Re: See if you can spot what's wrong.....

Posted on 2022-06-30, 16:49

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high refresh rate monitors are a blurse as well. Yes, you get buttery smooth motion, but your GPU actually needs to be able to render those extra frames. Or you can just play older games at 144hz!

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-30, 14:38

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appiah4 wrote on 2022-06-30, 14:27: I never said I didn't want opinions. I just said you are stating your opinions as if they were objective facts. You're going to have to explain to me how my language there gave you the impression that I was spouting gospel and not my personal opinions, because …

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-30, 14:13

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It's an art choice and no art appeals to everyone. Personally, I like RTMI's art choice, it appeals to me. And I wish you would stop stating such subjective opinions as if they were facts. The character look largely indiscernible from their backgrounds. Nobody seems to have any real facial …

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-30, 13:03

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So what is a great reason to hate modern games? Mix races within games? Or black people also being pirates which they actually still can be even in modern times? Care to elaborate? :P Holy projection, batman! Wow. Way to jump to conclusions! I was showing the horrible art style and janky animations …

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Re: Three 5.25 bays idea

Posted on 2022-06-29, 15:42

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HDD caddy in beige for older, 2.5" mutli-drive hotswap bay and if it's a 2000's or newer machine one of those ridiculous 5.25 bay control panels, like a graphic equalizer.

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-29, 14:55

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A puzzle is a type of game. You do not need to be able to "win" a game. One of the definitions of game is "activity engaged in for diversion or amusement." so is jerking off a game? Eating? Reading a book? Watching paint dry? I'm willing to admit there's no accounting for personal tastes. I don't …

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-28, 14:39

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Video games are supposed to be an interactive media with a loss condition or they're not games anymore. Puzzle games say hello. Adventure games too actually. You're right, it's just a puzzle. It's not a game, in the same way a jigsaw puzzle is not a game. A jigsaw is a puzzle. The consequences of …

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Re: Getting rid of cigarette smell from cables

Posted on 2022-06-23, 14:51

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Soak the cables in hot water to induce thermal expansion, then dip them in plain febreze. the beta cyclodextrin in the febreze should trap the odor causing molecules, and then you can rinse them off in 70% isopropyl alcohol. Might require two treatments because beta cyclodetrin is only partly water …

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-23, 14:40

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walking simulators have their place, but they get too much critical love because modern game journalists are dumber than pigeons and base their entire review on the mediocre story and forget that video games are supposed to be an interactive media with a loss condition or they're not games anymore. …

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Re: Native PS/2 mouse implementation for 386/486 boards using the keyboard controller

Posted on 2022-06-23, 13:49

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Thanks, the osh park PCB I ordered is the older one with discreet transistors, and the only external wiring to it seems to be for IRQ 12 and of course to a PS2 female plug. I should be able to handle that no problem, I can just grab it from the first ISA slot. I'm going to try the MR BIOS for this, …

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Re: Finding a Low Profile GPU for 250w Power Supply

Posted on 2022-06-20, 22:44

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anything that doesn't use an external PCIe power connector should be fine. a PCIe slot maxes out at 75w. Is this going to be windows 7+? If so, a NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 will do just fine with that CPU. hd 7750 low profile would work too, but a little more power hungry and lower performance, but much …

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Re: Native PS/2 mouse implementation for 386/486 boards using the keyboard controller

Posted on 2022-06-20, 22:31

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You can also use a Protocol Translater. https://www.serdashop.com/PS2TOSERIAL If you want you can also build it yourself, files are on my github. Yes the BIOS and the Keyboard Controller need to support it. Maybe a Driver could also work without BIOS Support. yes, I bought one, it requires external …

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Re: Native PS/2 mouse implementation for 386/486 boards using the keyboard controller

Posted on 2022-06-20, 22:25

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I've been struggling to get and optical mouse working on my 286 without an externally powered dongle, and with Rio's situation, I can't just buy another ISA PS2 card, so I'm wondering if this would with with my 286? It's a DTK motherboard (PTM-1636c) with the PC Chips F82C235 chipset. I found the …

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Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset

Posted on 2022-04-19, 17:02

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Keropi again with critical damage to my wallet.

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Re: DB9 Serial to PS/2 adapter for KVM, pinout?

Posted on 2022-03-23, 03:21

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There's nobody on here who might be able to help? Nobody owns one of the ps/2 to Serial adapters that came with the DKVM-8E?

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DB9 Serial to PS/2 adapter for KVM, pinout?

Posted on 2022-03-21, 21:04

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I have 3 KVMs that purport to do Serial to PS/2 translation, provided they have an appropriate adapter, but I can't seem to find one for them that works, so I just bought a screw terminal DB9 port and I'll be trying to make my own adapter. I thought I'd ask here first if anyone has any experience …

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Re: Very compact retro PCs?

Posted on 2022-03-20, 19:45

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There are also some thin clients hat have a PCI slot available. Those are even smaller than the UNISYS systems. This. If the target is Windows OS, check out those. Some have one PCI slot but you're not getting many more from a very compact PC either, so it is an option. NeoWare CA2 has a combo ISA/ …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2022-02-02, 00:11

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Any way I can just order the 3.5" panel and OLED kit for a V1 McCake?

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Re: Interest in a Munt ISA card?

Posted on 2021-07-27, 20:23

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Instead of an RPi, why not attempt an FPGA implementation? Maybe branch it out to a general purpose Midi/Sound card emulator on FPGA that can be loaded with new instruction sets via a DOS utility and re-initialized. Granted, I don't know how viable this is, or how expensive it would be, but it would …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2021-07-23, 05:02

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Would this board be compatible with CHILL II? Yes, there are solder bridges at the bottom to select between floppy power and header power if powered through header, it works fine on CHiLL II, which can provide the needed current I'm assuming these are the 5V EXT and 12V EXT bridges? How should they …

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