Re: What does your significant other think of your retro pc hobby?

Posted on Yesterday, 12:25

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by Mandrew

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TBH if my wife had a problem with my hobbies she wouldn't be my wife at all. Why would I want to spend the rest of my life with someone who hates what I do and what I am? Compatible personality was in my top 3 when I started dating seriously. So she not only accepts my hobbies but also helps me get …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2025-01-14, 17:50

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by Mandrew

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Philips Brilliance 150P2. I didn't want to get "modern" monitors but this one is old enough to legally drink in the US and doesn't need too much space. It's older than my IBM E74 CRT and the brightness is excellent.

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Re: Was anyone else disappointed by the weapons in Doom 3?

Posted on 2025-01-14, 08:28

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by Mandrew

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Doom 3, what's that? That sums it up for me. I'd rather play the hundreds of wads with broken Brutal Doom Platinum than play that slow, dark shit again. It didn't boost the atmosphere, it made the entire thing a claustrophobic mess where the main enemies were darkness, tiny crawling spaces and …

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Re: Found 3 Houses Stacked Full of Vintage Computers

Posted on 2025-01-10, 13:00

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by Mandrew

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its interesting and simultaneously makes me hope it doesn't all get thrown away while also recognising that i actually have more computer stuff than I'll ever use, and what i have isn't even enough to fill a quarter of one of the rooms in the vid, if that. The video is scary because it isn't the …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2025-01-07, 08:16

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by Mandrew

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Always keep a CRT that runs okay after a "beating" .... it means it's soldered together better than the other 80% out there lol What's hilarious is that there is literally no damage anywhere on the chassis other than the 4 corners of the bezel, not even a tiny scratch. It's spotless. Like the bezel …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2025-01-06, 17:23

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by Mandrew

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The hunt for a decent CRT continues. It's a low hour 19" Philips 109S40 with excellent brightness, crisp picture quality and a wide range of supported resolutions. Nothing can be perfect though because it has a broken bezel, probably shipping damage that happened years ago. Whatever, it was free. …

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2025-01-04, 20:59

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by Mandrew

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The (not so) impossible has happened, free CRT VGA monitors have disappeared in the neighborhood so I asked if someone in the community had one for sale. Nothing. Recyclers are going from house to house now to collect copper sources so the golden days are over. Managed to get this trio from the next …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2024-12-31, 12:01

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by Mandrew

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The last free stuff of the year, Thomson WHP460 wireless headphones from 2003. I don't usually pick up used headphones but this came from the family so it's ok. The old battery didn't leak too much, it's working fine. More free e-waste for everyone in the New Year!

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Re: AI Generated Wallpapers Representing Retro Computing

Posted on 2024-12-15, 07:07

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by Mandrew

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We have to consider everything art to cater to the sensitive and the pc. We even had to change the very definition of art to include all the people with no art skills or talent at all. We don't want another pissed off Adolf, do we?! Once we are beyond that it is what it is: low effort shit. By the …

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Re: What is that one computer habit that you got rid of?

Posted on 2024-12-09, 17:09

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by Mandrew

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in practice the idea of needing a local backup is based on the idea that whatever you want isn't available I agree with everything you wrote, I'm just too lazy to bother with local backup and drive/disc/folder management. I used to do it a ton and I'm very tired of it so unless the legality of …

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Re: Is 3DFx stuff losing liquidity?

Posted on 2024-12-09, 17:03

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by Mandrew

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Some collectors are clinically insane and would pay anything to get the next piece of the puzzle. I know people who'd rather skip a meal than miss out on a desired hobby item. I know people who got in debt because of their collection. Those people will keep resellers in business forever and prices …

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Re: What is that one computer habit that you got rid of?

Posted on 2024-12-09, 16:14

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I don't store movies, series or music locally anymore. Now that gigabit Internet is the norm around here and everything is available online a few clicks away I just don't see the point. I used to have gigantic DVD collections, 5-10 hard drives filled with goodies and god knows how many folders of …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2024-10-08, 06:40

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by Mandrew

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This is what my favorite local e-waste location came to, a bloodstained Syncmaster that saw more smoke than the Cherokee nation. Nothing like getting a disease from a 18 year old. Monitor.

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Re: LGR's home severely damaged by Hurricane Helene

Posted on 2024-10-03, 05:15

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Having trees taken down is expensive A F There are easier options like renting but the point still stands, it should've been done a long time ago even if it's expensive. It's not a matter of how peaceful or relaxing the environment is, it's about basic safety because trees fall randomly all the …

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Re: Need help with reflashing a bricked bios

Posted on 2024-08-23, 17:55

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by Mandrew

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ux-3 wrote on 2024-08-23, 17:47: I only needed one fix in the last 40 years of computing. The math is simple for me. If you need to fix stuff way more often, the results may compute differently. Fair enough.

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Re: Need help with reflashing a bricked bios

Posted on 2024-08-23, 17:25

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by Mandrew

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I don't want to be THAT guy but it's smarter to spend $60 on a programmer with a bunch of adapters that supports a wide variety of chips (EPROM,EEPROM,SPI,EMMC,MCU,NAND,NOR) than paying a shop $20 every time you need one fixed. I have the older version of the 886II+ and it saved my arse many times …

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Re: Video game actors are now on strike

Posted on 2024-07-29, 15:19

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by Mandrew

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Wait, wasn't a certain forum member with thousands of posts accused of being a bot not so long ago? Who knows, maybe the top contributors are all super advanced bots talking to each other.

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Re: Video game actors are now on strike

Posted on 2024-07-29, 05:12

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by Mandrew

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Why won't we replace forum members with AI too? Humans are dumb and barely know a thing about very old games on new systems, it's only fair to replace them with AI that knows everything. Bots everywhere!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-07-18, 09:10

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by Mandrew

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Now THAT needs a full recap to say the least but some of those ports look damaged too. Why somebody would cannibalize a ¢20 battery holder is beyond me.

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Re: Shuttle HOT 433 won't POST - help!

Posted on 2024-07-17, 13:41

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by Mandrew

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I'd do what Zuldan suggested, flash the latest BIOS on both boards. Sometimes it's just rotten luck and you have to try many RAM modules before you find a pair that works.

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