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  1. i just spent about an hour on a very old computer trying to make the bios pw go away. even pulled the bios chip out out since the battery was soldered on. had to try every jumper, it was como bo pulling one putting it back then pull another out.

  2. I've been looking into makeing/modding a tabletop arcade cabinet. Primarily I was looking for an empty shell, then fill in the guts with a computer and roms of the Atari games I own.

    Software isn't so much the problem here though. It's the shell. They're not that easy to come by in my next of the woods, and making one in my downtown apartment isn't an option. I noticed there's a few places that sell them online, but they're $2000+ with everything inside. I could buy just the shell, but with shipping and conversion to Canadian, it would be about $1000. Considering all it would be is about $150 in wood + accessories , $40 for the I-Pac controller, and $70 for brand new joysticks and buttons, that's a far cry from $1000.

    i saw a how to on this once. to bad i don't remember where it's at.

  3. shit i have like 7 of them to update plus grandparents aren't computer smart..... guess i'll just lay in bed and maybe not care.

    oh btw the way i see it win dominates for gaming and biggest library of apps/games

    macs are great for net and all around use other than gaming with exception to what is in it's game library

    linux is very versatile and secure but also has limited game library

    both nix and make have win emulators

  4. not at all was ranting about not being able to read default.ini or something couldn't fix it so i took it off cause i didn't feel like mess'n. The last time i played it fine however i had problems with it using the normal short cut. I did how ever get it to run for a little bit at maximum setting it would lag for a half a second every so often other than that probably almost 30 ore more fps max gfx. i'll try putting it back on and see how that goes for my amusement plus sometimes i play multi and could use it for lan.

  5. I haven't built one, but I am interested in the design of processors (and other ICs). I have decapsulated many chips to study under microscope (but I have never fully reverse-engineered a chip, usually I am just interested in some design aspects and memory contents). Here's a flickr link of an older ROM chip (from a NES Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt cartridge) I photographed.

    Are you going to implement the design on an FPGA, or is it simulation only?

    So you use chemicals and an ultrasonic vibrator to disassemble the chips? can explain ho you remove the silicon casing?

  6. I read the article and then had hunch and bought the parts i id it for fun really and i use it some too i have a little over 7 PC's that i'v acquired for free and then build them fixed em up etc plus when i my brother visits some time we play LAN. thanks for the props. My futue plans are to see if it can actually run more than 512 mb system ram.

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