Re: Smoke on 386 Motherboard !!!

Posted on 2024-02-25, 01:45

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unlike normal electrolytic capacitors which usually don't go bang You haven't tried hard enough :) They do go bang too, and tend to leave quite a mess when they do. Though it is very rare for low voltage electrolytics to go bang with nominal voltage applied. A capacitor burst on one of my Acer USB …

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Re: Nostalgia for old Graphics Programs?

Posted on 2024-02-22, 11:00

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I found vital imagemagick to convert whatever new format i get from users to a psp7 readable one, specially png with alpha, that psp suffer a lot to read I have a batch script that scans my image library at regular intervals auto-converting all JP2, WEBP and AVIF files to PNG. (It also renames JPE, …

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Re: [Solved] Is there a way to remove/dismiss virus alerts in windows 10's defender?

Posted on 2024-02-21, 05:44

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A problem I had last year was PDF files with embedded links that now point to malware sites. Defender was massacring my ebook collection, just deleting the files without giving the option to ignore/override the action. I had to put the entire ebook directory in the Exclusions directory, then restore …

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-21, 04:15

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Joakim wrote on 2024-02-20, 19:21: I speak for the Swedish. Ask me anything. I will answer truly. Fascinated by mooses. Do you see them often? I hear they're a danger to drivers.

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Re: Are there any games that require at least a Pentium 1 and would not run on a 486?

Posted on 2024-02-19, 15:50

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Destruction Derby 2 won't install on a 486

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Re: Which Mac for retro gaming?

Posted on 2024-02-15, 10:15

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I put Tiger on a first generation tray-loading iMac but quickly removed it again. Even upgraded to 333 MHz/384 MiB it was horribly slow. (Didn't try SSD though)

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Re: Winamp 2.95 plugin support.

Posted on 2024-02-15, 00:56

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Is there a list of all Winamp plugins anywhere? ETA: These are the ones I have: File_Writer_output_plugin_v1_11.exe – Output plugin that writes audio to disk. in_mpc_0.99g.zip – Input plugin that allows playback of MPC files. Jump_to_File_Extra_v0_96ff.exe - Jump to File Extra (JTFE) MACDll_399t2. …

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Re: Winamp 2.95 plugin support.

Posted on 2024-02-14, 18:12

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For Monkey's Audio I've always used the MACDll_399t2.zip plugin.

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Re: Which Mac for retro gaming?

Posted on 2024-02-14, 17:29

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Not all G4s can boot the classic OS. I bought a lampshade iMac G4 intending to play Classic OS games on it. When I got it home, I saw the seller had given me a newer model by mistake, that couldn't boot OS 9. After some drama, I wound up with two iMac G4s, an early model (800 MHz 17") and a later …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-02-09, 17:05

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There's a conflict of interest between writers of search algorithms and the users. The users search for what they want to see. The writers want to you see what they want you to see, regardless of what you search for. With some of these algorithms we're approaching the situation where the search …

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Re: Do any of you like art

Posted on 2024-01-27, 04:51

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Look up the space posters of Steve Thomas

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Re: hard disk size history

Posted on 2024-01-27, 04:48

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The machine I'm using now has 17 TB of storage (16 TB (4x4) RAID 0 SAS HDD + 1 TB (2x1) RAID 1 SATA SSD). (Yes I know I'm living dangerously using RAID 0, but everything on that array is backed up elsewhere, so if/when it dies, no big deal.) Plus a lot of offline USB storage (Drobos, USB HDDs). I …

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Re: Multiple computers, one set of speakers.

Posted on 2024-01-24, 17:41

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Are passive mixers safe? I was always told you shouldn't directly connect the outputs of two different audio devices.

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Re: PCI madness

Posted on 2024-01-24, 00:05

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lordmogul wrote on 2024-01-23, 10:34: Below that some 9500 GT also came in PCI I also have Jaton 9500 GT, Sparkle 8500 GT and PNY 8400 GS PCI cards. Performance rank is as you would expect. None of them can compete with the Zotac GT 610 PCI, which scores nearly 4x higher in 3D Mark Vantage than the …

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Re: PCI madness

Posted on 2024-01-23, 04:31

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I have a couple of Zotac GT 610 PCIe x1 cards that I use in situations like this. I also have another pair in conventional PCI, and several 520/610's in x16. The PCI cards have 512 MiB of memory and the others 1024 MiB. Note that memory speed is very important with these cards. The PCI @ 1333 MHz …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-22, 10:04

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The gun issue is similar to the dangerous dog issue. Certain breeds are notorious for attacking people, especially children. Whenever there's such an attack, you hear calls for such breeds to be banned. This naturally riles up responsible dog owners, who train and socialize their animals correctly, …

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Re: Inspiron 8100 stuttering on battery power

Posted on 2024-01-21, 03:16

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Those batteries will be 20+ years old now. I'm surprised they work at all.

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-21, 01:14

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I think the point is that 'hard cases make bad law'. When considering the justice of a law you need to consider the average case, not exceptional cases, however sensational and newsworthy they may be. It reminds me of the abortion debate in Ireland. Groups seeking to overturn Ireland's abortion laws …

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Re: Advice needed - Retro system struggling to play Command and Conquer Generals.

Posted on 2024-01-20, 08:11

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I remember trying this game at a LAN circa 2003 on a 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 and an original GeForce 3 and finding it unplayably slow.

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Re: What do you stockpile?

Posted on 2024-01-20, 05:28

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SCSI cables are surprisingly expensive now.

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