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[dragdeler]

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[wierd]

Aside from the special gatekeeper chip, there is nothing really all that special inside a NES.

You could conceivably build one from discrete parts! (same as an atari 2600)

[Egan_BW]

Ok, this has been something in the back of my mind for awhile now.

I am old greybeard when it comes to computers. Like, I have had my hands dirty fixing these things since the C64 era.  I have some pretty profound retro skills with these things.

Here's the question: 

There's some other retro nerd channels on youtube already,  and I have been toying with the idea of starting my own.  I can get some of those old machines to do some very interesting things-- things other channel operators have not covered.  (or at least, I have not seen them covered.)  Do you think it would be a good idea to cover this kind of thing?  I specifically want to do "Things you can do with hardware that nobody really covers doing."  Things like turning a zsun card reader into a pocket sized torrent box and DLNA server,  or turning a consumer grade NAS box into a full linux mini-server. 

One of the first episode ideas I have in mind was getting a win9x retro games system to boot from an ext2 partition with syslinux and memdisk. 

Would anyone find that interesting?

If you have the time and know-how, and you think people would find it useful, then go for it.

[Gentlefish]

I know I'd be interested! You'll never know how you'll do until you start, but cool and practical "Hey look at this neat thing in 12 steps" would be pretty neato

[McTraveller]

Eh, that's all making computers still do computer-y things.

Turning hard drives into speakers, now... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o: Glorious!

[wierd]

That's just seek behavior...  And there are much better videos.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM_sAxrAu7Q

And if you include dot matrix printers, you have some real glorious ones that are quite old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grUniaqzXtU

And even mixed devices...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-X-p0C0Uas

All of those are basically just carefully timed pulse-width modulation signals being sent to the stepper motors/voice coil assemblies of the devices.  The frequencies of the modulation cause the steppers to move at different rates, causing different tones.

Admittedly, the 1511 floppy drive is unusual in that it has its own memory, its own internal cpu, and is in fact, its own self-contained computer.  As such, it can be programmed over the din5 serial cable that it uses for data, then disconnected, and will still continue to play.   NEC floppy diskette drives form vintage PCs on the other hand, are just dumb devices controlled by the PC floppy disk controller.

[Trekkin]

Any advice on removing burned oil from a stainless steel pan?

Steel wool and baking soda, wet just enough to turn the latter into a paste.

[kingawsume]

What's your favorite mixed drink, alcoholic or otherwise?

[Castlecliff]

Any advice on removing burned oil from a stainless steel pan?

After the pan fire incident yesterday, it's covered in a sludge. I managed to scrape off a good bit of it with the back of a brush, but some of it is well and truly glued on.

While its still hot. Vinegar and some scrubbing can help too.

What's your favorite mixed drink, alcoholic or otherwise?

Baileys from a shoe

[Trekkin]

What's your favorite mixed drink, alcoholic or otherwise?

I don't think it has a name, but I've always liked carbonated water with a pinch of citric acid, table salt, and monosodium glutamate.

[Doomblade187]

What's your favorite mixed drink, alcoholic or otherwise?

Gummy bear drinks and moscow mules are very good. As are screwdrivers.

[Yoink]

This one time I gathered up all the leftover, half-finished drinks the day after a raging party, mixed them together in a big glass stein and drank that.

Failing that, I guess the house bourbon with coke? It's always coke, for some reason. Even if you ask for pepsi. Weird.

Oh and I invented a cocktail once: the Toxic Avenger, a mixture of Southern Comfort and Mountain Dew, garnished with melted gummy bears.

[scriver]

What's your favorite mixed drink, alcoholic or otherwise?

Glögg. At least this time of year.

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[Kagus]

"Water is a mixed drink?"

"It is in Michigan!"