ahead that it won’t make much sense to go back to PCem

05.11.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wish that Kojima had some principles and kept the pic online, but that’s not the case. Gotta sell that Death Stranding 2 GOTY to Turkish gamers

04.11.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AFAIR this doesn’t impact ATAPI drives (like CDROMs) but only ATA-2+ hard drives. Anyway it was fixed in 3.1.4+ ROMs and I think @polpo.org has 3.2 on that Amiga? Not sure from the screenshots though

03.11.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Keep us updated, pretty curious to see how long it lasts

01.11.2025 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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31.10.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ouch, mine is a 64-bit as well. Got it for free boxed so I can’t complain

30.10.2025 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just saw the mobo, what a cursed thing. Who skips AGP on a Slot 1 motherboard and places DIMMs there?
Anyway you can still get Radeon 7000s for cheap. I got one a year ago or so and flashed it for usage in my Macintosh G3. Even better if you can get Radeon 9250 but the Amiga users gobbled them up

30.10.2025 06:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dang, that’s an eventful evening for sure. Good thing you scared him away!

30.10.2025 06:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think I had a demo or something of it when I was a kid! Really liked it. One of these days I finally should play the entire game.

30.10.2025 06:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I keep doing that with β€œls”, so I understand your frustration

30.10.2025 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Such a good game. Too bad not many people played it (the fact that it never came out of Japan until recently didn’t certainly help)

29.10.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait wut why did they change Phoenix’s voice actor? Also what do you mean with β€œchange levels”? Thanks!

29.10.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I have all the stuff and the skills to do it, but all my soldering equipment is currently packed away and I am not sure how long it will take before I will be able to unbox it again. If @16bitmanfred.bsky.social is in no hurry I will gladly look at it ASAP

28.10.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This means the ESS chip is working fine, at least some pins of it. Back to the DAC/AMP part as potential culprit. Is this on another PC with known good -5V and -12V voltages? I wouldn’t trust the Neoware for this kind of testing, too many variables there. Testing this needs a proper AT power supply

28.10.2025 06:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder why no one has started working on a Pi Pico Gotek? They are plenty powerful and already used a lot in the game console modding community

27.10.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t unsee. If I were skilled in routing PCBs I would immediately design a replacement PCB with the RAM in the right place

26.10.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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