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1. Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙 (polpo@bitbang.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 21:52:31 UTC Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙

   Testing out #PicoGUS on the #Hand386… it’s a mixed bag. The ISA reset line is noisy so it constantly resets the Pico unless I put Kapton tape over the pad on the connector, and several productions have DMA issues (surprise!!). Here it is playing the song that epitomized the trend of sine leads in mid-90s tracker music, Infinity by Khyron and Necros:

   • Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙 (polpo@bitbang.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 21:52:29 UTC Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙

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     Thanks to some tips from yyzkevin on Discord, I learned you can poke at registers on the 65535 VGA controller on this thing to put it into CRT mode, allowing 70Hz VGA modes. Second Reality now plays music at full speed! https://www.yyzkevin.com/pc110/65535-2/

   • Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙 (polpo@bitbang.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jun-2023 21:52:31 UTC Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙

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     And because it uses a laptop VGA controller that forces refresh to 60Hz, a lot of demos run slowly or not at all. All Future Crew demos are too slow, for example.

     Anatoly Shashkin💾 repeated this.