Monday, March 14, 2005
A hearty weekend!
Greetings,
A visit from Edwin's place has been a very productive one(*ahem, despite the fact that I also borrowed some money).
I twiked his IBM PC 750. It's an old Pentium 166 Mhz. Loaded with a Windows98. Took his memory from his old Clone P166Mhz and place all his EDO ram. From 32MB now a whooping 80MB. But still not fast enough to run Winfellow in considerable speeds.
It took me sometime to boot OS3.1 and WB3.1 for about 3 mins, tops! Talk about slow emulation. I tried to play a game using it. Tried to run a game 'Firepower.ADF' from his files and gee, it boots, but It hanged! 
Might as well get him a download version of Winuae. He has no internet connection. I'll download him the AF6 version of WinUAE because I like this 0.8.25beta version better than the newer version. 0.9.xx by now.
I also check my old A500 I pawned to him. It had a floppy trouble. Let me see, how will I explain this.... The eject button button would not retrack whenever a disk is inserted. Furthermore, He tied a small rope to retrack it manually. To my dismay, I start to disassemble it
and fixed the old bugger. Put some lubricant under the 2 rack frame that's with the floppy. Now It's like new again! 
The problem was simply, there's much friction which prevents it to slide whenever the disk is inserted! We also talked about my friend at JTJT about a certain IDEbuffer for his A500. I planned to buy it for my own, but since he needed it more than I do, I opened the topic and plan to get it for Edwin. We also talked about me and why I should sell my A1200 to him. He said to me that the A1200 is a Gem I should not get rid off. He asked why I want to get rid of it, because...(just read My life with Credit Cards!! A Curse!!) that article explains it all. He manages to talk me out of it, so I did. Well, even my own wife don't want me to get rid of my Amiga. Only My own mommy wants to get rid of it. She thinks it's obsolete! Well, technically speaking, it is. Do I need to start on this!!!??!!
Well, the next day, I was so tired to go online that I slept the whole afternoon. So nothing much happened yesterday.
Today, I just SMS my friend at JTJT about the A500IDEInterface, and well, Up to now, as of 11 am, has not responded yet? I want to see if he's around later, by lunch time. So I'll know if he still works there or not anymore. I hope he still do. Keep you posted by updating this blog. Till later.
-update-
GAH!!! He's not in the office. Came back twice. He's not there! Anyway, I hope he'd be showing up tomorrow. I really need it like my life depends on it!! Arrgh!
-update-
Regards,
GiZz72
A visit from Edwin's place has been a very productive one(*ahem, despite the fact that I also borrowed some money).
I twiked his IBM PC 750. It's an old Pentium 166 Mhz. Loaded with a Windows98. Took his memory from his old Clone P166Mhz and place all his EDO ram. From 32MB now a whooping 80MB. But still not fast enough to run Winfellow in considerable speeds. It took me sometime to boot OS3.1 and WB3.1 for about 3 mins, tops! Talk about slow emulation. I tried to play a game using it. Tried to run a game 'Firepower.ADF' from his files and gee, it boots, but It hanged! Might as well get him a download version of Winuae. He has no internet connection. I'll download him the AF6 version of WinUAE because I like this 0.8.25beta version better than the newer version. 0.9.xx by now.
I also check my old A500 I pawned to him. It had a floppy trouble. Let me see, how will I explain this.... The eject button button would not retrack whenever a disk is inserted. Furthermore, He tied a small rope to retrack it manually. To my dismay, I start to disassemble it
and fixed the old bugger. Put some lubricant under the 2 rack frame that's with the floppy. Now It's like new again! The problem was simply, there's much friction which prevents it to slide whenever the disk is inserted!
We also talked about my friend at JTJT about a certain IDEbuffer for his A500. I planned to buy it for my own, but since he needed it more than I do, I opened the topic and plan to get it for Edwin. We also talked about me and why I should sell my A1200 to him. He said to me that the A1200 is a Gem I should not get rid off. He asked why I want to get rid of it, because...(just read My life with Credit Cards!! A Curse!!) that article explains it all. He manages to talk me out of it, so I did. Well, even my own wife don't want me to get rid of my Amiga. Only My own mommy wants to get rid of it. She thinks it's obsolete! Well, technically speaking, it is. Do I need to start on this!!!??!!Well, the next day, I was so tired to go online that I slept the whole afternoon. So nothing much happened yesterday.
Today, I just SMS my friend at JTJT about the A500IDEInterface, and well, Up to now, as of 11 am, has not responded yet?
I want to see if he's around later, by lunch time. So I'll know if he still works there or not anymore. I hope he still do. Keep you posted by updating this blog. Till later.-update-
GAH!!! He's not in the office. Came back twice. He's not there! Anyway, I hope he'd be showing up tomorrow. I really need it like my life depends on it!! Arrgh!
-update-
Regards,
GiZz72
# posted by Callcenter idiot! @ 3/14/2005 10:25:00 AM 
