Season 2020/2021

[cobito]

As your mayor, I owe you an explanation, and I will pay you that explanation. As your mayor, I am...

Well, we start the season eager to finish the things that were left unfinished last season and with some ideas that may eventually see the light of day.

As for the forums, there will be no changes. They will continue to be the central site and meeting place of Hardlimit. If participation remains as high as last year, we can be very pleased.

The test bench is likely to receive changes. On the one hand, I want to try a central color scheme that is in line with the program, that is, a dark theme. On the other hand, I am considering adding a new mode: IV AVX512 mode. This repertoire is not particularly interesting for "useful" performance or the number of compatible models yet, but it seems like a good way to stress the CPU to reach the TDP limit. On the other hand, I would like to create a database of motherboards and chipsets and other improvements that are mentioned in the first post of the test bench thread. For the latter to be truly useful, many more validations are still needed. Fortunately, for the past couple of months, Windows SmartScreen no longer appears when running the program and some downloads are also happening from the Microsoft Store. The result of this is that numerous validations have been received in recent months, many of them with new models from anonymous users and, in fact, they continue to be received.

The cover is not expected to undergo major changes. It will continue to be a sounding board and showcase of activity on the different sites.

The museum for the moment (and until someone wants to collaborate) still hangs to a large extent on my retro blog, so the new content is linked to this. Regarding the technical part, the common code that is already shared on the cover and the test bench will be used, which will homogenize the aesthetics and facilitate maintenance. There will also be improvements in the presentation of information and the magazine viewer. Regarding content, on the one hand, it is planned to increase the repertoire of magazines and emulations and on the other, hardware will continue to be added as it is analyzed. For a couple of days now, I have started preparing the analysis of the next PC from the last millennium, so there will be a lot of new things coming out of that.

The videos section continues to increase in content and users. Despite the fact that in mid-summer, the theme of the videos was deviating from what was established by the rules, today, the vast majority are technical videos: many related to free software and system administration. For those who do not know, for a couple of months now, there has been an instance (independent of Hardlimit but that uses our resources) for educational videos that do not comply with the content policy of Hardlimit: TubEdu. Beyond administration, moderation and uploading of material for the museum and blog, there will be no big surprises.

And about the blogs section, well, there is what there is and it is what it is. For my part, I will continue to upload new content to mine and of course, the possibility of opening one remains open. But just like with the forum, it is clear that it will not be the dominant medium for sharing ideas in the decade that we will start in just under 4 months. Despite this, both continue to be (and will continue to be) the most appropriate places for friends of non-immediacy.

In the immediate future (starting today), priorities will focus on beginning to document the tinkering I started a while ago on a Pentium MMX from 97 for the next entry in my blog (which is something I have had in the works since practically March) and to assemble my new NAS of which I already have the case, the power supply and the disks and on Monday I hope to have the rest (I will publish the details in the NAS thread). When all this is ready, which will be in a matter of a few weeks, I will work on the museum. And when I finish with the museum (both the technical and content part), I will dedicate time to the rest of the things.

So the beginning of the school year will be mainly retro. I hope you have had a good summer and see you in the forums!

[Sylver]

As always, infinite thanks dear mayor, for keeping the effort and commitment so that our digital space not only remains, but continues to grow. You will be our hero forever.

I have uploaded some anonymous validation to the test bench during mid-to-late August, since I was without internet and relying on mobile data I passed the test to an Atom and an AM2 that I had to repair. It is a small thing but it is what I could contribute during the wait.

I am very happy that there are growing sections, it means that we are on the right path, and sooner or later we will achieve the increase in participation that we expect.

Perhaps someday an interesting idea for a blog will come to mind, but for now I am doing a lot of things, it remains as a wish to fulfill.

PD: I am very eager to see that Pentium MMX from 97, I have one from the same fifth in another house, which if I manage to rescue and bring it, I will document it a little even if it is just out of curiosity.

See you family
Regards!

[Fassou]

A statue for our Mayor!

Semper Fidelis!

[Yorus]

I'm glad to see that you continue to dedicate yourself fully to the community.

I've been neglecting my blog a bit, although I have another project in mind, also focused on retro themes, to separate it from the other one. I'm not sure if having two blogs on HardLimit would be too much, and it would have some relation to the Retroinformática group I have on Telegram, but not too much, since I'm going to focus more on personal projects (by the way, I got rid of the K6-2 but I've fallen back in and now I'm starting with a Pentium 133),

Greetings to everyone!

[cobito]

@Yorus It's not abuse at all. If you want another blog here, just tell me a name and I'll prepare it for you.

[Sylver]

I can vouch that @Yorus is up to date with retrocomputing, has a lot of people in the group and he always contributes interesting things

Best regards!

[Yorus]

@cobito said in Season 2020/2021:

@Yorus It's not abuse at all. If you want another blog here, tell me a name and I'll prepare it for you.

I'll send you a private message with the name this weekend.

@Sylver said in Season 2020/2021:

I can vouch for the fact that @Yorus is really into retrocomputing, he has a lot of people in the group and he always contributes interesting things

You're going to expose me!

Well, one thing I was thinking about was creating a Telegram channel with magazines that aren't easily accessible, but that would overlap with @cobito's section, so I'll keep passing material to HardLimit and what I do in the group and Twitter is to promote it a bit.

I always have doubts about the rights to the magazines and the fact that someone has done preservation work and has a site dedicated to it, in which case it might be better to link to them unless they somehow make it clear that they don't mind.

[cobito]

@Yorus Good news about your new blog! I'm just analyzing a 133MHz Pentium MMX right now. I'll see if I have it ready by the end of the month.

Well, one thing I was thinking about was creating a Telegram channel with magazines that weren't easily accessible, but that would overlap with the section of @cobito, so I'll keep passing material to HardLimit and what I'll do in the group and Twitter is promote it a little.

Don't worry about overlapping. The more duplicated these things are, the better. Everything you have that you want to share in the museum is welcome.

I always have doubts about the rights to the magazines and the fact that someone has done preservation work and has a site dedicated to it, in which case it might be better to link to them unless they somehow make it clear that they don't mind.

I don't remember where I made that exact inquiry, but that's where the idea for the VIP museum (for magazines and emulations) came from. I don't really think there's anything wrong with publishing old magazines when there's no profit motive. You can always leave a way for anyone to communicate easily to request that the material be removed.