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Re: Right to repair discussion (split from What retro activity did you get up to today?)

Posted on Today, 06:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you think they cannot read your encrypted data you are wrong, they wrote the encryption and can reverse it (unless you pre-encrypt it with third party tools but even then...no guarentee) Got any proof of that ? Do you have any idea how bitlocker works ? Also "they" can read your data with much …

Re: Right to repair discussion (split from What retro activity did you get up to today?)

Posted on Yesterday, 10:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That makes me remember this old piece of news : IT'S OFFICIAL: Apple Fanboyism Is A Religion: Neuroscientists Find Both Trigger Same Reaction In Brain

Re: Right to repair discussion (split from What retro activity did you get up to today?)

Posted on Yesterday, 09:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am not sure if they are overpriced for the quality of the product and the used material. All I can say is, I don't care. I always buy apple products because I love the integration of soft-/ and hardware. I would never buy a PC for home usage. I love my M1 mini because it's silent and powerfull. I …

Re: Right to repair discussion (split from What retro activity did you get up to today?)

Posted on Yesterday, 08:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And it's very easy not to buy such products. Especially since Apple product always have been way overpriced compared to a PC with more features and capability.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 17:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Something users like appiah4 and xcomcmdr seem to ignore. Both like to bash and harass apple users on this forum, and they also like to start a flame war about that. It's not their first time doing that. I only agreed with you about 'Fuck Intel', and expressed by 'Fuck Apple harder' that Apple was …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 08:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Radeon 8500 was really a good card.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 07:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I was trying to go on a test run with one of my Trio3D/2X 8MB and I found it unusually troublesome. I've been planning on experiencing the true potential of this beast, but games either won't launch or only run in software mode. So far the only games I had a modest amount of luck with are: …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 21:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ported a Wpf control over to AvaloniaUI. WPF is a Windows Vista era technology.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 18:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bruninho wrote on 2021-10-14, 17:28: appiah4 wrote on 2021-10-14, 07:23: Bruninho wrote on 2021-10-14, 05:32: Does watching two movies about Steve Jobs count as a retro activity? 👀 No. Fuck Apple. F*ck Intel 😀 Yes. But Fuck Apple harder.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 07:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bruninho wrote on 2021-10-14, 05:32: Does watching two movies about Steve Jobs count as a retro activity? 👀 More like Necro activity.

Re: Getting Macromedia Director v4 16-bit (and earlier) games working on Windows 10/64 bit OS'es

Posted on 2021-10-12, 20:56

in Windows

in Windows

You could also use WineVDM : https://github.com/otya128/winevdm/releases

Re: Windows 11 has been released

Posted on 2021-10-12, 11:19

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

KDE stole it for Windows, anyway.

Re: Windows 11 has been released

Posted on 2021-10-12, 07:28

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

^ Old people set in their ways.

Re: Windows 11 has been released

Posted on 2021-10-11, 05:32

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Anders- wrote on 2021-10-11, 01:15: No, because then you still support (pay & keep using ) the setup which locked you down in the first place. What you want is moving to platform independent applications. That's me in my teenage years. Now I used whatever OS and tool gets the job done.

Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2021-10-11, 05:30

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

ScummVM works with any kind of game for which a ScummVM engine is available, not just SCUMM games.

Re: Windows 11 has been released

Posted on 2021-10-10, 14:44

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

🤣

Re: Windows 11 has been released

Posted on 2021-10-10, 13:38

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

What? The? Hell?

Re: Windows 11 has been released

Posted on 2021-10-10, 07:21

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Bruninho wrote on 2021-10-09, 22:12: Because WinMess 11 sucks, that's it. I'm done with it. It's completely counter intuitive to use, hard to configure/customize, slow and UAC piss me off since its introduction ages ago. I don't wanna mess with this garbage again. Already deleted it. UI wise, macOS …

Re: Windows 11 has been released

Posted on 2021-10-09, 07:56

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

No one can run it anyway. robertmo wrote on 2021-10-09, 07:55: translations suck, they translated 32-bit folders/file names and left 64-bit ones untranslated so they are scattered in alfabeti […] Show full quote translations suck, they translated 32-bit folders/file names and left 64-bit ones …

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-10-08, 12:14

in Milliways

in Milliways

I prefer silence over 99% of 'music'.

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