Life, the universe & everything...Atari (well, mostly)

[mrbombermillzy]

Thats good then Jez, although Im still expecting a deck chair slapping from @rubber_jonnie

[rubber_jonnie]

Just dont initially test it with a Bezerk Enhanced edition cart!

No, I only have one cart to test it with initially...but will see about a video out mod of some kind once I've got a working setup in the first place...

Composite mods are relatively simple on the 2600 Jr, both of mine have them and I'm waiting on a CleanComp for my Light sixer. Great little console.

[rubber_jonnie]

Thats good then Jez, although Im still expecting a deck chair slapping from @rubber_jonnie

Nah, you're good

[JezC]

So, I've now finished working after taking early retirement after a little over 21.5 years with my last company. Very happy with the prospect of more time to do lots of other things but also a little sad to be leaving a great group of colleagues & friends.

My immediate plans to start spending a lot more time on my hobbies (music ^& retro computers etc.) has been delayed by other (family) matters but I'm hopeful that by the end of November I might start to make inroads on the backlog.

I think the first task will be to open topics for the many upgrades/refurbs/fixes ahead...and to sort through the collection of electronics in my study to get a list of which projects can be started ant=d which will still require additional parts to be ordered...

One other conversation with a member of our IT team (a keen Amiga user in the past) touched upon a new board to allow the custom chips from a damaged system to be moved into the new board...but all I picked up was something about Denise (which even I know is one of the custom chips - graphics & sprites?).

I've seen the recreations of the PCBs but I thought this was a bit different - does anyone know about these? Or was it my misunderstanding his point?

I'm asking because the A500+ with battery damage is one of the projects to attempt at some point but I'm happy to have a backup plan should the damage be beyond repair.

[JezC]

So, I'm now into my 3rd week of retirement but still not had any hobby time yet

Hoping that will change towards the end of this week so I need to organise a clearer space for working on the projects...but which one to start with?.....

[rubber_jonnie]

So, I'm now into my 3rd week of retirement but still not had any hobby time yet

Then you're doing it wrong

Hoping that will change towards the end of this week so I need to organise a clearer space for working on the projects...but which one to start with?.....

Fingers crossed it will. I find it helpful to make a list and put it on the forum, gives you some perspective and people will chip in with what they'd like to see.

Reminds me, I need to see what's on my list and still needs doing.

[JezC]

The list on the forum is a good idea @rubber_jonnie - I will have a think and start creating some placeholder topics for them.

I'm being 'advised' to focus on the remaining Christmas shopping by my good lady so I will see how I can merge those two tasks somehow

[rubber_jonnie]

I'm being 'advised' to focus on the remaining Christmas shopping by my good lady so I will see how I can merge those two tasks somehow

[JezC]

So, close to 2 months into retirement and so far the only progress to report is a follow-up on the Mac G4 PowerPC...I finally had chance to power it up with a monitor and keyboard and mouse & it got to the desktop ok

So, thanks for passing that on @mrbombermillzy.

I've sourced a matching Mac keyboard and mouse already but given the price of monitors with the ADC connection I'll probably just stick with a generic VGA monitor for now.

I'll try to post pictures in a new topic soon...

Next is likely to be the Mac Mini...as I have found a similar working one to compare it with...

Still not managed to complete the list of jobs...

[mrbombermillzy]

Glad it got home safely @JezC .

I did have some Mac keyboards and mice, but I think they are long gone and were actually Quadra era stuff anyway.

Random question:

When I was mucking around at CL4, someone was playing Danse Macabre on my SY85. Was it you?