Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on Yesterday, 10:51

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by spiroyster

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Went to e-wate yard and got this interesting 486. It works, only HDD and Dallas (of course) are gone. It has SB2.0 and Sony CD-ROM with Sony proprietary bus. The only ordinary thing inside is 512kb Trident VGA... I am looking for cache and CMS upgrade now 🙂 That's a designer Colani case... very …

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Re: Would you be interested in an x86-based alternative to the Raspberry Pi, optimized for retro gaming?

Posted on 2021-06-21, 22:04

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by spiroyster

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That is correct; a product like this would primarily find use in applications that demand massively parallel floating-point operations ... For the OS, we'd ideally acquire a Win98 volume license on the secondary market, but barring that, we could sell systems that dual-boot FreeDOS and ReactOS with …

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Re: Tyrian like DOS game around 1995-1997?

Posted on 2021-06-07, 11:40

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by spiroyster

in DOS

in DOS

Could it be... Idinaloq If you haven't played it and like shmups, I would highly recommend it.

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Re: Does "distribute" mean 'selling' in software EULA legalese of the 90s?

Posted on 2021-06-01, 17:03

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by spiroyster

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ianal IMO, In answer to your question, selling is a form of software distribution , however there are other means which fall under distribution , outside of selling or directly profiting from it. Distrubution, in software contexts, means any form of getting software to an end user, including among …

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Re: Do any of you like art

Posted on 2021-05-15, 08:07

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by spiroyster

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Art is subjective, however I think these can be categorised... 1. I would say is 'Pictogram' style. e.g. k6HcPt0.jpg 2. I would categorise as 'Retro-futurism' themed, in an almost Pictogram style. e.g. il_1140xN.1874905548_hbtj.jpg 3. Is definately 'late' art-deco style. mid-to late 1930's. However …

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Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-04-21, 16:41

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imi wrote on 2021-04-21, 15:55: that's basically what Windows was :p Exactly, hence DOS dying when it did, and multi-tasking wasn't going to save it or defer adoption/creation of NT.

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Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-04-21, 15:47

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Multi-tasking aside... pretty much every other platform had a GUI by that point in time.

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Re: I wrote a small utility for emulators/games with subpar fullscreen.

Posted on 2021-04-20, 16:38

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mashakos wrote on 2021-04-20, 15:44: spiroyster wrote on 2021-04-20, 14:58: Ok... where? github changed their UI recently, you should see a section to the right titled "Releases" on desktop. Which takes you to this page https://github.com/mashakos/OmniScaler/releases Brill thanks, didn't even …

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Re: I wrote a small utility for emulators/games with subpar fullscreen.

Posted on 2021-04-20, 14:58

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by spiroyster

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ZellSF wrote on 2021-04-20, 13:54: He's said (elsewhere) that it isn't open source. You can only download the release. Ok... where? google gives me nothing for "mashakos" and "omniscaler" 🙁 EDIT: It's almost a googlewhack for me (I only get 3 results returned), which is something that has not …

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Re: I wrote a small utility for emulators/games with subpar fullscreen.

Posted on 2021-04-20, 13:39

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Did you forget to push? I only see a readme and single branch in that repo?

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Re: Fastest emulators period

Posted on 2021-02-01, 16:56

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by spiroyster

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

Part 2 / Bouncing Ball demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLHgRlbjXIM No joke, it performs a bit slower than a real A500 I would say. Boing ball is no where near bit slower than a real A500 ... thats just a slide show... Boing ball was smooth as silk, even on an A1000 (same clockspeed, same OCS …

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Re: Fastest emulators period

Posted on 2021-02-01, 16:25

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

I'm 80% certain I ran WinUAE in late 97/98 (and so would have been K6-233) and A500 games just about ran ok. Games like FOG and various others would have been easily playable, however put GODS or Canon Fodder in there and it's short comings would have become instantly apparent. I say this since I …

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Re: Dell Dimension 466i Restoration/Build

Posted on 2021-02-01, 11:06

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by spiroyster

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Good job on the surgery... Dell actually sold Precisions with the grey as stock (and probably Dimensions too). Difference between Dell 486 machines

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Re: Leading Edge Model M MP1676L

Posted on 2021-01-28, 09:25

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by spiroyster

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That case is insanely sexy for an 8088. It wouldn't look too out of place if you saw that these days on a desk somewhere. Nice!

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Re: Is this the possibility of a Power VR SGL Wrapper?

Posted on 2021-01-18, 21:37

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Some thoughts about the topic. An eventual PowerSGL wrapper (for PowerSGL as it is supported in PCX1/PCX2) has long been for me an itch which I wanted to scratch; the COVID lockdown finally gave me a chance to invest some time and put some thought into it. So, to begin, PowerSGL consists actually …

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Re: S-MOS Systems PIX 3D, what the hell was this? Was it ever released?

Posted on 2021-01-18, 21:31

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in Marvin \ Video

Interesting. Never heard of either S-MOS or PIX o.0. Not much on interwebs either, quick google only came up with: http://www.informedusa.com/t/pix3daccelerator11.20.html https://www.edn.com/s-mos-systems-pix-3d-rendering-engine-supports-microsofts-direct3d/ http://www.micahfreedman.com/projects/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-18, 19:18

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I remember those being hit-or-miss. What's the dot pitch on that one? Looking at the box it shows .20mm horizontal and .25mm diagonal dot pitch AH yes, the good old clicking and zooming. I had a 17 inch back in the day, there must have been something wrong with it because I don't recall it being …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-18, 17:27

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hooray, finally I've got a NOS ViewSonic E70fSB 16"/17" CRT monitor for small money :-) ... let's hope it works. (had only some good TFTs to run my vintage rigs untill now) ViewSonic_E70fSB.jpg I guess I will give my vintage VR Set (with shutter glasses) a try - and will probably get nausea ;-) …

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-07-29, 17:35

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This whole ARM thinggy comes as no surprise... https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=59490 As mentioned in there, some clever peeps spotted an ARM compatiblility in macOS (or OSX as it was then) back in 2016! Surprised this hasn't happend earlier... lol OS flame wars... I guess it's been a …

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

Posted on 2020-05-22, 14:17

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by spiroyster

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Check the inner ring of the discs, if you still have them. You'll probably find cracks and dents there. My Tekken 2 disc for example has died because of that (used that as the disc for swapping before I had a modchip installed). The cracks damaged the sealing, so air and moisture caused the …

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