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

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Got my PSP working again. Had to press and hold the home button while flicking the switch and repaired the firmware by installing the 6.20 OFW and going back to 6.61, along with the CFW LME-23 + Infinity 2.0.3 installation. The PSX games (PSP-eBoot) were a pain to get them to work and after finding …

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

Posted on 2021-09-20, 09:27

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Currently backing up my GameBoy, Color, and Advance games onto my laptop (ROMs and saves + RTC) and got the RTC patch on my Ruby ROM (Sapphire has a glitch) for testing purposes. Also backing up my data from my phone (documents, downloads, and more, which will get archived on Google Drive).

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-19, 21:28

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Made an offer on an N64 so I can do a shell swap on my current N64 and keep the board in this unit as a spare part. Seller's photos: Filename $_3.jpeg File size 26.51 KiB Views 337 views Filename $_3 (1).jpeg File size 28.89 KiB Views 337 views Filename $_3 (2).jpeg File size 43.56 KiB Views 337 …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-17, 11:44

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Bought a good used display for my PSP-2001 and a Pandora Battery kit so I can unbrick my system. Filename Screenshot_20210917-074312-685.png File size 368.45 KiB Views 32 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-17, 07:58

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Won a Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S bundle. Seller's photo: Filename 691e09868bc6d3ec0.jpeg File size 25.1 KiB Views 248 views

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

Posted on 2021-09-16, 08:57

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Got ThinLinx installed on my Raspberry Pi 3B+ and ordered the license for it and got it installed. Tested the RDP (Microsoft) function to see how it performs and there's a drawback: it doesn't like it when I enter my laptop's PC name as it says it's not found, but when I enter my IP address, it asks …

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

Posted on 2021-09-16, 04:39

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Attempted to fix the CFW on my PSP-2001 and it decided to not boot anymore and the display is a mess (got it cleaned off internally, but I'm not sure if it works due to the system not working ATM). Pandora battery, here I come.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-14, 01:23

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Never had an issue with my Dell USB floppy drive. The diskette itself might be bad and I recommend checking that diskette in an older computer and see if it throws the same error and if it does, then the diskette is bad. If not, the USB drive needs a good cleaning on the heads and possibly the track …

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Re: HardMPU, anyone?

Posted on 2021-09-12, 04:19

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Original Sierra On-Line games had issues with MPU-401 cards being set to anything other than 330h. I know later VGA variants has a patch program to change the MPU-401 address from 330h to 320h or what-have you. I'll look up more info about some games and post an update.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-11, 23:09

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imi wrote on 2021-09-11, 16:09: got in a nice lot today, some of the contents, the main prize at the end ^^ after a long and exhausting search, I finally got on […] Show full quote got in a nice lot today, some of the contents, the main prize at the end ^^ after a long and exhausting search, I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-10, 02:03

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I'm talking about this 6 pin AT style connector for 3.3V and 5V, not the 4 pin "modern" 12V connector... 6pin_at.jpg I have an Intel 423 RDRAM board that has the same connector. That's used for video cards, like the Quadro FX or FireGL AGP Pro cards. For the RAM, it requires either all 4 slots …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-07, 09:02

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Won an NComputing L300 Thin Client with all of the trimmings. Seller's photo: Filename 2093110307350Daan.jpeg File size 77.34 KiB Views 118 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-06, 19:23

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Won a 3Com EtherLink III + 33.6K modem PCMCIA card with the manual, driver diskette, and the dongles for both the modem and 10-BaseT Ethernet with the BNC token ring.

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2021-09-06, 00:48

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Won a copy of Wolfenstein 3-D (shareware) Seller's photos: Filename 245410031104150Neac.jpeg File size 55.44 KiB Views 98 views Filename 541506731104150Neac.jpeg File size 63.58 KiB Views 98 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-04, 00:11

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Bought a blue glass Q5 screen cover for my DMG-01 Flo from Progressive build, drop-in TFT with the alignment brackets and glass cover for my other GameBoy Color, GB/GBC/GBA adapter for my laptop so I can back up my saves and ROMS on the fly, and 3 GBC capacitor kits as a preventative maintenance. …

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

Posted on 2021-08-31, 09:26

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Repaired a GameBoy Color that didn't turn on, no display, and a bit of corrosion on the cartridge slot that caused my game saves to get destroyed and some game to not start up. Used 30AWG wiring, solder, flux, and exposed trace copper to fix the switch issue, reflowed the IC between the volume wheel …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-27, 07:45

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pan069 wrote on 2021-08-27, 03:55: I got this little 387 fella the other day. I assume I can just stick it the socket on my board (centered and oriented correctly of course)? PXL_20210827_034319953.jpg PXL_20210827_034503350.jpg Looks like it. I have 2 boards with the similar 387/486 socket.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-25, 08:01

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Bought an external Samsung DVD burner so I can make out-of-region DVDs (2-8) region-free on my laptop and it was only $8.99 + tax at a thrift store.

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

Posted on 2021-08-19, 06:10

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Tested the Pentium laptop that has a game pad integrated and the CD drive is totally shot, the floppy drive doesn't read squat, and the DSTN display needs to be upgraded to a TFT. On the plus side, the ES1688F works and the BIOS keeps its settings. The floppy seeks upon the POST, but refuses to boot …

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2021-08-18, 03:03

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Never seen an optical drive with a fan integrated. Must be the cooling for burning CDs since those things were space heaters back then.

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