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

Posted on 2021-10-20, 05:54

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by Cyberdyne

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Does selling your kidney to black market to obtain a new iphone considered as retro activity 😁 https://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/mo … 1eaf09243fc14e7

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Re: Develop my own Video player using FFMPEG library for DOS

Posted on 2021-10-20, 04:57

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by Cyberdyne

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Noice. DOS community needs a good video player. We only have one "commercial" thing that's outdated, and a Linux port of some kind that is super not user friendly. 😁

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Re: I've been here for a decade

Posted on 2021-10-20, 04:54

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by Cyberdyne

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Never looked on the date I registered, but yep.

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Re: If you could only have two builds to span…

Posted on 2021-10-20, 04:52

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I am also no CGA/8088 freak, so also a 486 and P3 are good. But in reality I use a P1MMX for that authentic DOS/Windows 3.11/OS/2 1.3 2.1 experience. And a P3 machine for fast late DOS gaming and Windows 9x experience. You can slow down a P1 to 486/386/286 speeds. Even the P3 BX PIIX4 has a hardware …

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Re: Who here has heard of this drive? :)

Posted on 2021-10-15, 04:57

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by Cyberdyne

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Strangely I also went from millions of millions floppies to a CD-RW drive and never looked back. Few friends had those Zip 100 drives, and that's was about it in Estonia. I really like the history, but have not really used them. We would usually use an old internal HDD for large transfers, just pop …

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Re: Selling the stuff you don't need - what are your favorite ways?

Posted on 2021-09-30, 10:05

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by Cyberdyne

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Ditto. Let's see and wait, how this thing will turn out. If it will lift off in a good way. then there will be a middle ground for corporate ebay, and closed "clique" amybay.

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Re: Selling the stuff you don't need - what are your favorite ways?

Posted on 2021-09-30, 08:45

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Wow, the 8bitbay is a nice little thing, hope it stays and not get spammed or removed.

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Re: Nirvana

Posted on 2021-09-28, 05:23

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by Cyberdyne

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Soviet Union Collapsed 😁

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Re: What does T5 mean exactly for the BLASTER variable

Posted on 2021-09-24, 07:21

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by Cyberdyne

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There are so many conflicting versions on that T number. T1 is always first Sound Blaster 1.x and T6 is all the 16BIT capable Sound Blasters. But with other numbers, things get tricky. T2 is really the first Sound Blaster PRO not Sound blaster 1.5. T3. IS really Sound Blaster 2.0 T4 is the Sound …

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Re: Bum Simulator

Posted on 2021-09-23, 12:25

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by Cyberdyne

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RandomStranger what country or US state are you from? Countries and cultures are different, people are different. There are cultures that are more of a close community, and there are cultures and people that are individualist. That's the way it just is. If you are Romani(Gypsie) you are never …

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Re: Selling the stuff you don't need - what are your favorite ways?

Posted on 2021-09-23, 11:59

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I also use Facebook for international small stuff. Full computers only in local Ebay clone.

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Re: Bum Simulator

Posted on 2021-09-23, 11:50

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Homelessness is so easy. Just have a rented or bank loaned home, no safety net of somekind, something bad happens, and boom you are homeless. And no family to rely on. Let's be honest, even if it's stigmatized in our western society, moving back to your parent's is better than living on the street. …

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Re: Bum Simulator

Posted on 2021-09-23, 08:44

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Homelessness is so easy. Just have a rented or bank loaned home, no safety net of somekind, something bad happens, and boom you are homeless. You do not have to be a alcoholic, drug addicted, schizophrenic bum to be a homeless person.

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Re: Bum Simulator

Posted on 2021-09-22, 09:54

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Yeah, tell me a place where they love bums and "beach people" or whatever. 😁 😁

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Re: Bum Simulator

Posted on 2021-09-22, 08:34

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I have really considered to go "homeless" in Tenerife for example. Where the climate is mild all around the year. I do not have the money do buy or rent an apartment for the rest of my life, but living in a van, and just existing is something I have really considered from time to time. but well …

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Re: Good MP3 player for Windows 9x and Xp

Posted on 2021-09-22, 05:15

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by Cyberdyne

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The classic Winamp 5.666 or more classic good old Winamp 2.95. Still use them with all my Windozes from 95 to 7.

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Re: Any games a Pentium 4 PC can play that a modern PC can't?

Posted on 2021-09-21, 10:14

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by Cyberdyne

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XP 64-bit is more or less a BETA product, and not really needed/usable for some sort of gaming especially.

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-09-21, 10:08

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Local and international market values differ by 10x multiplier or more. Well maybe it is the problem with how big the market is, and how rich and active the community. And we live in a free capitalistic market. Hey I do have some 486-Pentium era stuff that can make some nice coin, but only in Ebay. …

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Re: Games that specifically need a 486 (not faster/not slower) to run properly

Posted on 2021-09-20, 08:40

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by Cyberdyne

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For me Blackthorne, Blackthorne needs EMS. But with EMM386 and QEMM97 it doen not always work. but now free EMSMAGIC does the trick. same with Alladin and some othes games that somehow do not understand XMS specifications, but are made for fast CPUs and are late VGA DOS games. Go figure. But 486 …

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Re: 5.25'' 1.2M drive has trouble with tracks 44-49

Posted on 2021-09-20, 08:31

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by Cyberdyne

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Check the sliding metal rods and check the reading head cable. And mechanical obstructions. There is something in the far end of your floppy drive head. Or the reading head cable is broken, but only comes out, when head is in the end on the drive.

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