Re: What do you drive?

Posted on Yesterday, 23:26

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You'd be surprised how many trips don't need a car. And some of those trips are made LONGER by car. For example, I live behind a shopping center. By car, my trip takes about 15-20 minutes to get to the same stores that I can get to in 5-10 minutes on foot, or less by bike. It's amazing how much …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on Yesterday, 15:20

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Well, still got the 1st Gen Explorer, but I had to total our Corolla this past week, frame damage. Some bendecho in a Silverado bashed it up 8 months ago and insurance and us have been in a fight with the other party for months now who kept changing their story about the accident and the whole thing …

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

Posted on Yesterday, 07:16

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More Youtube Recordings of the NES and Atari 2600. It's about all I have time for currently with all the other bullshit going on.

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

Posted on 2022-05-10, 06:22

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Recorded a bunch more Let's Plays for old consoles - Atari 2600 and NES, to put on my channel. Plus I fixed up the recording rig, found out I could record off of RF using the Betamax Player/Tuner/Timer getup I got the wife a few years back. Might be time to dust off the Betamax tapes and watch those …

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Re: The Creeping Network (Creepingnet's) Retro PC Build Logs, Restorations, & Repairs

Posted on 2022-05-09, 19:16

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all of the umb managers out there are officially a bust on the versa p/75. since none are still in development the only hope is creating a custom .scr hiset.sys script for hiram.exe, but for that you need the northbridge datasheet. i can now confirm that the pico PT86C868 is the northbridge chip …

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

Posted on 2022-05-09, 05:58

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Finished rebuilding the whole retro-room/computing area for the most part. 3x laptop chargers - 2x universal - in the center console armwrest (the other is for my NEC Versa), setup the 486 Desktop on the desk next to the iMac 24" since I'm trying out Mac and DOS for some daily stuff (ThinkPad is …

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

Posted on 2022-05-09, 05:50

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Setup my 2015 iMac as my primary machine for awhile, it's been getting under-utilized, and I intend to run the crud out of it. Plus my Xeon has been messing up with YouTube, I guess they don't support my video card for hardware rendering in OBS studio anymore - so it's making recording videos with a …

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Re: Early Linux gaming

Posted on 2022-05-03, 19:20

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Well, the first LInux I ran was Slackware 96' (came with a Linux book). Not a lot of gaming back then, and what was there was about the equivalent oof 80's shareware (terminal) or 90's shareware Windows 3.1 apps (XFree86). By the late 90's some companies tried to make efforts to make things run more …

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Re: The Creeping Network (Creepingnet's) Retro PC Build Logs, Restorations, & Repairs

Posted on 2022-04-28, 15:34

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basically, the chipset auto-detect feature on all the umb managers (hiram, rdosumb, umb_drvr, uram) i've tried have failed. i'm hoping if i at least know the chipset family of the nec versa p, i might be able to manually force a similar chipset config. the only other umb manager i could find is ' …

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Re: What would be your ultimate retro keyboard?

Posted on 2022-04-26, 19:27

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I had one for a long time but I rode that "pony" till it literally died - Northgate OmniKey 102! That is my favorite Xt/AT keyboard of all time. Alps keyswitches, function keys down the side (all 12), it had a normal arrow-key layout unlike some versions of the Ultra, and it was clicky, but not …

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Re: The Creeping Network (Creepingnet's) Retro PC Build Logs, Restorations, & Repairs

Posted on 2022-04-26, 19:16

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do you know what 486 chipset was used in these models? i'm trying to find a compatible upper memory block manager which are chipset dependent. i looked at the versa p service manual and there is no shortage of chip numbers, but i can't expressly identify a 486 chipset. PT86C868 & PT86C718 looks …

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Re: Cosmetic repair and restoration resources / experience?

Posted on 2022-04-21, 20:24

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This is something I've been messing with a lot with the NEC Versa laptops I have that are notorious for cracking plastic. I've been experimenting a lot in this area. Internal Tape Repairs with Aluminum+Packing Tape - The insides of a lot of laptop cases, including the Versas, are conductive, so some …

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Re: Favorite 4:3 games from the XP-era?

Posted on 2022-04-21, 20:10

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I used to play Robot Arena 2: Design & Destroy, The Sims, and Postal 2 all in 4:3. Still do sometimes too if I'm playing them on Wine on my ThinkPad T61.

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Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?

Posted on 2022-04-21, 20:08

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Well...to answer some other posts, turn-based combat is one of my favorite ways to relax, with the zen-like-monotony broken up with various sidequests as well. On the subject of FPSes and being overrated, TBH, I never was a big FPS guy. It seems to me the thrill was mostly, at the time, that you …

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

Posted on 2022-04-21, 17:36

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Setup the DOS Multiboot Menus on the BSI. Also managed to wrangle some extra clarity out of the DSTN screen by ever-so-slightly twisting the panel....it must have lined up the layers. Really odd thing is this DSTN panel does not really "smear" very much at all. It's a Sanyo LCM-533 series panel IIRC …

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

Posted on 2022-04-19, 17:02

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https://creepingnet.neocities.org/computer/mypcs/fma3500c.jpg The NanTan 3500C came in earlier than expected. So yesterday I got to film all of the initial expeditions into this old hardware. This one was a oddly hidden e-bay auction that came with a Hayes modem power supply (which did not work), …

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

Posted on 2022-04-18, 19:24

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Well, as of tonight, I'll be adding yet another laptop to my collecction - I bought a FMA3500C on E-bay - it's the color model of their hilariously outdated-looking 486 model, but in COLOR of all things. I used to have the STN Mono model years ago, this one has the trackball on the right above the …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-04-18, 14:06

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I dunno why everybodys having so much trouble with old HDD....seems my apartment is a spawning ground for them..... This is what I have all still working ATM... 100MB 2.5" IDE 44 pin Seagate = Tandy 1000A - came out of NEC Ultralite Versa 250MB 2.5" IDE 44 pin IBM = loose - came out of my Versa …

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Re: Did you create maps for games?

Posted on 2022-04-15, 19:58

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Maps on paper for me would be Microsoft Adventure on my first computer - a Tandy 1000 SX in 1997 (that's right NINETY-SEVEN). The closest I ever came to that afterward was either my feeble attempt to write a BASIC text adventure on the same computer called "High School Cheerleader Rescue" (Think of …

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Re: The Creeping Network (Creepingnet's) Retro PC Build Logs, Restorations, & Repairs

Posted on 2022-04-14, 23:29

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one other thing, do you know what the hdd limitation of the bios is (it's not 504mb)? currently i have an 810mb hdd which the bios correctly autodetects (although there's no auto setting). it doesn't matter if i select custom or randomly select any bios type the hdd is detected correctly and the …

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