Re: What’s in your Garage ?

Posted on 2020-02-19, 11:12

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I also horde PVMs (though mine are not as nice as some of yours!). Except I don't have a garage, I instead live in a ~700sq ft apartment downtown in a city. My other not-in-current-use computer stuff is kinda spread out here and there (couple closets, and a couple small overflow piles here and …

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Re: Windows 2000 20th Anniversary Client/server build

Posted on 2020-02-19, 01:30

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Yeah come to think of it, that might have been our problem too and why we would occasionally switch back to Win98 for a little bit. I remember we had an AMD Duron 800MHz and 128MB in 2001 (upgraded to 256MB by 2003). I think that might have been fine-ish with Windows 2000, but I'm having a hard time …

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Re: Windows 2000 20th Anniversary Client/server build

Posted on 2020-02-19, 00:24

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This is awesome! I love that you're networking them together. Windows 2000 is probably my favourite version of the Windows operating system. My brother and I had it installed on our shared computer from 2001-2003. Occasionally we'd switch back to Win98 for some reason (I think it might have been for …

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

Posted on 2020-02-10, 23:52

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It suddenly occurred to me that I had not really spent any time at all fiddling with Mod players/trackers on either of the two retro PCs I have built that both has GUS cards in them. What a travesty. This was not something I had delved into at all back in the day, so I was kinda approaching it fresh …

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Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today

Posted on 2020-01-28, 02:13

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My copy of DeluxePaint II Enhanced (DOS version) arrived today. https://i.imgur.com/Vkt65WFm.jpg?1 Unfortunately, I could tell, even from the sellers photos that there was probably a good chance that the disks would not work. Some of the inside packaging and the papers included showed signs of …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-01-11, 16:29

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A lot of them have a sort of charcoal grey rubbery coating on the lids (of those that I have... 600E, T41, all modern Thinkpads, but not the older ones). This rubs off over time, but it doesn't become sticky. lol. This coating absolutely becomes sticky over time. The 600X I got last year was …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2019-12-28, 02:00

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Some additional styling / colouring would seem to go a long way to help aid readability and the separation of posts and different elements on the page. Everything (text mainly) is all far too similar to each other. Scrolling through a topic, everything just seems to blend together... in stark …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-14, 12:18

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Got one of these PC ProPAD 4's. Box had been opened but the controller itself has never been used. Not sure how they hold up against the Gravis Game Pad, will give it a test run over the holidays. I also got one of these somewhat recently. Love it. To me it feels way better then the original Gravis …

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Re: Old software you miss the most

Posted on 2019-12-08, 21:00

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But, to be fair, in 2019 going mobile first is the RIGHT path to go because it not only makes web design for desktop easier, also helps with older browsers compatibility when you know that you can't go too fancy with jQuery (Bootstrap is ditching it already). In an ideal world, I would agree with …

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Re: Old software you miss the most

Posted on 2019-12-08, 17:13

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I do NOT miss ICQ..... OH-OH! OH-OH! OH-OH! Going on the whole day when receiving messages :dead: The ICQ "OH-OH!" sound has been my phone's notification sound for years now. I like seeing people's faces light up when they recognize the sound and get all nostalgic, haha. Where can I get that …

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Re: Old software you miss the most

Posted on 2019-12-08, 14:34

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meljor wrote: I do NOT miss ICQ..... OH-OH! OH-OH! OH-OH! Going on the whole day when receiving messages 😵 The ICQ "OH-OH!" sound has been my phone's notification sound for years now. I like seeing people's faces light up when they recognize the sound and get all nostalgic, haha.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-07, 19:31

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Just picked this up locally today. After going through 5 used broken attempts to get another 9800pro I'm going to assume this one is likely to work. 20191207_105337.jpg I remember being so happy, Boxing Day 2004, when I grabbed one of these on sale at Future Shop. Went into my Pentium 4 computer at …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2019-12-06, 23:36

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I don't really any complaints about the Neomagic cards honestly. There are some problem games for sure, but probably 95%+ of the DOS games I like to play look and play just fine on my 600X. The only complaint I have with that laptop is that pretty much any kind of dithering pattern looks like crap …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2019-12-06, 22:42

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320x200 to 800x600 nearest-neighbour scaling for 2D DOS games kind of ruins it for me honestly. And I quite dislike playing them at the non-scaled line-doubled 640x400 resolution, leaving large black borders (this is completely a personal preference, many other people may not mind this at all). For …

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Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today

Posted on 2019-12-06, 22:37

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I used to love building web pages with FrontPage. It felt so powerful to younger-me. (Nowadays I cannot stand using anything with a WYSIWYG HTML editor.) Very nice Office collection there! 😀

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

Posted on 2019-11-23, 19:32

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Put together my Super Socket 7 build today. Tyan Trinity 100 AT, K6-2+ 550@600, Voodoo 3 3500 TV, AWE64 Gold, etc. Not 100% finished, especially the fans are still too loud, but I am already pretty pleased with how it worked out. Will open a dedicated system specs thread for this one later. Looking …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-23, 16:35

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Picked up one of those InterAct PC Propad controllers to try out as an alternative to my Gravis Gamepad. http://i.imgur.com/un7Cyzdm.jpg I love it. The D-pad on this is far superior to the one on the Gravis Gamepad. I don't much care for all the other fancy bells-and-whistles that this comes with ( …

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Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today

Posted on 2019-11-15, 22:08

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Got one of my more desired items, Borland Pascal with Objects 7.0 (a.k.a. the "professional" version of Turbo Pascal 7.0). http://i.imgur.com/EyUXwxSm.jpg?1 Only missing the Turbo Debugger manual, and I think a smaller Turbo Assembler quick reference manual. But I have both of the Borland C++ 4.0 …

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Re: Your Retrogaming laptop/portable machine megathread (recommendations, tips, minutae)

Posted on 2019-11-15, 16:37

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There was a seller in US that had 50+ of NOS screens for 760LD for sale. But when I ordered one, it was the first order during last 20 years, the seller discovered that all screens were ruined with age. I had a similar problem doing an LCD downgrade on a 760ED (from 1024x768 to 800x600, because the …

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Re: Your Retrogaming laptop/portable machine megathread (recommendations, tips, minutae)

Posted on 2019-11-15, 13:30

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Yeah, the 760LD is one I would just love to get my hands on. Never seen it for sale. 🙁 So far my retro laptop of choice is the Thinkpad 600X due to the fairly decent screen-scaling for 320x200 games.

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