Re: The Death Throes of Radio Shack

Posted on 2015-02-07, 17:30

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The deal with Sprint appears to be done: http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-scores-1750-new-retail-stores-deal-bankrupt-radioshack/2015-02-05 Too bad RadioShack, enjoy being a sub-brand of Sprint for as long as they want. My dad is also disappointed and is going to trash his old catalogs; …

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Re: Single floppy mainboard workaround

Posted on 2015-02-06, 05:12

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The one floppy drive issue is due to the I/O controller Intel used in its BX motherboards. It is really stupid from our perspective, but in the late 90s, only 3.5" disks were being used. You should be able to use an ISA floppy controller if you disable the built in floppy controller through the BIOS …

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Re: Struggling with Outrun and Tandy in DOSBox

Posted on 2015-02-04, 18:00

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http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/original/1389466627-00.jpg http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/original/1302869421-00.jpg It was not rare for Tandy 1000 series owners to have upgraded their built-in video with a VGA card. Support for this exists in the 1986 SX and EX machines and every …

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Re: The 7th Guest - A Fix for Stuttering, Skipping Digital Audio

Posted on 2015-02-04, 13:30

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bjt wrote: Thanks for sharing. I'm guessing your card is DSP 4.05 or earlier. I believe the later DSP revisions don't suffer from this - but then of course they have other problems. No, actually I was using a CT-2940, which has a 4.13 DSP. I also heard a hanging note with my SC-55 as well.

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The 7th Guest - A Fix for Stuttering, Skipping Digital Audio

Posted on 2015-02-02, 21:01

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I tried playing The 7th Guest in my 486DX2/66 yesterday and noticed that the digital audio was skipping terribly. The MIDI and CD Audio were OK. The digital audio, including music and sound effects, was so bad that the voices were often unintelligible. At first I thought it was my Sound Blaster 16, …

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2015-01-31, 17:57

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I suppose there is no way to implement odd divisors without redesigning the circuit, so that a divide by 15 would be available, which would result in a true C64 PAL frequency.

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2015-01-30, 04:45

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by Great Hierophant

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Shut up and take my money already!

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Re: Question about code and PCjr and svga_s3

Posted on 2015-01-27, 04:50

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Those IBM 'designs' were some of the worst in the history of computing. Both the PC and the PCjr are laughable designs. But hey, if you suck that much, perhaps you think that this memory refresh solution is actually a 'cool feature'. I think Steve Wozniak thought it was a cool feature when he …

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Re: AdLib has become oh so rare!!!

Posted on 2015-01-26, 00:31

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In the past six weeks, there have been two Ad Lib cards sold on eBay, the first one went for $229.50 and the second one went for $202.50 : http://www.ebay.com/itm/AdLib-isa-sound-microphone-card-/261692515521?pt=US_Vintage_Computing_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3cee16e4c1 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ad- …

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Re: Creative Sound Blaster 16 CT-1750 DSP Rev 4.05 - Day of the Tentacle

Posted on 2015-01-20, 01:50

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by Great Hierophant

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I have this exact card and experience popping throughout the dialog of Day of the Tentacle. However, with a Sound Blaster 16 CT-2940 there is virtually none.

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Re: Munt Reloaded - Development

Posted on 2015-01-19, 18:24

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1.4.0, we hardly knew ye...

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Re: Ultima II PC: special PCjr version, Sierra/Origin versions differences

Posted on 2015-01-19, 02:59

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I think Rob Northern may have been a bit late to the PC party, most PC games by 1990 were relying on document checks. Copylock is a very generic term for a copy-protection scheme, I'm surprised anyone was able to register the term as a trademark. Apparently it did not matter much since there were …

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Re: Magnet damage fix for CRT tv?

Posted on 2015-01-13, 17:36

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Hey all! I have not used my Emerson CRT flat tv in a while, but when I turned it on, in the upper right corner there seems to be some magnet damage! Now, Its not too bad, only a little spot of it, but the discoloration is somewhat annoying when playing PS2 (Super Pong looks fine though). It must …

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Re: Is there a project that converts dosgames to diskimages?

Posted on 2015-01-13, 17:33

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by Great Hierophant

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dr.zeissler wrote: i would pay for the images! Try paying for the disks instead, then you ask for help if you can't make an image or get it to work in real hardware.

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Re: Exploring the possibility of using HDTV for retro systems

Posted on 2015-01-12, 21:00

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This past Black Friday I purchased a Vizio 4K TV from Wal-mart. It was a great deal and is future proof. It can accept 4K @ 60Hz through one of the HDMI Inputs. Now I just have to find a PC that can output that resolution and refresh rate!

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Re: Nerdly Pleasures - My Vintage Computer/Gaming Blog

Posted on 2015-01-10, 20:23

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more tandy infos and stuff or xt/at stuff would be nice :) (ega-hires gfx) there are no pictures for enhanced EGA stuff to find (800x600@16 colors) how do I convert gfx to EGA oder TDY and keep the palette as much as possible. how can I manage to use rasters instead of real colors because of the …

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Re: True Covox Speech Thing

Posted on 2015-01-04, 19:08

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There's a video on YouTube about the Covox Speech Thing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spOenlrSSOE) that shows a genuine Covox Speech Thing being used, it actually sounds not all that bad. At 2:28 it briefly shows the innards of what I would presume is a Covox, but it could be a clone, hard to …

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Re: What is the best C64 Emulator

Posted on 2015-01-04, 16:11

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Is true NTSC (YIQ decoding) output really needed on a C64? I know its required for "proper" color output on Apple II emulators and CGA composite output as both exploit peculiarities (the fringing/mixing of colors) in the NTSC standard. Meanwhile, the C64 had true Y/C (S-Video) output for bleed free …

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Re: True Covox Speech Thing

Posted on 2015-01-02, 15:29

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Perhaps they did implement the more complex design at first (the silver model), then simplified it (the white model). I think the white model is the later one because the label on the silver model only has a TM for Trademark and just U.S.A. The white model is an R in a circle, which is a Registered …

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True Covox Speech Thing

Posted on 2015-01-01, 17:04

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I am interested in the true audio output and the inner workings of a geniune Covox Speech Thing. There were innumerable clones of this device, but I would love to know how the true original sounded. They look like this : http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zKjelPCcDLY/VBDe1k5J96I/AAAAAAAABf0/KFLEgu2q1Rc/s1600 …

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