Re: B: on the same channel?

Posted on 2025-01-10, 15:11

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megatron-uk wrote on 2025-01-10, 08:58: send out their disk drives all jumpered/configured for drive a:. 3.5" drives are configured for B: by default if I remember correctly, but the twist at the end of the cable causes that drive to be seen as A:

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Re: Could Glide Have Triumphed?

Posted on 2025-01-03, 06:06

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In the mid-1990s only super expensive CAD cards had full OpenGL support. Glide was a quick and dirty hack of OGL designed to run on much cheaper hardware. It had a brief moment in the sun in the late 1990s, but that passed as soon as cheap cards offering full OGL compatibility appeared (and DX …

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Re: AI model running on i686 PC w/ Win 98

Posted on 2025-01-01, 00:34

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The autism is strong here

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Re: Laptop market size by country

Posted on 2025-01-01, 00:32

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I remember when people stopped buying desktop computers and started using their laptops for everything. "How can you do that?" Now people are no longer buying laptops and are using their phones for everything. Again, "how can you do that?" I guess the next step will be getting the computer implanted …

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Re: Is there a really easy way to run old games, without learning and remembering their installation nuances?

Posted on 2024-12-23, 00:12

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Yeah, I create a text file for each game to remind me of all its peculiarities. I have hundreds of such files now. Do you mind sharing those files? It would no doubt help a LOT of people and make DOS live thanks to your efforts. And the more people who use DOS, the better. My files are personalised …

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Re: Is there a really easy way to run old games, without learning and remembering their installation nuances?

Posted on 2024-12-21, 02:00

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Yep, you want simple, buy a console. Stay away from PCs.

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Re: Is there a really easy way to run old games, without learning and remembering their installation nuances?

Posted on 2024-12-21, 01:26

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Early DOS games didn't have installers either. Everything had to run from the floppy.

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Re: Is there a really easy way to run old games, without learning and remembering their installation nuances?

Posted on 2024-12-20, 19:08

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Yeah, I create a text file for each game to remind me of all its peculiarities. I have hundreds of such files now.

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Re: Looking for a computer magazine cover disk archive website other than archive.org

Posted on 2024-12-13, 16:19

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Sounds like a copyright headache. I have a small collection of such images (from UK magazines). Some I downloaded from various internet places, others are images of disks I got on eBay. I once posted a program from one of them here, but it got deleted by mods because copyright. That's going to be a …

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Re: Moments in computing history when you felt that the future had arrived

Posted on 2024-12-11, 22:58

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When WiFi became available and i had it on my laptop. Seemed to me as an amazing breakthrough, after i have been running cables through the house for years. Security was weak though. I remember trying Wi-Fi when it was still new technology. I sent several 700MB CD images back and forth over the …

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Re: A late 80s early 90s thing, you had to have millions of sticker on your non PC computer monitor enclosure...

Posted on 2024-12-11, 11:21

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I knew a woman who was a charity worker in Africa for a few years and her laptop was covered in stickers urging you to use condoms, which was... peculiar.

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Re: Expanding technology has left me questioning my storage choices

Posted on 2024-12-10, 08:02

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yep yep all important files get saved multiple times, preferably on different media. I haven't had a serious data loss since 2009, when my unbacked-up RAID array failed. That's never happening again.

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Re: Any need for smaller SATA hard drives?

Posted on 2024-12-10, 06:26

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250-500gb HDDs with one platter could be neat. They are thinner than regular 3.5 inch drives and pretty quiet. I had data corruption problems with a 1st generation Drobo. I tracked down the problem to the 3 TB drives being too thick, which prevented effective cooling, resulting in overheating of …

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Re: Moments in computing history when you felt that the future had arrived

Posted on 2024-12-09, 17:44

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Elite, Carrier Command, Sentinel (Sentry) and Bard's Tale were games that passed me by on the Spectrum, but which became big favorites on the PC. There was also Driller (Space Station Oblivion) which I enjoyed on both platforms. Retroactively going back to the Spectrum versions is not pleasant. I …

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Re: Moments in computing history when you felt that the future had arrived

Posted on 2024-12-07, 18:10

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NT4 is limited to DX4, IIRC, though there is a hack that allows some DX5 games to run. OpenGL is fully supported and OGL games run very well on NT4. ETA: DX3 not DX4. DX4 was not released.

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Re: Moments in computing history when you felt that the future had arrived

Posted on 2024-12-07, 08:20

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Then Win2000 effectively 'catches up' - adds all the stuff that OSR2 95 and 98 had added to the Windows platform. By mid-2000, if you're ordering your new 128-megs-of-RAM PIII machine with 98SE, you're an idiot who is going to regret it (you are talking to an idiot who did exactly that). I went to …

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Re: Moments in computing history when you felt that the future had arrived

Posted on 2024-12-06, 10:36

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Kahenraz wrote on 2024-12-05, 06:14: I'm now speccing 256GB configurations for some new home servers. Incredible. 640GB ought to be enough for everybody.

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Re: Moments in computing history when you felt that the future had arrived

Posted on 2024-12-06, 07:41

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There was some point in the mid 2000s when there was an uptake in the installation or deployment of undersea cables that made it so it was actually possible to access websites outside of the US. Prior to this it was extremely slow or impossible to access a site from Japan for example. I do not know …

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Re: Moments in computing history when you felt that the future had arrived

Posted on 2024-12-06, 07:33

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Early 90s, used a hypertext document for first time, thought that was "really something" then it just seemed natural on a web browser when I tried that in 93ish. I remember magazine CDs in those days would often come with entire websites on them, so people with no internet access could browse them …

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Re: What is that one computer habit that you got rid of?

Posted on 2024-12-05, 14:50

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chinny22 wrote on 2024-12-05, 01:01: but the laptop that gets used to download everything just has 1 large mess of a download folder. haha, one day I'm going to sort out my Downloads directory

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