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Re: exxos blog - random goings on
Posted: 01 May 2020 10:49
by exxos
JezC wrote: 01 May 2020 10:43
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Anyway, I think we'd better leave this channel for the main man to document his woes & not pollute his blog any further - it probably justifies a thread all of it's own anyway! :D
This is what happens when I post a blue screen I guess :lol: It seems ok again now...
Nothing much going on other than STE boosters and I need to test some 68K's for stock.. Got crap to do next week, so no Atari time at all next week for me :(
Re: exxos blog - random goings on
Posted: 01 May 2020 10:54
by exxos
derkom wrote: 01 May 2020 10:48
Not really. Steam has offline mode, which works just fine. You just obviously don't get Steam Cloud saves, updates, etc.
Are you talking single player etc ? I can still play the games , but without the external server to connect to (outside of steem no doubt) you cant connect to multiplayer games before the server doesn't exist anymore.
We used to love
carnage racing, but server went offline, people moaned, I tried to contact the developers (waste of time) few months later it was removed from steem totally :( I miss that game, it was great fun :cry: :cry: :cry:
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Re: exxos blog - random goings on
Posted: 01 May 2020 11:26
by rubber_jonnie
JezC wrote: 01 May 2020 10:43
Yes, @rubber_jonnie it does have some positives as well...but my laptop here has a mechanical drive & starting up Win 10 on it maxes out the drive for several minutes - and it's pretty much the same on other systems without an SSD.
Our systems are not that capable & the security/antivirus etc. do slug them quite badly. :roll:
However, it's the updates that are the killer for us - not only the downtime for an actual upgrade (and usually several more on the next few reboots as they fix what the main update has broken) but we find that it often stops parts of the system (particularly USB for us) from working properly & so we try to diagnose a problem in our software only to find it's a pending reboot that is fouling things up.
So, then it's a matter of rebooting and installing the updates & then trying to get back to where you were in debugging/testing.
If that is under 30 minutes you're very lucky - it's usually the best part of an hour & often more until you are back where you were. :(
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Anyway, I think we'd better leave this channel for the main man to document his woes & not pollute his blog any further - it probably justifies a thread all of it's own anyway! :D
@JezC Looks like you have fight on your hands then, Win10 and mechanical drives don't seems to play well (Experienced this on my old laptop, had to upgrade to SSD as well as update the bios)
I'm shocked at your update experience, I just don't hit those problems on my personal Win10 laptop My work one is tightly controlled by the desktop team as far as updates go, so I don't get any surprises there.
Anyway, enough threadjacking for the day, handing back over to
@exxos for more of his meandering thoughts.
Re: exxos blog - random goings on
Posted: 01 May 2020 11:54
by derkom
exxos wrote: 01 May 2020 10:54
Are you talking single player etc ? I can still play the games , but without the external server to connect to (outside of steem no doubt) you cant connect to multiplayer games before the server doesn't exist anymore.
Ah, yeah, I thought you were referring to DRM servers going offline. DRM is an evil we sadly aren't likely to see the end of, but Steam does seem to implement it in one of the least offensive ways I've seen.
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Yes, we should probably un-jack your thread at this point... :lol:
Re: exxos blog - random goings on
Posted: 01 May 2020 16:23
by exxos
My precious...
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Re: exxos blog - random goings on
Posted: 01 May 2020 19:08
by exxos
Bit of hackery.. but the only way to test 68K CPU's.. without spending 30mins+ trying to get all the legs lined up!
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Re: exxos blog - random goings on
Posted: 01 May 2020 19:31
by exxos
So after a lifelong session of hackery, my trusty SR98 wasn't working.. turns out they don't work with a couple of parts missing on the PCB :roll:
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Somehow seems wrong just doing this now....
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Also what the hell does this yellow wire on the keyboard do, has been hanging off for years and doesn't seem to have affected anything :lol: :shrug:
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Re: exxos blog - random goings on
Posted: 01 May 2020 19:36
by PhilC
glad its not just me :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Re: exxos blog - random goings on
Posted: 01 May 2020 22:06
by exxos
68000 CPU's tested! (I thought it was taking me a long time! :lol: I'm here all day!)
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Re: exxos blog - random goings on
Posted: 02 May 2020 10:06
by exxos
Going to try and make a start on these today...
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