Re: Merry f*cking X-Mas
Posted on 2015-12-31, 13:48
Re: Laptop upgrade
Posted on 2015-12-28, 02:31
My wife had a similar laptop (5741) but it came with an i3-330M as stock. I bumped it up to an i7 640M with 8GB RAM, and it improved the perceived speed of the machine (except boot time) by about 20-30%. I'd guess that adding an SSD would probably make it quite usable for day-to-day stuff, but I …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-12-15, 22:48
Having to take a break because I'm a) out of money and b) drowning in retro pc parts! I did however manage to pick up a brand new still sealed Iomega Zip 250 Internal drive this week with 3 Zip disks thrown in for the princely sum of £12 delivered! Sorry to those that keep them boxed and sealed but …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-12-15, 11:50
Nice work King_C! I have always thought that that Compaq looks like ... it's expecting :D those Altec Lansing speakers take me back, had them with our family's first Pentium, a Gateway 2k. Very smooth setup with all the CRTs too. I've been trying to organise my computing area, but haven't had the …
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2015-12-15, 11:17
Especially chuffed with Flashback! Loved that game back in the day. The Amiga version is the best really. Had to pay more than I usually would for WC2. Seems to be a Blizzard tax in action. http://i.imgur.com/fQ3lmS7l.jpg Very nice score of Flashback! I wasn't able to find it in its box for PC, so …
Re: Chuck Yeager's Air Combat Special GUS Edition - anyone seen it?
Posted on 2015-12-11, 14:35
Guess you have found your way back to that 2014 thread you also contributed to :) http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=40484 The original disks issued with the GUS Classic would command a hefty collectors' price, I think. It would be nice to collect all the other games which had direct …
Re: Should I build a 386 or 486 machine?
Posted on 2015-12-09, 12:20
I think that owning a 386 will be a marvellous experience when you first get it going - all the memories come flooding back. But then, when things seem a bit too slow you'll eventually want to upgrade. On that basis I'd say go with the 486/33 you mentioned. You should find a board which supports DX2 …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-12-08, 12:22
mwdmeyer wrote: Working on a web application to store my various benchmarks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6c4y85zPX4 Lots of work to go 😀 Taking inspiration from the old OCAU PCDB? 😁
Re: How many computers could you possibly build?
Posted on 2015-12-04, 09:48
Oh, I forgot about the keyboards lol! With keyboards counted (and mouses also I think), that would significantly trim my maximum number of rigs to around 10 (maybe 15 at the very most). But I'd probably stack as many cases on top of eachother as possible (one at every single monitor) and use just a …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-12-03, 13:10
Bought a Powermac 7100/66 and assorted Mac bits (monitor, Laserwriter, Stylewriter, external SCSI drive, tons of software) today, had the pleasure of discovering a few extra pieces in the mix - a few Intel CPUs (P5-90, P5-133), AMD DX4/100 and K5-PR100, and a TI 486DX2-80, as well as some 72-pin EDO …
Re: How many computers do you own?
Posted on 2015-12-01, 22:44
Thanks for the suggestion, as cool as the clone was I ended up tossing it because 1.) It was free and 2.) It didn't function and the Eproms had been uncovered for a long time so it was way beyond my level of ability most likely. :/ I really hated doing it but since I already own two Apple IIc …
Re: The Dell Precision 220
Posted on 2015-12-01, 13:36
Superb! Those gills are different to the usual flat fronted Dell stuff. Did the hard drive give any clues as to its past life? Looks well cared for.
Re: How many computers do you own?
Posted on 2015-12-01, 12:50
The collection here is out of hand - about 60 in total, most working, about a dozen destined for parts, and a few earmarked for immediate sale. Roughly 2/3 of them x86 architecture, the rest Z80 (Spectrum 2+), 6502 (Apple II clone), 68k (020/030/040) and Power PC (601/603/604e/G3/G4). About 1/3 are …
Re: pcmcia sound cards...
Posted on 2015-11-26, 14:17
PCMCIA Sound Cards
Re: What terms do your country have for these classes of machines?
Posted on 2015-11-14, 02:10
What part of Oz are you from JidaiGeki? maybe its a QLD thing? I grew up in Nowra NSW during the mid 90's-00's and never came across the term but then I didn't know about Yam Cha (as in the restaurants) till moving to Sydney in 02. I usually call them White box, no name, generic PC. I'm not sure …
Re: What terms do your country have for these classes of machines?
Posted on 2015-11-13, 08:53
Hmmm... Even if it refers to pandas which it does. If the parts were all from Denmark, we would be honored if Americans would have called these machines for a Danish. We are actually. Just that it's about a different thing. We call a Danish for Vienna-bread, because it was Austrian bakers from …
Re: Please tell me this guy is trolling.
Posted on 2015-11-11, 03:37
Found a video about hardware and PC gaming evolution, so went happily to watch, but I started to find strange some mistakes. This guy is saying that Wolfenstein 3D needs a beefy cpu (like a pentium), that Voodoo2 is capable of 2D and that Pentium4 is one of the original pentiums! He must be …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-11-08, 06:08
A lot of goodies (mostly Voodoo cards, creative sound cards and Matrox cards) is leaving for me today and should arrive on Monday. They're being sent by my friend at the recycling center. Here are some pics - most of the stuff is identified and labeled. Click for bigger pictures! http://i.imgur.com …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-11-08, 02:35
A lot of goodies (mostly Voodoo cards, creative sound cards and Matrox cards) is leaving for me today and should arrive on Monday. They're being sent by my friend at the recycling center. Here are some pics - most of the stuff is identified and labeled. Click for bigger pictures! http://i.imgur.com …
Re: Horrible box art
Posted on 2015-10-29, 02:13
Just found these. Local distribution of shareware Wolf3D and Blake Stone, not sure why they couldn't use the regular cover art instead of these camp illustrations ...
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