Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-09-27, 18:00

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If you were lucky enough to fall in with a hip 64 crowd back in the day. Or haunted bbs's, you'd quickly realize how much was being done with it, here in the US and abroad. For me the stuff Europeans were doing with it was especially remarkable. Odd little games and such. Tapping it's capabilities …

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-09-27, 15:32

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So it was almost two computers in one: two different CPUs and two different video chips. I know. Interestingly, certain components could be accessed from either operating mode (C64 compatibility, C128 native w/ Basic v7, CP/M boot). In theory, this would have allowed for interesting things. Like …

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-09-27, 14:56

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There are a couple of C64 models, strictly speaking. - C64 - C64 II (C64C) - C64G - "Aldi-C64" - C64 Golden Edition - PET 64 (Educator 64-1, CBM 4064) - Educator 64-2 - SX-64 - C128 - C128D - C65 (unreleased) - C64GS (C64 Games System) - Japanese C64 (Katakana symbols) Though they're technically …

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Re: Wolfenstein 3D on Headland HT12/A-based 286

Posted on 2023-09-27, 14:27

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I suspect it could be an I/O card issue. I do have LPT1 on IRQ 7 (nothing physically connected to LPT1). This has never caused me any issues on other systems, but maybe something odd is going on. I'm going to test removing the I/O card and also swapping the soundblaster over to IRQ 5. Generally …

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-09-27, 13:42

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There are a couple of C64 models, strictly speaking. - C64 - C64 II (C64C) - C64G - "Aldi-C64" - C64 Golden Edition - PET 64 (Educator 64-1, CBM 4064) - Educator 64-2 - SX-64 - C128 - C128D - C65 (unreleased) - C64GS (C64 Games System) - Japanese C64 (Katakana symbols) Though they're technically all …

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-09-25, 20:37

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The poor people used musical cassettes, MC, of low quality. Not even computer cassettes/datasettes with good magnetic material. Lol, nobody used those "computer cassettes". We considered that a scam. We just used cheap ('normal/ferro/Type I') music cassettes, usually the 60 minute variety. Longer …

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Re: Which old programming languages do you still use/play with today->

Posted on 2023-09-25, 20:16

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what do we feel is the value of all these old development tools outside of nostalgia / preservation and so on? Little selection of alternatives? 😔 Turbo Pascal/QB had fine, tidy IDEs with both an integrated interpreter/compiler and help system. On Linux, everything is very crude by contrast. They …

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-09-25, 19:27

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[..] I guess it's just part of childhood for my entire generation. EVERYONE has played on a C64, even if they haven't owned one themselves. They were just everywhere. Also in schools and such. They even were known in ex-DDR (GDR, East Germany). I known someone who remembers C64 advertisements in …

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-09-25, 18:39

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On that one computer , over the many years I've had a retrocomputing passion, I kept seeing more and more and again initiatives, fairs, organizations, gadgets, books, various merchandise, discussions, groups, and, most importantly, even magazines (Reset64 magazine) and even completely new hardware …

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-09-25, 17:18

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Yes, I think that sums it up pretty well. While I do have a love/hate relationship with the C64 of some sorts, I must admit that it has a fine community, very human. It values things in a more spiritual way, talks less about money and economics. That's something I highly admire, the idealistic take. …

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Re: Using old floppy disks?

Posted on 2023-09-25, 16:49

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paradigital wrote on 2023-09-25, 13:58: I've got hundreds of 720kb and 1.44Mb floppies that all read just fine and have been stored in shoe boxes in the attic since the late 90s/early 2000s. Age doesn't seem to be a factor. Environmentals are though, as is the condition of the drive. I second this, …

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Why did NES games generally look less pixelated/lo-fi than CGA/EGA PC games?

Posted on 2023-09-24, 15:55

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Hi everyone, There's something that I wonder for a long time and that still catches my attention. As the title already reveals, it's about graphics fidelity of the NES vs PC. First of, I think I'm mostly aware of the technical differences between a specialized PC monitor and a consumer grade TV with …

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Re: Unable to install AWE32 Windows 3.1 driver

Posted on 2023-09-23, 21:22

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Hi. 🙂 These drivers are just the basic drivers or their updates. If I'm not mistaken, there's a full version of the drivers on the AWE32 and/or AWE64 CD-ROM (hardware is virtually the same). It also has the EMU8000 sound font(s) for General MIDI, MT-32 and so on.

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Re: AM2 for Windows 98?

Posted on 2023-09-23, 15:48

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Hm. I assume it's all a bit relative. Newer isn't automatically better, but sometimes the removal of bottlenecks makes things run smoother. I'm thinking of real VGA cards vs GPUs with a legacy VGA core, traditional CPUs vs multi-core CPUs, ISA/VLB vs PCI/AGP vs PCIe etc. Let's take the venerable …

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Re: AM2 for Windows 98?

Posted on 2023-09-23, 14:53

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I have good memories of Windows XP SP2 running AM2 and Socket 939 systems.. But Windows 98SE? Hm. The last system I remember running that OS when it was current was a Pentium III @733 MHz with an Nvidia graphics card. Edit: On a second thought, that's not very helpful, though. 🤷‍♂️ Has anybody else …

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Re: Manually Installing DOS

Posted on 2023-09-23, 14:30

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There's an utility called "DOSVER". It can display and set the current DOS version. What it can't do, however, is changing the OEM bit. So MS-DOS stays MS-DOS, DR-DOS stays DR-DOS etc. MSD can also display the DOS version.

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Re: The way to detect OPL3 clone

Posted on 2023-09-23, 11:00

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I think the same. There are OPL3 clones which masquerade as common TTL chips. I remember reading about this one here in an Amoretro guide (Engl. Translation).

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Re: Can a PS/2 Keyboard be incompatible with a computer or is something just broken?

Posted on 2023-09-22, 18:08

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I just had to verify this searched conrad.de for this "mini din" and this was in the list https://www.conrad.de/de/p/mini-din-einbaubuchse-geschirmt-geschirmt-pole-6-assmann-wsw-inhalt-1-st-741797.html there was also a green one. didn't check if there was a plain black one before replying :) …

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Re: Can a PS/2 Keyboard be incompatible with a computer or is something just broken?

Posted on 2023-09-22, 16:54

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Yeah but now I need a PS/2 socket and stupid Munich, Germany does not have any electronics store left where I can buy one socket for 50ct without paying 6bucks for shipping Hm. All that comes to mind is Conrad Electronic. It had a big outlet there, if not the most important one, but that was in the …

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Re: Can a PS/2 Keyboard be incompatible with a computer or is something just broken?

Posted on 2023-09-22, 16:20

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Edit: There is. The technical manual is available on the site linked in first posting. It says as follows: Yeah but that could not have been it for 2 reasons: - completely wiped the cmos multiple time - setting a password shouldn't give a "NO KEYBOARD" error but present a field to enter a password. …

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