Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-17, 05:01

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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John Carmack (presumably) paid many thousands of dollars for a 28", 1080p, 16x9 CRT monitor back in 1995. I just got one for free. Okay, so John's was 1080p and mine is 1080 i but that's just details. ;) This thing is amazing, the color depth is something else and even SD output on S-Video is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-16, 07:55

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Lmao, our tech guy is as technically proficient as a sack of bricks. It took him 5-10 minutes just to figure out a web shortcut on the desktop wasn't working because it had HTTPS twice. Oh yeah and the time he accidentally displayed the password for the grades site on the projector. OMG ya sadly it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-16, 06:57

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Lmao, our tech guy is as technically proficient as a sack of bricks. It took him 5-10 minutes just to figure out a web shortcut on the desktop wasn't working because it had HTTPS twice. Oh yeah and the time he accidentally displayed the password for the grades site on the projector.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-16, 06:40

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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+1 with KeenMaster ^ heck my current school district Tech Director was "That Kid" with his friends during HS, graduated, went to college, and is now the Tech Director at our school district. He has everything locked down like Fort Knox and keeps on top of things. Lmao yeah Fort Knoxx. I highly …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-16, 06:21

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Edit: saw your new edits. Why should you bother? Why, at this point, wouldn't you just slog your way through the rest of high school, play their game for as long as it takes, and then graduate, go your way and be done with it? If you continue employing your skills in that manner you'll just get …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-16, 06:18

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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This message was also sucked into the void.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-16, 05:57

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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This message was sucked into the void.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-16, 05:12

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Well, I dunno, I've been to two recycle centers (one in southern Idaho in my hometown, and the other in Boulder, CO where I live now). Maybe I just got lucky, but at both those places they've been very nice and agreeable, and explicitly state that they're happy to see the stuff getting some use. I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-16, 04:19

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Today was an exhausting day. I made the half hour trek on foot to the recycle center again (same place I got all that XT stuff) and this time I was once again rewarded richly. I found an AT clone in a horribly bent up case (marked "goof box" for whatever reason - huh), so I removed all of the parts …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-16, 02:45

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Picked up a pair of A64 dual core am2 machines. Dell E521 and a custom built by a local pc shop that is still around. They should call those damn things Heater/Computer combo's. My single core Athlon heated up my room as much as my Core2Quad. Make sure to reapply the thermal paste and clean them …

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Re: I created a VOGONS subreddit

Posted on 2016-09-14, 23:02

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I'm not disputing that, I just think that a user called AbandonwareGuy with history about asking for pirated stuff can claim innocence... On topic, while I don't share any misgivings about reddit, I really dislike that you took this sites name for your sub there. Why not just name it retromachines …

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Re: I created a VOGONS subreddit

Posted on 2016-09-14, 22:39

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Let me remind you of your first post here... http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=47053&p=481419#p481419 Let me remind you i found info about that site here on VOGONS in another thread posted by a then-VOGONS admin so i had assumed everybody found it to be an OK source. http://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-14, 22:29

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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I know of someone who's willing to sell me a GX400 for 25 bucks but thanks to a business deal gone wrong that ended up costing me like 300 USD I won't be able to get it until October. I've always assumed those would make a good very early 2000's machine. 300$??? Holy shit! Also stock that should …

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Re: I created a VOGONS subreddit

Posted on 2016-09-14, 22:17

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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yes like vogons is going to be represented by a software piracy advocate with negative karma points. not tainted by petty squatting at all. no ulterior motives here especially given your history on this forum :rolleyes: also there is no "Free Speech" on privately run sites like reddit, vogons, etc. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-14, 21:25

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Bought this real cheap, but it is in a terrible shape. Haven't found any info about it on the net. Most likely a 486 server board. Looks like a regular 486 board with sockets for a 486 and a 487. Lot of RAM slots though, and proprietary format. I don't think it's proprietary format - I think it's …

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Re: I created a VOGONS subreddit

Posted on 2016-09-14, 20:24

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Yeah Reddit isn't as good as it used to be ever since this new CEO they have took away the free-speech aspect and started banning subs based on there own Morales and opinions which is messed up imo. Pretty much every sub that has been banned in the last two years (excluding the CP sub which DID …

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Re: I created a VOGONS subreddit

Posted on 2016-09-14, 08:27

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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keropi wrote: What's this? Links collection? Redirects? I created it as a free-form discussion area though links to say, drivers and stuff, would be fine assuming its something that wasnt available before.

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I created a VOGONS subreddit

Posted on 2016-09-14, 04:47

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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(Note to the mods: I wasn't sure where to shove this and this is the closest thing to a announcements board that we have. I was going to message all the mods about this before posting but I couldn't find a list of all the mods to send a mass message) https://www.reddit.com/r/VOGONS/ I was fooling …

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Issues with the ATI Rage Dawning Demo

Posted on 2016-09-13, 21:11

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Hey guys. I recently acquired a Gigabyte GV-AG32S Rage 128 AGP4x card as a throw in with a lot of other cards so i decided to try the Rage Dawning Demo on it. It actually took me quite a while just to get the XP Drivers installed (The standard download on ATI's site didnt detect the card, i had to …

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Re: 486 UMC UM8498 mobo and ram question, with pictures

Posted on 2016-09-10, 09:00

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by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Hello, I'm quite new in dealing with this old hardware. I recently got my hands on an old 486 which I stripped to bare minimum to get it working again. UMC UM8498 mobo http://i.imgur.com/M8M7Kqg.jpg Am 486 DX2-80 http://i.imgur.com/cbpVO3c.jpg I found some random memory from same location and tried …

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