Re: IL-2 Sturmovik memory crash?

Posted on 2024-03-19, 01:39

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If you don't get any help here, I would recommend asking over at SAS1946 (www.sas1946.com). They are extremely helpful there and have helped me in the past. Also, are you using a modded install or the vanilla? Almost everyone is using a mod, such as B.A.T., these days. This requires a downgrade to …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-19, 00:59

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Tik-Tok……..I think Short clips are the Future of Retro computer channels. People are busy and don’t have time to watch a documentary about a retro computer product. It isn't that people are too busy to watch longer videos. They will spend hours scrolling through stupid dances, dangerous challenges, …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-19, 00:50

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I use SmartTube on my Nvidia Shield for YouTube. It makes it so much better. Ad block works great and it skips a lot of the advertising segments for you. Whenever I watch normal YouTube, the amount of ads comes as a shock.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-03-18, 18:56

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I finally completed Wolfenstein 3D. It only took 30 years. I still fire it up on occasion, but haven't completed it apart from the shareware levels. As a kid, I really wanted the full game, but couldn't afford it. Now, I no longer have the patience and attention span to finish it before I find it …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-18, 08:12

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The smaller YouTubers seem to spend more time in the comments section as well. It's always nice when the uploader will take the time to answer questions.

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-18, 06:26

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Even with analytics, how would they know the more recent success had anything to do with telling people to like and subscribe, AI art, click bait video titles, etc.? In terms of thumbnails, at least, YouTube does have an A/B testing tool. Not everyone has access to it yet but those that do have …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-17, 18:58

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Funny how a little off hand comment I made turned into a discussion of alcoholic drinks (-:

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-17, 18:56

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Even if you like the AI styled videos, they have the problem of often looking the same. I follow some channels with new heavy metal releases and now a lot of bands are using AI to make music videos. They all end up looking the same. I understand that they don't have the budgets for fancy music …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-16, 03:31

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by Ensign Nemo

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Whenever you guys write IPA, I read it as India pale ale. I keep thinking - how would that help with anything? (-:

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2024-03-16, 03:28

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Having been making these videos for over a decade now, I can only really go back to a certain point in my old videos before I start to see the many, many problems with how I was doing things and how I was writing my scripts. Some of it I attribute to overworking myself, as I can keenly tell by how …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-03-15, 03:39

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Ordinary day at the home office. My pimped Toshiba T5200 plays tracker music through PicoGUS. It had GUS MAX earlier but PicoGUS fits in the 8bit slot and network card can take the 16bit one. Looking forward for the SB-firmware, MAXSBOS worked quite good here. They made laptops with ISA slots? …

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Re: Any idea what this BSOD means exactly?

Posted on 2024-03-14, 01:26

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by Ensign Nemo

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Have you looked if any patches are available for ME? There are a few listed here: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Jane%27s_USAF

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-13, 18:15

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To be honest, it would probably be really hard to make money as a new retro gaming YouTuber. Outside of a few big channels, most don't get many views. Another consideration is that some people like watching with kids in the room. You might lose that audience with swearing.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-11, 20:36

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I'm posting this here because it's an almost-bought thing. On a local auction website there is a Voodoo 3 2000 for sale, relatively cheap at about 50€ as an auction. The seller's description is "I bought it for my system but when I wanted to install it, I realised I didn't have an AGP slot", yeah. …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-10, 05:06

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I think there is a presumption that this works, but I don't think we can say for sure. I think a big part of it is just that YouTubers see what other people are doing and don't want to get left behind. I'm admittedly a curmudgeon, but I will unsubscribe if this stuff gets too bad. YouTube creators …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 19:46

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A lot of what creators do on YouTube is simply to satisfy the almighty YouTube Algorithm. This is why frequent uploads, eye-catching thumbnails (including the so-called "YouTube Face"), click bait titles, etc. In part, because this stuff actually works. If you look at BuB's most popular videos, …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 09:40

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AI generated thumbnails are well below my other YouTube pet peeves, such as being reminded to like and subscribe, and click bait titles. Guitar YouTube is especially bad for the latter. Often the title doesn't even give you an idea of what the video is about. It's usually something vague like "this …

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Re: new laptop hard drive

Posted on 2024-03-09, 00:42

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I don't think SSD vs HDD is a meaningful comparison, as numerous factors come into play. Two different drives within one of these categories can have very different reliability, so it's hard to generalize SSDs and HDDs as a whole. When SSDs first became popular, there was a lot of concern over their …

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Re: best version of Office to learn

Posted on 2024-03-04, 17:41

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by Ensign Nemo

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Honestly, if you don't have a legit license for the most recent version of office, then just use LibreOffice instead. These days the general functionality and interface is pretty close between them both. It's 'good enough' for most things. No, it doesn't have a direcr Access equivalent, but Access …

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Re: best version of Office to learn

Posted on 2024-03-04, 04:26

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The hospital that I work at puts out health and safety stuff that looks like it came from a 90s clipart CD. It's stuff like "butt out smoking" with ashtray clipart. I like to imagine that there's some person in her 50s or 60s who has been doing those on a Windows 95 machine for over 30 years now.

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