Crashed

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Vintage computer nut. Biased towards Amiga. https://crashedfiesta.blogspot.com

A picture of a screen showing a notepad++ and a bash type terminal running on Windows 11. The front window is smaller and is running the Torch Triple X emulator with the OpenTop desktop environment running.
An extract from the BBC website that shows they don't know that the spelling of 'program' for computers is different to a 'programme' of events.
A picture of the Cider Cub CP/M machine on a desk. The screen is displaying the CP/M Plus peripheral device manager.
The Torch Triple X showing a finished boot. Yay! The kernel window is shown in the middle and three icons are one the left hand side of the screen.
A picture of the Torch Triple X boot screen. The screen is showing dark blue with pale blue text. The first line reads "CARETAKER 1.3" and the next four lines describe an error preventing the Torch from booting.
A picture of the recreated limpet board with all chips and other components installed.
A picture of the reproduction Torch Limpet board with the DRAM capacitors installed. Every capacitor is facing the same way and soldered to the same angle and height.
A screenshot of the Torch Triple X emulator. It shows a text file called 'workingvi.txt' opened in a vi window. The file has 17 lines and 473 characters.
A picture of a green circuit board labelled 'LIMPET BOARD'. It is a bare PCB reproduction of a Torch Triple X Limpet memory expansion board.
A picture of a display from the Torch Triple X emulator. A window is open with the text 'is retrofest going to be awesome?'. A green tick and red cross are shown underneath and the mouse pointer is pointing emphatically at the green tick.
A picture of the Torch Triple X now non-functional due to a poorly limpet board. The top cover is not on and the mouse has been despondently placed inside.
A picture of the Torch Triple X display having just booted. A kernel info window is showing in the middle of the screen with some icons to the left.
A picture of the defunct Torch Triple X. The limpet board is propped on the open case with the keyboard in front. My tears decorate the carpet. 😢
A picture of the Torch Triple X terminal window. It shows the commands formatting a floppy disk image and the creating a filesystem. Then there's a command to copy all the files from the directory with the uemacs source code to the Gotek for closet analysis on my Linux system. Didn't get a picture but about six seconds after I took this, the system had a stream of fault traps followed by a 'double kernel panic', the screen went green, then white, then blank. I had a double panic myself and then turned it off and on again and it's been ok since.
A picture of a DRAM chip from the Torch limpet board. Pin 2 is folded up which presumably happened when I was reseating the chips last time. This is why I'm ditching the sockets...
A picture of a 20 pin turned pin ic socket on a desk.
A picture of a black 3d printed block approximately the size of an IC socket but much taller. Wires extend from both sides of the block.
A picture of a 3d printed block in a similar shape to an IC socket but much taller. A series of holes are drilled in the configuration of a 20 pin ic.
A picture of an attempt to compile uemacs on the Torch Triple X. The file named fileio.c has generated a number of errors.
A picture of the inside of the Cifer power supply. A black disc like component is in the centre of the image but to left centre of the disk is whole about 1mm in diameter with a grey residue. I suspect this was the magic smoke generator.
A picture of my properly dead Cifer computer. There are circuit boards on the desk and the Cifer is on its side. The offending hard disk that I think drew too much current to startup sits at the back of the desk looking smug.
My bluescsi.ini file.
A picture of the Cifer on its side but switched on. The screen is displaying the correct bottom options and random text that was typed in to verify the keyboard still works.
A picture of the back of the Cifer computer. The top cover has been removed showing the back of the dead hard disk and the CRT.
A picture of the Torch Triple X OpenTop desktop system in colour. The kernel window is open and displaying the kernel version as 2.11 with 1 megabyte of memory available.
A picture of the OpenTop windowing system. A terminal window is open showing a series of commands that created a new node for the attached Gotek drive and then mounted the Gotek successfully.
A picture of the Torch Triple X computer on a desk next to an old HP laptop. Both computers are displaying a terminal window.
A picture of a TV on a very messy workbench showing the kernel window of the Torch Triple X as it boots up.
A picture of a small circuit board containing two 14 pin integrated circuits. A grey cable is connected to the right hand side of the board which is the main cable to link to the back of the Torch.
A picture of a laptop screen showing a text file in the nano text editor. The text file says that it is only present on a disk image on the Gotek floppy disk emulator.
A picture of a laptop screen showing the contents of a text file. It says 'Hello. This is a file created on a Linux machine and copied to a blank floppy image for the Torch Triple X. I had to take a valid floppy image and delete all the files. This was originally the Limpet test disk from Adrian at Binary Dinosaurs.'
A picture of parts of an 8 pin din connector and a SCART connector. The SCART connector has red, green, blue, white and black wires coming out of the back. In the foreground is the end of a grey cable with smaller wires coming from the end of different colours.
A screenshot of a Linux terminal showing the listing of a set of files from one of the Torch Unix disks.
The front of the Torch Triple X with the lid removed. An SD card is stuck into the top of the floppy drive panel and a grey usb stick is inserted underneath into the Gotek.
The Torch Triple X display showing the console output following completion of installing disk 2. Only 13 more to go...
A picture of the Torch Triple X attempting to run an installation. It has stopped with the error message "out of phase get help".
A picture of the Torch Triple X that booted from a floppy disk image. There are three icons on the screen. Root folder, Shell and, (best of all) RemakeUnix.
A picture of the Torch Triple X display. A shell window is open and the Limpet test program has been run and will shortly crash.
A picture of the Torch Triple X monitor showing a kernel boot window as it boots from the v1.32 Torch boot disk. The boot has stopped at this point showing the largest runnable process as 1675264.
Converted .img file of the Torch Triple X Limpet test disk showing two sided disk with a speed of 300rpm in the HxC Floppy disk emulator software.
A picture of the HxC Floppy software. Side 0 is seven eighths red indicating the disk is not happy. Side 1 is mostly green but with orange and red tracks towards the centre.
A picture of the HxC Floppy Disk emulator running on Linux. It is showing two greenish circles that represent the track information on the Torch XXX Keydisk.
A picture of the HxC Floppy Disk emulator running on Linux. It is showing two greenish circles that represent the track information on the Torch XXX Keydisk.
A picture of a Linux terminal window attempting to build the HxCFloppyEmulator software. The build has failed.
A picture of a larger Torch Triple X monitor on the main computer. It shows a very dark green picture which looks much better in the photo than in real life.
A picture of an iMac G3 on a chair. It is switched on and is running System Info benchmarks.
A picture of a workbench which has extends into the corner of a garage. A Commodore PET is on the right hand end of the desk with a heatproof blue mat, and then a red HP laptop to the centre and left side. A repurposed laptop screen hangs above the Pet and a Torch Triple X computer sits on a desk to the far left of the picture. On both walls, expertly installed shelves are installed, a pair on each wall. Plastic storage boxes and a CRT oscilloscope are stored under the desk.
A picture of the bottom of an iMac with the motherboard removed showing the grey metal case. A message has been written in pencil on the metal. It reads "Cleaned as best I could. Crashedfiesta. 3rd November 2019."
A picture of the Torch Triple X running the adventure game called "Adventure". So far I have picked up a brass lantern, some tasty food, a bottle and the water in the bottle. The whole thing is being supervised by Ziggy who stands to the left of the monitor. He has blue shorts, blue gloves, a green head and friendly purple ears. He also has a vaguely sinister happy smile and big eyes.
A picture of 12 integrated circuits on a blue anti static mat, of various sizes, all marked with 'xx' to indicate that they are dead.
A picture of a commodore pet running a simple basic program that generates random scripts.
A picture of the latest Gotek bracket installed in the Torch Triple X before the memory problems. There is a silver USB memory stick inserted into the Gotek. An SD card is inserted in a slot at the top and a red LED is lit, indicating that the BlueSCSI is accessing the card.
A picture of an oscilloscope display showing a regular repeating wave. There is a distinct gap between each rising wave.