Re: So what do you guys do... you know, in real life?

Posted on 2013-08-08, 02:15

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valnar wrote: ...the thrill of connecting to a BBS at 2400 baud exceeds any web site these days at 25MB, no matter how archaic that BBS software was. Particularly if you'd been re-dialing for an hour, waiting for one of their phone lines to free up!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-08-07, 02:53

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have you ever played the shining series? No I haven't but I'll check it out. I had a Mastersystem as a kid, so the only game I've played in the Megadrive is Street Fighter II, which I played for the first time last night with a wonky controller and had my buns handed to me :dead: Very impressed …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-08-07, 01:35

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I took a bit of a risk and bought this Sega Megadrive (Genesis) 1 from eBay recently - it was one of those listings with virtually no information beyond the picture, which in this case only showed a blurry mess of cables which covered most of the console. But it was cheap, and I could see the "High …

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Re: Commodore 64 revival (warning, wall of pics)

Posted on 2013-08-04, 23:18

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great thread! lucky you didn't have dead pla/ram chips :) consider getting a sd2iec or similar device, then you don't have to mess with floppies/cassettes at all: http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/SD2IEC Yeah I was lucky, and actually it did appear dead initially but it turned out to be just a …

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Re: Commodore 64 revival (warning, wall of pics)

Posted on 2013-08-04, 11:48

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RoyBatty wrote: Now get yourself a 1541U and be in heaven. =] It's the way to go then? Do you have one?

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Re: A Logitech ThunderPad renovation project

Posted on 2013-08-03, 21:55

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Nice work! I haven't seen one of those before but it looks cool, and the shape looks easy on the hands. Computer people must be cat people too; I often find what looks like cat hair in things during my renovation rescues.

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Re: Commodore 64 revival (warning, wall of pics)

Posted on 2013-08-02, 22:29

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I've ordered one of these (somebody stop me): http://www.64hdd.com/64jpx/64jpx.html It lets you use various pads - sega, NES - safely on the C64 and adds some features.

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Re: What's cool in your collection?

Posted on 2013-08-02, 03:33

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I have a 386 machine - rescued from a scrap heap - which I really like because it's complete and original. Most computers in my collection were built from a mishmash of bits I've scrounged over time, but this thing is a great example of a well built early 90's clone which looks like it came out of a …

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Re: Commodore 64 revival (warning, wall of pics)

Posted on 2013-08-02, 03:19

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The ZipStik I'd ordered arrived and it's a big improvement over the Atari joystick. It uses micro switches and has very little travel, so it's much easier on the hands and feels much more accurate - getting diagonals with the Atari stick was hit and miss and a big disadvantage in fast paced action …

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Re: Rise of the Triad

Posted on 2013-08-01, 23:31

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Alrighty then, my faint interest is withdrawn. In my experience the only way to get old school charm is to play the original. Sounds like this is no different. And artificially unfair gameplay is always a turnoff, regardless of the game or genre.

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Rise of the Triad

Posted on 2013-08-01, 23:04

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I noticed that the ROTT remake was on steam last night; looks a bit over the top to me but I'd be interested to hear what people who played the original think of it. http://store.steampowered.com/app/217140/ EDIT: it's not doing too badly on metacritic, the price probably makes people feel a little …

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Re: Commodore 64 revival (warning, wall of pics)

Posted on 2013-07-31, 05:48

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Btw what did you use to lubricate the Tape player gears? Nothing, they were already quite well lubed already, so I just removed the dust / carpet fluff and left them. It's all quite smooth, no squeaking. Gotta get me one of those DIP extractor tools! I also have a Fortronics datasette and I had to …

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Re: Commodore 64 revival (warning, wall of pics)

Posted on 2013-07-31, 03:56

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Anonymous Coward wrote: I personally found the blue text way more offensive than the pics. What can I say, I'm a bad mofo.

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Re: Sega Genesis music audio blind test. I need participants plz

Posted on 2013-07-30, 23:52

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PM sent. I just bought me a Mega Drive, as they're call here, so am looking forward to hearing more about this. I tried to research which model to get before I bought one but there are too many versions, so in the end I just found a cheap "Mega Drive 1" and will suck it and see. I chose it because …

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Commodore 64 revival (warning, wall of pics)

Posted on 2013-07-30, 23:16

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I'm not sure if anyone's interested in the Commodore 64 around here but I had one of those inexplicable yet irresistible urges to play one recently, so I thought I'd share my adventure. I didn’t have a C64 as a kid but a friend did, and I have fond memories of playing Commando, Bruce Lee, etc, all …

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Re: So what do you guys do... you know, in real life?

Posted on 2013-07-30, 22:43

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Wish me luck! Good luck! I haven't been on the receiving end of an interview for over 6 years, yuk. Still, if you gotta do one, then over the phone is the way to go. Whenever there is something wrong; from heating problems, unpaid rent, bedbug infestation or a rotting corpse in the closet, you call …

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Re: I made my childhood PC - 486DX2-66

Posted on 2013-07-23, 09:49

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rgart wrote: Badmofo what are you using to interface your roland MT-32? I have a Roland card (with a breakout box) and a Music Quest MQX32M, both work with Ultima 7. It took me a while to track them down, but they both came quite cheaply (~15 bucks each) from AU eBay.

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Re: I made my childhood PC - 486DX2-66

Posted on 2013-07-23, 04:10

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The Ultima games require intelligent mode MPU-401 don't they? If so then how are you driving the MT-32 with a Sound Blaster? SoftMPU? Ultima patch? Could that have something to do with the stack overflow?

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Re: YELLOWED Plastic

Posted on 2013-07-23, 04:04

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Badmofo why do all your cases look like you purchased them new yesterday? That's just years of collecting and filtering out the nasty ones :) Most of mine come from the local tip, so it's just persistence, luck, and managing to outwit the staff there who fortunately are not the sharpest tools in …

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Re: is Windows 98 command prompt sufficient for Dos Gaming

Posted on 2013-07-23, 00:40

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Yeah I have a DOS boot menu on my Win98 machine, i.e. DOS 7 or Windows. Works like a charm.

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