Fragged News Page

Updates March 2026

Seriously, how useless am I at updating this page? The consoles have been sitting waiting for so long... but in the meantime I have finally added some stuff:

Apple Power Macintosh 7300/200 page created - photos soon
I need it in the shop for Marchintosh anyway so photos (and potentially revival) will be very soon.
Custom PC - Project Picasso page created - photos soon
That monstrosity was previously described and it's glorious.
Custom PC - Project Azurewrath (the P4 build) page created, photos taken.
Very long term project that's come to life in a big way. S'more cooling upgrades and it'll be ready for some more taxing work than just running Neverwinter Nights.
Commodore PC10-III page created - photos soon
Very very long term project as it can't interface with the KVM setup as it sits, if it ran. Which it doesn't.

Workshop move is pending being able to afford it - the shop is uninsulated and unheated. Until I can get it lined and warm, there's no rationale for moving myself out there yet. But damn this room is pokey... I did measure the spare bedroom to see if it's any good but realistically, we wouldn't actually gain anything, the room isn't that much bigger. If we're moving, it's to somewhere that the consoles can actually get set up so Suture and I can finally stream drunk Two Crude Dudes.

March 2025

Jesus H Christ, have I really not updated the news in that long?!

Okay, stuff that's changed:

Duality got a reconfigure due to a failing hard disk and now triple boots Windows Me, Windows 2000 and BeOS 5.0 Pro.
Jenny got a big refit with an alternate motherboard, extra cache and a new video card.
A new/old team member has arrived in the form of my ex-wife's childhood Apple Power Macintosh 7300/200 which I have been patching back together alongside 3vilC. Page coming soon.
Our cute Linksys NAS200 2-bay NAS turned upside down, dumped its users and forgot where files were on the hard disk. This is currently being replaced by the dramatically more cool Project Baby - an old MSI aluminium SFF chassis with an Atom 330 board running Windows Home Server. Page coming soon.
We built what I can only term a monstrosity that's tenatively been nicknamed Project Picasso - an old Intel PD440FX board, with a Pentium II 233 overclocked to 300, 64MB EDO RAM, a Rendition Verite V2200, a Matrox m3D PowerVR PCX2 and an AWE64, running the OG Windows 98. VQuake ahoy! Page coming soon.

I think that covers the core of the hardware changes. Next major update will be when we start looking at moving out of the tiny room and out to the workshop itself.

October 2023

The Compaq Presario 7222 has finally received an upgrade - an Intel Pentium OverDrive MMX 200. Benches suggest a modest improvement in power, more gains to be had once it gets the extra cache.

September 2023

Started moving some pages around to make my own life easier and started setting up to be able to add the next section, pages for my game consoles. I've also tweaked the navigation buttons to make them a bit easier to reach.

Added photos for the Acorn RiscPC 700 with a little gallery too!

Custom PC - Project Chompy has had photos added as well as a quick chinwag about the installation of water cooling after it kept cooking its tuchus during our VtM:Bloodlines stream this month.

Custom PC - Project Outatime has just been pulled out of the shed and given a clean ready to start rehabilitation.

August 2023

I've added a page for the Fragged Twitch Stream where these machines get exercised live. Most the machines that have been added have very basic images added so you know what the claptrap is we're playing with.

The batteries finally arrived to start playing with the Sony Mavicas - I've two, an MVC-FD73 and an MVC-FD100. The first round of photos (naturally, of the Compaq as the easiest to get photos of!) have been taken, resized and posted. There's also now a clickable gallery of the Compaq's guts, if you're so inclined!

July 2023

I'm still working on both learning how 25 year old WYSIWYG webpage authoring tools work and creating pages to populate the site. There's some whacky features like a counter at the bottom of how many seconds a page will take to load on a 28.8k modem, I love it!

The current jobs I've been performing include trying to get images for all the machines, put more machines in, and so forth and so on. It's a slow process and these will get updated with photos taken with period hardware if and when the time comes.

Computers added:

Custom PC - Project Chompy (2003)
Custom PC - Project Duality (2000)
Custom PC - Project Outatime (1998)

Acorn BBC Master Compact (1986)
Acorn RiscPC (1995)
Compaq Presario 7222 (1996)
Commodore Amiga 1200HD40 (1992)
Commodore Amiga 500 (1987)
Commodore Amiga CD32 (1993)
Commodore CDTV (1991)
Commodore SX64 (1984)