Re: Does anyone own a MISTer FPGA and how is it?

Posted on 2022-01-21, 05:40

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by SquallStrife

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

The ao486 core is never likely to be much good, because the sheer transistor count is way too high to do gate-level simulation. So any PC core is going to be an implementation of a high-level emulator by necessity. E.g. ao486 is effectively just a port of Bochs. For perspective, a 68020 has 190K …

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Re: Whats the most rare piece of hardware you own?

Posted on 2022-01-21, 05:25

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by SquallStrife

in Milliways

in Milliways

100% it's my Sega Teradrive model 2. I think my Playstation 2 official Keyboard+Mouse are reasonably uncommon, but not on the Teradrive's level.

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Re: Tell us which videogame sounds or voice-clips are the most burned into your brain for life

Posted on 2022-01-20, 06:58

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by SquallStrife

in Milliways

in Milliways

"Friends!? Friends?! We've only gone out together three times, and already you're telling me you just want to be friends?" <-- see profile picture 😉

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Re: GBC UV software

Posted on 2022-01-20, 06:55

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by SquallStrife

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

There's a good chance that booting real DOS from a HDD image inside DOSBox will fix whatever problems your app has with file/disk access. The trade-off with this method is that you can't access the files in the DOS environment from Windows as easily. I don't know what would help the performance of …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2022-01-19, 06:21

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by SquallStrife

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Best practice would be also make password reset by some script not wait for manual reset :) Not that I have an account there, but if the original password was in plain text (eek if it were) there is nothing preventing them from being just salted and hashed right now without any resets, etc. The way …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2022-01-19, 05:00

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by SquallStrife

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Two small updates to the site. 1 -- You can now change your password. Passwords are stored as salted digests, following standard practices. This means I cannot see/retrieve your password, and nor would anyone else be able to, should a security breach happen. That said, it's still good practice to …

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Re: My youtube channel: Necroware

Posted on 2021-11-30, 04:46

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by SquallStrife

in Milliways

in Milliways

Just got recommended your video about blowing open that old 430FX board with MMX and K6 CPUs. Hardcore. I like it. The algorithm works sometimes! 😁

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2021-11-23, 12:07

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by SquallStrife

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Its logical, because download 250 demos per files is not fun, waste of time, if someone want 1 demo, he dont need the package and they are 4 GB files, not 15 GB. Im not sure about it, but there maybe some todyas FTP client is clever enough to open zip files and enable to download only part of them …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2021-08-25, 21:48

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by SquallStrife

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like everything is back to normal! Please hit me up if there are any problems. Cheers

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2021-08-25, 14:10

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by SquallStrife

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Still appears to be down, I've not received a notification from the hosting people that the maintenance has completed. It's after midnight so I'm going to sleep, hopefully this will resolve itself by the time I wake up. Will keep you posted, friends. 😀

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2021-08-25, 12:51

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by SquallStrife

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The VPS host is performing maintenance and the site will be unavailable for ~30mins (hour or two worst case). Thanks for your patience and continued support! 😀

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Re: Dual socket 7 build

Posted on 2021-03-02, 08:29

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by SquallStrife

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I'm not sure, I'd have to fire it up and check. Glad you got it stable though! 😀

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Re: Dual socket 7 build

Posted on 2021-03-02, 04:03

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by SquallStrife

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

A lot of these difficult-to-track-down hangs and crashes are screaming "bad RAM", or at least "un-cooperative RAM" to me. As you know, I have the same mobo in my Dual-S7 system. I had a lot of issues with my board at first, it took me hours of trying out different RAM before I found a set that works …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-12-04, 04:58

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by SquallStrife

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all, I appreciate that more people take the time contribute drivers to the archive! I really really don't want to come across like an asshole, but please use meaningful names when uploading, and use the correct category. One of the biggest things that separates us from landfill sites like …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-12-03, 23:55

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by SquallStrife

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Pierre32 wrote on 2020-12-03, 11:45: As for being on Blerbs, that could be a time availability thing, as there is far less production & editing required for the vlog style vids. They still get tons of views. This x1000

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-12-03, 03:30

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by SquallStrife

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBNmt9Tz6VY Nice work, lads! 😁

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-18, 00:37

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by SquallStrife

in Milliways

in Milliways

I dunno if I'd really consider most of these gripes/moans "confessions". So I'll go. I confess that when I moved from a house to a small apartment, I took no less than SIX functioning PowerMac G5's to the garbage dump's e-waste section. I tried selling them, I tried giving them away, and gave up out …

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Re: iPad Windows Alternative ?

Posted on 2020-11-17, 07:12

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by SquallStrife

in Milliways

in Milliways

Ah yes this thread. The smugness on both sides of the conflict are endlessly amusing. Keep up the good work. You know who you are. ;) I will say this: A Dell XPS laptop issued to me by my employer in 2017 has developed quirks in the trackpad and keyboard. My girlfriend's 2018 Acer laptop has …

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Re: Is there such a thing as a usb-to-serial mouse converter?

Posted on 2020-10-13, 06:05

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by SquallStrife

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pretty much yeah.

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Re: Is there such a thing as a usb-to-serial mouse converter?

Posted on 2020-10-13, 03:13

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by SquallStrife

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

videogamer555 wrote on 2020-10-12, 21:08: (PCB factories do NOT make these at cheap prices for small quantities). You're right, $7 is pretty expensive for a production run of five 4-layer PCBs. Surely out of my reach.

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