Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2022-12-23, 21:57
rcarkk wrote on 2022-12-08, 12:30: More pictures... Great cable routing and pics. I wish Vogons allowed likes 😉
Is anyone currently living in Germany?
Posted on 2022-12-23, 21:44
I just moved to Frankfurt from Hong Kong and several kind users along the way helped with advice on packing, storage and shipping questions. Unfortunately, due to forum restrictions, I am unable to respond to a couple of these users. So my question is: is anyone currently living in Germany here?
Re: Any Germans Here?
Posted on 2022-12-21, 23:10
This is quite the necro bump but my new thread would be called exactly this anyway. I just unpacked my container into an apartment in Frankfurt. Are there currently any (more) Germans (or users based in Germany) on Vogons? Curious to see who is around for a beer, up for sharing of advice and / or …
Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback
Posted on 2022-11-24, 09:19
Is there a way to reply to users who have not reached the minimum post count in order to receive private messages? A few months back, I was looking for advice about relocating to Germany and bringing my collection with me and received some useful advice from a user whom I can not reply to via pm. …
Re: Relocating to a new country: tips and tricks for international freight of vintage hardware
Posted on 2022-08-31, 20:02
So we made it in one piece. And by we I mean my family of old junk parts - and the child & wife. The amp, speakers and turntable are crated up but I’m going to dig out an old laptop and a VGA card or two tomorrow and have a close inspection. My custom Monument build appears to have arrived safely in …
Re: Stealth way to make fans quieter.
Posted on 2022-03-05, 23:54
Nice work! I’m guilty of the lazy ol’ Noctua A4 / A6 / A8 and zip tie solution 😉
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-02-14, 23:56
Funny to think, here I have somebody's gaming pride and joy of 1994, which perhaps they have long missed. I love my Flightstick Pro. I owned it for a couple of years until an uncle working in IT gifted me my very first ever Thrustmaster FCS Mk1 - which understandably was game-changing. I now own a …
Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga
Posted on 2022-02-14, 23:51
Warlord wrote on 2022-02-14, 06:18: Docking station kinda defeats mobile purpose but there's something cool about having a3d card working in a laptop Agreed! Can a Voodoo2 fit in that docking station if there’s Win98 support?
Re: Relocating to a new country: tips and tricks for international freight of vintage hardware
Posted on 2022-02-14, 23:49
Thanks HanSolo, that’s very kind of you to offer. I may very well take you up on that offer via a pm. I got your PM but apparently I can't write PM myself here, yet. Maybe you can send me an email-address that I can respond to? Ah, I believe that may be because you’re a new member without the …
Re: Why is YouTube decreasing video resolutions?
Posted on 2022-02-14, 00:11
Anders- wrote on 2022-01-11, 17:58: Here's a video available in 8K for me, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf3bDpdhUNc - does the 8K work for you? Possibly cdn caching issue? It's only available in 4K running Safari 15.3 on MacOS 12.2.1 for me but works fine on Firefox 97.0
Re: Relocating to a new country: tips and tricks for international freight of vintage hardware
Posted on 2022-02-14, 00:07
Thanks HanSolo, that’s very kind of you to offer. I may very well take you up on that offer via a pm. Great tip about the game boxes but not sure I'd trust a GUS to survive (or fit) into a System Shock box. Intellivision plastic box covers on the other hand do very well as protection for small to …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2022-02-13, 23:16
For anything but retro builds I’m all in on custom loops in ITX cases with an under volt / overclock on the CPU/GPU. They are not for the faint-hearted and you are almost guaranteed to come across at least one leak or forgotten step somewhere along the loop the first few times you try. I’m now on my …
Re: Relocating to a new country: tips and tricks for international freight of vintage hardware
Posted on 2022-02-11, 02:14
An example... https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_PH/baggage/extra-baggage-charges/pay-cash-or-by-credit-card.html see if you look at zone 4 and see $65 per kilogram that's scary, but that's for kilograms over and above the regular luggage weight of 23kg... in the table below you see a piece of up …
Re: Relocating to a new country: tips and tricks for international freight of vintage hardware
Posted on 2022-02-09, 13:00
I think that's the safest albeit most expensive option. I added a rough list of items to freight and a bullet point in there at the end about air freight charges being through the roof these days too ;) You might want to consider vacuum wrapping with silica gel the items you 100% dont want any …
Re: Relocating to a new country: tips and tricks for international freight of vintage hardware
Posted on 2022-02-09, 11:34
I think that's the safest albeit most expensive option. I added a rough list of items to freight and a bullet point in there at the end about air freight charges being through the roof these days too 😉
Relocating to a new country: tips and tricks for international freight of vintage hardware
Posted on 2022-02-09, 09:55
Relocating to a new country - how do you transport your gear? To those of you who’ve done it or considering it, what was the best option for you? I’m based in Hong Kong and looking to get outta Dodge by moving the family to where my wife is from (Germany). But I feel my question would apply to …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-02-05, 01:09
sirotkaslo wrote on 2022-02-04, 06:56: The MSI pro266td master-lr. Damn, that board has been on my wishlist for quite a while. Nice score! 😁
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2022-02-02, 09:18
TrashPanda wrote on 2022-02-01, 15:20: The Radeon VII is/was a great card for heavy lifting work - it was very well appreciated by CAD / 3D users in both PC and Mac environments, just a hot, stonking great card when it came out and totally not for the consumer market at all.
Re: Compaq armada 1750
Posted on 2022-02-01, 09:12
Does anyone have a fix / solution for getting into the BIOS of the 1750? I have what looks to be an original HDD inside this 1750 but can only get as far as a 'Non system disk error. Press any key to reboot' error even with a Win95 boot disk or Win98 boot disk (official) installed in the FDD. I know …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2022-02-01, 07:05
All the searches online show ~60mhash. I swapped to the overclocked bios setting (2600mhz boost) it hits 65 ish. thanks to the winter cold, the die temp is only 48C. ^.^ My goal isnt to "make money" just to keep my house warm. Thanks to solar, I have effectively free power. I just play games on …
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