Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

Just did a Spacemonger disk space analysis on the SD card on one of my MiSTers to see where the space is getting used. AO486 takes up the most room (by far), which is funny, because I don't use it nearly as much as some of the others.

#MiSTerFPGA #drivespace #spacemonger #retrogaming

The right lighting is so important to the experience, IMO.

#C64 #BBSing #retrocomputing

More Saturday night BBSing.

#retrocomputing #bbsing #amiga #atari800 #macplus

Did some work on the Mac Plus earlier today.
Transplanted the internals from a damaged and badly yellowed case into a fairly pristine one from a "dead" Plus that I picked up for a few bucks at VCFMW last fall.
Everything went fine. I still have a bit of monitor adjustment to do though.

#retrocomputing #macintosh

Holy crap! Einhander actually seems to fully work on the MiSTer PSX core except for some background sounds.

I did not expect this.

#MiSTerFPGA #retrogaming #psx #playstation

Now the PETSCII BBSs on the C64,
Always use the right tool for the job...

#bbsing #c64 #petscii #retrocomputing #CRT

Now I'm hitting the Atari 8 bitr BBSs...
Duran Duran "New Religion" blaring in the background...

#atari8bit #retrocomputing #bbsing

BBSing on a Saturday night...

#amiga #atari800 #retrocomputing #bbsing

Weird...
Looking around inside the M1299, it's a but dusty, but there are no signs of blown caps that are obvious. The smell is definitely there though.
I'll have to take it apart further later. I'm going to try to get a service manual first.

#apple #Macintosh #crt #retrocomputing

In the process of re-building parity to a new 8TB parity drive on my Unraid server (up from 4TB).
Just the party disk is bigger than the whole array was when I started it many years ago.

#unraid #nas

The Apple M1299 RGB monitor that I have on my Mac II Si apparently blew a stinky power filter cap, so it looks like I'll be taking that apart soon.

Still seems to work fine, but the smell is pretty terrible, and I'm sure the cap insides that are probably all over the place inside the monitor aren't doing great things to the rest of the components in there.

#Macintosh #retrocomputing

Not my best round, but not really bad, either.

#retrogaming #intellivision

@elb Success!
Rebooted and everything looks fine! Up and running on Buster.

@elb It helps that I'm running this one headless and I have no desktop nonsense to worry about.

@elb No matter what happens, it's all learning, and therefore good.

@elb Speaking of /boot, older distros have a tiny 46MB /boot..that's not really big enough to support all the new stuff.
One of the first things I do is shrink the / a few hundred MB, slide it to the end of the drive, expand /boot to around 256MB, then slide / up against it and expand it to all of the available free space.

@elb Probably. Most people don't appreciate all of the Broadcom stuff that's going on behind the curtain. I do.

@elb I am ready for that eventuality. I'm doing full images every step of the way. I can back out at any step along the way.
I fully expect that things may go sideways. I'll be pleasantly surprised if they don't.

I'm updating one of my critical Pis from "Stretch" to "Buster" in place.
It still amazes me that this is possible at all, but it is, these days, and I've done it multiple times,