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The above disabling is to do with installing Windows 10 on a mid-2010 Mac Mini (the Whack Winnie), which is a process I’ve gone through AT LEAST four times now. Windows 10 installs fine, but upon updating and restart, there’s no display output. My workaround was initially to disable ALL updates, as above, but I paid more attention on one of the installs and noticed it seemed (logically) that it was when the Nvidia driver updater that the system fucked-out.
So, another install later: I allowed updates, but then went into Devices and disabled the Nvidia driver. The display seems fine using whatever driver Windows uses when that is disabled, and the system works fine upon restarting. All other updates install fine.
Someone else seems to have suffered the same issues:
I’ve come across this “Bootcamp” thing, which seems to be some Apple affair for dual-booting. I ignored it all and utterly wiped any trace of Apple off the harddrive, for better or worse, wisely or wrongly. The only tricky thing has been when trying to access the boot menu: this seems to require a wired USB keyboard, and holding Alt upon power-on.
Windows seems to be running ok, though there’s no way of getting sound out of the machine; not via HDMI or the headphone jack. That’s a setback.
We’ll come back to the “WhackWhinnie” a little later on (if I remember…)
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Duckstation:
PS3 wireless controllers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/nwi796/how_to_dual_shock_3_on_windows_10_wirelessly_and/
Duskstation has been a great success! Honestly, it’s been a surprising success considering how, as usually detailed here, nothing really works…
I’ve been able to install it on my regular Win10 PC (no Linux or WhackWhinnie nonsense going on) and jumped through A LOT of hoops to get controllers working. Unintuitively, wired controllers (OG PS controllers connected via USB adaptors) have been a bit of a flop, especially for two-player, but wireless PS3 controllers connected via USB (and A LOT of ancillary programs) have worked GREAT and even worked for two-player!
I’ve had a truly joyous time playing Nuclear Strike (there are various aspects of the game controls which gel with my mind, somehow) and Crash Bandicoot was a big hit. I want to have another go at playing through the Oddworld games, and see if the James Bond games live up to Goldeneye…
ANYWAY…
Here’s some of the previous crap I put myself through when trying to get the MacMini to work:
Next time: Retropie, MacMinux, DuckStation on WhackWhinnie
