Re: Newly made ISA CGA cards with real 6845s?!

Posted on 2024-02-01, 03:38

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by Ensign Nemo

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As with many products coming out of China, there are a few sellers who have this for sale and use the same images and description. Features: The CGA graphics card with ISA interface. This interface still plays an important role in the for Pentium for Celeron processor. Plug this graphics card into …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-01-28, 18:14

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Installed and modded TESV: Skyrim, it's been ten years so maybe I'm finally ready to check the DLC's out so I can cross them off. Been in a bit of a dry season, haven't been in the mood to dive into anything that requires an actual brain so I figured an inch deep Bethesda puddle could work 😁 Turns …

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

Posted on 2024-01-28, 05:28

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by Ensign Nemo

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This morning I went to a pick-up point to get the italian version of Half-Life 2: Raising The Bar hl2-raising-the-bar-it.jpeg I bought it from a local seller for 40€. Considering that the only insertion I saw, other than this one, is on Amazon for over 300€ and that the italian version is very rare …

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

Posted on 2024-01-28, 04:39

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by Ensign Nemo

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This morning I went to a pick-up point to get the italian version of Half-Life 2: Raising The Bar hl2-raising-the-bar-it.jpeg I bought it from a local seller for 40€. Considering that the only insertion I saw, other than this one, is on Amazon for over 300€ and that the italian version is very rare …

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

Posted on 2024-01-28, 04:31

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by Ensign Nemo

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This morning I went to a pick-up point to get the italian version of Half-Life 2: Raising The Bar hl2-raising-the-bar-it.jpeg I bought it from a local seller for 40€. Considering that the only insertion I saw, other than this one, is on Amazon for over 300€ and that the italian version is very rare …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-28, 04:30

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I have a 430CDS and I used it for a 90's style Doom deathmatch party last year. Worked great. Do you know if there are significant differences with the 430 CDS ? Every PDF I found labelled as 430/435 specifications turned out to only contain the 430 and nothing about the 435... Good to know! I have …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-27, 17:41

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Just grabbed a Toshiba Satellite Pro 435CDS. From what I've read, it's one of the better laptops for DOS sound support, as it has an ESS688 and an OPL3. It has a Pentium 120 Mhz under the hood, which should be good for DOS gaming (I just plug my laptops into an external monitor). As usual, it had a …

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Re: Confirm a question about this forum

Posted on 2024-01-27, 09:58

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... I get the impression that many people spend more time collecting and working on hardware than playing games. ... That's because old hardware requires a lot of work. You leave them in perfect working order, and the next time you turn them on, they are broken. So, yes, generally it is required …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-26, 22:02

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by Ensign Nemo

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ciornyi wrote on 2024-01-26, 19:08: It was only 100EU... I coudnt resist Anything particularly interesting in there or was it just a lot of computers without a description? I'm guessing that some of those would have P4s in them, but the beige boxes could have something neat in them.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-26, 21:59

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by Ensign Nemo

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Just grabbed a Toshiba Satellite Pro 435CDS. From what I've read, it's one of the better laptops for DOS sound support, as it has an ESS688 and an OPL3. It has a Pentium 120 Mhz under the hood, which should be good for DOS gaming (I just plug my laptops into an external monitor). As usual, it had a …

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

Posted on 2024-01-26, 19:56

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Wich seems to be so insignificant that everybody feels the need to beg for more. From what I've seen based on Youtubers who share revenue breakdowns and statistics, YouTube subscription revenues are a significant source of income. It's just that relative to total viewership, the individual number …

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

Posted on 2024-01-26, 19:39

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by Ensign Nemo

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I only found out about this a couple of weeks ago and joined the waiting list. I'm glad that I got in line before Phil's Computer Lab covered it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oEHVB0FITqU I'd expect the waiting list to get a big bump after that video was posted.

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

Posted on 2024-01-26, 18:26

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by Ensign Nemo

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I'm not a fan of how YouTube is run because of stuff like censorship and the abuse of copyright claims. However, I don't think it's ever been profitable, so I can't blame them for trying to monetize their platform.

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

Posted on 2024-01-26, 16:37

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Since youtube forces me to watch ads Use the "UBlock Origin" browser extension and keep its filters up-to-date and you can watch YouTube ad-free. For ads embedded into the video you can use "SponsorBlock" which will automatically skip them. I had a YT Premium account for over a year, but they …

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Re: Confirm a question about this forum

Posted on 2024-01-26, 01:44

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Ironically, this forum seems to have more posts about old hardware than running old games on new systems. We'll have to rename it to Vogoos instead (-: :)Perhaps the appeal of old hardware is greater to most people than old games.Because it cannot be copied and pasted I get the impression that many …

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Re: Confirm a question about this forum

Posted on 2024-01-25, 18:23

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Ironically, this forum seems to have more posts about old hardware than running old games on new systems. We'll have to rename it to Vogoos instead (-:

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Re: Confirm a question about this forum

Posted on 2024-01-25, 18:08

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I would like to know, where do most of the users of this forum come from?Europe?North America?Australia? Maybe this is a stupid question, but as a newly registered Asian user, I would like to know some information about the forum, including how it developed, including who is the boss of this forum? …

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Re: Confirm a question about this forum

Posted on 2024-01-25, 18:07

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I think it's safe to say that the majority are American. That probably applies to most English speaking message boards. While I don't usually pay much attention to it, I have noticed that most people who have their location filled in are from the states. I can tell that a lot of people here are …

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Re: Use of MIDI drumpad as a game-port controller or as a serial communication device

Posted on 2024-01-25, 08:55

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by Ensign Nemo

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The flight sim people might be able to help you as well. I've seen some of them use midi to control their games: https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/76764-mi … ing-on-the-fly/

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Re: Recommended boot manager for quad boot from single drive (DOS / Win 95 / Win 98SE / Win XP)

Posted on 2024-01-25, 05:07

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by Ensign Nemo

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I second GRUB. It's used with Linux. In case you didn't know, Linux is unequivocally the only usable thing for anything and anyone. You should try it! I run Linux on a Raspberry Pi, does that count? ;) Sorry. Had to tease you after seeing your other post (-: :D (I will check out GRUB though.) …

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