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

Posted on 2023-09-26, 05:46

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Posting about this now because it took me a week to get things going mostly right. I even replaced terrible old fans in the case and power supply with Noctua ones. vgnF.jpg Yeah, I've been working inside my new-to-me Power Computing mac clone. One of those clones from the company that was getting …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2023-09-13, 20:07

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Well, that was an unexpected but very welcome find. It contains the players guide and the install instructions for both the floppy and Cd versions. No map, no codex, but who am I to complain? Filename IMG_2267.jpeg File size 1.68 MiB Views 273 views Filename IMG_2269.jpeg File size 1.54 MiB Views …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-09-04, 05:42

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Managed to snag myself a project, and one of those weird cases that apple had right before they went with the G3/G4 style case. IMG_2228.jpg It's a Beige G3 Minitower, complete with mostly functional everything, and seemingly only a bad CD and Zip drive. Very cool! That screw through the front …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-09-04, 04:23

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Managed to snag myself a project, and one of those weird cases that apple had right before they went with the G3/G4 style case. Filename IMG_2228.jpg File size 1.08 MiB Views 483 views It's a Beige G3 Minitower, complete with mostly functional everything, and seemingly only a bad CD and Zip drive.

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

Posted on 2023-08-29, 07:02

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Today I got my Macintosh Clone set back up because the DOS games I was thinking about playing all kind of fell by the wayside as I got back in to a modern game. At the same time, I'm prepping for potentially finding something of note in the next few days, as I will stop by the free geek in the Twin …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-02, 02:33

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Today I spent a good $6. Filename IMG_2088.jpg File size 1.58 MiB Views 501 views Filename IMG_2089.jpg File size 1.32 MiB Views 501 views It's even an early model.

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

Posted on 2023-06-27, 03:44

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Today I managed to replace the speakers in my iMac G3. The old ones were so rotted out that they were rattling cones more than anything else. I mean, just look at them. IMG_1979.jpg I was able to put modern speakers that looked incredibly similar in to them without issue, leaving it sounding mostly …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-06-22, 06:11

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After finishing Zelda, and falling back into then out of the Crusader Kings III hole, I've drifted back to Guild Wars 2. I've been wanting to get back in to TIE Fighter, as I finished X-Wing a year and a half ago, but Something about longform missions is just not jelling with me right now.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-22, 05:55

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As an excuse to give my parents a better machine than their 2015 Macbook Air, and a reason to get myself on a far more useful for my uses/mac-collecting, I upgraded to an M2 Pro based Macbook, then proceeded to get Guild Wars 2 running on it via the game porting tool and Whisky. IMG_1965.jpg I …

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

Posted on 2023-06-14, 07:30

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I spent way too much time today trying to figure out why a Powerbook G3 is so unhappy with installing an OS from CD, and finally ended up figuring out that it simply doesn't like reading from a CD and writing to an SSD . the SSD can talk to its self without issue, though. I also ended up thinking …

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

Posted on 2023-06-05, 16:12

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After feeling the need to play through TIE Fighter again, I finally moved my UMAX mac clone out of the way, and set up my DOS machine again. This, in turn, led me to figuring out why windows 3.11 wasn't happy with my sound setup, and figuring out that I had accidentally set both sound cards to …

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

Posted on 2023-06-05, 06:17

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After feeling the need to play through TIE Fighter again, I finally moved my UMAX mac clone out of the way, and set up my DOS machine again. This, in turn, led me to figuring out why windows 3.11 wasn't happy with my sound setup, and figuring out that I had accidentally set both sound cards to using …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-03, 18:16

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TBF Rage 128 cards are like the cockroaches of the retro hardware world, there are 10's of thousands of them out there selling for pennies, you cant give them away and in the end how many people would actually use one even if it was working ? (Does testing and benches count here? I'm thinking of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-01, 04:38

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He has a syndrom of "all what is not high class is garbage". He knows only black and white. He is like Retro Hardware channel on youtrube, scrapping functional Ati Xpert 2000 (Rage 128) cards, just because "it's junk", according him, and he already have 1000x better stuff. It's kinda disrespectful …

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

Posted on 2023-06-01, 04:33

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Today I installed windows 98 on my P233 rig, and gave it a Voodoo 3, all so that I could post a CPU-Z validation at a friend.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-27, 07:20

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Today I managed to get a pair of 64MB 5V 168 Pin EDO DIMMs. That jumble of terms does describe a real thing, I swear. Doing this has allowed my UMAX Mac clone to finally have more than the 48 it previously had. IMG_1859.jpg Now to figure out if I want to give up my UMAX Computer logo for running Mac …

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

Posted on 2023-05-24, 21:29

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Today I managed to plug everything in, and get a family photo of sorts going with almost all of my Apple hardware. Filename IMG_1849.jpg File size 589.91 KiB Views 1004 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-16, 22:25

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I managed to grab a goldie IBM 6x86L. Might never put it in to something, but it’s nice to have regardless. Filename IMG_1806.jpeg File size 1.65 MiB Views 585 views

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-11, 07:25

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I played Shogo for 30 minutes for the first time on my modern pc. A great game with a unique setting. Unfortuantely the gog version likes to crash on a regular basis. So I will move this game on the already quite big list of games to play as soon as I have finished my first retro pc build. I also …

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

Posted on 2023-05-11, 03:51

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Today I switched my 6851 SID chip out with a BackSID, as the original was missing a sound channel entirely. and, now that I am looking at the chip without the rest of the system around it, it looks like it's been heat damaged in the 38 or so years it wasn't mine. the middle of the logo is a …

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