Re: If you had $100000(at your disposal), what retro act would you do back in 1990?

Posted on 2024-03-03, 11:26

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Do you mean in 1990 or in the 1990s ? In 1990, there were too few interesting option for my taste. My journey in the land of PC hardware started in 1992. While I do enjoy the MT-32 and 1980s Sierra games, for example, I came of age later in the 1990s and the late 486 era up to the the Pentium 2 era …

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Re: If you had $100000(at your disposal), what retro act would you do back in 1990?

Posted on 2024-03-03, 11:23

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If you really wanted to make money though, stuff it all in Apple or MS shares, or find a patch of land with a barn on it for 20k and fill it with all the muscle cars, porsche etc you could get for $500 each because they were worthless around then. Retrocomputing wise, your best investment might …

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If you had $100000(at your disposal), what retro act would you do back in 1990?

Posted on 2024-03-03, 06:09

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Maybe I will find the right time to buy some boxed hardware that is hard to find now, such as Diamond MX200, etc.

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what is this？Multi-function card on industrial computer？

Posted on 2024-02-29, 00:22

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The seller said it was a ordinary sound card.But I found something wrong. the interfaces, including the game controller interface.，I don’t recognize . where is the DSP and Codec？ Filename 81816.jpg File size 1.41 MiB Views 197 views Filename 81824.jpg File size 869.55 KiB Views 197 views

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Re: S3 savage 3D，most suitable platform is?

Posted on 2024-02-26, 12:56

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Putas wrote on 2024-02-26, 09:12: After my AGP troubles with it on BX440 and i815 I would turn to some solid Socket 7 chipsets. My first computer is on VIA 693X,I remember it clearly. Use this savage 3D for three years, Good gaming memories before I find first GF：）

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S3 savage 3D，most suitable platform is?

Posted on 2024-02-25, 04:34

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just got it today ($4). It's the graphics card of my first computer that I built myself. want to rebuild it. Any good suggestions? Filename image_editor_1708835572758.jpg File size 429.17 KiB Views 341 views

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-23, 02:00

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Yes, it is not not appropriate to discuss politics here, because it is difficult to distinguish black and white, it is gray... Regarding food, every region seems to have its own style.Chinese food makes me love and hate . It has a long food culture and superb cooking skills, which can turn decay …

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-22, 05:26

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Who knows how many Chinese are here? I guess not many, because not everyone has the conditions to register for this forum in China's network environment.I'm not sure what kind of attitude Europeans and North Americans have towards the Chinese. It seems to be more negative? In recent years, I have …

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Re: Your ultimate retro system

Posted on 2024-02-19, 07:45

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I think it depends on everyone's experience, because it determines everyone's understanding of the word ultimate. When I was in college, around 1998, I saw a work computer owned by a college teacher: a bare chassis, placed in a random position, I couldn't tell what the motherboard was because there …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-17, 06:32

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2592 pages, is it a terrifying data possible to set up a special section for : What I bought today ？ divided into graphics cards, sound cards, motherboards, CPUs, kits, complete machines, etc.

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About ES13** PCI card

Posted on 2024-02-16, 04:09

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I saw that some people in the forum couldn't tell the difference between the ES13** PCI series sound cards, so I posted a piece of information for reference. This was compiled by me around 2008. limited by regional environment and other factors,There may be many errors in it——Please correct for me， …

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Re: I realized that I was an alternative

Posted on 2024-02-06, 12:20

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I had some decent computers back in the 90s. My dad would buy them . I think one was second hand he got pretty cheap and it had a lot of games on it already. So I was able t play Doom, Quarantine, and a bunch of other DOS games, then there was a computer game rental store near by and my dad took me …

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Re: I realized that I was an alternative

Posted on 2024-02-05, 14:08

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I was able to collect old hardware because around 2002-2008, a large amount of computer hardware that had been eliminated from North America and Europe was shipped to our country in containers, and I happened to live in a coastal area, so there was plenty of second-hand hardware on the market. , …

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Re: I realized that I was an alternative

Posted on 2024-02-05, 13:55

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Also a late bloomer. 1993 Atari 2600 clone. Only had some boring integrated games. 1994 NES clone. Contra and Turtles mainly. 1996 Compaq Deskpro 286 with amber CGA screen. Wolfied Paganizu Jill of Jungle. 1997 IBM PC 330 486 SX33 Wolfenstein 3D was the first game i copied from a friend. Then …

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Re: I realized that I was an alternative

Posted on 2024-02-04, 06:51

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Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-02-03, 18:03: One cool thing about retro computers is that I can occasionally snag a computer or a piece of hardware for a tiny fraction of the original cost. I have lots of fancy gear that I never experienced as a kid. I'm now the coolest kid in 1995. yes！that's really …

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Re: I realized that I was an alternative

Posted on 2024-02-04, 06:49

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In my country most people could not afford a computer in the early 90s. But some of us had fathers who had the opportunity to bring a computer home from work and we got to play kings quest and pacman clones. Amazing! But most got their first computers with the internet boom in the later 90s. It was …

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What chip does this card use?

Posted on 2024-02-03, 15:06

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Looks to be well made Filename IMG_20220505_225829.jpg File size 530.85 KiB Views 187 views Filename IMG_20220505_225903.jpg File size 318.73 KiB Views 187 views Filename IMG_20220505_230015.jpg File size 290.58 KiB Views 187 views Filename IMG_20220505_225220.jpg File size 442.75 KiB Views 187 …

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I realized that I was an alternative

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Yesterday I downloaded a collection of games under DOSBOX and played them all morning today. Unfortunately, these DOS games failed to arouse my interest. After studying at vogon for a few days, I have roughly understood why there are so few people born in the 70s/80s in my country like to play with …

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Re: Confirm a question about this forum

Posted on 2024-01-26, 00:59

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There are people here from all over the world, but most of us are probably from various places in the Anglosphere, or other European nations. There is also a strong Eastern European contingent, and a few Asians such as yourself. The forum administrators are listed here: https://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: Confirm a question about this forum

Posted on 2024-01-26, 00:54

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Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-01-25, 18:23: Ironically, this forum seems to have more posts about old hardware than running old games on new systems. We'll have to rename it to Vogoos instead (-: :)Perhaps the appeal of old hardware is greater to most people than old games.Because it cannot be copied …

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