Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2016-10-14, 13:08
The Vista Cruiser above is now for sale. Damn this thing is a piece of art! If I had 10 thousand I'd be all over this thing. It has less thank 50k on it!
Re: Newly minted retro PC: is there a market?
Posted on 2016-10-14, 11:50
I have built my retro PC around that exact target, 8088/CGA. There's a TON of old games from that time period, CRPGs, graphic adventures, platformers, and the like. Then I would say you have singular tastes. The appeal of cyan and magenta graphics and PC speaker bleeps is rather limited, especially …
Re: Most reliable hardware eras?
Posted on 2016-10-01, 13:15
My family's first computer was an IBM Aptivia with a 166mhz chip, biggest heap of trash ever owned, it went back to radio shack every 2-3 weeks for 2 years to get repaired, was never stable, never worked right and was the least realiable POS I've ever seen. So even IBM has its faults. My buddy got …
Re: Most reliable hardware eras?
Posted on 2016-09-30, 13:01
The C64, the IBM PC, these things were all built to last and proved and refined the technology they used during their lifespan. Well, I agree on the IBM but no so much on C64. They were pretty much thrown together using whatever parts were available at that time. Some had issues with mem chips, …
Re: windows10 couldn't be insatlled.
Posted on 2016-09-14, 07:47
By disabling updates altogether you are missing out on actual Windows 7 updates (Windows 7 still has support and will be getting updates for several more years). I used Win 7 without SP1 or other updates for years and had no problems, same thing with XP. I usually don't bother with most updates …
Re: windows10 couldn't be insatlled.
Posted on 2016-09-13, 12:38
What make/model is your PC? Older (5-6 years) Acer laptops have a known "bug" that prevents the Windows 10 update from installing. I believe you need to flash your BIOS for it to work. I never bothered to do it at work and just left Acer laptops to Win 7 by disabling updates.
Re: Multi button PS/2 mouse
Posted on 2016-09-13, 12:34
I've been using a Marble Mouse for over 15 years and never had to keep my fingers raised off the ball or the buttons. I didn't mean you have to float your finger above the ball, but the location of it makes it uncomfortable for me to use. Then again, I'm used to flat gaming mice that don't stress …
Re: MT32 power supply rating?
Posted on 2016-09-12, 12:36
I was about to bid $100 on a local CM-32 listing on eBay, as I can't justify spending more than that when I already have an MT-32. It looks like I never would have won, though, because the early bidder's hidden limit was already $128, plus 2 snipers ran it up to over $150 in the last couple of …
Re: Star Wars Despecialized Editions
Posted on 2016-09-12, 12:29
Did they take the soundtrack from the BD version? The DTS-MA sounds a bit flat, but it might be because the size of the movie is rather small. I believe the BD rip of the original "enhanced" trilogy was over 100 GB which would make one film about 35 GB in size.
Re: Multi button PS/2 mouse
Posted on 2016-09-10, 09:24
I've decided to try a Logitech Marble Mouse (still supports PS/2) as something a little different I've used one of these and got a cramp in my hand in less than 20 minutes. You have to keep your finger raised while using it and it gets pretty tiring after a while. But it works differently to …
Re: Joystick ratings
Posted on 2016-09-08, 10:30
Suncom Tac-2 and Powerplay Cruiser where probably the most durable ones and still fun to use. Cruiser even had an adjustable stick stiffness. 😀
Re: Whats a good format to have music in?
Posted on 2016-09-05, 09:50
I do too, so I prefer it when it *doesn't* sound flat because some engineer killed all the headroom that made the loudness effective... remasters can (and do) improve on older versions without resorting to that As you probably know, Iron Maiden is a perfect example of several flat/weak sounding …
Re: Does anyone know some stuff about old stereos?
Posted on 2016-09-03, 12:05
Re: Fallout 4: Turd of the Year
Posted on 2016-09-01, 10:38
I have a 6 year old desktop (Phenom II) that I bought for 15€ last year and I only upgraded the GPU to GTX 670 and it runs Fallout 4 just fine on med-high settings in full HD. It's really not that demanding by today's standards. I can understand that a laptop might not run it that well, but then …
Re: Whats a good format to have music in?
Posted on 2016-09-01, 10:20
The usual reason vinyl sounds better is because CDs were mastered *terribly* for most of the lifetime of the format. It took the "old guard" industry at least 20 years to figure out digital music production and by the time they got it down the 'loudness war' was already in full swing killing any …
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2016-08-29, 11:41
Awesome games! I wish people here didn't treat retro HW/SW like junk. It's very hard to find any pre -98 stuff here. 😢 I can't even find a decent replacement CRT monitor anymore! 😐
Re: Most famous shareware CD series?
Posted on 2016-08-24, 19:47
BTW, here are probably the most famous Russian pirates — Fargus (Фаргус). Their disks looked like this: http://www.friends-torrent.com/torrents/images/242058.jpg Oh yeah, I had some of these but threw them aways as (like you said) they were dubbed/translated to Russian and were impossible to play. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-08-23, 17:34
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Re: What will we look like in 30 years?
Posted on 2016-08-21, 18:39
I think there will always be fresh blood, and I'd wager some of that fresh blood will be due to Vogoners of yore passing their hardware down as we age out. Just last week I sold a bunch of 086,286 and 486 computers and shells to an 18 year old kid and I asked if he was really going to fiddle with …
Re: Does anyone have an emachines in their collection?
Posted on 2016-08-19, 14:57
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