Re: 20th Anniversary of Vogons

Posted on Yesterday, 09:03

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Happy Birthday! VOGONS is one of the best communities I'm taking part in. Thanks to the whole team and all members for (mostly) keeping the flamewars out and running a civilized forum that's fun to write in.

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Re: How much is worth?

Posted on 2022-06-28, 18:37

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If you are patient enough and the thing you are looking for is not really rare and almost completely bought up by collectors or scalpers, sooner or later one will come around. This is the most important part imho. For a lot of items there's always an option to insta-buy them on eBay for a …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-06-28, 17:55

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I've modded my Xbox360 and started playing through the "Gears of War" series and oh boy, do I have a lot of fun. The first title was a bit klunky and the Unreal engine wasn't that well optimized for the 360 back then, but it was still fun. The second one looks nice, they solved the framerate issues …

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-28, 17:52

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- Too much focus on graphics and almost no focus on a good storyline or no "edutainment" at all. This. A lot of games are just bland - they're shiny but without any substance. Modern RPGs are a perfect example of that, a lot of them give you big open worlds that are either totally empty or filled …

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

Posted on 2022-06-28, 17:43

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I received 7 recovery CD's for the ThinkPad R51 and T42 series and now I'm in the process of picturing them and putting the ISOs up on archive.org. Unlike that one hoarder on thinkpads.com I actually like to share these with the world so others can keep their retro machines alive. I wish I could get …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-28, 17:41

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I got an EVGA Nforce 790i motherboard with a Core2Quad and Noctua fans for 50 bucks. Can't wait to test this out with my two GTX 570 and eventually do triple SLI when I find a matching third one. I have a P5E3 WS that can do dual SLI with hacked drivers, but there are no hacked drivers for Windows …

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Re: The moment you were hooked

Posted on 2022-06-17, 10:04

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The year is 2002. A German magazine called "Computer Bild Spiele" put a game on their cover disc which was called "Shadow Man" by Acclaim. This got me hooked so hard - great graphics (for the time), an intriguing story, challenging gameplay. It had it all! I spent weeks on this game until I finally …

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Re: Random free game findings

Posted on 2022-06-14, 23:28

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RevoTron, a freeware 3D Tron clone from 2003/2004. Played the hell out of this back in the day. Filename shot02.jpg File size 50.69 KiB Views 72 views The website is still up and also hosts the source code for Visual C++6.0: https://revotron.tripod.com/download.htm

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Re: Memorable game mods

Posted on 2022-06-14, 23:10

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"Mistake of Pythagoras" for HL2 was quite memorable to me: https://www.moddb.com/mods/mistake-of-pythagoras There are levels with impressive architecture and the whole mod is just so different from anything I've ever played. You get attacked by massive triangles. That's all I'm saying.

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

Posted on 2022-06-04, 21:06

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I completely fixed a ThinkPad A30p. It had some broken fuses on the mainboard because of a mangled USB connector and a loose connection on the LCD that went to the CCFL. I replaced the USB connector with hot air and replaced the fuses and now it works flawlessly. 🥰

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Re: What's a good game to test a Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro Joystick?

Posted on 2022-05-30, 23:22

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Edge of Chaos: Independence War 2 Diaspora: Shattered Armistice These have great Force Feedback effects. The forces when a Cylon flies over me in Diaspora make me go crazy every time. Other games that are fun: - Microsoft Monster Truck Madness 1+2 - Ubisoft POD (needs a patch) - Flatout 1+2 - …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-29, 17:26

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I finally found a Thinkpad A30p. Was looking for one for many years. It seems to have an expired CCFL (or a broken inverter at least), but that's probably an easy fix. Can't wait to have it arrive here. 😀 Now if I only had recovery disks or ISOs...maybe an A31p one will work.

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Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-05-27, 19:56

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Finished up the Hannibal series with a friend. I can certainly see now why it was cancelled after three seasons. The third season is way too slow to be entertaining. There's 35 minutes of psycho-talk and 10 minutes of action in every episode. I don't know how anyone can sit through this and actually …

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Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-05-22, 20:50

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After so many years, Barry has resumed with its third season and it's still excellent. I also started to watch Shining Girls and I'm hooked. It's a typical psycho/thriller/detective story with some nice SciFi twists included. Freshens up the genre quite a bit and I'm interested to see where this is …

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Re: How can I safely transplant a 160-pin QFP chip?

Posted on 2022-05-18, 14:34

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This is real MacGyver work. Kudos to your patience! 😀

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever 2001, the version that did seem good, might be released!!!!

Posted on 2022-05-13, 19:47

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Gearbox will shut down any attempts to modify this source code and release a full game out of it very quickly. They shut down attempts to release Duke Nukem 3D beta releases, too. This company is one of the worst ones that could hold the Duke Nukem license - except EA, maybe.

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever 2001, the version that did seem good, might be released!!!!

Posted on 2022-05-13, 18:27

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It was released on a well-known, controversial image board. For all the ones that want to stay legal, there's another gameplay video released by Neogamer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRXVawDfQ9A I wonder how he got it to run so smoothly.

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2022-05-13, 18:22

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AGP still works, you just need to use the AGP driver from an older Windows 10 release. I've documented that here: Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever 2001, the version that did seem good, might be released!!!!

Posted on 2022-05-12, 23:16

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Any YT clips of latest build? NeoGamer has made a 38min video. https://youtu.be/r5XCdUi6-LE So far, my current PC build still seems to be too new. A lot of glitches with a 9600XT. It works on Windows 10 with a 1060 but only on the wined3d wrapper which is slooooow. Need to put in my GeForce 4MX 460 …

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Re: Microsoft 3D Movie Maker 1995 is now open-source

Posted on 2022-05-10, 22:21

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NCommander made a 12 hour stream, fixing up the source code well enough to actually build it. It was horrible and glorious. That build system comes straight out of hell. 😄 Foone later joined in and helped out. https://youtu.be/mjtKHPwTWsc

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