Re: who does boardgames?

Posted on 2023-05-21, 20:54

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I bought 2 recently. King Richard the Lionheart and Xenoshyft (the 2nd 1, Dreadmire?). Had them a few weeks, no interested parties at the moment. I'm not sure either of these is to my liking. Scouting around 3 others caught my eye: Terraforming Mars, Pulsar 2849, and the Search for Planet X. I'm …

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Re: How will this affect DOSBox development?

Posted on 2023-05-21, 08:04

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I don't think DOSBox calls any of these features at the hardware level, does it? SW emulation of x86 features is exactly what it does (hence it has builds for x64 CPUs and for ARM CPUs as well). Maybe some specialty features / custom builds offer passthrough to hardware in a non-portable way? That …

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Re: Nostalgia for vintage PCs in the future

Posted on 2023-05-21, 08:01

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2050, so ~25 years from now. Judging by the expectations of people in 1985 for 2000 vs reality, there's always a chance that vogons stills exists and someone necroposts in this thread using their beige computer, because beige has become the new black. Heck, I'll add a google calendar notification …

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How will this affect DOSBox development?

Posted on 2023-05-21, 07:06

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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-ponders-transition-to-64-bit-only-x86s-architecture Intel wants to discontinue legacy support in future x86 CPU's. It says they are considering pruning features dating all the way back to the 8086/8088 era, so I would imagine that any emulator that calls on …

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Has anyone else noticed this?

Posted on 2023-04-09, 10:18

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Ebay sellers, with hard to find PC parts, that they are listing for gold recovery, but they are selling them for prices that exceed the value of the gold that can be recovered from them? If you're selling parts for gold recovery, shouldn't you be selling them for a price that the buyer can turn a …

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Re: games that are better on a Macintosh

Posted on 2023-04-01, 12:41

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robertmo wrote on 2018-03-11, 05:59: have you seen simcity 2000 for win95? Have you seen Sim City 2000 for OS/2?

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Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-04-01, 12:36

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And the games never were yours to begin with. EULA is misleading. Games are yours, but Steam itself is not, that's a free service. So Valve is not obliged to keep system requirement from 20 years ago or give you capabilities to resell games, for example. But at the same time, they can't legally …

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Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-04-01, 12:34

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It's understandable that they wouldn't release updates, but blocking old versions from connecting goes too far.

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Re: Denuvo has published a book on the dangers of emulators

Posted on 2023-04-01, 12:29

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I like how he is concerned about revenues from old games, as if games from the 80's and 90's were still selling enough to raise substantial revenue for the copyright holders. I'm not talking about just PC and Mac games, either. I'm including Atari, Texas Instruments, Apple II, etc games from back …

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2023-04-01, 01:20

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I have two MII-400 CPU's in my collection. I still have never seen a 433 for sale.

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Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?

Posted on 2023-04-01, 01:14

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So if someone does emulate it, will we get glare from sunlight through the windows behind us, or lamps and light fixtures around the room, like we did with CRT's? That is so distracting, and I say no. Good riddance to CRT's.

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Newest CPU and GPU for Windows 95?

Posted on 2023-03-31, 11:02

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So, what's the most powerful system that you can build, basically, that will still run Windows 95?

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Re: Build Log: ATi:Resurrected II, Rise of the Radeon - XP/P4/X850 Dream Machine 2005

Posted on 2023-03-31, 01:09

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I bought a 9500 non-Pro at that time, and unlocked the shaders. It was never a full 9700, though, because Ati used slower memory on the 9500 non-Pro, that didn't like being overclocked, so it was more like a 9700 with crippled memory.

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Re: Why are people like this exist

Posted on 2023-03-31, 00:58

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Do you mean the hoarding, or the insistence on someone proving they actually have the money to buy the whole lot, or else they won't talk to them? If you mean the latter, why would you waste your time on someone who may only want one or two pieces, when you're looking to sell everything? It will …

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Re: Show us your retro printers

Posted on 2023-03-30, 11:34

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I have an original Apple Imagewriter, and an HP Laserjet II in my storage unit. Those are probably my two oldest printers. I don't really collect those. If I find one that looks really, REALLY old when I'm dumpster diving, I might decide to save it, or I might not. I don't go out of my way for them, …

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Re: After 40+ years of home printer technology, what have we learned?

Posted on 2023-03-30, 11:31

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The thing I've learned, is NEVER buy a color inkjet printer. They will blend some cyan in with your black printing, so your color cartridge gets used up faster. I have a B&W laser prnter next to me, that I use now, because 99.9% of what I print, only requires black.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-30, 11:27

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Don't know how retro this is, but I just got my hands on a complete in original box, MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III Power Edition. That's HD 6950, not RX 6950, that was one of the fastest factory overclocked HD 6950 cards, AND had the added bonus of being unlockable to a full HD 6970. I didn't even really …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-18, 17:56

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brostenen wrote on 2020-02-18, 00:04: Hope that VLB card works. As a matter of fact, getting any VLB card at a decent price these days, are somewhat rare. Trident and Cirrus Logic cards are still pretty easy to find. S3 805 based cards are probably next easiest. Anything apart from those and …

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Re: Can watch 1080 on Pentium III?

Posted on 2020-01-26, 08:02

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I have one of those adapters. My idea was to try putting a PCIe x1 GT 710 into one of my Dell GX1 machines as an upgrade to the 9500GT that is in it. I never got around to it, though.The GT 710 is faster than the 9500GT, but not as fast as a GT430. PCI GT430's are too hard to find now, but the PCIe …

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Re: Intel wants to remove 5V & 3.3V from PSU

Posted on 2020-01-26, 07:57

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If that happens older ATX PSU prices may go way up.... Also that means motherboards will have many more VRM parts leading to more future failures.... added: Intel has not built a desktop motherboard for years so am curious of their motive. Wonder if board makers will ignore the new spec for desktop …

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