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

Posted on 2020-01-12, 22:19

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Just flashing a micro SD card with Ubuntu Mate to test on my rPi3... should be a few hours of fun (NOT). I've lost an entire day trying to compile correctly iDOS 2 for my iPhone (the iPad one compiled flawlessly, runs smoothly, I can't understand why). Both are running well now. Apparently I had to …

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

Posted on 2020-01-12, 20:30

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Hacked together a Y/C to S-Video (SVHS) cable from two old cables to add to my Commodore 64 AV cable so I can hook it up to my Dell 2001FP. Works just fine :) I added a 330 ohm resistor to the Chroma channel to make it a bit more compliant with the S-Video 'standard'. I did not do any comparisons …

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

Posted on 2020-01-12, 16:57

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Tested a spare Dell branded 486 LPX motherboard. I got it cheap last year but never managed to get it working and didn't have time to investigate further. Now that I have a spare 486DX CPU laying about, I dug out the board once again and tested it out. Same problem, a bunch of beeps and no POST. I …

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

Posted on 2020-01-12, 05:56

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iPad Pro running Mini vMac and emulating a Mac II with System 7.5.5! I’m gonna test Basilisk II iOS version to see if I can get networking going on. Mini vMac does not support it.

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

Posted on 2020-01-12, 05:02

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I wonder if it's possible to do IRC from a terminal? I never used one that I could recommend. But I heard about them - text-based irc applications used from a terminal. Irssi being one of them. I’d rather recommend you to use a GUI client (mIRC on Win, Textual or LimeChat on Mac, HexChat for linux …

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

Posted on 2020-01-12, 03:39

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I created an (unofficial) IRC channel for vogons. Server: irc.slashdot.org Channel: #vogons Happy to chat with anyone who feels like hitting the place during week days! If admins want me to close or hand over the channel, let me know. Happy to do either. Cool.... Great... Gone online on that …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2020-01-11, 22:13

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A 2014 Ford New Fiesta 1.5... *sighs* I would be quite happy with that, if it has decent seats and cruise control :) Decent seats my car has, but no cruise control... why would I want cruise control when all I want is to hammer the throttle down? :P It's not that bad, sometimes I get to drive my …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2020-01-11, 22:11

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I wanna live in this world and watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off all day! hahahaha

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Re: VMware DOS sound improved.. now is finally possible to play FX + FM together!

Posted on 2020-01-11, 20:49

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I'm using VMWare Fusion latest version on macOS and I can confirm, SB16 does work well now. I've been using it for more than a week and so far so good.

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Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread

Posted on 2020-01-11, 19:13

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They probably cannot, but WRP is almost on the right track. There are some things I didn't like, for example the controls inside (browser in a browser). The field to input text into the page form fields is damn small, even for the real text areas displayed on page. Why don't change that field …

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Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread

Posted on 2020-01-11, 04:43

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I did an experiment, I'm testing the WRP with WFW3.11. It works, I could go on VOGONS, and I've posted it using WRP. But it isn't that good. I hope Tenox can make it better and let us use the actual form fields instead of a "browser in a browser".

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Re: Why don’t PC parts work in a Mac ?

Posted on 2020-01-10, 19:20

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They do if you have the kexts/drivers for them.

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2020-01-10, 18:26

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keenmaster486 wrote on 2019-12-30, 22:05: Logging in the way mentioned above doesn’t work for me. Just redirects back to login page. Same here, but with IE 5.01 (and Netscape 4.08) on WFW 3.11. The forum layout is garbled (it used to be look right before the update).

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Re: Why don’t PC parts work in a Mac ?

Posted on 2020-01-10, 14:22

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I switched to OS X around a year after Windows 7 came out. Mainly because I wanted to move away from Windows and have a more Linux like machine. However at that time my adventures into Linux were not fruitful and as I became invested into the Apple environment it felt natural to move there. Ever …

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

Posted on 2020-01-10, 12:45

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Good. After I leave the work today I'll join!

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

Posted on 2020-01-10, 05:43

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I have been talking to my dad to remember how we used Win 3.x in the past. We had a great conversation (as always!). He reckons we had 8mb and sometimes 16mb ram in our very first win 3.1 computer. He can’t remember the specs really. Neither can I, hence why I went for 32mb ram on DOSBox and 64 on …

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Re: Toshiba T4900CT

Posted on 2020-01-10, 05:37

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Amazing adventure. Congratulations! I have a busted Acer Extensa 710T and I hope one day I can fix it like you did with your Toshiba. The Acer was my first ever laptop and it had Win95. So far, from what I can see... your Toshiba is now factory perfect? No issues? Hows the experience now in 2020, …

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

Posted on 2020-01-09, 18:34

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You're definitely running into more trouble hahahaha

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Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread

Posted on 2020-01-09, 17:28

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You need SMB1 support in host/server for dos/win3.11 client to be able to connect. Can Mac do that? (I'm not a mac user) No, nope, nyet, nada. Just tried it again here at work. I will try and reboot after editing a few files, but seems that it won't work. Probably I have to match the macOS username …

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Re: Why don’t PC parts work in a Mac ?

Posted on 2020-01-09, 15:17

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I'll give you that point, because you're right. If there was an update to Litchie's DOSBox port to current source version, for sure the GP2 game would be much faster in a current iPad, although mine is the 2nd gen iPad Pro 12.9 inch model.

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