Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2019-05-13, 18:40

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Yep, that's the one. On our Hercules AT PC you couldn't get in through the windows; even jumping around on the alley screen was incredible fun (even though I had enjoyed many great platformers on my Atari 800XL like Pitfall 2, Bruce Lee etc.) so imagine my SHOCK when one day I was playing it on the …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2019-05-13, 18:38

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Just some wafer with chocolate after lunch.

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2019-05-13, 18:33

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I could say that in the time I have been playing PC games (1989 till today) the only PC platformer that I actually enjoyed was Alley Cat. If you can call it that. The genre on the PC was almost universally lame. https://www.mobygames.com/game/pc-booter/alley-cat You mean this one? I used to play …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2019-05-13, 18:28

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Just one curiosity: Has anyone played the MicroProse Formula One Grand Prix (F1GP) in both PC and Amiga versions? I wanted to know if there was much difference between them. I've only played the PC version when I was a kid. I think it was around 1992, 1993 when I was given a diskette (or diskettes?) …

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Re: Idea: a Sublime-like code editor for Win 3.1/9x with Git client

Posted on 2019-05-11, 16:04

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When I was a kid I tried to make a GUI using Visual Basic for DOS. It was pretty good-looking for a fake GUI. I called it "Windows 4.0", obviously trying very hard to be clever. Lol! Good one. When I was a kid I created a fake GUI for an ATM using QBasic. It was pretty funny except for one tiny …

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Re: Idea: a Sublime-like code editor for Win 3.1/9x with Git client

Posted on 2019-05-10, 16:44

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keenmaster486 wrote: Sure thing! I also learned on QB and VB. I remember everything from QB, but nothing from Visual Basic 🤣 I used VB for DOS too, for a while. Can't believe there was VB for DOS! I just checked it on WinWorld... I had a laugh.

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Re: Idea: a Sublime-like code editor for Win 3.1/9x with Git client

Posted on 2019-05-09, 02:41

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It's on my backlog-list of retro projects. I have the ability to program it so it's only a matter of time until I get started on it. I wonder, though, whether it'd be better to try to use Open Watcom, or to use an old version of Visual C++. I'm thinking about efficiency here. It's gotta be …

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Re: Idea: a Sublime-like code editor for Win 3.1/9x with Git client

Posted on 2019-05-08, 11:02

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Is this idea still going forward? I am curious 😀

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Re: Ensoniq / Creative AudioPCI

Posted on 2019-05-03, 19:02

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Just one question - There is no Ensoniq drivers for Windows 3.11, right? Because VMWare Fusion on macOS does not have SB16 emulation (but does emulate some kind of Ensoniq). Virtualbox does have SB16, but the sound is crackling. This is why I am still using it with DOSBox. https://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2019-04-28, 14:00

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The recent compiler warning fix casts written only (/cpu/core_dynrec/cache.h): + if (written>block->cache.size+CACHE_MAXSIZE) E_Exit("CacheBlock overrun 1 %lu",(unsigned long)written-block->cache.size); but this could be written so both variables are cast like in a related line that is not shown …

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

Posted on 2019-04-26, 20:33

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PcBytes wrote: oeuvre wrote: https://i.imgur.com/VwDd8hMl.png […] Show full quote How. HOW. LMAO. Photoshop is on point

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Re: Ensoniq / Creative AudioPCI

Posted on 2019-04-26, 20:30

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Just one question - There is no Ensoniq drivers for Windows 3.11, right? Because VMWare Fusion on macOS does not have SB16 emulation (but does emulate some kind of Ensoniq). Virtualbox does have SB16, but the sound is crackling. This is why I am still using it with DOSBox. https://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: Ensoniq / Creative AudioPCI

Posted on 2019-04-26, 16:51

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by Bruninho

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Just one question - There is no Ensoniq drivers for Windows 3.11, right? Because VMWare Fusion on macOS does not have SB16 emulation (but does emulate some kind of Ensoniq). Virtualbox does have SB16, but the sound is crackling. This is why I am still using it with DOSBox.

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

Posted on 2019-04-21, 21:13

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Okay, then try a mid-2012 13-inch Macbook Pro. You can find them today for about $300 used. Just add 16mb. ram ( $80 ) New battery ( $50 ) and 500gb SSD ( $75 ) So for about $600 you can have a very good laptop that can dual boot OSX and Win-10. I have this same setup but I don't even use it …

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

Posted on 2019-04-13, 09:39

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Congrats on your new acquisition! I’ve tried the newer macbooks and the new keyboards are really a pain in the ass. I work on a macbook pro 15” from 2012, and the keyboard is quite decent to work on. As for the operating system, I’d recommend to dual boot win/linux, if you need linux for something. …

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Re: What retro hardware you killed today or in the past :(. Killing spree stories+serial killers are welcome.Rest in pieces.

Posted on 2019-04-08, 19:32

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I did kill an Acer Extensa 710T after it was forgotten by me and my dad for 25 years. The extensa was our first ever laptop. Running Windows 95, internet access. It was in a so bad condition, like if it was made of sand. Every touch was breaking every part of it, except the keyboard - it was in a …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2019-04-03, 08:39

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I think it is. I was given a compiled 64bit version on their github page to test last year. Boxer hasn’t been updated since then, I stopped using it when macOS Mojave came, and when I wanted to use NE2000 patch (boxer doesn’t have it).

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2019-03-30, 12:25

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Thanks alot Codeholio for making DOSBox-x. After using 0.82.4 for long time I decided too try the newest version. I then discovered that the Drive option was missing from the menu bar. Actually it's been missing since 0.82.7 2018-06-01 13:05. Why did you removed that feature? I use it for one game …

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Re: IRC channel recommendations, and maybe a VOGONS IRC?

Posted on 2019-03-27, 14:01

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There's actually an IRC/Discord bridge out there. I think more than one. One of the channels on Freenode I am in uses one. “Bridge”? I’ve been out for years, doing karting and simracing, and I missed a lot of things. What is a Discord/IRC Bridge? In this case, it's a bot for the IRC channel and the …

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Re: IRC channel recommendations, and maybe a VOGONS IRC?

Posted on 2019-03-27, 03:52

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Stiletto wrote: There's actually an IRC/Discord bridge out there. I think more than one. One of the channels on Freenode I am in uses one. “Bridge”? I’ve been out for years, doing karting and simracing, and I missed a lot of things. What is a Discord/IRC Bridge?

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