Kickstart Rom 1.2

Photo's taken with my cellhphone, a day at work. I was testing two Amiga 500's to see if they worked properly.

Lo and Behold

The HP Laptop



The External Soundcard and Mixer

Looks like there is some training ahead. :)

Step by Step

My savings have finally yielded results. In less then two weeks this march I have purchased both a digital mixer for DJ-purposes. In this case a Numark Total Control with a external USB-Sound Card. A DJ I/O. And as by a stroke of luck I found a newly serviced HP Pavilion dv6501eo with a heavy discount.

The Hewlett Packard is a dual core platform with two AMD Athlon processors on 1.7 ghz clock. It has 120 gigabyte of hdd and one gig of ddr 2 ram (soon to be updated to two gig). It came shipped with the resource demanding OS Windows Vista Premium. The pro is that it was less expensive then the most inexpensive celeron-platform. Anyway: This will be used together with the Numark and the DJ I/O for live purposes. Maybe even as soon as the First of May.

Photos of my new equipment will be published soon via this blog :)

Bragging Rights

Warning: Nerdy information ahead.

I finally took the jump and started to rebuild my computer system. First I only intended to change the processor. Then I ended up having to change the motherboard since my new sockel A AMD processor would not work with my old motherboard. Now I realise I should really get more DDR Ram for it. (I now have roughly 650 meg mounted). Some would say it's laughable by todays standards, but it has worked for me this far.

The heart of the system

So, instead of my old AMD Duron 1300 mhz, I now sport a 2200 + AMD Athlon XP. Still not new by any standard, but what the heck. It is new for me and I built it myself. I have even managed to clock the processor slightly for even more performance. What this means practically is that I now will be able to muster trough music-tracks that earlier would make my computer cry... With more RAM it will go even better. :) This is good news for me.

Computer breakdown (sort of)

Yep. I've been stranded for the last couple of weeks with a max resolution on my monitor of 800*600. Lot harder to use my fave musical instrument Modplug tracker when the program is designed for higher resolution.

I've replaced both the actual monitor and the gfx-card to no use... Probably the issue is motherboard-related. Yay!

This is delaying both music and other stuff. Of course.