2000UltraDeluxe (u/2000UltraDeluxe)

2000UltraDeluxe commented on Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition krzysztofjankowski.com/fl... · Posted by u/GalaxySnail

UncleSlacky · a month ago

You can force YouTube to use H264 instead (via extensions like H264ify), that should reduce the processing load.

2000UltraDeluxe · a month ago

Were there actually Pentium M chipsets that could decode anything but MPEG2?

The CPU will be struggling with most modern video formats including h.264.

2000UltraDeluxe commented on Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition krzysztofjankowski.com/fl... · Posted by u/GalaxySnail

flomo · a month ago

Yeah, I just posted that a lot of that software was amazing and pretty 'feature-complete', all while running on a very limited old personal conmputers.

Just please don't gaslight us with some alternate Amiga bullshit history. All that shit was super slow, you were begging for +5Mhz or +25KB of cache. If Amiga had any success outside of teenage gamers, that stuff would have all been historical, just like it was on the Mac.

2000UltraDeluxe · a month ago

Amiga was big in Europe. No doubt they were slow though; most computers of the time were.

2000UltraDeluxe commented on The next-gen mainboard designed with amigaos4 and morphos in mind mirari.vitasys.nl/our-sto... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bluescrn · 3 months ago

> Yeah, the lack of support for off-the-shelf hardware has been the doom of the Amiga revival since day one.

The Amiga was not just an OS. It was all about the custom chips that added such interesting and powerful capabilities to an otherwise unspectacular 68000. When combined with the OS, it created a system that was truly ahead of its time.

But I don't see the appeal of AmigaOS on modern hardware. Most Amiga fans are more interested in the games and demos that didn't use the OS, and used the blitter/copper etc directly.

And if you just want a faster Amiga, the PiStorm is pretty cool.

2000UltraDeluxe · 3 months ago

There have been firebrands attempting a revival of the Amiga since the mid 90's, and back then it was a question of making a new and modern platform -- not watching demos.

Today is a different matter, of course. Personally, emulation is more than enough for me.

2000UltraDeluxe commented on The next-gen mainboard designed with amigaos4 and morphos in mind mirari.vitasys.nl/our-sto... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

drbig · 3 months ago

As someone who grew up with Amiga... I find it amazing these boards still keep coming (X1000, X5000... anyone?) - they have always been insanely expensive for specs that are decade(s) old, all in the name of... really no idea what beyond "we can".

Or in other words: I wonder what if all that time, money and effort went into say AROS[1] and/or emulation. I can imagine still using AmIRC and HippoPlayer if I could run them as any other software on Linux.

1: https://aros.sourceforge.io/introduction/

2000UltraDeluxe · 3 months ago

Yeah, the lack of support for off-the-shelf hardware has been the doom of the Amiga revival since day one.

The refusal to port AmigaOS to anything but dead or near-dead architectures has always amazed me -- had the resources been spent on AROS instead, we'd have a usable modern ecosystem by now, rather than multiple different options that fall back on various ways of running 30 year-old binaries.

All I want is a decent modern version of YAM and universal ARexx/datatype support! :(

2000UltraDeluxe commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback? theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull

Acrobatic_Road · 3 months ago

>What's next? VHS?

Yes, please! I've been thinking of starting a collection.

2000UltraDeluxe · 3 months ago

Lots of tapes more or less being given away here. Check your local flea markets!

2000UltraDeluxe commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback? theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull

karlkloss · 3 months ago

As soon as recordable CDs were affordable, I switched completely, and never looked back.

Cassette tapes were nice when we didn't have anything better, but they were always a big pain in the back. Noisy, wearing out, skipping took a long time, making compilations took hours. I don't miss those times.

Nowadays, I can play mp3's on a $3 microcontroller, at excellent quality, and I love it.

Do you still use a kerosene lamp when you go into your barn at night?

2000UltraDeluxe · 3 months ago

It's perfecly legitimate to do stuff simply because you want to. This is a site for tinkering people, so it's kind of expected people tinker with stuff. Quite often that includes old stuff. :)

Waiting for the writeup about the steel wire recorder resurgence now.

2000UltraDeluxe commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback? theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull

yourusername · 3 months ago

>but it is really hard to make a good sounding cassette, particularly if you dont know what you are doing (like me).

All these modern cassette players use the same super basic mechanism. To make a good sounding tape you would need vintage hardware with Dolby noise reduction and less wow/flutter.

2000UltraDeluxe · 3 months ago

Yeah, with high-end vintage decks in good shape, tapes can sound pretty decent, more than enough for day-to-day listening.

A type I tape recorded on a modern player? It'll sound horrible.

2000UltraDeluxe commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback? theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull

geekamongus · 3 months ago

Vinyl resurging, I can understand. But cassette tapes were always so fragile. I can't count how many got twisted up in the player and lost forever.

Their only redeeming quality was the mix tape.

2000UltraDeluxe · 3 months ago

But what a quality that was!

2000UltraDeluxe commented on 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland energy-storage.news/250mw... · Posted by u/doener

fifilura · 3 months ago

If you pump the water back into the existing reserviors you will have less flooding?

I suggested a pump-water extension to existing hydro power reservoirs.

Like your EV recharges when you release the pedal.

Right shouldn't talk about EVs with a Finn, that analogy will not fly. Ok, like if you plan carefully where you throw up your koskenkorva you can re-use it.

2000UltraDeluxe · 3 months ago

The reservoirs in Finland aren't quite at the scale your Explorer Vodka-fuelled Swedish mind believe them to be. Most are small generators hooked up to the local rivers, and are required to prioritize keeping the water from flooding residential areas.

There's a reason we're looking at using old mines for pumped hydro rather than trying to pump water upriver during a spring flood because other power sources have surplus generation.

2000UltraDeluxe commented on 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland energy-storage.news/250mw... · Posted by u/doener

fifilura · 3 months ago

You could just build a back-channel for the existing hydro-dams? Those reservoirs are only full for a short period and that is when you dont need pump energy.

2000UltraDeluxe · 3 months ago

But where? In Finland, at least, the land is relatively flat when compared with Norway and Sweden, and with a large rural population there aren't really any good locations.

In my local area, we had major flooding this spring because the hydro plant operators were sleeping on the job (or whatever they did instead of regulating water levels). And that was a simple 2m increase in water levels.

NO/SE have some more geographically suitable locations, but last time I checked, flooding them was considered too environmentally destructive too the local environment.