PluMGMK wrote: Tue Aug 13, 2024 12:19 pm
< fairly recently came into possession of a Sansui SR-222 belt drive turntable which had been <'s grandfather's before. Despite being disused for decades, it seems to work pretty well
< didn’t know ^ had a turntable too! <’s pleasantly surprised <’s not the only one
< needs to service <'s turn table, since it will need a couple of new capacitors and the potentiometer for the direct drive control to be cleaned up. A new stylus to give it a good quality of life upgrade, if not that and a decent cartridge.
< thinks it's amazing what some cheap capacitors can do. <'s brother had an original Xbox that wouldn't power on. They had assumed it was the power supply, but then < double checked and there was a lot of brown stuff leaking from the top of all these bulging caps near the CPU heatsink. It was only a few cent each for some caps, and when < soldered them in, the thing fired right up and was good as new again.
Fifo wrote: Tue Aug 13, 2024 3:45 pm
< wonders what cartridge it has?
< says it's a Nagaoka MP-100.
Nice!
PluMGMK wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2024 10:39 am
< has been experimenting with getting the PC version of Rayman 1 to play the "MIDI" tracks from the PS1 version…
<’s curious on ^’s progress…
Speaking of ^’s site, < wonders if ^ uses Apache or nginx?
< has succeeded in making the "world loading" music play over the loading vignette on the v1.21 US version of Rayman! < is now coming up with ways to inject "Ambient Starter" entities into maps so tracks can be played in-game...
PluMGMK wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2024 1:26 pm
< has succeeded in making the "world loading" music play over the loading vignette on the v1.21 US version of Rayman! < is now coming up with ways to inject "Ambient Starter" entities into maps so tracks can be played in-game...
Great work! Keep it up!
PluMGMK wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2024 1:26 pm
< uses OpenBSD's httpd for <'s site
Wow, awesome! < wasn’t aware it runs under OpenBSD
< uses nginx, both as a web server and as a reverse proxy.
Steo wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2024 10:28 am
< thinks it's amazing what some cheap capacitors can do. <'s brother had an original Xbox that wouldn't power on. They had assumed it was the power supply, but then < double checked and there was a lot of brown stuff leaking from the top of all these bulging caps near the CPU heatsink. It was only a few cent each for some caps, and when < soldered them in, the thing fired right up and was good as new again.
Yeah, < agrees with that. Sadly capacitors aren't always the cause of failures, but they certainly can be for aging equipment. Our retro game consoles definitely need the attention at this point.
< went to see Wicked today, and it was every bit as awesome as < had hoped! < knew quite a few of the songs going in, but was delighted to finally hear them in context!
< wishes everyone the best, and keep up your health. It's important to take breaks when you need it. Especially if you're one to pull off any overnight posting.
Steo wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2024 10:28 am
< thinks it's amazing what some cheap capacitors can do. <'s brother had an original Xbox that wouldn't power on. They had assumed it was the power supply, but then < double checked and there was a lot of brown stuff leaking from the top of all these bulging caps near the CPU heatsink. It was only a few cent each for some caps, and when < soldered them in, the thing fired right up and was good as new again.
Yeah, < agrees with that. Sadly capacitors aren't always the cause of failures, but they certainly can be for aging equipment. Our retro game consoles definitely need the attention at this point.
< recalls reading before that a lot of failing caps throughout the mid 2000s onward was mostly due to someone copying a formula that was wrong and mass producing it. So bad capacitors were basically mass produced and circulated for years.
Master wrote: Fri Aug 16, 2024 11:14 pm
Haha < remembers that feeling, ^^ should make sure ^^ doesn't fall asleep while posting. < once got caught with <'s laptop in bed while sleeping xD
Duuude... < remembers that! < believes that ^ even panicked a bit after that one too.