Re: Most famous shareware CD series?

Posted on 2016-08-19, 14:54

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Seeing the first picture made me check my current Rus CD collection and I found these. I presume the first one is part of that "famous" collection? Filename rus1.jpg File size 75.96 KiB Views 1496 views Filename rus2.jpg File size 243.55 KiB Views 1496 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-18, 12:00

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Jealous here! I've been wanting to get my hands on one of those IBM servers for a while now, but they either can't be found, or sellers are asking ridiculous prices - one of which is going for $2,000US. Really?! I was offered one of these for free 5 years ago, but the thing weighs a ton so I didn't …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2016-08-13, 12:56

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Flea market finds for 18€. Filename games1.jpg File size 210.13 KiB Views 2355 views Filename games2.jpg File size 229.09 KiB Views 2355 views

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Re: Anyone else collecting cassettes?

Posted on 2016-07-29, 11:21

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gdjacobs wrote: Precisely, the fake feet. Hard to say regarding audio quality. I can't find any specs on that system. These are known as BPC (Black Plastic Crap). 🤣 But it's still cool to find this kind of unused set. I'm sure it's fine for its intended use.

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Re: Anyone else collecting cassettes?

Posted on 2016-07-21, 12:40

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Ok so this is weird but I just recently got interested in cassettes again. I used to think they were the worst and CD's were the way to go back in the 90's and 2000's but now years later I recently gave cassettes a second chance and was surprised to find out that the audio quality was actually …

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Re: Vintage hipster's.... I have mentioned them before.

Posted on 2016-07-19, 13:44

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Just saying that I know some heavy metal fans that dress up in leather and spikes, but they do live like they look. Lots of partying, drinking, gigs, festivals etc. so it's not really just for show if it's your lifestyle.

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2016-06-20, 07:32

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Hollywood must play a huge role in this. The whole world watches American movies. It helped me tremendously that they didn't dub the movies/TV-shows here. I remember travelling around Germany in 2009 and I was appalled how badly (even young) people understood day to day English. Obviously you …

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Re: Do you make money of your Retro habit?

Posted on 2016-06-06, 11:53

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I usually dump the crap I don't want to a flea market. I get around 200€ ($225) a week, but I still think it's too much effort to price tag everything. Still, it beats shipping a ton of games and what not on a daily basis.

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Re: Retro Consoles.... who plays them

Posted on 2016-05-31, 09:26

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I've probably listed these many times, but here goes. I never play or use any of them, except the PS4 for movies when the Samsung BD-player refuses to read the discs. Carinco (Pong-clone) Atari 2600 Atari 2600jr NES (x5) Amiga CD32 Master System (x6) Master System II SNES (x2) Mega Drive 1 (x3) Mega …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-24, 17:38

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I dunno yet, I only cleaned them on the inside and quickly turned them on to see that they boot without error beeps. I've been looking for a PS/1 or a PS/2 for a long time as they are almost impossible to find, unless you want to spend a 100€ on a local auction site. :dead: edit: The PS/1 Pro had …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-24, 16:37

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Went to the local recycling center to look for ISA cards. Instead of finding them, one of the employees overheard me and asked if I wanted to buy old computers as well? I ended up with these for 36€ which wasn't too bad. One had a strange card in it, for video editing or something? It doesn't a have …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2016-05-18, 12:19

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There was a car boot sale last weekend. I was pretty damn surprised to see a Vista Cruiser there! 😲

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Re: "Must Have" Best DOS games

Posted on 2016-05-06, 13:22

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I paid money for the games I bought on GOG. That to me indicates ownership. :) How is it any different than buying a modern game by digital download, especially considering games today do not typically come in a physical box with physical media and docs? Like I said, it depends what we are talking …

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Re: "Must Have" Best DOS games

Posted on 2016-05-04, 12:08

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"Must have" indicates one should actually OWN these games. Many late 80's EGA games are nearly impossible to find these days, or the prices for them are absurdly high. Then again, if you bought/downloaded everything from GOG etc. you don't really own anything if you lack the physical media, manual …

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Re: AMD XP rig ideas

Posted on 2016-04-28, 11:44

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I would also like to say, that Phenom II is really not period correct if you're into XP games. Hell, I still use Phenom II 805 on a daily basis with Win10 and I can play most recent games with med-high settings! The AMD 64 (X2) would be my choice too with GeForce 6 or 7-series GPU.

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Re: Growing up as DOS gamer in the early 90s, I once...

Posted on 2016-04-28, 09:42

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Spring of -94 we were supposed to make a song with Octamed, but instead spent the week listening to different music and tunes. I don't think anyone bothered to check if we had actually accomplished anything. 😒

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2016-04-26, 12:13

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rgart wrote: Half-Saint wrote: Harley-Davidson? Mate, you pay a serious premium for that brand name. Better off with a Japanese cruiser - more reliable, cheaper to service and source parts and better fuel economy even if they are a little soulless. Exactly my reason for supporting US car …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2016-04-25, 11:39

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H-D would be nice, but the license itself would be around 900€ + the (very old, used) bikes start from 5k€ up makes it a pretty bad choice. 😢

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2016-04-21, 18:06

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I couldn't help but to resurrect this thread as I've seen some beautiful specimens in this past week. While driving through a residential area I spotted a 60's Valiant, Mustang and a 70's Pontiac Trans Am all parked in the same block. These two just happened to be on the way there. Summer is …

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Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-20, 13:02

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Just make sure you have some other means than original/copied disks to play games. I have hundreds of copied disks for A500 and about 40-50% of them are already unreadable. Same goes with the original game disks. I actually have a box full of NOS games that wont work anymore.

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