Ice Breaker

Old computer-using, radio-guy listening (KF5MDY/WSIP210/6502 AR), Particles! BBS running , bad software writing, dad. Coffee? ko-fi.com/particlesbbs. Board: www.particles.org

BBS
particlesbbs.dyndns.org:6400
Webpage
www.particles.org
Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-02-09

Glitch has decided that any Fallout76 playing means he's allowed to sleep in front of the monitor

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-02-08

It's that time of year to bring out this classic.

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-02-08

@nina_kali_nina The monitor syncs to 15Khz so that's how I get around that. If you have one that's a standard 31Khz only, you'd need an upscaler

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-02-08

And for the CoCo

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-02-08

Here's the pinouts I went with... VGA:

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-02-08

Spent a bit this morning creating a new RGB to VGA cable for my TRS80 Color Computer 3. Decided to go with a VGA breakout box as my soldering isn’t the best.

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-02-07

For , MOS has decided he needed to sit on dad's lap and drool.

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-02-02

Finally got around to testing out the Cobra 135 - to my surprise it works fine and even the flip clock works

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-02-01

Today is radio day.

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-01-27

@rlauzon Totally

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-01-27

@dwardoric @chrisgervais I started out on what was left of an Indus GT drive.. it didn't work well and it overheated a lot. I finally also got a 1541-II, a 1581 and then a CMD-HD.

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-01-27

My cat MOS has been complaining about going outside for the last few days. No matter how much I tried to reason with him that -5F and snow wouldn't be much fun, he still persisted. Now that it's warmed up a bit, I gave him the chance. He didn't like it.

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-01-27

I was going through the 1989 Sears Xmas Catalog looking for ideas for the computer room. Came across this and... ahhh... memories :).

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-01-26

Glitch is helping me clean up some of the wiring around here

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-01-26

@botolo86 Rarely, but it's still fun to have a dialup line :)

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-01-25

I am stuck at home due to the Snowpocalypse that’s happening. Seems like a good time to check out some on the -

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-01-19

If you're a SWLer, like I am, be sure to check out solarham.net before you spend an hour trying to figure out why your reception is so awful right now.

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-01-18

I use Electropaint 128 2.0 on to do my C128 80 column screen editing, but it hsa some issues occasionally where the memory gets corrupted. Looked for a newer version and came across this github.com/xahmol/VDCScreenEdit ... I haven't tried it out yet but anyone supporting the 128's VDC mode needs a callout

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-01-18

80 column intro screen. Will do 40 columns later.

Ice Breakerparticlesbbs
2026-01-18

@HunterZ It's a port. The original source is available online - downloaded it and converted it and am making it a bit more 'friendly', colorful, and such. The fun part will be getting it to work with the BBS but that's a problem for later.

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