THe NAC Lots-O-BFG KO2 Thread

[foxwar71]

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colin, do this to the insides

 

[JrTxJ]

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and rossy ross ross adam, so I removed my rear shocks, and of course the upper bolts snapped. They're a lot harder to break out than the front lower bolts were to smack through. ah what to do without proper tools, heat, & motivation.

 

[MoparManiac]

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Now I'm looking at width/height/length measurements of 440s...

Why do I go through this everytime.

 

[MoparManiac]

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440 only weighs 150 lbs over a 4.0...

 

[foxwar71]

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440 only weighs 150 lbs over a 4.0...

all aluminum

 

[cmelo]

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wow all this nerd computer speak wishes I could bribe one of you to figure out why my laptop stopped starting up the other day. something apparently wrong with the amount of memory available or some crap, just randomly decided to not work.

Bet that was just what the BSOD told you and it's something entirely unrelated to memory.

 

[kastein]

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That's nuts, i had to google the 8088 since it's far before when I started getting into computers(I didn't build computers in elementary school). Not sure what applications something like that would have but definitely interesting.

it was a project for a class I was in in college... I had wanted to build one for years but never had the time because I was working on classwork. Suddenly it was classwork and I could justify working on it so I went all-in:


8088 running at a couple MHz, 128kB of firmware space (since I was writing in assembly language that was way more than I needed, longest instruction on the 8088 was 5 bytes so that's about 26 thousand lines of code, bare minimum, but it was the smallest EEPROM I owned), 32kB of RAM, a real-time clock, a 2x20 character LCD display, hex keypad, etc etc.

Eventually I'll probably write a real-time OS for it... that is, when I get done with the other half billion projects I have on the list already.

The thing I'm proudest about on it is that there were only two bugs, even though I wired it entirely from memory, using only pin-outs of the chips. I flipped a data bus and forgot to tie a few pins to VCC. It started right up after I fixed those. </hypernerd>

wow all this nerd computer speak wishes I could bribe one of you to figure out why my laptop stopped starting up the other day. something apparently wrong with the amount of memory available or some crap, just randomly decided to not work.

interesting. virtual memory low, expanding page file? Something like that?

 

[themangeraaad]

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i asked ken, said the same haha. thanks for the help tho. i just dont want to buy it and find out it wont work for what i want to do with it.

thanks tho

haha i am on a jeep forum.

I will look at it later tonight or tomorrow, actually too busy now. :doh: I gotta look up the game requirements before i can say anything too.

I'm an electrical engineer both as a profession and as a hobby. I've got an entire 8088 based computer that I breadboarded in a weekend with no schematic sitting here right now, it runs custom firmware I wrote, assembled, and then burned to an EPROM and stuck into the breadboard.

:compwork:

I love the 8088, I have been looking for a PROM burner and almost bought one on Ebay the other day. I can't tell if I prefer the 8088 or 8052 though, built microprocessors with custom FW on both. I've been wanting to build another one of these days but just never get around to buying the necessary burners and stuff.

wow all this nerd computer speak wishes I could bribe one of you to figure out why my laptop stopped starting up the other day. something apparently wrong with the amount of memory available or some crap, just randomly decided to not work.

please do explain just what you mean by "bribe" :laugh3:

 

[cmelo]

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440 only weighs 150 lbs over a 4.0...

Not if you make it out of cardboard. Better yet, a ford 390 with a destroker crank that'll bring it down to a 305. Slap a one barrel carb, points ignition, retard the spark down quite a bit. Then weld up a 1" single outlet exhaust system with a stock muffler from a geo metro and two catylitic converters.

 

[MoparManiac]

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all aluminum

Actually my uncle can source me some aluminum heads...



Crap just found block hugger headers from Sanderson that would probably work...

:firedevil:

I already have money dumped into the NP435/D20 swap though.

 

[kastein]

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I love the 8088, I have been looking for a PROM burner and almost bought one on Ebay the other day. I can't tell if I prefer the 8088 or 8052 though, built microprocessors with custom FW on both. I've been wanting to build another one of these days but just never get around to buying the necessary burners and stuff.

8088 all the way. More address space, better instruction set, more registers, more flexible control bus (can run in minimum mode and wire direct, or run with an 8228 in maximum mode), more coprocessors available (8087 FPU and 8089 I/O coproc), faster clock, wider data bus, wider registers...

 

[JrTxJ]

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interesting. virtual memory low, expanding page file? Something like that?

I hit F12 and did a systems diagnostics and the only thing that didn't pass was memory. It said "Due to an amount of memory assigned for system use, Memory Available is less than Memory Installed". Perhaps my car RAMrod died? I have no clue anymore when it comes to this stuff.

 

[asp]

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Now I'm looking at width/height/length measurements of 440s...

Why do I go through this everytime.

Actually my uncle can source me some aluminum heads...



Crap just found block hugger headers from Sanderson that would probably work...

:firedevil:

I already have money dumped into the NP435/D20 swap though.

buy a new bellhousing and put in a 440.

 

[themangeraaad]

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it was a project for a class I was in in college... I had wanted to build one for years but never had the time because I was working on classwork. Suddenly it was classwork and I could justify working on it so I went all-in:


8088 running at a couple MHz, 128kB of firmware space (since I was writing in assembly language that was way more than I needed, longest instruction on the 8088 was 5 bytes so that's about 26 thousand lines of code, bare minimum, but it was the smallest EEPROM I owned), 32kB of RAM, a real-time clock, a 2x20 character LCD display, hex keypad, etc etc.

Eventually I'll probably write a real-time OS for it... that is, when I get done with the other half billion projects I have on the list already.

The thing I'm proudest about on it is that there were only two bugs, even though I wired it entirely from memory, using only pin-outs of the chips. I flipped a data bus and forgot to tie a few pins to VCC. It started right up after I fixed those. </hypernerd>

That's pretty much what I did in college. One class built a 8088 system Jr year and Sr year used an 8052. I could send you the assembly for a pretty decent OS that IIRC lets you address to different locations and screw around with a whole bunch of stuff. Maybe I will try and find my 8052 board when I get home tonight and take a shot of my system... I remember I had it in a backpack for ages but I have moved it somewhere else now... not exactly sure where. Maybe in a box in storage

 

[themangeraaad]

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8088 all the way. More address space, better instruction set, more registers, more flexible control bus (can run in minimum mode and wire direct, or run with an 8228 in maximum mode), more coprocessors available (8087 FPU and 8089 I/O coproc), faster clock, wider data bus, wider registers...

Yeah I know that TECHNICALLY its better

And the more I think about it I remember being pissed at the 8052 when I started using it. We used the 8088 in Jr and 8052 Sr year so taking the step back was a pita to find out all the stuff I couldn't do.

 

[kastein]

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I hit F12 and did a systems diagnostics and the only thing that didn't pass was memory. It said "Due to an amount of memory assigned for system use, Memory Available is less than Memory Installed". Perhaps my car RAMrod died? I have no clue anymore when it comes to this stuff.

absolutely no idea :dunno:
F12 during bootup sounds like an OEM specific thing, never done that.

That's pretty much what I did in college. One class built a 8088 system Jr year and Sr year used an 8052. I could send you the assembly for a pretty decent OS that IIRC lets you address to different locations and screw around with a whole bunch of stuff. Maybe I will try and find my 8052 board when I get home tonight and take a shot of my system... I remember I had it in a backpack for ages but I have moved it somewhere else now... not exactly sure where. Maybe in a box in storage

neat.

I already designed a system with the z80 that had 12MB of RAM (yeah, in a 64kB address space, we used some bank switching with a quarter of the address space containing firmware and transfer buffers mirrored into each separate bank) and a multitasking OS, so I'm pretty sure I have this covered, but code's always fun to look at.

Never implemented that one, ended up doing the 8088 and dropping the previous design since the next idea up was an 80286 which would have that much RAM with no bank switching trickery involved.

EDIT: Ross, it's pouring rain. Think this will continue? I have driven the massivemobile in the pouring rain with no top on it enough, it is no fun.

 

[ktm racer 419]

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anybody ever get money stolen from them through thier debit card? and anybody ever have any luck gettin it back?

some d-bag in santa anna california took $706 from me


it was done at a chase bank atm at 3600 south bristol ave.

 

[cmelo]

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I hit F12 and did a systems diagnostics and the only thing that didn't pass was memory. It said "Due to an amount of memory assigned for system use, Memory Available is less than Memory Installed". Perhaps my car RAMrod died? I have no clue anymore when it comes to this stuff.

Something in BIOS set wrong?

 

[MoparManiac]

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buy a new bellhousing and put in a 440.

I'd need a whole new transmission.

Different bellhousing boltpattern that isn't drilled in this one.

 

[kastein]

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anybody ever get money stolen from them through thier debit card? and anybody ever have any luck gettin it back?

some d-bag in santa anna california took $706 from me


it was done at a chase bank atm at 3600 south bristol ave.

tell them where you were and prove it.

Hopefully you were on the other side of the country from where this heist occurred and will be able to prove this easily.