linuxjedi.co.uk
https://linuxjedi.co.uk
Embedded Software Engineer at @wolfssl.bsky.social. Open source software advocate. Restores and designs vintage/retro Acorn & Amiga hardware (https://retrosupplies.co.uk).
Married to @appleyardcandles.bsky.social.
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There is a modern port called Fastdoom that can run on much lower spec machines. It even has an ASCII art mode 🙂
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I had to go with the Immortal edition after Andrew showed me one of the sticks 🙂
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The A4000 I have from @stoocambridge.bsky.social has a BFG9060 and a ZZ9000 in it. Lovely machine now that I have repaired it and its sibling 🙂
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A1200 is a lovely machine, and with a PiStorm32 absolutely amazing! Also really expandable with all modern toys. love my A1200.
My A4000 was too expensive really, but I bought it "broken" so it was cheaper than most, and @linuxjedi.co.uk fixed for me - the star that he is. 😁
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I used to attempt to distro switch like that, but always ended up going back to Fedora.
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I almost forgot. I do have a PocketBook 2 as well 🙂
Yea. I had a BBC Micro at home as a kid, learnt to program on it very young. I can thank that machine for my career.
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I do like my A3010. I also have an A3000, A5000, A7000 and a few RiscPCs. All were DoA to start with. A7000 is currently under restoration now. Probably the most battery damaged machine I’ve worked on.
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Then play Star Fighter 3000. Incredible game, created by another Andrew Hutchings (a lot of people think it is me)
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Ouch! Doesn't help that they aren't tented on that board either 🙁
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I'm happy to, I own an Amiga and Acorn repair business, but it would be chargeable work 🙂
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It will be a challenge at least. It at least looks a bit better 🙂
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That is manageable I think. Here is the first post of the repair blog series for my A5000 if it helps: linuxjedi.co.uk/acorn-archim...
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I don’t want to give spoilers, but the damage appears to be mostly superficial. That area of the board shouldn’t be too difficult without the schematic. The SMC chip pinout should be enough.
The SIMM socket should be traceable as well.
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No idea, I'll give it a clean first and assess the real damage.
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Yep, I bought the machine quite cheaply knowing it was in this state. I'm actually pretty confident I can get it to a booting state, whether or not I can get the drives ports working, that might be a lot more complicated.
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As others have said, Tinkercad is my go-to for such tasks
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This is why Immortal Joysticks added a switch to make Up map to a button when developing their stick.
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The version before that, Red Hat a Linux 9, was the distro I went full time Linux with. I've used every version of Fedora Linux since 🙂
(Dipping into other distros along the way but always coming back).
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It got really good with GNOME 2. Then kinda went downhill from there. Modern KDE Plasma has filled the gap for me.
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Immediately pre-ordered 🙂
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What's more impressive is they don't all seem to be the crap white sockets which were normally used in the Atom.
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I do NWI -> AMS. If I get the runway you are talking about, we taxi for as long as we are in the air. It has nice views as it crosses a river and stuff 😂
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I got my 10K step notification there 😂
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It is the Topaz fonts here: github.com/rewtnull/ami...
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I have it in a TTF and use it in quite a few places