Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?

Posted on 2019-12-03, 21:04

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As I have already written in the other post (which is more technically oriented) friends have given me a beautiful Olivetti 286. For my experience and for what I read here on the forum it would seem a useless computer on the retrocomputing side. Excluding those who have a sentimental value for the …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-12-03, 07:32

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This stuff keeps your mind busy. Is that a good thing? Maybe it would be better to be bored more often, to read, to think, to walk or talk or just to sit and watch the sky for a little bit. I dunno, I found more often than not that my good days were ones I spent away from my electronics (aka my …

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Re: What case do you prefer?

Posted on 2019-10-23, 17:13

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Looks really nice. How are inner parts assembled? The PSU is probably the weirdest part honestly as it's a weird L shape to allow room for the CD-ROM (5.25") drive bays on the right there. The middle part just slides off (the grey bit in the middle) and the fronts of each of the corners have to be …

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Re: What case do you prefer?

Posted on 2019-10-23, 04:24

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I'm a big OEM person but my fav design is the corner computer, it sucks to work on but man does it look cool. lol https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/da306b57-9099-478d-a7d7-7c9109417df0/dckthqb-4762114f-4f1b-48f0-8cbb-1313a7031eef.jpg/v1/fill/w_669,h_1195,q_70,strp/untitled_by …

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Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2019-10-10, 01:19

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It is! Also it's 100% compatible with the original carts, in this pic I'm actually using a much cheaper Pokemon yellow clone cart. 🤣 It will even work with the multiplayer cable and communicate with original gameboys. 😁

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Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2019-10-07, 01:46

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I have a new thing that looks like it should have come from the early 2000's 😁 (I specifically bought this colour because it reminds me of the cheap toys and stuff from the late 90's 🤣)

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-10-02, 23:04

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I was scanning images, printing documents, managing an excel spreadsheet (which actually was fine), taking photographs with a few early digital cameras (which were a bit finnicky to use except the Mavica ones) and the images took FOREVER (well not forever but long enough to where it was annoying) to …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-10-02, 22:29

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everyone should just use windows 95 daily Tbh I think this is what was the beginning of the end for me lol. Tried to use my Packard Bell every day as a daily driver and god it made all my old hatred of how slow and painful it was to use back in the day come welling back up and made me remember why …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-09-30, 08:09

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But "real hobbyists" also have to understand that if they are not willing to pay the price they won't have a collection to play with. Simple as that. I made the same mistake before. Like most hobbies this one is also expensive if you go deep enough. Nonsense, if you have patience you can eventually …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-09-30, 05:00

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🤣 That's hilarious. 🤣

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-09-29, 17:17

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Seems like these days, every time I go to sell something it's resellers who buy the stuff. I'm beginning to wonder if the hobby is at peak saturation with ebay sellers / value hoarders. These days it feels like there are more "investors" than actually hobbyists. Seems like I got out at the right …

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Re: OK... weird question but is anyone here near Godalming England?

Posted on 2019-09-24, 16:22

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I've tried on their facebook to no avail sadly and no one on the reddit for surry or godalming has given anything yet. So yeah if you could I would be extremely grateful. 😁

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Re: OK... weird question but is anyone here near Goldaming England?

Posted on 2019-09-20, 18:03

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Yup that place but there aren't enough pictures of the inside, and yeah apparently SIMIS was located near there cause it's 100% that bar. I would go there myself but I'm currently located in Northern Illinois, and it's a hell of a walk. 😜

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OK... weird question but is anyone here near Godalming England?

Posted on 2019-09-20, 07:39

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I'm making a video on an old video game and one location in the game is ACTUALLY A REAL PLACE! Problem is I'm in America and I'm pretty sure I've narrowed it down to The Leather Bottle in Godalming. I would eternally grateful and would be sure to give you a big shout out at the end of the video or …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-09-19, 23:31

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I think some of you are really going to regret getting rid of your vintage hardware and software in the years to come. Why? Been there. Don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with downsizing and simplifying life for the right reasons. I had quite a bit of new old stock Amiga hardware in my 30s and sold …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-09-19, 02:34

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Have you had good results with PCem? I couldn't seem to get anything to emulate a Pentium era PC good enough to make me give up the hardware completely. I would honestly kind of love to know I don't HAVE to have an old computer for those games. 🤣

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-09-19, 01:16

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What I have given up on is the computer/video game industries as they are at present. Nothing but a sea of greed, arrogance, grandstanding - and a bunch of underwhelming products/services (all IMHO of course). Same here. I own a PlayStation 4 and a few older consoles - the PS4 is the one that gets …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-09-17, 22:21

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Yeah you are right, I'm definitely more in the hardware camp, it started for me as a desire to play some old games I used to love but once I'd finish fixing a computer I was basically done using it. I would use the games to test different things, especially games like Earth 2140 which is finnicky …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-09-17, 18:39

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@jidaiGeki Thanks! :D Yeah I think I'll feel a lot better when I basically own only what I want to use. Tbh I'm even considering getting rid of my remaining couple Packard Bell machines and all my boxed software. I may just reduce the boxed software, or maybe flatten the boxes so they can be stored …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-09-17, 03:29

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Not that I'm bored, but I just don't find the energy and time anymore to play with things. I sometimes devote a whole day doing the perfect flight sim setup only to find out that I'm too tired/disinterested to play anything. I also realize I have hundreds of games and only about 20 years of worthy …

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