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

Posted on 2019-12-22, 21:33

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by Bruninho

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I'm now reworking my Win 2000 VM from scratch. This time I will not install the USP 5.1 as it appears to have broken how Windows sees the iPod Nano. So far, after each update, I plug the iPod, and when it gets recognized I save a snapshot before proceeding to the next update. This way I can find …

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

Posted on 2019-12-22, 17:43

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... Atari is a great console and a big part of my childhood. However, this advert was incredibly stupid... I counter that with... https://kotaku.com/sorry-that-crazy-stevie-wonder-atari-poster-is-fake-1570104210 Excellent counter strike! I almost believed it was for real... sorry, but in today's …

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

Posted on 2019-12-22, 03:56

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Atari is a great console and a big part of my childhood. However, this advert was incredibly stupid... Meanwhile: I just did a new Windows 2000 VM. On a fresh vanilla install, I can get to my iPod Nano 1st gen with the latest supported iTunes (7.3.2). On an install with all the updates and BWC …

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Re: Heads up: Vogons will be updated

Posted on 2019-12-19, 14:53

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In general, the contrast between text and background will increase significantly as that is on the low side currently. This is a welcome change. Also, please don't change your avatar, ever. Agreed. Qbix has the best ever avatar I have seen here, hahaha. Yours (netscape) is a close second, it was my …

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Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.

Posted on 2019-12-19, 14:51

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Let me get this straight: intel bad* amd good *nvidia bad too :lol: I have experienced both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, and I can say the NVIDIA has been the better experience for me. As for CPUs, Intel has the upper hand, I've always used their processors. AMD has a lot of limitations plus I have never …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-12-19, 14:44

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I don't know what you guys are talking about... Finder is perfect as it is for me... It has always been perfect for me since I started using macOS/OS X (2010). Windows Vista/7/8/10 Start Menu is the real piece of shit here, not Finder. Apple's operating systems (macOS/OSX, iOS) has been the best …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-12-18, 23:20

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pixel_workbench wrote: The whole "we will update and install stuff on your PC whether you like it or not" really aggravates me. +1 this is the main reason I dislike Windows 10

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

Posted on 2019-12-18, 17:09

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My CD has the TFT. I agree that the 365X would be nice. Or a 701C... hmm... Edit: by the time this is all over, I may have several Thinkpads that I need to sell to recoup the costs of this “adventure” and slough off extra items. Sigh More research before buying could avoid all that, but it's just …

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

Posted on 2019-12-18, 04:46

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I should follow my own advice. Read the whole thread again and noticed the post where dx33 himself recommended a 755 to me — and now that I’m getting one he says the 380 is better for me and I should get that instead, never mind that I already had one and rejected it as mentioned in the OP. while ( …

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

Posted on 2019-12-18, 03:34

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I am still very pissed because I somehow cannot get my Windows 2000 to recognize the iPod Nano 1st gen (??) in any iTunes version. Then I knew there was a plugin for WinAmp and it still cannot recognize it. All I have is an yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager for an USB Mass Storage Device. …

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

Posted on 2019-12-18, 03:32

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

Posted on 2019-12-17, 04:15

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I am still very pissed because I somehow cannot get my Windows 2000 to recognize the iPod Nano 1st gen (??) in any iTunes version. Then I knew there was a plugin for WinAmp and it still cannot recognize it. All I have is an yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager for an USB Mass Storage Device. …

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

Posted on 2019-12-16, 17:00

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derSammler wrote: Re-attached the display, added a CF card and installed DOS 6.22 - works! 😀 AMAZING! 😁

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

Posted on 2019-12-16, 05:22

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by Bruninho

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Has anyone managed to get the iTunes on Windows 2000 to see the iPod Nano? I'm using the last version supported on Win 2k (7.3.2) and yet it can't see the iPod Nano. All I get on Device Manager is a USB Mass Storage Device with an yellow exclamation.

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Re: Finding the perfect modern laptop for me: or does it exist?

Posted on 2019-12-15, 19:25

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Because I prefer to do design instead of programming 😀 I can’t (and I don’t want to) work with programmers that are lazy enough to throw some frameworks on a project and say it’s ready... plus my passion was always design.

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Re: Finding the perfect modern laptop for me: or does it exist?

Posted on 2019-12-15, 14:15

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And about Firefox, I can agree with you, but the mac version now is quite decent to use, really good, and I can customize the UI to my liking. But on mac, Safari is my main browser, Firefox comes in a close second place, tied with the new Edge. Opera and Chrome are dead to me. And the Windows …

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Re: Finding the perfect modern laptop for me: or does it exist?

Posted on 2019-12-15, 14:05

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Simplistic or not, they still write bad code. I know a modern game which first version was pretty good, then they handed the development to another team and the second version was indeed powerful, but required a better GPU and had been written with really bad code. So I threw the game to the bin. I …

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

Posted on 2019-12-15, 02:49

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by Bruninho

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After installing a couple of programs and games on my Windows 2000, I had to extend the partition. Guess what, I had to convert it to NTFS (aaarrrgh) and extend using diskpart. Easy. Unfortunately my plan to run some vanilla apps got a hit, I needed BWC Kex to install newer browsers and now, newer …

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Re: Finding the perfect modern laptop for me: or does it exist?

Posted on 2019-12-14, 22:18

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Maybe you just need to rethink your seemingly simplistic view of the world that "program that uses a lot of RAM is a bad program". It's not simplistic, and it's a matter of good programming. Good programmers write good code, and good code uses almost little resources while he can keep its program …

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Re: Finding the perfect modern laptop for me: or does it exist?

Posted on 2019-12-14, 22:10

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Maybe you just need to rethink your seemingly simplistic view of the world that "program that uses a lot of RAM is a bad program". Oh come on, I never said that. For example I think Google Chrome / Chromium is a great program, despite the RAM usage. I've upgraded my modern machines to 16 GB + so I …

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