Re: Playing games on periodcorrect retro computer versus playing on newer/modern machine

Posted on 2020-10-30, 17:56

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Get ready for an extremely long and complicated answer..... I use both new AND old hardware, and emulators, and source ports. There are pros and cons to both. This gives me flexibility to use whichever is the most efficient solution without always having to sacrifice the experience. That's sort of …

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Re: In summary: the top 10 DOS games 1981-1991

Posted on 2020-10-30, 16:30

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My Top Picks would be.... 1981 - Microsoft Adventure 1982 - Paratrooper 1983 - Spy Hunter 1983 - Microsoft Flight SImulator 1984 - Ultima V: Quest of the Avatar 1984 - DepthCharge (Henry J. Kottler) 1984 - King's Quest I 1985 - Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny 1985 - Thedexter 1986 - Leisure Suit Larry …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-10-30, 15:45

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Getting back into the original "The Sims" on the Dell Dimension 3000 Pentium 4 system I just built out. Have about 2GB worth of objects as a few years ago I started hoarding them on an external HDD as the stuff I like to you was REALLY hard to get. The original sims was a blast my wife still plays …

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Re: DOSbox Frontends for Windows XP

Posted on 2020-10-30, 15:34

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The Ultima series is one I ought to look at, although back then, something turned me off after the first or second of them! I loved Might & Magic, and enjoyed some of the Wizardry games, but those seemed very tough, and I had to be in a really special mood to play them! I never finished one of them …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-10-30, 15:18

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Getting back into the original "The Sims" on the Dell Dimension 3000 Pentium 4 system I just built out. Have about 2GB worth of objects as a few years ago I started hoarding them on an external HDD as the stuff I like to you was REALLY hard to get.

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2020-10-30, 15:17

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I'm sure I was the laughing stock of the teacher's lounge. Here comes kids with computer written reports done in Microsoft Word 97' on a Pentium I or II running Windows 9x, in pretty fonts, and then here come's ole' Creeping Net, tearing the pinfeed edges off of his book report as he wanders into …

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Re: DOSbox Frontends for Windows XP

Posted on 2020-10-29, 23:32

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I played RPGs, and an occasional deep space strategy game, all strictly PC-oriented. Never owned any console systems. D.O.G. appeared to be oriented toward the earlier gaming console stuff, and didn't get much attention when I was trying to research some of the front ends that the DOSbox Wiki …

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Re: DOSbox Frontends for Windows XP

Posted on 2020-10-29, 21:54

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I used to use D.O.G. myself when I was using a Acer Aspire D250 Netbook as my main laptop (running Windows 7 "Darned Horribly Crippled Edition"). I loved it, you could customize everything. I never had much luck with DBGL.

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Re: Your Retrogaming laptop/portable machine megathread (recommendations, tips, minutae)

Posted on 2020-10-29, 21:40

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I guess with the pretty pictures and some changes since my first post in this thread, I'll post my 4 gaming laptops - new and vintage - here, as they overlap.... 1994 NEC Versa 40EC 40ec.jpg i486 DX2-40, 8MB of RAM, 540MB HDD, MS-DOS 5.00/Windows For Workgroups 3.11 This picture was taken when I got …

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2020-10-29, 20:08

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Here's the short version of my story on my 1st Computer, the Tandy 1000 SX.....yep, THAT Is what I had in 1999. Both my (half) Sisters are from the "Richer" half of the family. In 1987, their dad bought a brand new Tandy 1000 SX for his work from Radio Shack. IT was actually the first computer I …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-10-29, 05:33

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Cool PC, creepingnet. I have a 3000 as well It's a great PC but the downside is unfortunately it has no AGP slot. I had a genuine intel 865 CD, which worked for the chipset and video drivers, but I had to use the Dell site I think for the audio drivers. Because I have a few other PCs, I felt the …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-10-28, 19:13

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Guess I'll talk more about the P4 I mentioned in another thread....got it from a coworker.... 2003-2004ish Dell Dimension 3000 - Intel Pentiun 4, 2.8GHz - 2GB of RAM IIRC - 80GB HDD (WD800 series) - DVD-RW Drive - Intel 82865G Graphics Controller - SoundMax Integrated AUdio (with Legacy Codecs..... …

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

Posted on 2020-10-28, 18:59

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I guess the powers that be/ether/ghosts/whatever really want me to have a Pentium 4 in my life......either that or those old Dell charcoal case boxes are really wanting a home with me baaaaaaad! Heck, I sold one to someone on here before I moved. Maybe it's a sign sometime in the future my wife …

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

Posted on 2020-10-27, 00:05

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Not today but went to Cap'N'Games almost a week ago and successfully fixed out Wii (later black model with no GameCube ports - RVL I think?), replaced the optical drive. I then took the two other parts units - an older black unit with GameCube ports that still worked but had a broken face, and a …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2020-10-26, 23:52

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I rarely talk about this, but I drive my 1st car still, a 1993 Ford Explorer Sport 5-speed 2wd. 308K on the odometer and it still runs, drives, and looks really nice, passes smog, and still gets Window sticker gas mileage (18-23mpg, made it to 23.9mpg once driving conservatively). Not a garage queen …

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Re: Hardest adventure game you've ever played (DOS/Early WIndows)

Posted on 2020-10-26, 23:39

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I would have to say Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge in "Hard Mode". I had an easier time with LEisure Suit Larry - and it was all about this one little tiny part....of course, this was when I was 10 back in 1993. SPOILER ALERT!!! ...There's a part where you are playing a spin-the-wheel game with …

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Re: Which browser do you use?

Posted on 2020-09-25, 19:35

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My work also has that same situation, well IT boys like Chrome i guess :D And yes Windows 10 in our work computer have both old IE and that Edge monstrossoty. Still holding on to my Windows 7 main home PC. But for how long can i hold on, time will tell. nah us IT boys like less work ;) We only …

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Re: Does your collection / regular builds lean more towards AMD or Intel

Posted on 2020-09-25, 19:26

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These days, whatever's cheapest. I'm pretty CPU Agnostic. There was a time when I preferred "intel" but that was mostly because I'd had some bad experiences with Cyrix, AMD, and IBM processors, they just seemed a bit slower, buggier, and janky to me - but this was way back when my "main" computer …

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Re: Which browser do you use?

Posted on 2020-09-25, 19:04

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Vintage Boxes = Links Modern Boxes = Firefox iMac = Safari Phone = Chrome (it is a Google Pixel 3 after all) I'm actually almost able to use LInks as a normal browser on my old machines. I use Firefox for the Adblock and Noscript additions. I'm aware Chrome and Edge have similar stuff for them, but …

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Re: What do you do with hardware equivalent PCs?

Posted on 2020-09-25, 18:55

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From the standpoint of the same Hard DIsks, Graphics Capabilities, and networking, all of my machines overlap. They're all vintage x86 PC's running quasi-modern hard drives with DDO, as fast/powerful a graphics card I can jam in there, and TCP/IP using IPv4 over a modern network using DHCP complete …

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