Re: Falcon030 dead after Centuriontech CT60/CT60PSU incident - investigation begins
Posted: 13 Oct 2026 09:48
Only BEST have them.. The owner will have to buy it himself as Brad only accepts PayPal :roll:
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Re: Falcon030 dead after Centuriontech CT60/CT60PSU incident - investigation begins
Posted: 13 Oct 2026 09:54
I might have one kicking around here. Came off a board with a dead Combel (Videl was swapped first, not the issue) so the chip has a good chance of being ok. Not guaranteed though.
Given how easily lifted those pads are it might be overall better to get a 100% guaranteed good chip so it only has to be soldered one time. I'll see if I can find it anyway...
Given how easily lifted those pads are it might be overall better to get a 100% guaranteed good chip so it only has to be soldered one time. I'll see if I can find it anyway...
Re: Falcon030 dead after Centuriontech CT60/CT60PSU incident - investigation begins
Posted: 13 Oct 2026 10:02
Yeah better to go with a new chip and not take any risks.
Re: Falcon030 dead after Centuriontech CT60/CT60PSU incident - investigation begins
Posted: 13 Oct 2026 11:36
oops again..
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Re: Falcon030 dead after Centuriontech CT60/CT60PSU incident - investigation begins
Posted: 13 Oct 2026 13:15
Adding more startup tests :)
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Re: Falcon030 dead after Centuriontech CT60/CT60PSU incident - investigation begins
Posted: 13 Oct 2026 13:25
On the dead falcon, excuse the background colour, the terminal didn't reset it seems.
So pretty impressive , the machine has zero ram and no videl and still can run a whole bunch of tests !
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So pretty impressive , the machine has zero ram and no videl and still can run a whole bunch of tests !
Re: Falcon030 dead after Centuriontech CT60/CT60PSU incident - investigation begins
Posted: 13 Oct 2026 13:48
That's called Power Without the Chips...exxos wrote: 13 Oct 2026 13:25 So pretty impressive , the machine has zero ram and no videl and still can run a whole bunch of tests !
Re: Falcon030 dead after Centuriontech CT60/CT60PSU incident - investigation begins
Posted: 13 Oct 2026 14:03
:lolbig: :bravo:HigashiJun wrote: 13 Oct 2026 13:48That's called Power Without the Chips...exxos wrote: 13 Oct 2026 13:25 So pretty impressive , the machine has zero ram and no videl and still can run a whole bunch of tests !
Re: Falcon030 dead after Centuriontech CT60/CT60PSU incident - investigation begins
Posted: 13 Oct 2026 14:19
Oh cool. I tried to get Diagrom Falcon working a couple of times back when Stephen did his first attempt at a port, but I didn't actually need it at the time and so it fell by the wayside.exxos wrote: 12 Oct 2026 17:55 Muahahahaha... Claude saves the day in fixing Diagrom, still has some bug preventing it getting to the menu... BUT...
Will be grand if you can push the changes up to his repo.
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Re: Falcon030 dead after Centuriontech CT60/CT60PSU incident - investigation begins
Posted: 13 Oct 2026 14:26
Yeah, i'll stick it all on my github when its all tested. Most of it was either "broken" or Amiga stuff. So it's had a huge rewrite so far.Badwolf wrote: 13 Oct 2026 14:19 Oh cool. I tried to get Diagrom Falcon working a couple of times back when Stephen did his first attempt at a port, but I didn't actually need it at the time and so it fell by the wayside.
Will be grand if you can push the changes up to his repo.
Getting buffer underruns on tracker CPU playback at the moment, so adding a realtime down sampling playback.. also adding a DSP mixing option to take the load off the CPU as well. Must have "blown" £100 on ROM's so far :roll:
It should work on the STE as well.. but that will have to wait. My room currently looks like a Falcon factory has exploded without adding STE into the mix ! :lol: