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

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Did some sound driver hacking for the NEC Versa M/75 (it has that cantankerous Crystal CL-4231-KQ chip and no OPL). I've been working on this slowly so that I can put it on my site and people can finally put that WSS Chipset to use. First was The 7th Guest. The version I have needed to have a patch …

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

Posted on Yesterday, 22:33

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Went through my big box games collection, prepped the Mac SE FDHD to put it on e-bay, and am cleaning up my closet. The downsizing has begun. I'm thinking tonight I'm going t hook up either the 286 or the 486 since they have 5.25" drives and 3.5" drives in them and rip all my diskettes, and maybe …

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Re: What do you think about Steam Deck handheld PC ?

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I think it's going to be another one of those pieces of hardware we'll see on LGR in 20 years.

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Re: Ek computers unknown case.

Posted on 2021-07-19, 16:07

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I'd just pull the liquid cooling, clean/sand/protectant coat the rust, and then throw a 386 or 486 in there since that's the vibe that case gives me.

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Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)

Posted on 2021-07-19, 16:05

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Par & Driver A game formatted like a magazine that would have been a comeptitor to Links 386, and looked like the Dire Straights "Money for Nothing" video as a golf game, and had a secret set of courses where you can hurl golf balls at cars on various famous stretches of road, a mall parking lot in …

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Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-07-16, 21:17

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In FreeDOS, since I download so many games and stuff that are packaged in LFN folders when I unzip/unrar the archives, I usually end up using the ren command in the following way to achive what was mentioned....this is merely an example of what I do....I actually did not have to download BLood & …

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

Posted on 2021-07-16, 15:06

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Yesterday, recording and mixing tunes on BandLab, adding guitar and bass parts. Today, messing with a bunch of old Servers at work that need Decommed. See if there's anything usable....maybe even build one out for our special I.T. File Share.

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Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-07-16, 15:04

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System Requirements 120MHz Marmite Dextrose4 CPU 384MB of SIP Coke Memory 10mg of HDD Space Vegimite Graphics Nutella Sound System Requires 56KG Internet Connection or Better 10tbsp LAN Adapter for Networking Press "F1" if in a Pickle

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

Posted on 2021-07-15, 16:42

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Did the same hinge mod to the Versa V/50 last night that I've done to the 40EC, except a bit more preventatitive. Works great, and I did not over-loosen the hinge too much this time so the screen tension is dead-on - almost effortless, yet holds position even if banged into. Then had some quality …

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Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-07-14, 20:46

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For one, DOS is unaware of C-states, so the CPU is always running at full power. I think there are TSRs that can fix that, though. Not much support for power saving in the older cpus anyway... Actually there is, it came about in the 386/486 era on high end laptops, like IBM/Compaq/NEC. Basically, …

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

Posted on 2021-07-14, 17:54

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Last night I found out the Wife was trying to find a place to setup the Tandy 1000A in the closet. Kind a proud of her. Actually, I'm planning a V20 and 8087 upgrade for the Tandy sometime in the not too distant future....and maybe some home-built/modified gamepads. The situation has been the closet …

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Re: Unease feelings on other forums visited ?

Posted on 2021-07-14, 17:45

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I used to post to a LOT of forums in my 20's in the 2000's. Mostly guitar though because the x86 retro-PC thing had not quite taken off yet. I felt somewhat alone in this genre at the time because most vintage computer forums were focusing on CP/M, Commodore, TRS-80, and other older platforms with a …

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Re: yellowish LCD

Posted on 2021-07-14, 17:15

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I'm lightly trying to solve this one myself as I noticed my NEC Versa P/75 and M/75 that have 800x600 screens turn yellow-tint if I don't use them for awhile....but if I use them about 30 minutes, they are very bright, and the colors are dead-on. I'm thinking the panel is heating some layer where …

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Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-07-13, 15:35

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I would say that for those who don't like esoteric tinkering, DOSBOX is better than DOS on DOS hardware. After all, you can get things like proper usage of an SB16 while also having both good OPL and bug-free midi. Depends how you define "DOS hardware". Most systems that can have a DOS-compatible …

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Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-07-12, 22:50

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The way I See it, DOS is dead in the Mainstream sense, but alive in a special Enthusiast sense. To the mainstream, DOS is this old operating system that did exist but nobody really knows enough about it to understand or remember what it actually was, or what one could accomplish using it. They just …

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Re: Do you dislike the British?

Posted on 2021-07-12, 22:15

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No, I like the English and have some friends over there. I also visited the country in 2017 and got along surprisingly well as a tourist, England, and Europe (Holland/Germany). I have my critiques, but in truth, everywhere is pretty close to the same on the surface these days. I think the hatred is …

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Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration

Posted on 2021-07-09, 23:32

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For me it's been Windows 98 SE with all the updates applied to it installed on anything 500MHz or less with 384MB of RAM or less. This is coming from a guy who used this as his primary setup between 2003-2006. That old GEM would run anything.....there was a time I almost got out of vintage PC's at …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-07-01, 22:14

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Decomming out-of-warranty Dell Latitudes at work with FreeDOS 1.3 RC4....why? Because that's what's around, and if verifies that they work anyway....when they can boot from it.

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

Posted on 2021-07-01, 15:54

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Well, kinda modern, but kinda vintage. Got my Paypal squared away after having to fight with them for TWO YEARS. So that means I can get back to selling things again via e-bay. Which may include rebuilt laptops and vintage computers at some point.

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Re: Newly made PCMCIA sound card

Posted on 2021-07-01, 15:06

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I love how this is coming together thus far.

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