Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-05-21, 23:44
Zapp3012 wrote: For anyone interested, it's an Aerocool Strike-X Air test bench case. Does it transform into a truck?
Re: Rise of the Robots 16 floppies!
Posted on 2016-05-19, 22:29
I was a big fan of the original Battle chess as well. I got hold of it in a funny way. It was on the school computers, but they only had 3.5" drives. At home we only had an XT clone with 5.25" drives. All my friends had Amigas/Atari STs so they couldn't help. I had to ask my dad to copy it at his …
Re: Rise of the Robots 16 floppies!
Posted on 2016-05-19, 18:36
Ha, that would be worth juggling dozens of floppies for. How many people bought this 1993 game thinking it was the actual game from the film?
Re: DOS SFV CRC checking
Posted on 2016-05-19, 05:30
That's x32. Won't run in DOS. It's OK I've knocked something together with Turbo C that does the job.
Re: Rise of the Robots 16 floppies!
Posted on 2016-05-19, 05:24
It's not even real SW chess. The game from the movie with the circular board. (Does it have actual rules?) Just Battlechess with cheesy SW sprites.
DOS SFV CRC checking
Posted on 2016-05-19, 00:27
Is there a 16 bit DOS tool to process SFV CRC32 checksum database files? All I've been able to find is CRC32.COM on this site: http://sta.c64.org/pcutils.html. It doesn't handle the SFV file format though.
Re: Amazon sellers are retards... (rant)
Posted on 2016-05-17, 18:26
People who ship hard drives loose in jiffy bags...
Re: Amazon sellers are retards... (rant)
Posted on 2016-05-16, 23:55
I don't think I've bought computer hardware on Amazon. I do buy music that way though. Received a LP shaped like a Pringle on one occasion.
Re: Norton Commander Anniversary
Posted on 2016-05-16, 18:27
I remember X-Tree used F1 to quit which always struck me as strange. Did they ever change that in later versions?
Re: Loudest CPU fan EVER + Intel uCode loading error
Posted on 2016-05-06, 17:59
The Globalwin CAF12 Card Cooler was very useful I remember. I don't know why they stopped making them.
Re: 8 bit Diablo - feasible or no?
Posted on 2016-05-06, 17:35
Yes, this sounds like any number of 1980s isometric games. The big problem with those was that everything slowed down painfully if you had more than 2 or 3 moving objects on the screen.
Re: Quake for Win98 or XP
Posted on 2016-05-06, 10:30
The official GLQuake ports run very dark on Nvidia cards IIRC. There's no easy way of raising the brightness.
Re: Which FTP server do you use?
Posted on 2016-05-05, 14:34
I purchased FTP Serv-U back when it was shareware with free lifetime upgrades (basically all features). Think that costs a couple thousand these days with all the options since its commercial now. One of the better shareware purchases I made. http://www.serv-u.com/ You get a fee 30 day trial if you …
Re: "Must Have" Best DOS games
Posted on 2016-05-05, 14:23
leileilol wrote: typical 'best must have dos' thread done. Might be more interesting to have a 'worst AAA game' list. I remember reading somewhere that Microprose put out a lot of duds …
Re: 3 floppy drives
Posted on 2016-05-04, 12:24
Never mind, I was hoping for something simple. There's also the issue of later mobos that support just a single A: floppy with no option for B:
Re: 3 floppy drives
Posted on 2016-05-04, 11:04
I would like to know this as well. Are you limited to ISA or do PCI floppy adaptors exist as well? Could you boot off such a bus floppy? Do they work in DOS without drivers?
Re: The Old New Thing: Startup apps start up when I tell them
Posted on 2016-05-02, 18:46
I always assume the computer will be unusable for the first ~5 minutes after boot and go do something else while it settles down.
Re: "Where we're going, we don't need"... cassettes!
Posted on 2016-05-02, 15:32
IIRC the only weakness of the C64 vs the Spectrum was its slower CPU. This was mostly an issue with calculation-intensive 3D vector games.
Re: Older mobos lower down than modern?
Posted on 2016-05-02, 15:17
No these things aren't standardized, and different cases use different height stand-offs. Why wouldn't this be defined in the ATX standard?
Re: Dell "fridge" 2x P PRO
Posted on 2016-05-01, 06:36
Cool. Listen to that roar. An old USB 1.1 card should work with it.
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