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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 41 of 52354, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Another SW60XG, and it makes my third.

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Reply 42 of 52354, by Amigaz

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You Yamaha XG freak! 😁

But you don't have any SW60XG prototype card 😎

My retro computer stuff: https://lychee.jjserver.net/#16136303902327

Reply 43 of 52354, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Amigaz wrote:

You Yamaha XG freak! 😁

No, no. You see, when it goes to hardware, I always try to have three of everything:
(1) first, I try to have one hardware that comes with its box, purely for collection/display. Not all of them are in mint condition though, but they don't have to.
(2) the second piece is to build the legacy system itself.
(3) the third is for my "disaster recovery" site, which I don't even have yet.

And guess what, I haven't even built any legacy system at all (save my Voodoo5/Epox 8KTA3+ system) 😁 Now I just keep hunting and hunting until I have three of everything.

PS: Voodoo5 5500 PCI Mac is an exception --already have five of them.

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But you don't have any SW60XG prototype card 😎

There is a prototype card? What does it look like?

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Reply 44 of 52354, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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PPS: and yes, one of my ex-gf said I'm an obsessive-compulsive nutcase.

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Reply 45 of 52354, by Amigaz

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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
No, no. You see, when it goes to hardware, I always try to have three of everything: (1) first, I try to have one hardware that […]
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Amigaz wrote:

You Yamaha XG freak! 😁

No, no. You see, when it goes to hardware, I always try to have three of everything:
(1) first, I try to have one hardware that comes with its box, purely for collection/display. Not all of them are in mint condition though, but they don't have to.
(2) the second piece is to build the legacy system itself.
(3) the third is for my "disaster recovery" site, which I don't even have yet.

And guess what, I haven't even built any legacy system at all (save my Voodoo5/Epox 8KTA3+ system) 😁 Now I just keep hunting and hunting until I have three of everything.

PS: Voodoo5 5500 PCI Mac is an exception --already have five of them.

Amigaz wrote:

But you don't have any SW60XG prototype card 😎

There is a prototype card? What does it look like?

Your collecting philosophy resembles mine 😀

I'm going to take a pic of the SW60XG protoptype.
Some chips on it are different and it has some prototype stickers on the ROM's....

My retro computer stuff: https://lychee.jjserver.net/#16136303902327

Reply 46 of 52354, by Malik

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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

PPS: and yes, one of my ex-gf said I'm an obsessive-compulsive nutcase.

You and some of us,brother! We all are! 😀

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Reply 47 of 52354, by Malik

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I have a "backup" unit of a LAPC-I still in it's original box. Just in case the current one which I'm using in my classic system faces a problem. Am I obsessed? Maybe. Just maybe. 😁

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I got this unit directly from a (ex-)Sierra On-Line programmer of the golden hey-days of Sierra's adventure gaming era.

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Reply 48 of 52354, by keropi

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@Malik:

awesome, I am not the only one then with a backup boxed LAPC-I

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Reply 53 of 52354, by Kelly Stiver

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swaaye wrote:

It's just the usual upgrade itch. It's hard to resist making a retro rig "just a little faster". On and on it goes. It evolves into a desire to build the imagined "ultimate retro rig" even though that's impossible unless by "retro rig" they mean Win9x and newer games. Unfortunately (or not) most Win9x games work fine in XP however so even a modern rig can run a lot of them just fine, and so building a "retro rig" based on 2002/2004 hardware is rather pointless (and hard to call retro anyway!).

😁

I keep wondering why out of deep curiosity, with DOSbox, VPC, ScummVM, VMware Player, etc., why build retro computers in the first place? I mean, doesn't the name "VOGONS" stand for "Very Old Games On New Systems"?

As for me, I used to keep a Packard-Bell PC (DOS/Win 3.11) and a CTX PC (Win 95/98SE) in my office to play all my old games, but since I started using DOSbox, and putting Win 98SE into my new machines via VPC and VMware Player, I've discovered I like my new setup better, the games run just fine, and as a result I gave my old computers to a friend in March/April of 2009, and to date I've never missed them nor regretted giving these old computers away.

But of course I play mostly pure adventure games (DOS/Win 95/98) and a few space combat sims (Wing Commanders, I-War, Star Rangers, Tachyon The Fringe, Star Wars, that were designed to run in DOS/Win 95/98). So far, I haven't even tried them in DOSbox, VMware Player (because I'm currently in the process of getting 2 new Win XP computers - a new netbook and a Core 2 Duo system next month, and thus I don't want to start playing these space combat sims on my current PC's that I may be soon replacing with the new PC's next month), but I'm very positive that I'll find a way to get them to run just fine.

Reply 54 of 52354, by bushwack

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What is it with you people and midi cards? They are called video games for a reason. 🤣

I'm in a retro slump, i haven't done anything with my rigs in a couple months.

Reply 56 of 52354, by retro games 100

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keropi wrote:
retro games 100 wrote:

There's a grammatical error on the LAPC-I box.
Mistake's such as this one are quite common. 😉

where? I cannot see it 😕

Please see the "blue clue". 😀

Reply 57 of 52354, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Malik wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

PPS: and yes, one of my ex-gf said I'm an obsessive-compulsive nutcase.

You and some of us,brother! We all are! 😀

What, she left you for the same reason my ex-gf did? 😁

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Reply 58 of 52354, by Malik

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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
Malik wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

PPS: and yes, one of my ex-gf said I'm an obsessive-compulsive nutcase.

You and some of us,brother! We all are! 😀

What, she left you for the same reason my ex-gf did? 😁

Errr...not the gf part..the obsessive-compulsive-over-vintage-pc-thingy part. 😀

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Reply 59 of 52354, by Malik

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keropi wrote:
retro games 100 wrote:

There's a grammatical error on the LAPC-I box.
Mistake's such as this one are quite common. 😉

where? I cannot see it 😕

Supposed to be PCs , not "PC'S".

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