Missed opportunties on E-bay

Posted on 2014-11-02, 16:46

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So I was browsing through Ebay looking for DOS software and found a copy of 3d Studio release 3 for DOS. I have been looking for a legit copy and I knew right then I should have bought it but I didn't, for whatever reason (having to dig out my paypal password being one of them). Hopped back on later …

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Re: X-Wing/TIE Fighter re-release

Posted on 2014-10-28, 04:05

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I don't know if I will wait, they very well may get my $20 right away. Very nice surprise.

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Re: Getting a bunch of AT cases tomorrow

Posted on 2014-10-27, 20:22

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Yes, for sure, if you've got the space and the price is right, take them all. I can't find a baby AT tower to save my life. The one on the left in your picture is what I'm looking for, too bad you're in Portugal or I'd buy it off you 🤣.

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Re: ISA video capture / video output boards

Posted on 2014-10-27, 18:37

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Movie Toaster? That's one I've never heard of before. I think there was one made by Reveal and I think ATI may have made one at one point, but can't remember for sure. I'll have to see if I can find anything about a Movie Toaster.

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ISA video capture / video output boards

Posted on 2014-10-27, 17:28

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Were there any of these that were partiularly worth having? I am dimly recalling that there were a few models way back but that the PCI based boards were better due to superior bandwidth.

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2014-10-27, 00:02

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Not to start a flame war, but I can't remember the last time Windows just crashed on me. Individual apps, yes but the OS doesn't blue screen all the time like it used to. That was a valid complaint in the 95/98/Me days, though. I like Macs as well but to say you can't get work done on a windows …

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85 colors on a Tandy 1000SX

Posted on 2014-10-23, 04:58

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Somehow this guy figured out a way to get 85 colors out of CGA on a stock Tandy 1000. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR1uq4y9G34 It sounds like he cheated a bit by doing the encoding on another machine, I'm not sure how this is possible. Maybe some of the more hardcore bit-twiddlers out there can …

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Re: SPOILER ALERT! Cyberpunk games that don't suck?

Posted on 2014-10-13, 16:42

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I could have sworn I made a reply to this thread but now I don't see it. What's up with that? Seems odd that it would just go missing. -Edit- Mystery solved, looks like it was a different but similar thread.

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Re: FOSS Games and old hardware

Posted on 2014-10-08, 05:30

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Not familiar with the hardware nomenclature...GFFX? R300? Only R300 I'm familiar with is a MIPS chip. I've run some of these but not on any hardware old enough to be retro. Unless you consider a P4 with GMA 950 graphics to be retro.

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Re: Your favorite retro apps?

Posted on 2014-10-07, 15:16

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Yes, 3d Studio was a really neat application, especially when all you're used to is Povray. I was able to buy version 3 on a student license but couldn't afford the upgrade to 3ds Max. I've since switched to other software but sometimes get the urge to locate an old copy of 3ds and fire it up. I was …

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Re: Your favorite retro apps?

Posted on 2014-10-07, 04:24

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How about this: https://archive.org/details/ComputerShopper_September2000 Page 39. Dvorak column. Trying to find it referenced earlier than that right now.

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Re: Your favorite retro apps?

Posted on 2014-10-07, 00:43

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Oh, that's what they were getting at. I thought perhaps it was a "only retro games here, we don't need no stinking applications" type thing. And yes, I don't see anything wrong with the abbreviation either. Pretty sure that's fairly standard.

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Re: How can I tell what speakers are quality and which aren't?

Posted on 2014-10-05, 20:37

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As others have said, vintage does not automatically equal "quality". You will need to listen to the speakers. Having said that, Radio Shack used to make an Optimus mini speaker, the new ones are garbage the older ones are pretty good, though. A pair of those with a small amp would make a nice …

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Your favorite retro apps?

Posted on 2014-10-04, 17:11

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I guess to define retro here, I'm going to go with anything that is broken by Win XP/Win 7. If it runs on DOS/Win 3.11/95/98 it is fair game. Some of mine: Deluxe Paint II, Fractal Painter, Corel Draw.

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2014-10-02, 01:09

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ThinkPads are great! Fistbump. Thinkpads FTW my friend. I'm pretty sure I'll get 10-15 years out of mine if I baby it. Will have to switch to DSL Linux or some other small distro and virtualize the most recent, least piggy version of Windows at that point though. Win 10 is probably the last OS that …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2014-10-01, 23:02

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How can you guys afford 16GB of RAM at current prices? Around here, the cost has about doubled compared to prices in January 2012. Well mine is used server RAM. I think I paid $120 for 24GB. The Xeon cpus were $135 each, motherboard I think about $100. It's only PCIe 2.0 and not 3, but I figure I …

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Re: Don't laugh... Anyone have any love for Packard Bell?

Posted on 2014-10-01, 16:52

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I can't say I'm crazy about them, and every time I supported someone with one it was a pain. I can't remember if they were always shoddy, or good at first, then shoddy, then good again, or shoddy for a really long time and then finally good. But I do know they have a reputation as being a bit crap.

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2014-10-01, 16:46

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Don't have pics right now, but here are my specs: Dual 6 core Xeon 5650 cpus, 2.6ghz speed 24GB ECC RAM (only 16GB showing for some reason) Tyan server motherboard 2TB of disk DVD RW drive Radeon 7950 850W PSU (had a hard time finding something smaller that had the necessary cables for a dual proc …

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Re: What retro computing gadget that doesn't exist would you like to have?

Posted on 2014-09-30, 02:28

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I guess what I would really like to see would be a 1/2 or 3/4 length RAM card that you could popuplate with standard 30 pin simms and put 8 or 16mb into a system, although accessing that much RAM with an 8 bit data bus paired with a 16 bit cpu would probably be slow as heck. No really, this already …

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Re: What retro computing gadget that doesn't exist would you like to have?

Posted on 2014-09-29, 15:05

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rgart wrote: Gadget............can it be software? Well, I suppose it could be software but I was thinking more along the lines of hardware.

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