Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on Today, 00:41
The commemorative Doom disk I won arrived today. Will take it out and display it when I have space to do that. Looks cool!
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-22, 18:10
I decided to part with my spare VIA EPIA-800 board since, so I am in the process of getting it hooked up to verify it's all still working and take some photos. While it's nice to have a spare board, it's just collecting dust and should really be getting used. I figure I can put whatever funds I get …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-19, 07:44
Well, this is more of a "modern retro" project, but I decided to make myself a new coaster for my desk. I've been using a dead real floppy with some feet stuck on it for quite some time, but it's seen better days. So, I 3D printed a floppy designed to be a coaster, printed and attached the Doom …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2024-04-19, 07:08
Been enjoying some of my favorite Atari classics via the "Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration" on Steam. Probably the best collection they've released to date. Spent a lot of time playing their remix version of Yars Revenge, a game I played way too much back in the day. Also played a lot of Dark …
Re: Cyrix appreciation thread
Posted on 2024-04-19, 03:05
Wow, this thread brings back some memories. I used to love Cyrix processors, in fact, I'm using an IBM branded one in my current Win3.11/DOS6.22 build. :) It was so nice to have 3 trusted options when I was building systems back then, Intel, AMD, and Cyrix. For many of my personal builds, I almost …
Re: Is it my really my nostalgia or are you playing it wrong…
Posted on 2024-04-18, 20:40
One thing to consider is that a lot of us experienced the games we remember fondly when we were children or teenagers. Our perception of things, our motivations and priorities were different because of that. I can attest to this. There are some games that I really liked as a kid, but I just can't …
Re: Online copies of games are not owned
Posted on 2024-04-17, 15:32
Like others have said, technically speaking, you never did really own the rights to any games, movies, shows, or other media you purchased in the past. Legally speaking, the mix tapes many of us used to make were, by the letter of the law, illegal. The thing is, none of that really mattered all that …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-17, 15:13
I woke up to my desktop wallpaper being replaced with a badly-scaled (blurry) and badly-cropped (the bottom was cut off under the taskbar) message about Windows 10's end of support (in a year and a half). It really didn't look like anything Microsoft themselves would do, but it had functioning …
Re: How hard is it to find retro/vintage computer hardware where you live?
Posted on 2024-04-14, 22:21
It's almost impossible to find modern hardware where I live, let alone anything "retro". It's just not all that popular in my neck of the woods, and it sucks. :) I've had ads out on local Craigslist for months, looking for ANY 80's, 90's, early 2000's era computers in ANY condition, and I've only …
Re: Is there any guide for installing Windows 3.11?
Posted on 2024-04-14, 22:09
To add to what Shponglefan said. If you need to manually change settings or install video drivers for windows, then you navigate to the folder you have Windows installed to in DOS, then run setup.exe. Normally, that's "C:\Windows\". For example, here is my Windows 3.11 setup and how I installed my …
Re: NVME partioning advice
Posted on 2024-04-12, 21:41
I also don't bother partitioning modern drives, there really are no benefits other that looking tidy. When I want to segregate my data, I use different physical drives. On a single drive system I just use that drive at it's max capacity and use the fastest external option available to me as …
Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.
Posted on 2024-04-09, 04:46
How about a 3D printed IO plate for an Asus TX97-XE? A new item for old hardware. I recently modified an IO shield for a different board to work on my TX97-XE. My first print worked perfectly, but there was a line on the print I wanted to remove. So, I removed it, or so I thought, and printed a 2nd …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-08, 22:47
Flashed a Maxdata OEM CUSL2 to retail and currently installing XP on a spare 15GB Quantum LCT15. Also running the MX460 I had repaired a few pages back. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=190423 https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=190422 Love your workbench …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-08, 21:00
I was under path of totality, but just got to see a crescent for a couple of seconds 5 mins before and after and a half second glimpse of corona through the clouds. Even with only 14% of the suns disk visible, it was still far too bright to see with anything other than proper solar viewing gear, …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-08, 20:40
Took a break from working on my new Ryzen 2600/Ubuntu powered "family game server" and enjoyed the effects from the 86% of the "Great North American Eclipse" I could see here in Wisconsin. :P The coolest part was seeing all the shadows turn into crescent shapes. Just wish I would have had the time …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-06, 18:58
I made time to strip down and clean the most recent Lian Li case I picked up. It's only a PC-7 but boy oh boy, do these things ever clean up well. A bit unconventional maybe, especially doing it in the shower... but alloy wheel cleaner is acidic enough to take any tarnishing off the raw aluminium …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-05, 18:45
Moved my DOS/Win3.1 PC into a new case! I had it in an old Cougar case I had lying around, but it only had a single 3.5 and single 5.25 bay, not enough room for my needs. So I got an Antec VSK4000E-U3_US, simple case, but has 3 5.25 bays and a single 3.5. Now I have room for a CD-ROM should I ever …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-05, 07:04
Why Win10 takes forever even on NVMEs? I see I'm not the only one that can't stand the fact Windows is so insanely slow when updating. In all reality, if it wasn't for my software and DirectX needs, I would run Ubuntu on everything. As it is now, I only run Windows on my primary system, everything …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-05, 05:47
It may well have been loose via, or trace cracked at bottom of via that was causing your issue, so it's good luck that it went like that. Yeah, there was no visible solder left in the via, so I assumed it was already weak and perhaps the source of the intermittent connectivity problem I was having. …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-05, 03:45
Replaced the keyboard/mouse PS2 connector on my Asus TX97-XE. Ran into a bit of an "issue" during the removal, as seen in the close-up picture... Via pulled out and lifted trace, so I had to repair that. Fun. After that, it was smooth sailing. Connectivity issue seems fixed. 😀
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