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

Posted on 2024-01-07, 17:54

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The year's first monthly vintage market. This time it was really small, about a quarter of what it normally is. The one right after Christmas season and just before pay day is always small. And the weather was also shit. Taken all this into account, it was still better than expected. There weren't …

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

Posted on 2023-12-23, 22:51

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Introduced my Amstrad PC4386 to the internet. Went about as well as you might expect for a 20MHz 386 with 4MB of memory. Worked (kinda) and only looked at a couple of simple sites like frogfind.com and textfiles.com so nothing too taxing. And as it was running IE3 on WfW3.11 I doubt much else would …

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Re: please take it upon yourself to list your oldest computers

Posted on 2023-12-01, 13:43

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My oldest two are a Phillips G7000 and a CPC464.

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Re: Which old programming languages do you still use/play with today->

Posted on 2023-11-17, 12:38

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Someone has put plenty of interesting resources of Comal for PC on Web Archive — I mean especially Unicomal 3.11 IBM PC (and other files uploaded by „amiblitz94” user. Comal, haven't heard that name since I was in school using it on the Archimedes. Might take a look later. I think I still have my …

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Re: Which old programming languages do you still use/play with today->

Posted on 2023-09-25, 18:31

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Just two, Pascal (mostly on DOS or Linux) and BASIC on my CPC464. If I were to expand on this I would probably try to get back into COBOL which I haven't really touched since my college days.

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Re: Windows XP antivirus

Posted on 2023-01-11, 19:05

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by gca

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Panda Av still works with XP SP3.

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Re: What games did you become really good at?

Posted on 2022-11-15, 13:54

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StarCraft/broodwar but only because I played the hell out of it for years. Never against another human mind you, just running through the campaigns.

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Re: New User Hello :)

Posted on 2022-11-08, 00:20

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Welcome aboard and good luck with the new build.

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Re: Hard drive rattling noise is OK! Sometimes.

Posted on 2022-10-25, 21:57

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Ah, so that is what that rattle was. Had the same drive in one of my laptops but I changed it because I thought it was on the way out. Didn't have the rattle is normal notice on it. Glad I didn't chuck the thing out now if its actually fine.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-10-14, 11:09

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Just started on Age of Empires, well I say just started I've actually finished the Egypt campaign so in reality I'm more like a quarter of the way through but that's just nit picking.

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Re: Happy 27th birthday, Windows 95...

Posted on 2022-08-24, 21:15

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My how time flies. Just installed Win95 on one of my machines a couple of days ago trying to get an old video capture device working. Nice nostalgic experience apart having to play the hunt the drivers game ... that game is no fun at all.

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Re: Play Incorporated Snappy v3

Posted on 2022-08-13, 14:22

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Did manage to find the software for it myself. Still can't get any kind of video signal into it though, three machines two operating systems and a couple of VCRs/cameras and a whole lot of swearing later and still all I get is snow. Ah well, it's something to keep me occupied until the next bit of …

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Play Incorporated Snappy v3

Posted on 2022-08-12, 13:33

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Does anyone out there have the drivers/software for one of these things? The only software I can find on-line (archive.org and a couple of other sights) is for the NTSC version, which is not terribly useful because mine is PAL. I'm assuming there was a dedicated PAL version of the software because …

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Re: Company names with abbreviations

Posted on 2022-07-21, 14:21

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SUN Microsystems - Stanford University Networks

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Re: Reveal TM V1.10 Sound Card

Posted on 2022-07-13, 13:23

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Not sure if these are the version you are looking for but here are the images of my driver disks for the SC400. They are the disks I got with a multimedia upgrade kit.

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Re: Diskworld Rincewind

Posted on 2022-02-15, 18:13

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Your gfx card or monitor can't handle the colour Octarine, that's the problem.

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Re: any hard core Thinkpad fans amongst the ranks?

Posted on 2022-02-15, 18:11

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Got a couple, X20 and T41. The X20 is really showing its age and needs a new HDD and the RTC battery is flat, but it still runs despite the odd CLANK (or is it CLUNK?) from the slowly dying HDD. The T41 on the other hand is still going strong apart from the main battery which has succumbed to age …

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Re: New 'No bootable device error', cant boot from startup disk

Posted on 2022-01-15, 23:21

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My Ambra (a Sprinta 1) also has a dead CMOS battery (scrub that, it has no CMOS battery after I yanked it when it started leaking) but boots just fine after I update the BIOS settings when its powered up. Actually, might be a good idea to check yours to make sure that battery isn't in the process of …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2021-11-04, 17:41

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Anyone else familiar with these Ambra computers? This one is in its original configuration with 486SX 25MHz, 4MB RAM and 210MB Harddrive. I Added Sound Blaster 16 and 3COM networking card since the onboard controller does not seem to like CF adapters paired with a hard drive. Yeah I got one but its …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-13, 23:01

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First thing I would do is crack that Mac open and make sure the half AA battery hasn't done anything unspeakable to the motherboard.

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