I like games of all types and sometimes try to make them. IT Professional who likes mechanical keyboards and weird hobby electronics too much. He/Him.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • OK, time to come clean. I had assumed the other old people would have this at the ready, but when the confused responses came in, I just rolled with it and now I’m bored with the joke.

    This is for BECMI. The question itself is real, though, I’ve heard of better Thief progressions, and I don’t want to just top out at 14 like most people do since I never got to play with the Masters or Immortals sets and I want to try it at least once so I know how it plays.








  • My bet is on either thermals or power supply.

    Not likely to be RAM, since issues there are more likely to either prevent the machine starting in the first place, or lock up if it fails while the machine is in operation.

    Not likely to be CMOS battery since that generally wouldn’t cause the machine to shut off, it just preserves firmware settings between power cycles.

    In theory, there could be an intermitted short happening somewhere and the PSU’s OCP is kicking in, but I’ve never come across something like that. Similarly, there could be a problem with an internal power cable connection doing the same, but it sounds like you’ve already checked that.

    I would test with a different PSU if you can. Thermals should be easy to check for too with the many pieces of available software to keep track of such things.