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Just learnt that recent serverpartdeals price surge was caused by linustechtips. Makes me hate the guy even more

"And when all the frames are fake, then none of them are"



There's now a third party software, lossless scaling, that enables multiframe generation on older cards.
Every card is 5000 series now.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Jan 12 2025, 23:23

took me a while but I've moved from opnsense to vyos now. a very cisco cli like os without any web management. hoping it serves me well runs very good at least and the commit based config is nice and confidence inspiring.
for once I actually know what settings I have set on my router


This post has been edited by cate_chan: Jan 18 2025, 17:21

There's now a third party software, lossless scaling, that enables multiframe generation on older cards.
Every card is 5000 series now.

I've been using it for about 2 years. Mainly for upscaling fixed resolution 2D games and older titles. It's a nifty piece of software, but it can't hold a candle to official nvidia features like DLSS, other than the obvious convenience of being compatible with any game ever made.

today while randomly checking something else in my ipmi I noticed my broken memory slot (which I never took the stick out of), is working magically.
sometimes good things happen

Bought an EPROM programmer, it claimed in the listing to be a TL866II Plus, but I got a xgecu T48 instead.
The TL866II Plus has been out of production for two or three years so i paid a premium for it but the seller just drop-shipped me an amazon package that claimed to be a TL866 but was actually not. So I'm returning it and going to rate one star because holy shit, if I wanted to give money to amazon i'd give money to amazon, you fucking parasite.
I'd even sent them a message asking to be sure i'd get a TL866 and not a T48 specifically and had been reassured I'd get a TL866. So hopefully this is an open-and-shut case.

T48 mostly works in linux with the "minipro" programmer software, but if that's all that i can find i'm going to return this one and get one for like a hundred bucks less.

This post has been edited by Moonlight Rambler: Jan 28 2025, 06:37

I think AliExpress has old stock

[www.aliexpress.com] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000206420694.html

It looks like the original rather than some of the knock off clones.

I think AliExpress has old stock

[www.aliexpress.com] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000206420694.html

It looks like the original rather than some of the knock off clones.

"Quantity: 0 (sold out)"
for everything but the T48 "color."
I already tried aliexpress.
At least they're more honest though, somehow.

This post has been edited by Moonlight Rambler: Jan 28 2025, 19:18

"Quantity: 0 (sold out)"
for everything but the T48 "color."
I already tried aliexpress.
At least they're more honest though, somehow.

Ah dang. I saw some generic clones on ebay but not sure how well they work. There are also a lot of shops selling the T48s as TL866II.

There is one electronics store here in Oz asking for $700 dollars for a TL866II plus. They must figure if people have a specific need for it they might pay through the nose.



edit: Kroger in the US are trying to roll out using facial recognition to charge different prices based on credit score and social credit. Individualized prices sounds 'great'.

Multiple retailers want to introduce surge pricing like uber but for supermarkets.


This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Jan 29 2025, 01:53

yeah, i'm just going to get a t48 (a cheaper one though). I tested the one that they shipped me and it seems like it'll work for my purposes with the "minipro" software, even though not all functionality works like with TL866 (yet, at least). I was able to dump some EPROM's and get exactly what online dumps give, and I wrote a couple flash memory chips which seemed to dump OK afterwards.
Just waiting for the shitty drop trader to either respond and let me return it or for me to be able to let ebay step in and handle it.

When i get the one that's "for keeps," though, I'll be swapping out the fucking blinding blue LED's for amber and/or red and/or green ones instantly.

This post has been edited by Moonlight Rambler: Jan 29 2025, 08:04

Many Hisense tvs have Apple syndrome where they have one chip that fails after a few years and people have to buy a new tv.

Cool. Someone recently forked Hypatia in attempt to revive the Android app from EOL.

Firefox managed to scare me into updating.
Still interface colors issues to fix, and some old features are untested, but I'm there (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Made an NES reproduction cartridge by desoldering the mask ROM's and popping some flash memory chips in their places (SST39SF020 in this case). You have to remap/rewire some pins but it's working. Nice. First time I've succeeded in doing that.

Next I'm going to do metal slader glory, but that's a big enough game I'm going to need an EPROM of a capacity no longer sold (a full 1 megabyte), so I'm awaiting a secondhand part arriving. And also some SST39SF040's, since the other ROM chip it needs (character ROM) is just the right size for that to still be in production too (512KB).

Also going to make Phantasy Star IV for mega drive out of an old worthless baseball game so my friend can play it, but I will need an adapter to be able to flash ROM's that big on my EPROM programmer and that's only available from china it looks like. So we'll see if that ever shows up.

I also fixed up an old broken Heathkit EPROM eraser, the safety interlock switch that makes the UV-C lamp turn off when the tray is opened had broken. Found a nearly identical part to replace it and it's working fine now it seems like.

This post has been edited by Moonlight Rambler: Feb 13 2025, 02:57

looks like kemono pixiv importer is fixed and I'm seeing new fanbox posts again but my scraper doesn't seem to be working. guess I have something to do this weekend

Made an NES reproduction cartridge by desoldering the mask ROM's and popping some flash memory chips in their places (SST39SF020 in this case). You have to remap/rewire some pins but it's working. Nice. First time I've succeeded in doing that.

Next I'm going to do metal slader glory, but that's a big enough game I'm going to need an EPROM of a capacity no longer sold (a full 1 megabyte), so I'm awaiting a secondhand part arriving. And also some SST39SF040's, since the other ROM chip it needs (character ROM) is just the right size for that to still be in production too (512KB).

Also going to make Phantasy Star IV for mega drive out of an old worthless baseball game so my friend can play it, but I will need an adapter to be able to flash ROM's that big on my EPROM programmer and that's only available from china it looks like. So we'll see if that ever shows up.

I also fixed up an old broken Heathkit EPROM eraser, the safety interlock switch that makes the UV-C lamp turn off when the tray is opened had broken. Found a nearly identical part to replace it and it's working fine now it seems like.

That feels like the old school way we used to do it to play rare games. The problem I had back in the day was the temptation to try to keep rolling games but then that became too much effort and I gave up on it.


Instead of going down a multicart or modded megadrive I went down teh modded Mega Drive mini path. I also go one of the newish megadrive controllers thats compatible with the mini and actual mega drive.

For Phantasy Star IV I think there is a new rom available for anniversary edition. I'd have to fire up my mini to check.

I ended up getting the mega drive mini so I could play all the new release Mega drive and Master System games. Some of the new game are so good.

Can't send mails from Thunderbird currently. I hope it's a temporary thing, and unrelated to the fact I blocked updates.

Discovered that Sega Mega Drive ROM chips are usually byte-swapped from what emulators use, such that the ASCII text "SEGA" in the header reads "ESAG" instead.
Discovered this by desoldering some original mask ROM chips and dumping them with an EPROM programmer.
I then split a Phantasy Star IV ROM into a 2MB chunk and a 1MB chunk to match the original PCB, which used two ROM chips, then swapped the byte order to fit real hardware, and then wrote them to EPROM's (27C160 and 27C800) and made a successful Phantasy Star IV reproduction cartridge out of a baseball cart. Going to mail it to a friend of mine who can't justify/afford a real one right now.

This post has been edited by Moonlight Rambler: Feb 28 2025, 20:38

a while ago people were talking about multimeters in a channel and I was reminded again I was going to pick up a bench meter but never got to it.
gave it a quick search on local ebay and came across a too cheap not to buy trio dl703, something which seems to date back to 70-80s from trio (kenwood).
and I have to say its a pleasure to use these, they just turn on as well. no bootup, fast measuring. accurate enough for my quick troubleshooting.

(cropped significantly to hide the rest of my desk mess)

things truly have not gotten better in my aspects

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Mar 3 2025, 22:42

Mozilla went crap because of google and USAID funding.