Re: What music are you listening to?
Posted on Yesterday, 19:19
A bit of Sparks since I watched the movie, some DEVO, and some post-punk (The Sound, Chameleons)
Re: Any games a Pentium 4 PC can play that a modern PC can't?
Posted on Yesterday, 16:08
I have a Pentium 4 (again) but I hardly use it because I can run all the same software on Linux on my dual Xeon and the experience is hardly any different - this is via Wine/Lutrix/Steam/etc. Which is my main computer. Honestly, I Could do this with DOSBOX too and VMs for Windows 9x, but I find …
Re: Did you miss any significant period of computer development?
Posted on 2021-09-16, 19:44
I missed pretty much all of it..... I got my first Tandy 1000 in 1997 - yes NINETY-SEVEN - it was already 10 years old. By that time, everyone had Pentium/Pentium II machines. I was handing in homework on PIN-FEED printer paper from a Tandy DMP-12. When I got my first Windows capable PC, a 486 DX-33 …
Re: YOUR favorate game era.
Posted on 2021-09-02, 16:01
If I had to pick an era, it 1981-1997. Basically, everything from the 8088 up to the 486, with some Pentium thrown in. Honestly, I don't find any nostalgia in anything beyond that because I spent the better part of the 2000's fighting with so called "Geeks" and "Nerds", some with merit being Network …
Re: Games that NEED a 286?
Posted on 2021-08-31, 22:25
To me, the 286 is a bit of an interesting part of PC history. The CPU started development just as the PC platform was being developed at Boca Raton in the late 70's, and came out just a year after the original PC. IBM Did not harness it for the PC Platform until 1984, 2 years after it's release - so …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-29, 05:57
Acquired Dragon Warrior IV (NES) today and played through the first chapter. Played some Quake earlier.
Some Questions about Selling Big Box Games
Posted on 2021-08-22, 14:04
Just to let the moderators know this is not an announcement, this is just a question I have. I currently have a collection of Big Box games but the disks on some of them are questionable. Is there any point to attempting to sell any with questionable disks or is that a waste of time? Trying to …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-21, 00:35
Cleaning the computing area, thinking of putting the Docking Station and other stuff back up (just use my M/75 and V/50 for awhile). Waiting for an appraisal from the local games shop, trading a bunch of the collection + a some $$ for Dragon Warrior IV for the NES. That's like....the final "bucket- …
Re: Why people still love XP
Posted on 2021-08-19, 19:58
Running raw naked XP pre SP1 is fine as long as you keep it airgapped from critical infrastructure, about 3 miles away from the nearest powerlines with a solar panel and inverter should do. lol Even windows 7 is making me nervous these days... yes, firewalls are a thing, but with retro machines, it …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-19, 05:58
BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-19, 01:55: I bet you wish you had this useful reference to hand for fuse selection ... […] Show full quote I bet you wish you had this useful reference to hand for fuse selection ... If I went by that guide I must've engineered my own proper fuse out of the very thin …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-19, 01:46
Fixed the Versa V/50, turned out to be a blown fuse in the power section.....unfortunately I had to bodge wire it together as I don't have any SMD Fuses on hand that are easily replaceable. But it works now, and that's all that matters. So now all 4 run again, though I need a new screen for the 40EC …
Re: Digital DOS games (GOG, Steam...) Retro PC Compatibility Sheet: We need your input!
Posted on 2021-08-17, 19:13
I got the Freddy Pharkas Talkie to work on my NEC Versa M/75 using FreeDOS 1.2 by copying the install over to my E:\ partition over FTP (FTPServ and FileZilla on my linux box) and then editing the Resource.ini and Sierra.ini files to point to the audio files for speech. Supports WSS and works with …
Re: The GIF Thread
Posted on 2021-08-17, 16:15
Man, I'm going to be running around this thread using these in my music videos for YouTube. Already used a few of them. What's really cool is the newer gifs are all coming with a Vaporwave/RetroWave aesthetic which is a movement I'm kind of pulling from musically ATM as well as aesthetically (can't …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-17, 15:58
Got my PayPal fixed - finally, thanks to the BBB, so now I'm able to sell again, so the purge or stuff I don't really use at all is back on. Hoping to save some to fund both buying a house (along with what I'm saving of my paychecks as I got a nice promotion), and put a portion into finishing fixing …
Creeping Net's System Specs 2021.....+ Plans
Posted on 2021-08-13, 23:13
Still a work in progress.... VINTAGE DESKTOPS 1985 Tandy 1000 A PSU : Proprietary MoBo : Tandy 1000A Motherboard CPU : intel 8088 4.77MHz RAM : 640K FDD : 2x 360K DSDD HDD : 3GB Seagate on XT-IDE Controller (1st version) GFX : TGA SND : Tandy 3-voice NET : RTL 8019 OS : MS-DOS 6.22/Deskmate II GEM …
Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"
Posted on 2021-08-13, 22:47
I think a lot of the difference between using ME now vs. Then is that back then, we were using it daily to do regular everyday things, including internet access, back when ME would have been a target for viruses/malware/hacking, and when it was a mainstream O/S with new software targeted at it. One …
Re: Most important games
Posted on 2021-08-13, 22:08
I'd say on PC the biggest influential games would be Monkey Island 1 & 2. Before that, Microsoft Adventure and Reader Rabbit was all I knew and I found the PC boring, banal, and over-educational, save for maybe a copy of "Memory Match". So here's why. The Secret of Monkey Island really showed me …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-13, 19:49
Really fishy smell might mean it's burning teflon/ptfe somewhere, which ain't good. What's weird is that whole laptop smelled like that all over, making me wonder if someone spilled their dinner. If it's a PTFE then I think we really should avoid Ultralite Versas then because none of my other four …
Re: What speaker setup are you using on your vintage machine?
Posted on 2021-08-13, 19:43
I have 2 sets of speakers - ginormous NEC monsters that came with the Ready 9522 and have an EQ and the whole nine yards, and a set of Altec Lansing speakers that are bassy as heck but sound amazing otherwise (and have a headphone jack). I use the Altecs because they have a headphone jack. I might …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-13, 19:30
Fixed the 40EC but the new power-board for the screen smells like 30 year old clams when fired up, so nix that. I think I'll be using a NL6448AC30-10 power board and replaceable CFLs in it, since I have quite a backstock - will just future proof the thing. With the new board it's running great. Got …
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