Re: Trying to find a picture of a specific 1970s-1980s tv.

Posted on 2020-01-30, 15:30

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by Peter Swinkels

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I'm 18, but I definitely remember my parents owning a set that looked similar to what you describe (at the time I was only 4 or 5 years old at the time (2005-2006) when they owned it) that we kept as a backup in case our main set (a 32" Firstline "silver plastic crap" set) gave way (which didn't) …

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

Posted on 2020-01-30, 12:04

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by Peter Swinkels

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This one is 33mhz with 8mhz turbo (according to the display on the case!) I actually am not familiar with anything pre 486 so it has been a learning adventure too. It only has 1.5mb of ram. Should I look to expand this? The ebay seller actually requested that I preserve his data if possible and now …

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

Posted on 2020-01-30, 12:01

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by Peter Swinkels

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No, not really retro. Ori and the blind forest doesn't even run properly on windows XP. That said, it is a great game, so you should definitely give it a go! Agreed. Great game to play. I actually played it several times over. My poor Radeon can just barely handle the graphics at 66% resolution. …

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

Posted on 2020-01-29, 21:19

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by Peter Swinkels

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Ooh, a 1991 386 SX. Nice! Back then my parents had a 80386 SX 25mhz (10mhz turbo) with a VGA card, 80meg hdd (removable tray), 2mb expansion card, 5.25 inch floppy drive, 3.5 inch diskette drive, MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0. The brand was called High Screen.

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Re: Trying to find a picture of a specific 1970s-1980s tv.

Posted on 2020-01-29, 18:30

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by Peter Swinkels

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It’s similar but different. Yes, it had sharp corners. Those pictures were scans of photo’s made with a small 80s camera. Only bits of the tv were visible in the background. The tv we had couldn’t have been all that special... Anyone here owned or used a tv like the one described? I can’t be the …

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Re: Ways to dump memory to a file->

Posted on 2020-01-29, 15:44

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by Peter Swinkels

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Okay, I am no noob when it comes to analyzing binary data and can make a guess as to how the memdump.txt file is layed out. To the point: which tools would you recommend to analyze all that raw data?

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

Posted on 2020-01-29, 13:38

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by Peter Swinkels

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Nearly forgot, does trying to fit a ten year old Geforce 550 in a seven year old pc count as retro? To get a four year old game called Ori and the Blind Forest running? That game runs fine on modern hardware though? Yes, it does. But my relatively modern pc has a basic graphics card. It's a Radeon …

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Re: Ways to dump memory to a file->

Posted on 2020-01-29, 13:23

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by Peter Swinkels

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There is a debugger build in the development forum. Okay, but how recent is it? It offers a lot of options, but the interface is very primitive. So much so I am keeping other options open such as compiling it from source and perhaps customizing it. functionality wise not much has changed. It's a …

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

Posted on 2020-01-29, 13:20

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by Peter Swinkels

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Nearly forgot, does trying to fit a ten year old Geforce 550 in a seven year old pc count as retro? To get a four year old game called Ori and the Blind Forest running?

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Re: How many watts is my power supply->

Posted on 2020-01-29, 13:17

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by Peter Swinkels

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imi wrote on 2020-01-29, 12:47: in case you wanted to use it in a PC with ISA cards, which a lot of people here do. just like a lot of people play games that were made for an obsolete OS. Aha, now I see what happened. Were you all under the assumption it was a loose power supply?

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Re: How many watts is my power supply->

Posted on 2020-01-29, 12:00

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by Peter Swinkels

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Cyberdyne wrote on 2020-01-29, 11:18: Only verry specific and old ISA stuff use -5. I looked it up btw. ISA has been obsolete for 27 years now. Why was this whole -5 volt/ISA thing relevant if my only question was a confirmation of my power supply's rating?

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Re: Ways to dump memory to a file->

Posted on 2020-01-29, 11:06

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by Peter Swinkels

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Qbix wrote on 2020-01-29, 11:01: There is a debugger build in the development forum. Okay, but how recent is it? It offers a lot of options, but the interface is very primitive. So much so I am keeping other options open such as compiling it from source and perhaps customizing it.

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Re: Ways to dump memory to a file->

Posted on 2020-01-29, 10:59

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by Peter Swinkels

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Okay, I am going to investigate the DOSBox Debugger suggestion... I see the following knowledge and skills are required: 1. know how to compile DOSBOX from the sources 2. have knowledge about assembler 3. have experience in system programming Points 2 and 3 shouldn't be too big an issue, but …

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

Posted on 2020-01-29, 10:57

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by Peter Swinkels

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My retro activity of the day: watching Apollo 13 movie, straight from the year 1995. A few months ago I watched The Shining. Pretty good movie considering how old it is. Does anyone here watch retro cartoons too? Such as Tom and Jerry, old Simpsons episodes, Biskitts, old cartoon intro's on YouTube …

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Re: How many watts is my power supply->

Posted on 2020-01-29, 10:51

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by Peter Swinkels

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maxtherabbit wrote on 2020-01-02, 00:48: SirNickity wrote on 2020-01-01, 23:55: Peter Swinkels wrote on 2019-12-31, 19:45: Isn't ISA obsolete? ... Where do you think you are right now? 🤣 🤣 well to be fair he did not post in marvin Okay, so I made a bit of an ass of myself. Anyone care to let me in …

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Re: Trying to find a picture of a specific 1970s-1980s tv.

Posted on 2020-01-29, 10:49

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by Peter Swinkels

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Yeah, I know - old topic. Does anyone still interested in this topic have new suggestions? Anyone wants to share memories of old tv-sets?

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Re: Ways to dump memory to a file->

Posted on 2020-01-27, 09:30

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by Peter Swinkels

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Feel free to make suggestions for OS/2. The more options the merrier!

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Re: Ways to dump memory to a file->

Posted on 2020-01-26, 20:02

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by Peter Swinkels

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And Windows?

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Re: Ways to dump memory to a file->

Posted on 2020-01-26, 16:27

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by Peter Swinkels

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Okay, does anyone know of TSR’s that run native in MS-DOS that can do memory dumps?

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Ways to dump memory to a file->

Posted on 2020-01-26, 15:32

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by Peter Swinkels

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Let's say there's a program running in DOSBox and the first 640K of memory needs to be dumped to a file, what would be the way to do it? I know a few, none all that practical (IMHO). Has anyone here done this? If so what is the preferred method? Reply with your suggestions... Or not.

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