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@GreyAreaUK
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Elite:Dangerous Commander.
Whisky Drinker.
Muppet.

Bluesky: @greyareauk.bsky.social

Orbiting inside the Roche limit of sanity.

Living on the coast to the east of Edinburgh, Scotland
Love tech and retro-tech. Have been know to mess about with Trainz

Show thread🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿CMDR GreyAreaUKNov 27, 2024
@macquilter Del and Shoogle say ‘hi’
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿CMDR GreyAreaUKNov 27, 2024

In ‘disappointing but unsurprising' news:

I plugged a USB dongle that gives ear/mic sockets into The Spectrum and tried to load an audio file via it. One that I know works because I tested it on my MiSTer immediately before.

Zilch.

Would be nice if they eventually enable support for this. I know .tzx files will make it simulate a real tape-load, but doing it with real audio might be fun.

Still - it's been out less than a week. Patience, Grey. Patience.

#retrogaming #retrocomputing

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿CMDR GreyAreaUKNov 27, 2024

In Visual Studio is there a way to turn off the whole "I'm not touching this because MARK OF THE WEB!!!" nonsense?

I feel like I'm missing something.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿CMDR GreyAreaUKNov 6, 2024
@[email protected] Awesome, thank you. Might be a tomorrow thing though, about to be busy.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿CMDR GreyAreaUKNov 6, 2024
@pndc Graphics-wise it's not too shabby - I took the backplane off an AMD W2100 FirePro card and installed it. Works fine under W7, so hopefully OK under XP if I can get it installed..!
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@njsg @manawyrm Hmmm. Can't use the original machine because it's been junked - but I could mount the XP drive as a second, boot the Win7 one, and try that way.

Going to be busy over the next few days so I'll have to back-burner it, but thanks for the idea.

Show thread🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿CMDR GreyAreaUKNov 6, 2024
@Skepticat "Anyone can grow up to be President" is as much a warning as a message of hope.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿CMDR GreyAreaUKNov 6, 2024
@[email protected] @PeterLG
Do you mind if I re-post this over on Bluesky?
Show thread🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿CMDR GreyAreaUKNov 6, 2024
@manawyrm Nifty! - Again, thank you. If I get it running that'll be neat.
Show thread🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿CMDR GreyAreaUKNov 6, 2024
@manawyrm Nice, thank you. It's not fort anything serious, and I do intend to buy an old P90 machine for a dedicated XP setup. This is just gits and shiggles.