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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-18, 23:41

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furan wrote on 2020-01-18, 23:13: On my 4K laptop display your cursors are the tiniest. Why do you even have cursors? Is the site going to start playing tada.wav when I open it now? Snover, I want that! TADAAAAAAA 😁

Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-18, 22:33

by Bruninho

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While I agree that asking the end user to do his own mods to overcome a problem with the design is not right, this is not the case, because the “silly feature” (mouse cursors like win95), is not a serious problem, just something YOU don’t like. If it was a serious problem - like the one with the …

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

Posted on 2020-01-18, 06:30

by Bruninho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think I may have a good retro activity story. I was with my dad showing him an Apple II emulator. We then talked about the machines he worked on his good days. An Apple II clone, a Spectrum... the nostalgia struck on him like a hurricane, I might’ve created a retro monster, because we were then …

Re: Why don’t PC parts work in a Mac ?

Posted on 2020-01-18, 06:07

by Bruninho

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@ragefury32: My God, I didn’t knew that. I think this experience varies for different persons. For example I never had a good experience with HP laptops, never. @Caluser2000: Yes, like I said before, I am an apple fan, but I am a different one that can recognize where they are wrong and doing sh**, …

Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-17, 20:22

by Bruninho

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I deadass will give people the silent thumbs up in real life. Sometimes it's actually better because you can show approval without interrupting them if they are still prattling on This. Is exactly what I do IRL. Do you also put on the sunglasses at the same time? :sunglasses::thumbsup: :-) No, but …

Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-17, 18:18

by Bruninho

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You know what I don't like about the new forum - it doesn't work on old web browsers anymore. This forum used to show up properly on Firefox 2.0 running on Windows 98. Now it looks all messed up and cannot render properly. Guess I won't be checking this forum from my Windows 98 computer anymore. …

Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2020-01-17, 13:14

by Bruninho

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Right, the engine of my car is overheating. Gonna take it to my mechanic.... Pretty sure its low on water and oil since I should've done it in August but forgot. Meanwhile I get to drive my dads car so I can go to work. Yay

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

Posted on 2020-01-17, 04:42

by Bruninho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Horun wrote on 2020-01-17, 04:20: Checked a dozen or so older small (40Mb to 18Gb) hard drives. All but one still works well, the WD 32500 didn't want to spin up 🙁 Will check it again later. Amazed to see the old Seagate ST-351A/x still working w/o errors... You know the saying... “The older you …

Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2020-01-17, 03:13

by Bruninho

in Release Announcements

- iOS Aren't iOS browsers limited to the WebKit engine provided by Apple, though? So that version probably isn't the "real" Edge browser. I'm very happy Microsoft finally gave up trying to self-develop browsers engines, they always turned out like crap because the development cycles where way too …

Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2020-01-16, 16:05

by Bruninho

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keenmaster486 wrote on 2020-01-16, 15:16: Lol, Microsoft finally admitted defeat after 25 years of browser wars. Pretty much yes. They’ve even fired the developer of the previous Edge.

Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2020-01-16, 13:19

by Bruninho

in Release Announcements

The new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium was released today to the general public, and is compatible across these operating systems: - macOS - Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 - iOS and Android To get it, you can uninstall the beta versions (if you were previously using them) and get the stable from here: …

Re: 9x-compliant racing wheels?

Posted on 2020-01-16, 02:44

by Bruninho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thrustmaster wheels were quite good back in that day. And I believe they still are (at least the modern ones) for some sim racers that can’t afford the current-gen PRO steering wheels like Fanatec ones. Logitech comes a close third place.

Re: 9x-compliant racing wheels?

Posted on 2020-01-16, 02:35

by Bruninho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I’ve used four steering wheels in my life, in order of usage: Thrustmaster T2, MS Sidewinder, Logitech Momo, Logitech G25. My favorite was the Momo, perfect racing formula steering wheel, enough buttons, perfect ergonomics, but poor pedals - the potentiometer had a tendency to fail. I never liked …

Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2020-01-15, 22:03

by Bruninho

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My ford fiesta engine is running super hot now. I guess its time to pay ($$$) a visit to Ford for a revision...

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

Posted on 2020-01-15, 20:40

by Bruninho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh, yeah, I forgot about the adapters. First I need to find the joystick 😜

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

Posted on 2020-01-15, 20:34

by Bruninho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Installed and tested the MS Force Feedback Pro joystick on my newly set up Pentium III retro build. Works fantastic! Only had two games installed so far (Forsaken and NFS4) and was quite surprised that both have Force Feedback support. NFS4 is just awesome with Force Feedback. I own the Force …

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

Posted on 2020-01-15, 13:33

by Bruninho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just set up a local httpd server on Windows For Workgroups 3.11 to try out. Works beautifully. Filename 7A2F802F-FDE9-4DAA-9CFD-8BD72CC1F894.jpeg File size 322.57 KiB Views 795 views