Granlunds FrankenSTein

[Badwolf]

I owe a huge thank you to Terriblefire for his awesome accelerator! :)

This is true & I concur. His cards spurred me into finally setting off to design and build my Falcon card. On which, incidentally, I’ve just been installing your Day Of The Tentacle port.

We also owe you a big thank you for all the software work that makes these boosted machines a little more interesting. From Fastram.prg to Basilisk II and the ScummVM ports, my hard disc has a lot of agranlund code on it!

BW

[Icky]

This has been one epic journey for you ST @agranlund. I know you have put it all back together but would like to see a final pic of the setup as a recap as am tempted to upgrade my old 520ST similarly.

[agranlund]

This has been one epic journey for you ST @agranlund. I know you have put it all back together but would like to see a final pic of the setup as a recap as am tempted to upgrade my old 520ST similarly.

It absolutely has! There's always more things one wants to do of course, does a project ever really end? :lol:
I'd like to finish the Ethernet part one of these days, and also experiment with the 16Mhz ST-Bus mod.

I found some pictures I made a while back and they're pretty much exactly how it still looks today.
So I very much wanted to try and keep everything as neat and tidy as possible but I'll admit that whole part around the graphics card sure is a bit unsightly :oops:

I'm really happy, and quite frankly a little proud, of how it turned out externally with the VGA and audio connector though.

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[agranlund]

We also owe you a big thank you for all the software work that makes these boosted machines a little more interesting. From Fastram.prg to Basilisk II and the ScummVM ports, my hard disc has a lot of agranlund code on it!

ouch, agranlund code is the code I trust the least :lol:

I'm happy to be able to contribute with something though and it's very nice when others find the software useful.
This forum got me started tinkering with my machine and it feels nice to be able to give something back :)

[agranlund]

But will it run DOOM!? I hear the entire crowd eagerly ask.

And to that, I can happily confirm that yes! It will (very badly) run some port of doom that I found online :lol:

DOOM.GIF

It uses all of those hundreds of colours so the desktop ends up looking quite funky but the game looks fine.
Input seem to not work correctly or maybe I just haven't set the correct SDL environment variables, I'm not keen on actually playing 8fps Doom so it doesn't matter much :)

[stephen_usher]

A whole eight frames per second?! 386 PC owners would love to get that high a frame rate! :-)

[agranlund]

A whole eight frames per second?! 386 PC owners would love to get that high a frame rate! :-)

:lol: :lol:

That’s just way too many frames for me these days :)