Re: Reset time for the first personal computers.

Posted on 2019-05-03, 13:31

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Hey you just remembered me that I can simply ask the guy! He just retired a couple days ago from the company where he worked his entire life and the source of the regular stream of "obsolete" computers (from the point of view of the company) because he would do the favour of "dispose" of the …

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Re: Reset time for the first personal computers.

Posted on 2019-05-03, 12:47

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I also thought of some kind of "parenting" strategy, not so much to prevent us kids from using the pc, but primarly for the adult to be able to have some alone time with the pc. However, we were easily fooled as 8 or 9yo having interacted with a PC very recently... Although the EMU386 does seem …

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Re: Reset time for the first personal computers.

Posted on 2019-05-02, 15:38

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I thought this thread was going to be about the time/date shown after a system has lost RTC power. Did you know that January 1st, 1980 was a Tuesday? I do recall seeing some kind of "please wait" message after hitting CTRL+ALT+DEL. Could be caused by SMARTDRV having to flush its write buffer to …

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Re: Reset time for the first personal computers.

Posted on 2019-04-30, 17:52

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What about parking heads?

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Re: Reset time for the first personal computers.

Posted on 2019-04-30, 15:56

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Kerr Avon wrote: The ZX Spectrum was and is brilliant! Not a helpful or informative post, I know, but it still had to be said! 😀 Nothing like the first love LOAD " "

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Re: Reset time for the first personal computers.

Posted on 2019-04-30, 15:55

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About SC , very shortly the monitor got substituted (as the pc - another story) so I can like 98% sure the first level was cyan magenta and the second green and orange, and so on and so forth, alternated automatically.

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Re: Reset time for the first personal computers.

Posted on 2019-04-30, 15:50

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I don't have any memory of reset taking that long time. My family's first PC was an XT with 768kB of RAM and green display. What would take so long to shut down, if not some operating system saving settings etc., but still - several minutes? But did you get the message "The system will restart in …

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Re: Reset time for the first personal computers.

Posted on 2019-04-29, 20:32

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Well, we had both Booters and non-Booters. Some we would load ms-dos on one of the 5'' floppy drives and then the game on the other floppy drive. I was only 8yo so... but I remember wanting to change to another game and hitting crt-alt-del and having to wait a couple minutes before the PC started …

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Reset time for the first personal computers.

Posted on 2019-04-29, 18:36

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Born in 81, and with around 8yo thinking a computer meant a spectrum 48k, I believe it was in 1989 I saw a PC for the first time: 4Mhz and with monocromatic monitor, no hard disk, two 5 ''1/4 floppy readers. Space Commanders was the first game I ever played in a PC, and since it was played in black …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2019-04-29, 18:10

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einr wrote: l33ch wrote: Is there something wrong with the photo, I seem to spot a widescreen presario?! That's edge distortion from the wide-angle lens, it's a normal CDS 510 😉 It would be amazing though. 🤣. thanks. By the way nice setup and very smart to use just a couple systems at once.

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2019-04-29, 15:04

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Is there something wrong with the photo, I seem to spot a widescreen presario?!

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Re: Build for some games.

Posted on 2019-04-23, 14:36

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okie dokie *sniff* We are always trying to get the best experience, but back in day the best experience would be if the new game we got would work at all, so I'm just going to install the games and play them with what I've got, which is a 700Mhz cpu and a G400, and maybe try the 9200 to see it it …

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Re: Help me remember a ficticious game in a movie.

Posted on 2019-04-23, 14:35

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Many, many thanks dear Jedi.

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Help me remember a ficticious game in a movie.

Posted on 2019-04-23, 03:48

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by l33ch

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Hello. Can anyone remember a game some kid is playing on a pc in which you have to beat the ice sorcerer in the some cave or something? It is in cga cyan magenta.

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Re: Build for some games.

Posted on 2019-04-19, 16:46

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Could not find Max Payne, Half-Life or Colin McRae Rally on gog.com, that's almost 50% of the games I want. Pentium 4 🙁

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Re: Mysterie Package! An idea?

Posted on 2019-04-19, 12:50

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by l33ch

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They should be arriving here anytime now...

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Re: Build for some games.

Posted on 2019-04-19, 11:44

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Yes, thank you, we are getting somewhere. So yes the goal is to play these games hassle free at 75Hz 800x600 on sony trinitron 15''. Would like to be able to mantain at least 75 fps at all time, but do not want to just go overkill and don't care. If I have to settle with Pentium 4 so be it, but I'd …

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Build for some games.

Posted on 2019-04-18, 15:44

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Hi folks! What's the sweet spot, in terms of hardware specs, for playing: Quake Arena (online if possible) Half-Life Carmaggedon 2 Max Payne Mafia Colin Mcrae Rally Deus Ex Red Faction Allrightie, what about Pentium III 700Mhz and a Matrox G400 for starts? Either red faction or mafia should be the …

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Re: DOSBox compatibility list

Posted on 2017-05-26, 22:25

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This is actually something I was thinking of doing, but Jorpho is right, this is just a wish I had. If I was trolling I would do much better than this, and I will be doing it somewhere else, vogons.org is no place for trolling, unless your some kind of ungrateful bastard. Anyway, thanks for your …

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Re: DOSBox compatibility list

Posted on 2017-05-25, 22:19

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Ok, so we are talking about more than 5000 games... it is not impossible to make this list, because it is finite, but still is crazy. DOSBox compatibility list is near the 75% treshold for a 5202 games list.

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