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

Posted on 2022-11-27, 22:30

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Over the past week and a half I have been getting my Umax SuperMac C600 up and running, and I’m happy I did. Filename 826BE87F-1909-4DAB-BED4-213EA51CD48D.jpeg File size 1.68 MiB Views 1330 views Now if only 5v 168-pin EDO wasn’t dumb expensive.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-25, 08:22

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Got a nick somewhere or got hit on low quality tempered glass. The digitizer glass on phones and tablet is properly tempered, and take lot of stress, can be bent over 50 degrees before breaking, till it get scratched will start crack into several cracks, but not shatter into little pieces like you …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-24, 07:06

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Tempered glass is so fucking dumb.. Plexi was kind of agreeable but this trend needs to end. Enjoy your 12700K btw. Personally I would have waited for the black friday deals and gone for AM5 :) I made the choice consciously. I've had issues with certain older games not wanting to run on my old …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-24, 06:32

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Today I upgraded from a 9700k to a 12700k, and was summarily punished for trying to have fun. IMG_0837.jpg I sincerely hate Tempered glass. I hate that half of the cases you could want to use are geared towards showing off the LEDs that I don't even have. Cleaning up took longer than putting the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-17, 17:37

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Finally got myself a Socket 5 System. IMG_0795.jpg Yes, a Socket 5 Mac Clone. IMG_0796.jpg IMG_0797.jpg That's a cool clone! What will you use it for? Probably as a transition machine if I can get an Ethernet commport II card. It talks IDE, SCI and Floppy, with options for USB and FireWire as they …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-17, 02:13

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Finally got myself a Socket 5 System. Filename IMG_0795.jpg File size 1.11 MiB Views 1213 views Yes, a Socket 5 Mac Clone. Filename IMG_0796.jpg File size 1.27 MiB Views 1213 views Filename IMG_0797.jpg File size 1.12 MiB Views 1213 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-09, 01:19

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Why yes, I will take 2009 overkill for $10. Finally have myself a 5970 2GB. Filename IMG_0762.jpg File size 1.02 MiB Views 1433 views Filename IMG_0763.jpg File size 1.65 MiB Views 1433 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-07, 22:31

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Shponglefan wrote on 2022-11-07, 22:03: Had a pleasant surprise in today's mail. Currently working on a couple 386 builds and can't wait to try this out in one of them. 😁 (Does this count as retro hardware?) Legally, no. By purpose? Very much so.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-05, 06:08

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I picked up a cute little Lamp yesterday. IMG_0737.jpg It's old enough to be able to boot OS9 natively. Very nice! I bought an iBook G3 (it should be a late 2002 model) just yesterday for the same reason, Mac OS 9 native support. For me it wasn't the biggest factor as I have a G3 iMac and PowerMac, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-04, 06:04

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I picked up a cute little Lamp yesterday. Filename IMG_0737.jpg File size 1.09 MiB Views 1728 views It's old enough to be able to boot OS9 natively.

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

Posted on 2022-10-23, 20:58

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Today I upgraded to the intended output method on my IIGS. Well, not the actually intended IIGS monitor, but RGB via SCART on a PVM. It's night and day from composite. Filename IMG_0683.jpg File size 598.16 KiB Views 1313 views Filename IMG_0681.jpg File size 518.23 KiB Views 1313 views

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-10-23, 06:41

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Played a bit of Jedi Knight 2 and first impressions are very positive. Graphics are vastly improved over the previous game. Characters look much nicer and even common enemies are quite detailed. Environments are more varied as well. Level design seems ok, at least so far. The maps no longer feel …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2022-10-22, 03:49

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I can’t say I’m mad to now have a complete copy of Morrowind. Hopefully I’ll be able to find arena and daggerfall someday without paying $600. Filename 31C04BA4-372E-4FDB-905E-D567189FF5E4.jpeg File size 307.43 KiB Views 1198 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-20, 20:38

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Kahenraz wrote on 2022-10-20, 19:52: I have a couple of ZX81s. I don't care for the garish colors of the spectrum, so its precessor is interesting enough for me. If only said predecessor had a keyboard that wasn't, well, holes with rubber in them.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-12, 03:23

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Well, that'll certainly fill the void that my 486 build not fully working out left behind. Filename IMG_0601.jpg File size 1.05 MiB Views 1728 views

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

Posted on 2022-10-11, 04:51

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I am probably gonna put the 486 away for a while while I try to figure out why it just refuses to play TES Arena. At this point I've swapped out sound cards, grabbed the ATi VESA utility, all sorts of things. I've got more functional systems that I can futz around with and actually enjoy myself. …

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

Posted on 2022-10-10, 21:39

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I am probably gonna put the 486 away for a while while I try to figure out why it just refuses to play TES Arena. At this point I've swapped out sound cards, grabbed the ATi VESA utility, all sorts of things. I've got more functional systems that I can futz around with and actually enjoy myself.

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

Posted on 2022-10-10, 05:41

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Welp, as it turns out the Arena freezing was not solved at all. I'm again at a loss.

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

Posted on 2022-10-10, 02:12

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Today I, potentially, got my Autoexec and Config set up for the two flavors of 486 that I wanted. There's three options in my config, one for DOS games, one for going in to Windows directly, and one for just booting DOS cleanly. Autoexec @ECHO OFF PROMPT $p$g PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS;C:\DRI\MACH32;C:\ …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-09, 04:43

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Won and bought an Apple AirPort Time Capsule 1TB and a MacBook Air M1 (2020). Photos below: b098cf98-b448-4f0f-a1c7-449c50268758ster_09291.jpg d93204ce-1808-4e1a-b662-600e5ccbf5afbus1_10064.jpg ee75acac-642c-489d-b713-5a48022128d5bus1_10062.jpg I legit forgot that they had 1TB models. I'm just so …

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