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Arcade & Retro Repairs & Mods, all new recipe, with no added MSG...
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TechnoFreek wrote: »Here's another +1 for grant.
If he can't help or offer an opinion you may give up!
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So, bought this
And I was going to turn it into a RP0 arcade plug'n play but, realised, that I have quite enough of that stuff in my life already, but not enough Saturn arcade stick!
There are plenty of options out there but the best are pretty pricy so I decided that the stick would be ideal for converting.
Had one of these awful things, surplus to requirements, so it was for the chop!
And the pcb mod is supposed to be pretty easy...
So, one Kerbdog soldering session later,
Next, to pop it into the XArcade Tankstick and connect it up, it should all work just fine.
Also, there is a quandary of whether or not to spray the control panel surface a uniform colour or see if there's a vinyl out there, the controller is discontinued but if anyone has any suggests I'd be only too delighted to hear them!
Edit: Another quick question, if I wanted to replace the bat type stick and buttons with something more appropriate, are the fittings in there standard? Or is there further modding to be done?0 -
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Picked up another Amiga 1200 the other day(nice and minty) and have decided to upgrade it with some of the newer accelerators boards and addons.
Just ordered the below card. It's a weird one, you get the full expansion on the board, but its locked down and small payments will unlock the various proc speeds and ram. In app purchases for Amiga hardware
It's not so bad, 40 euro unlocks the whole lot I think and its pretty cheap for an Amiga accelerator.
https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/produkt-details/product/aca1221.html#filter=*
Also went for the new flicker fixer/scandoubler. I had an older version of this years ago and it wasn't the best. This is supposed to be a huge improvement and has a DVI connection(pushing analogue VGA signal via an adapter along with the digital DVI).
https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/produkt-details/product/Flickerfixer_Scandoubler.html#filter=*
Few other small addons as well, will post some pics and thoughts when they arrive and get installed.0 -
Got one of those ACA-1221 card a well back, seem to work fine although I've barely used it let alone install the virtual upgrades
Make sure you clean the Amiga edge connector before plugging this in and its a very very tight fit so plenty of pressure needed.0 -
Picked up another Amiga 1200 the other day(nice and minty) and have decided to upgrade it with some of the newer accelerators boards and addons.
Just ordered the below card. It's a weird one, you get the full expansion on the board, but its locked down and small payments will unlock the various proc speeds and ram. In app purchases for Amiga hardware
It's not so bad, 40 euro unlocks the whole lot I think and its pretty cheap for an Amiga accelerator.
Ha, that's mental...though I suppose it makes sense from a production point of view (you don't have to produce loads of different spec'd boards). When you do unlock the paid features on the boards, are they permanently unlocked then via flashing or something? Or is it done through software that has to remain active on the hdd or something?0 -
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So the upgrades arrived for my new Amiga 1200. The ACA1221 addon is a nice and cheap board(by Amiga accelerator board standard anyway) that is perfect if all you want to do is upgrade the A1200 to run Workbench/WHDLoad and classic games(think the Amiga classics, AGA and CD32 games) with improved frame rates and loading and a general performance bumps all around.
I purchased the standard ACA1221 and did the in app purchase style upgrades to max it out(40 euro). So that’s €79.98 for the base board with 9MB RAM enabled and a slight boost in the default clock speed of the CPU. Then €40 to unlock all the hardware on the card(64MB ram, 28Mhz proc and maprom features). The maprom feature is handy as I only have kickstart 3.0 on this A1200 and can just load the 3.1 rom file into memory on boot(big performance increase having the rom in memory as well). I also stuck a real time clock on the card, not needed but why not
There are much more powerful addons out there, but this works well for the basics and classic games and I do recommend it.
Also got the Indivision AGA MK2cr Flickerfixer / Scandoubler, it’s pretty awesome and is a giant step above even the best RGB cable. The picture is rock solid and I have it running via a pure digital DVI(as opposed to analogue VGA) on a modern LCD(it can also push analogue VGA if required). I’m still working on getting the best resolution and screen mode, but even 800x600@60Hz looks fantastic. That was €150, but totally worth it.
I installed up a new 8GB CF HDD with full WHDLoad to make the most of the system.
Got all the bits from https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop.html#filter=*
Will post up a few pics a bit later, but its nothing too exciting looking.0 -
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The Last Bandit wrote: »Cool, interested to hear more about the Indivision AGA MK2cr Flickerfixer, is it only really usable for desktop stuff ? What happens non-AGA games on it, are they upscaled in someway ?
Well I was playing a couple of classic non AGA on the screen and they looked great. But mostly tested A1200 AGA and CD32 games via WHDload.
I'll be testing it more over the next day or two. Spending most of my free time at the moment flying my new quadcopter while the weather is good. Have to make the most of our 4 day Irish summer
Edit:
Bit more info.
-Flicker fixer with DVI-I output for the A1200
-A1200 internal, plugs over Lisa chip, no other chip-connections (other internal flickerfixers used an additional Alice-adapter)
-Full 24 bit colour depth for most screenmodes and output frequencies
-All OCS/ECS/AGA screenmodes displayed and scan-converted, output is always over 60Hz and flicker-free
-16MB frame buffer on-board
-Pixelclock now can output at a maximum of 135MHz
-Use screenmodes such as HD720 (1024×768) and XTREME (1280×1024) on your Amiga 1200!0 -
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The Last Bandit wrote: »Must do some retrobrighting while the sun is out
Nothing like close some proximity to nuclear fusion to bring out the retrobrighters 0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O__MCOQNv6o
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