Re: Problems with takeda's emulators

Posted on Yesterday, 19:53

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The links take me to the coder's github pages (for the one i looked at anyway), and there are faq files under doc - have you seen those - they seem to have advice on various issues? like here https://github.com/Artanejp/common_source_project-fm7/blob/master/doc/FAQ.html Have you tried creating an …

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Re: old movies

Posted on Yesterday, 18:32

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Clockwork Orange was released when I was a kid, I don't think I saw it until at least 20 years later. I was really amazed to watch Kubrick's other films, still got a few to go. Also like Cronenberg's output, from Rabid and Shivers back in the 80s through Existenz, Naked Lunch and Crash to History of …

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Re: old movies

Posted on Yesterday, 12:42

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I don't think I know anyone who hated old movies as such. People I know or knew who came of age in the 1930s-50s (some have passed on) were not film buffs, and seem to love(d) the old musicals and comedies and possibly a others - the rest they can take or leave, and certainly a lot of what is now …

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Re: Your vintage data hoards

Posted on Yesterday, 12:25

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i have a box of CDs I burned 20-odd years ago, they are getting discoloured now and I can't be bothered to check whether they work yet. I also keep all my old hard drives, goodness knows whether they will work if I ever fire them up. Basically when I used to upgrade, I'd copy the old stuff to the …

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Re: Where is the rest of the world?

Posted on 2024-09-15, 22:37

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Hello! My impression is, that Vogons is site #1 for old computer stuff, at least here on planet earth (yo?). Everyone, who is interested in computing, speaks enaugh (omg-, pidgin-) english to verbalize his / her matter. But the boards statistics says, that almost every user is from the so-called ' …

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Re: The insanity / stupidity and greed

Posted on 2024-09-15, 15:51

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And when stupid fish do bite, and it happens often enough, those who come after - both buyers and sellers - start to think that's a reasonable price... what else can they do? Really, best to just vote with your feet, screaming into the wind won't change anything... But we have a thread for this sort …

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Re: The insanity / stupidity and greed

Posted on 2024-09-15, 12:44

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.... don't buy it then?

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Re: Sticky rubber coatings: what to do?

Posted on 2024-09-14, 21:37

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Rubber degrades like this eventually. I've got a nice p/2 keyboard that's gone that way, and an entire Aerocool case including all surfaces and the fans. Microsoft mice. Mouse balls, etc etc. Rubbing with alcohol seems to fix it, until the next time... and the next time.... etc. I had a camera with …

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

Posted on 2024-09-14, 10:03

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Tested my boxed Metabyte Vengenace Banshee and eventually determined that the reason it didn't look like the one on the box was that it was a different card, in fact a Provideo. It's always been like that, I just never resolved the discrepancy before. Must have bought it 20-ish years ago. So I never …

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Re: Mac mini G4 1.25 1GB - can it retrogame?

Posted on 2024-09-13, 21:24

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You can put Mac OS9 onto that, which means you can then run old Mac games that would have been written for 68k and PPC. That's the reason I have one, though to be fair since I got OS9 installed I haven't actuall used it much. If you're interested the place to go is macos9lives.com.

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

Posted on 2024-09-08, 23:25

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Went through some boxes of cards to see what I had, to motivate myself to test and list some for sale (elsewhere than here). As I haven't looked at this gear for at least 5 and maybe 8 years, there were a few surprises in the form of cards I didn't know or had forgotten I had (Gainward 6600GT...), …

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Re: Please help with cryptic password I made over 20 years ago - its Dos games related I swear!

Posted on 2024-09-08, 20:25

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So do the passwords sashaandme86421 and emptybeercan57220 work on the respective dvd .exe files? The block of numbers is just a cue to the remaining picture password and/or third DVD.exe? What about just the remaining digits: 11421511932 12114511932 Could sashaandme and emptybeercan suggest SAM and …

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Re: Quantum3D 100SB repair attempts

Posted on 2024-09-07, 12:12

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Where the pins on the digital chip broke, they look thinner than on surrounding ICs eg the GENDAC, and happen to be near the PCI connector. I wonder whether it ould simply be an area of high physical stress when the card is being inserted (especially if it gets slightly flexed) and/or could that …

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Re: It outsourcing everything

Posted on 2024-09-05, 23:58

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where i work:no more my documents, all on one drive. moving to all- cloud devices no more proper laptops/desktops. MS 365. sharepoint replaced network shares. virtualisation of everything. ms teams. cloud everything. out-sourcing, off premise hosting. as long as it works, i dont care tbh.

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Re: linux help

Posted on 2024-09-02, 20:48

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Incidentally isn't there some Ubuntu version in the MS App store so you can use it on Windows 10 (and presumably 11)? That's using WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Virtualized kernel. Not sure how you get any GUI stuff working in WSL; I never got far enough along playing with it... And certainly …

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Re: linux help

Posted on 2024-09-02, 20:46

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progeny of, based on - aren't they the same thing?

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Re: linux help

Posted on 2024-09-02, 20:30

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I would avoid the g4, for the g3 imac I tried linux (mintppc) on you had to rewrite the BIOS or some such, which was not reversible. But ymmv of course. As a long-standing occasional user of debian, I'd suggest that or ubuntu. Ubuntu can sometimes work out of the box as it were, but it's debian …

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Re: any Thinkpad fans?

Posted on 2024-09-01, 12:28

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no, nearest is that i used to have a 701c and 701cs if i have the numbers right, the butterfly keyboard ones. upgraded one of them to the faster cpu, upgraded the ram, upgraded the hard drive, installed linux, faffed with wifi drivers, got bored and then sold them. long time ago. they seemed pretty …

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Re: Should I prevent family members from using the home Wi-Fi to prevent IP blacklisting?

Posted on 2024-08-17, 00:17

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how much does this matter to you? could there be any other repurcussions of the original ban or what led to it? are you paying for a fixed IP address? try rebooting your router? use a VPN yourself? how would anyone here know what an unknown "social media" was doing? are you asking for lifestyle …

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Re: is anyone fotzing around with Turbo Prolog?

Posted on 2024-08-09, 23:58

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I played with Win-Prolog or LPA-Prolog now and again. Not for quite a long time now. It seemed a clumsy language when trying to write the sort of code I might have written in BASIC or Pascal - Python is much more natural by comparison. As I recall Prolog revolves around a database of rules that it …

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