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

Posted on Yesterday, 18:51

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Decided to try an experiment today. I wondered if the Cheetah Annihilator joystick, as provided with the C64GS, would work on the MSX. Particularly, it's weird non-standard 2nd button that only works with a handful of C64GS games. I did a quick google search, but couldn't see any reference to …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-06-12, 10:02

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DundyTheCroc wrote on 2021-06-09, 10:52: 4. When the truck came to load old HW I grab from it nice looking Dell GX1 pc.jpg They're nice looking systems, I have 1 myself, but the thing that really irks me about them - the lack of AGP. If they had an AGP slot, they'd be a killer classic 440BX-based …

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

Posted on 2021-06-10, 11:02

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I was doing some tidying up today, clearing out a bunch of junk to create some extra storage space for my retro hardware. Whilst tidying, I came across a graphics card that I'd completely forgotten I had - an AGP SiS 6326. Yay, officially the crappiest AGP card in my collection. If I ever want to …

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

Posted on 2021-06-08, 17:26

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Today's retro activity - the new cassette cable for my MSX arrived. It works great, so that means thankfully the cassette port is fine and my quick bodge fix is no longer necessary. All the hours I spent diagnosing this, only for the issue to be simply down to a bad cable! Oh well, been having some …

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

Posted on 2021-06-07, 17:08

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Been battling with my recently purchased Sanyo MPC-100 MSX computer, which was refusing to load anything from the cassette port unless the input volume was super super loud & output from my AV Receiver at near max. volume. Thinking something may be up with the computer, ie. bad caps or something, I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-07, 16:34

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All in all, I'm quite happy with the newest addition to my collection. :cool: Just testing the waters at the moment, going to be loading games from .cas tape images before getting 1 of the addon cartridges later in the year (probably the MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD). I may even consider an MSX2 or MSX2+ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-04, 20:11

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Got myself one of these, which arrived today - https://i.imgur.com/2z8DaeBh.jpg A Sanyo MPC-100 MSX 1 computer. The first MSX in my collection. Was sold spares/repairs with keyboard issues, such as repeating keys and a wonky M key. I had an idea before I bought it what the issue might be, so I …

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Re: Flying Dutchmen, White Whales, the ghost HW that eludes you, lost & found.

Posted on 2021-06-04, 04:55

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I lost a Commodore 64. Could have sworn I saw it somewhere in my house, but I spent hours searching and found nothing. I have vague memories of a C64 with a black screen, so possibly it was the same one and I must have stupidly just binned it, rather than trying to fix it. Last year I did find an …

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

Posted on 2021-05-31, 12:41

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After the current alcohol soak that's the next step... then the heat gun. Won't be a screwdriver, though, will use something metal that can push against the whole edge of the IHS and not just part of it. I had thought of making a tool that could grasp both sides of the IHS... but making a giant …

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Re: Athlon64, Turion users: Why do you choose those processors?

Posted on 2021-05-28, 12:44

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My last project for Windows 98 consists of a Foxconn760GXK8MC (SIS 760GX) board and an Athlon64 mobile 3200+ DTR with 512MB of RAM and a 250gb ide hard disk and a Geforce4 ti 4200 (nv28) overclocked at 300Mhz and a Sound blaster live ( sb0100) I had the intention that this team was the definitive …

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Re: Athlon64, Turion users: Why do you choose those processors?

Posted on 2021-05-28, 12:39

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I've got a couple of Socket 754 based PCs, 1 with an Athlon 64 3200+ & the other with a Sempron 3000+. I built them back in the day as cheap HTPCs, 1 of which was used until around 2015 with a Radeon HD 3450 512MB AGP Graphics card, capable of decoding H.264 @ 1080p HD. I pretty much haven't touched …

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

Posted on 2021-05-27, 18:40

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Today I dug out a couple of old Mobile Phones and loaded up a microSD card with some Cassette games for my Sinclair ZX81, converted to .WAV format. I tried several Samsung Galaxy phones first (from 2013 and later), but none would load a game properly onto the ZX81 regardless of whatever App or …

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Re: Socket A for retrogaming?

Posted on 2021-05-27, 10:41

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I've got one of those motherboards in my collection (with an Athlon XP 2600+), it came out of a generic custom-built office PC. Cheap/affordable and not really tailored towards early 2000s Windows XP gaming, though it can perform if you add a decent AGP graphics card. I've no idea how the SIS …

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Re: XTIDE and large (>8G) partitions

Posted on 2021-05-23, 10:02

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I'm surprised no-one else had come across the >8GB accessibility issue previously. I wonder when the bug first appeared or if it maybe only affects certain systems. I'm running an older version of XTIDE on a 486 - r598 and it has a 1GB CF Master & a 120GB HDD Slave all working fine. The 120GB HDD …

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Re: Gotek with flashfloppy DRIVENOTREADY

Posted on 2021-05-22, 18:34

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Are the jumpers on the Gotek set correctly? Have you got a ff.cfg file on the root of the stick? If not, create one as per the info here: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki/FF. … figuration-File At minimum just putting interface=ibmpc & host=unspecified should suffice.

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Re: XTIDE and large (>8G) partitions

Posted on 2021-05-20, 13:17

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In the XTIDE config program, what have you got the CHS translation method set to for the drive? Is it on Auto? If it is, try the Assisted LBA option and then save & reflash the ROM. Though according to the documentation, that is supposed to be the default option it uses in Auto mode.

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Re: Changed refreshrate (advanced option) for matrox g200 and now i get only black screen

Posted on 2021-05-17, 13:15

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Not sure if this will work, but if the PC is booting into Windows with the card on it's own (albeit without a display), try installing something like an older version of VNC server (you may need to install another graphics card temporarily to get this far). Then having just the G200 installed on …

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Re: Changed refreshrate (advanced option) for matrox g200 and now i get only black screen

Posted on 2021-05-17, 12:16

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Were you not able to simply go into Safe Mode in Windows 95 with the original card and set the resolution to 640x480 16 colours? Or were you not even seeing the F8 menu? Also remove any graphics tools you may have been playing around with from config.sys &/or autoexec.bat.

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

Posted on 2021-05-16, 18:23

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Today and this weekend for that matter, I've been working on some of my 8-bit micros. Disassembled my Acorn Electron to clean and reseat the ULA, as I was getting random small dots appearing on the screen yet RAM tested fine. The reseat seems to have alleviated it somewhat. Everything is running …

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Re: Windows 3.1 max requirements

Posted on 2021-05-14, 13:57

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It should run on Pentium or Pentium II era hardware, but you'd have to be more specific about exactly what hardware you are trying to run it on and what exactly you are trying to achieve. As an example, for fun I've ran it on a Pentium III in the past - but with basic drivers, ie. generic SVGA 256 …

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