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Date:
4/25/2017 8:13:53 AM
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I almost thought I fried my Amiga last night...
I decided to check out pfs3, since it was open-sourced a while back, and then I could test a few programs I wrote in assembly on a real machine instead of an emulator.
However, I could not get my fast ram expansion detected. I'm using the ClassicWB bundle, which uses about 3 megs of RAM, and without that expansion, I only have 2meg chip mem. At first I was thinking I fried the ram module. Where does anyone even find 72 pin SIMMs anymore? And this one has to be double sided to get 8 the full 8 megs. Trying to reseat the RAM and expansion hardware only meant when I didn't do it properly, I would get a red screen with the words "HARDWARE FAILURE". There was someone online with my exact same hardware, and the exact same problem, and years later he could never solve it. Finally, I checked the jumpers and saw they were set to disable the memory. I have no idea why I would've set the jumpers that way years ago, but after setting them to 8meg, everything booted up fine.
It's weird, seeing how on the market this thing could easily fetch $600-700, and it will only increase in value as time goes on. Meanwhile, I can't even sell my old shitty AMD 290x card for $100.
There's also a sense of fulfillment that comes working with old hardware, and learning/remembering its rich history that you just can't get messing around with, say, a stale RPG remake whose only inspiration is it's large tranny community.
In that sense, there's not that much difference between installing mods for an RPG on depreciating hardware and being homeless.
