Re: Anyone else use their machines for productive things?

Posted on 2025-06-03, 18:55

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rmay635703 wrote on 2025-06-03, 18:29: Until 2016, I used vintage computer equipment for a T-shirt business and name meaning / heraldry business. Would love to still do it but all the festivals and craft fairs died There's probably still places you could sell stuff at. Flea markets and Renfairs etc …

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Re: Anyone else use their machines for productive things?

Posted on 2025-06-03, 18:28

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I use quite a few of my old machines for numerous productive tasks. Probably the biggest one is storing and ORGANIZING all of my images / photography and music collection on my XP machines. I just can't do it (as easily) on Vista/7's UI or anything newer - to0 much clutter and certain things that …

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Anyone else use their machines for productive things?

Posted on 2025-06-02, 18:45

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Anyone else use their vintage machines for any productivity work? Writing, photoshop, 3d modeling, or accounting for example. Personally I've always used my machines for writing journal entries, I got the idea back in 2008 when I bought my first vintage machine (a 1984 PCjr) and since then I've …

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Re: Anyone else in kind of a weird place collecting wise right now?

Posted on 2025-05-15, 17:43

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I mostly enjoy the process of tinkering and once I started taking the lid off I dont care too much if it is a P4 or a G4. I usually also dont care much about what it cant run, because then its simply not the machine for the task. There is always a generation ahead and one behind, so you better …

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Anyone else in kind of a weird place collecting wise right now?

Posted on 2025-05-13, 18:41

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What I mean is I quit for a while, sold all my stuff and now I'm kinda coming back again but I was messing with an iMac G3 and at first I was super happy but then little things annoyed me about it here and there and a speaker blew out because of the old foam and that was the thing that broke the …

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Re: Deus Ex visual difference on Apple Computer and PC

Posted on 2025-05-05, 14:42

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As I said before it seems to be a "RAVE" issue. Please verify this with quake1. Quake1 has a normal unaccelerated macversion, an early RAVE version (that is also quite brown/red) and a later OpenGL version. DeusEX seems to suffer from that issue too, but Tombraider/Unreal are not affected. Not sure …

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Re: Deus Ex visual difference on Apple Computer and PC

Posted on 2025-05-05, 05:28

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Hmm yeah I could try that. I'll let you know when I do.

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Re: Deus Ex visual difference on Apple Computer and PC

Posted on 2025-05-05, 05:23

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Here's a pic of it, it's SUPER red.

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Re: Deus Ex visual difference on Apple Computer and PC

Posted on 2025-05-05, 05:18

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alphaTECH wrote on 2025-05-05, 05:17: King_Corduroy wrote on 2025-05-05, 05:13: Anyone ever figure this out? I just fired up Deus Ex for the first time on an iMac G3 350mhz with Rage 128 and it's so red you'd think I was in the temple of NOD not UNATCO. Are there any fixes?? Nah no progress yet. …

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Re: Deus Ex visual difference on Apple Computer and PC

Posted on 2025-05-05, 05:13

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Anyone ever figure this out? I just fired up Deus Ex for the first time on an iMac G3 350mhz with Rage 128 and it's so red you'd think I was in the temple of NOD not UNATCO. Are there any fixes??

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Indigo iMac G3 CD Drive issues, any help appreciated.

Posted on 2025-05-05, 03:22

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So yesterday I bought a G3 iMac 350mhz Indigo, and it works great despite being cosmetically horrible. However the slot loading CD drive in it is giving me some issues, I suspected it might be the usual belts getting old but after bodging a belt together I'm still having some issues (I have the …

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Re: Are collecting groups more hostile / useless these days? (Facebook and Reddit mostly I mean)

Posted on 2025-04-28, 18:50

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My experience on fbook is unless the group is based overseas it always devolves into a politically focused group with a lot of bot comments and paid political commentators. The number of real on topic posts goes to zero. Reddit oddly seems “slightly “ better though not by much, turns collecting and …

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Re: Are collecting groups more hostile / useless these days? (Facebook and Reddit mostly I mean)

Posted on 2025-04-28, 00:59

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The quality stuff has major demand and prices show it. There are many more people in the hobby then when I started over 20 years ago. Once something goes mainstream people will try making a buck off of it. People have been complaining about prices for more than a decade, it's nothing new. What I do …

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Re: .sit files, how do I write floppies for mac?

Posted on 2025-04-27, 19:14

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Hmm okidoke I'll give that a try

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Re: .sit files, how do I write floppies for mac?

Posted on 2025-04-27, 18:35

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lolo799 wrote on 2025-04-27, 15:48: Does your compact mac have stuffit expander installer? It has system 7 on it but tbh I'm not well versed with macs. How could I go about getting that on there? I don't have other macs.

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.sit files, how do I write floppies for mac?

Posted on 2025-04-27, 15:14

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I'm not a mac user it should be said first off if that wasnt obvious already but I have a compact mac and I keep seeing floppy images but so far I've only had some luck writing .dsk files with a pc. Whats the best way to use .sit or the other formats as a pc / linux user wanting to get into mac?

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Re: Are collecting groups more hostile / useless these days? (Facebook and Reddit mostly I mean)

Posted on 2025-04-27, 05:02

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It wasn’t that long ago I could go to the recycle center and the guy there would look at what I’d found a little funny and just say “uh, like five bucks I guess?” I got a lot of great items this way that are now $200 on eBay. Same before covid I was buying stacks of cards and beige box machines for …

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Re: Extracting files from old Macintosh games

Posted on 2025-04-27, 04:55

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Hello, this is my first time posting on the forums. I was hoping to get some assistance with an issue I am having. I am currently attempting to rip the Alone in the Dark soundtrack for Macintosh. So far, I have been able to view all files relating to Alone in the Dark using Resedit and I have …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2025-04-27, 04:31

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Been listening to a lot of 80's hits recently. But I keep coming back and listening to the album EAV - Leibe, Tot und Teufel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWhnDyXg-dA&list=OLAK5uy_n5xQ7zXsnf-NowOncyBq6ufrX__IHKbCQ&index=1&pp=8AUB Everytime I hear it, it brings me back to that spring when I …

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Re: Are collecting groups more hostile / useless these days? (Facebook and Reddit mostly I mean)

Posted on 2025-04-27, 04:20

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Part of the problem seems to be "investor" types and ebay sellers who are collecting everything for value, as a person who used to pull the same stuff people are now having graded and put in acrylic out of the trash 10+ years ago I just don't get where these people are coming from. You know, I have …

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