Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2019-11-27, 13:09

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I have a 80's playlist so I am listening to things like... Robert Tepper - No Easy Way Out A-Ha - Take On Me REO Speedwagon - Take It On The Run Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone Queen - Hammer To Fall Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills Right now I am listening to Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing

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Re: Finding the perfect modern laptop for me: or does it exist?

Posted on 2019-11-27, 00:19

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Thanks for the nice suggestions! They are for a friend 😀 Lenovo is really a good brand 😀

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Re: Finding the perfect modern laptop for me: or does it exist?

Posted on 2019-11-26, 19:25

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Sorry for reviving an old thread, but since people here were talking about ThinkPads, and there are some serious fans of that model, I wanted to ask if there is any slimmer Thinkpad model? I am not really a fan of robust big laptops.

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

Posted on 2019-11-26, 19:19

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I faced a similar issue with a MacBook Pro 2010 - but to be honest, someone (not me, thanks God) spilled water on it... I assume the logic board fried.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2019-11-25, 20:47

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I am looking for a Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator add-on named Battle For Midway, and I am yet to watch the new movie this week... should be fun

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

Posted on 2019-11-24, 18:21

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Since I finally got the RAM I just had to boot it. IMG_4278s.jpg IMG_4281s.jpg So yeah, dual P3 733 with 8GB of RAM. Now what? Windows 7? :lol: Man, you have some serious dual Slot 1 action at your place. IIRC you also grabbed a NOS dual Slot 1 Supermicro board awhile back. Speaking of which, did …

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Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread

Posted on 2019-11-24, 16:11

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DId anyone manage to get youtube working on Windows 98 in any browser? 2019 it is... I can only get it working on Windows 2000 Professional, Blackwingcat extended kernel and Firefox 52.x ESR. Not really what I wanted to do.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2019-11-24, 16:09

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Going back to sports management games, and I am yet to play Football Manager 2020.

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

Posted on 2019-11-22, 03:43

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Refined my Win 2000 Pro VMware "machine" with some more tweaks. I wanted Windows 98 but since no browser there is capable of viewing Youtube videos, I "upgraded" my plan to Windows 2000 to keep the same classic theme. GP4 doesn't run well, so I downgraded to GP3 (actually, it's historically correct …

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-21, 12:27

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Hopefully someone will save these downloads somewhere, in any third party service? Intel is going nuts if they will really remove them. I have a mini-ITX board which BIOS I have never upgraded, except the day I created my last hackintosh back in 2014.

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

Posted on 2019-11-19, 11:23

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Last night I had a go at getting GP4 to run on Windows 2000 SP4. No luck... black screen with music. Got a headache from that so I am resting for some time now.

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-18, 23:51

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Doesnt the delicate subject of 9/11 have an impact on the loss of privacy and excessive security? I mean, since 9/11 for example, phone companies are obliged to store data from the phones rather than discard them; I find it quite abusive. I can see Windows 10 doing the same...

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

Posted on 2019-11-18, 17:57

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derSammler wrote: Started backing up the hard disks of my Apple Powerbooks in case they fail or get damaged by a software crash. Did the 190cs yesterday, now the 540c is running its backup. I'd love to get these wallpapers. I have been using some retro mac wallpapers with my macbooks recently.

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-18, 13:53

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diagnostic data is personal data, anything I do on my machine is personal, you even just said "people's usage patterns" what is this if not personal. what websites you visited at what time can be considered "diagnostic data" what files you open can be considered "diagnostic data" when and for what …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-18, 05:46

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Instead of Secure Boot, shouldn’t we be discussing about the aggressive privacy issues on Windows 10? The OS even has a telemetry stuff behind the scenes giving them everything... the more I see, the less privacy and control we have on these operating systems. I thought it was a big part of the …

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

Posted on 2019-11-18, 03:56

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ragefury32 wrote: Went back to the year 2000... […] Show full quote Went back to the year 2000... 24wffk.jpg To do a set of comparisons between my Pismo G4 Powerbook and my Thinkpad T21... UT1999 CTF-Face3.png Quake 3 Arena.png WOXL versus WO2097.png Pismo Monkey Island.png Details to come, but …

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

Posted on 2019-11-18, 03:24

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Created a Win98SE and a Win 2k VM (with all the updates and blackwingcat's kernel extension). Tried numerous browsers. Eventually gave up on Win98. Focused on Win 2k, finally got the KEx to work and installed Firefox 52.x ESR, Pale Moon 28.x, then changed desktop color and icons to look like Win 98. …

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2019-11-17, 22:53

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Anyone know where can I get the blackwingcat kernel extensions and its updates for Win 2k? So I can try the newer options for web browsing. EDIT: Nevermind. I just got around this. And I installed New Moon 28, so all is OK. Finally, Youtube browsing!

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-16, 16:41

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I have even turned on CompactOS to try and shrink it a bit more... I know some ppl say Win 10 install is supposed to be smaller, but I am not impressed by the comparisons with Win 7 and Win 8... I am impressed with the comparison to Win 2k, a 20 year old system has a MUCH MORE smaller footprint, and …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-16, 14:24

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I am shocked with the size of the operating system each version. Just created a few VMs with win 2k, 7 and 10. 7 and 10 holds more than 10GB; 2k is less than 1GB. That is, the size of each VM, because 7 and 10 have both dynamic disks of 60GB, and for 2k I gave 32GB since I wanted to install some …

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