Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 12:26

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amontre wrote on 2020-05-21, 11:57: Today, I had my MiSTer with Minimig core installed on my candy arcade cabs (using a jamma adapter), I'm having a blast playing amiga games on the arcade. Could you please give me a brief rundown on what makes a MiSTer different from a MiST?

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Re: Rant: please stop linking to "Stason .org" for Total Hardware 1999 (TH99) pages

Posted on 2020-05-21, 09:58

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Agree 100% with this rant.

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-05-21, 09:05

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It shouldn't be number of lines, IMO. It should be number of characters and number of pixels (for images). something like 256 chacters and 100px usually works for other boards..

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Re: *nix software and systems

Posted on 2020-05-21, 08:58

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Hey Caluser2000, what is your favorit 99/00 Linux distro? I'm looking for an era specific Linux distro for some PCs, I would like some decent USB and networking support if possible.. I am DE/WM agnostic..

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Re: Pentium 133 DOS gamer dream machine (1995 ).

Posted on 2020-05-21, 07:04

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Ok, that cooler is about as overkill as it gets..

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Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 06:51

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There are a lot of fantastic flight sims out there that have terrible UIs, engines (API support) and controller support. I would love to see things like Jane's AH64-D Longbow, Longbow 2, F-15, F/A-18 games updated, for example. Unfortunately space sims have also gone the way of the dodo.. The …

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Re: Which Video Card for this Old Pentium 2

Posted on 2020-05-21, 06:47

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GeForce2MX is a contemporary card for that system and great for everything up until 2000 or so. The GeForce4 will be greatly CPU bottlenecked in that system, it scales very well all the way up to fast AthlonXP systems.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-20, 14:36

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I removed a dead Dallas RTC and replaced it with a socket last night. Partially successful operation as I kind of destroyed half of Pin 1's solder pad in the process, but what remains of it works - I checked for continuity on every pin. Phew. https://i.postimg.cc/s15jt1rY/Biostar-MB-8433-UUD-A- …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-20, 06:56

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boxpressed wrote on 2020-05-20, 05:39: I finally started cataloguing my sound cards with a spreadsheet. Decided to start with Creative ISA cards. Thirty of those and counting... I also have one of these.. and too many sound cards.. I also have about 30+ Creative cards I believe..

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Re: The Case Badge Thread

Posted on 2020-05-19, 09:43

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Delta is a great OEM PSU..

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-18, 12:28

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I know of no high quality ALS sound cards...

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2020-05-18, 09:43

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evasive wrote on 2020-05-18, 09:05: I thought on the right side of the connector, the left of the two solder points had solder flowing too much crossing a trace, on second view, it is the pin sticking out so no worries there. Does that upgrade my score to a 9 out of 10 then? 😁

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2020-05-18, 08:29

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one or two tiny scratch marks and only one pin that looks like bleeding a bit (near the connector). No burn marks. No opens. Pretty consistent soldering. 8 out of 10 I'd say. Thanks! Which joint is bleeding? And what does bleeding mean? I will fix it as soon as I identify the fault :) I used a …

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2020-05-18, 07:59

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Well.. Remember, you asked.. This is about as embarassing as dropping your pants to get in bed with someone for the first time 😁

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2020-05-18, 07:20

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Yeah, on Day 6 we are all done. Aside from the voltage regulator I forgot to order *facepalm*.. Also lacks the SAA1090 chips (in the mail from China) and the Alps potentiometer (*sadface*) which I'm still not sure whether I want to bypass with ugly looking resistors or not.. It looks so beautiful. …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-05-18, 06:47

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Here is a link to a little video I made awhile ago with my ymf724 I had the Y-XG100 plus sequencer play it then I put it through winamp with milkdrop visualization its pretty sweet https://archive.org/details/colourfulmedley I was so happy to get this for $15 in auction it serves as a great DOS …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2020-05-18, 06:37

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This is my ultimate 2004 PC. Athlon 64 3500+, ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition, Sound Blaster Audiagy 2ZS. Running Windows XP Home Edition Sp3. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/484797401375440907/711696884913406013/IMG_20200517_164702.jpg Ha, this is my Socket 754 setup exactly, except I …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-05-17, 05:59

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cyclone3d wrote on 2020-05-17, 01:41: Can somebody point me to a signature that causes issues? I use mine for usefully links. Here: Re: Need for speed 3 Hot Pursuit on Win98SE

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-17, 05:50

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EDIT: Will not be buying the S2. 20 euros for shipping, it does not cost 20 euros to ship a tiny MIDI board to the US from the EU. Nice attempt at baking profit into the shipping. Your loss. Serdaco does not profit from the shipping and marginally profits from the product at best. This is a small …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-16, 17:28

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So I've got a question for those of us here more wellversed in MIDI. Should I get a Dreamblaster S2? The general MIDI sounds good enough based on what I can find on YT and supposedly it has a MT32 Compatibility mode. Whats the compatibility on that? Like what advantages can I expect. You can find …

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