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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 6h

Can’t unsee. If I were skilled in routing PCBs I would immediately design a replacement PCB with the RAM in the right place

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 10h

CL-GD5422X gang here, as well! Very fast card. I also have a PCB for a Trio64 VLB - it was made by a Vogons member. It’s likely the fastest card ever made for VLB, but AFAIR none were produced as the VLB marked had already dried up by then.

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, the PCX2. I am mainly interested in the SGL-supported games. The Kyros are D3D only, AFAIK. While technically interesting, they don’t offer anything exclusive to them

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 11h

I am a big fan myself of VLB, I also have a 486 motherboard with PCI slots, but decided to go with VLB. Very happy I did. It feels very “DOS-y” and also true to what the 486 was. Duke Nukem 3D and Doom fly on it

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 15h

Same here, kinda gave each anime its own “personality” on top of the anime itself. I remember insisting on downloading subs from specific groups (Aone and ANBU come to mind) because I liked their “style”. Good times.

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 15h

Welp, got PowerVR mixed up with Permedia. It’s the former that I really wanted - the latter would mostly be a curio, I don’t think I would ever use it much.

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 17h

Classic. They don’t bother taking the time to do it properly because that means 1) more boards recapped in the same time 2) a returning customer!1!1! 💰💰💰.

Back when I had more free time I would usually (properly) recap boards for free for anyone in my country. It was my way of “fighting” these guys

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 17h

Sadly I got loads of boards from “professional sellers” on eBay in worse condition than this (back when you could actually afford them). Literally the caps were hanging for their life (some were actually flapping around) with just a smattering of cold solder

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 17h

Always wanted one but they are unobtainable. BTW YouTube link is not working here

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 17h

This interests me - I have a boatload of Virge and Trio cards - including MY ORIGINAL ONE from 1997! One of the few retro things I have that survived. Sigh. My poor Voodoo Banshee…

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 17h

PROFESSIONALLY RECAPPED!1!1!1! $1500

The Amiga community is being bled dry as all kind of scalpers jumped to what is objectively a very wealthy community (I wonder what attracts all the rich people to the Amiga?). Stuff like this would’ve been unthinkable just a few years ago.

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 17h

Dang me and my friends were talking about this just some days ago. Stuff like this keeps haunting you at the most random times

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 21h

About driver support: it’s pretty much the same everywhere as it comes from the kernel, not the distro. The only thing that changes between distros is how lenient they are in allowing drivers out of the box with closed source in them. Some disallow them entirely (Debian) while others are more open

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 21h

I would just go with Debian/Ubuntu or Arch if you feel adventurous. We used Fedora as our servers were CentOS based so it made sense back then to keep things consistent. After the CentOS thing I switched to Ubuntu for servers and macOS for clients. Everyone has been pretty happy these years

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 21h

Used Fedora for years. These days they kinda turned evil after the CentOS debacle some years ago and more recently the AI contribution thing. Also it was definitely less supported for end-user stuff than Ubuntu (you could find lots of things in deb but not rpm) as it has its roots in servers (RHEL)

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 22h

I really enjoy the lightweight OS (based on Linux) and the reduced weight of the unit itself. Usually systems powerful enough to run Steam also weight several kilograms. No way I am ever using a Steam Deck while in bed - that thing is MASSIVE. Btw the RG35XX/H *does* run Dolphin, albeit slowly

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 22h

While WSL is certainly usable, I have had trouble with it in the past, because of the above mentioned issues. Also sometimes you have to recur to MSYS2 and the like which really sours the entire experience. Clearly WSL is just an afterthought to stop the fleeing devs from switching to Linux or macOS

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 22h

Most dev tools are clearly developed for macOS first (you can see it in most tutorials) as it is the modern developer’s OS of choice (for good reason). You can either hackintosh your way to it (used it for a good while) or get a Mac Mini M4 which is a literal powerhouse for very little money.s

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jbenam @jbenam.bsky.social · 22h

As someone who has worked for dev stuff with all three main OSes extensively, you can’t go wrong with macOS. The terminal is a first-class citizen there and the POSIX compatibility of the OS and file system ensures that almost everything that works on Linux works on macOS too.

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