Re: How do you test a retro graphics card before buying?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 00:59

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by midicollector

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Everything I’ve ever bought was untested, you basically can’t test. Even if the seller says they tested, that means nothing. It could have been tested months ago and then break during shipping, who knows. It’s always a gamble.

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-18, 05:01

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Physical copies of games will degrade over time too, so they’re not a much better alternative frankly. Even if they’re sitting on your hard drive or NAS, those could go bad and then they’re gone. I’m not against physical media here, just trying to show the realistic downsides from the perspective of …

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Re: How to create a dual or even triple boot easily? (w95+w98 and maybe msdos6.22)

Posted on 2024-04-14, 23:39

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by midicollector

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I always used to use system commander deluxe. There's some hate for it these days, but back in the day I thought it was amazing.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-14, 23:38

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by midicollector

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That's a beautiful SC-55ST.

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Re: sound cards and music production

Posted on 2024-04-13, 06:17

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by midicollector

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The jv1080 was the most used synth of the period, and everyone used it. Amigas were common, so were Macs. But pcs were too. At the high end it’s possible some pros were using next machines. It was really all over the place computer wise. If you go watch videos or see pictures of many game composers, …

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Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?

Posted on 2024-04-13, 05:59

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by midicollector

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It’d be interesting conceptually to do an actual simulation of the beam, glass and shadow mask. Not for any actual practical use or purpose, but just as a fun simulation to make, especially if you tried to go really far on the physics accuracy.

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Re: Roland RA-50, RA-90 and RA-95 doubts about purchase or not

Posted on 2024-04-12, 17:30

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by midicollector

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Beautiful! That’s one of the nicest looking bodge wires I’ve seen

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Re: SC-88 Pro - Intro of MIDI files are always delayed

Posted on 2024-04-12, 17:13

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by midicollector

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I wonder if it’s related to specific hardware, that thread mentions it happening in sc55, but I don’t experience the issue on my hardware, what sound card are you using? Edit: I saw you’re connected via a ua volt 4? It might be whatever hardware connects to your MIDI device, or the drivers involved …

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Re: How hard is it to find retro/vintage computer hardware where you live?

Posted on 2024-04-12, 16:30

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by midicollector

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Depends how far I want to drive. There does tend to be very rare not so desirable stuff that pops up every once in a while locally but I’d have to drive further than I care to for most other things.

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Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 07:35

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by midicollector

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The 1084 is actually literally a tv, but having said that, I own a lot of CRTs and the 1084 has one of the best image quality of any of them. Each crt is different, mine is in fairly pristine condition, but even so the picture quality blows nearly every other crt I have out of the water, at least …

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Re: Equipment and tutorial suggestions for recapping cards?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 05:00

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by midicollector

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I was absolutely butchering stuff before I got a desoldering gun. Get a desoldering gun. Also shell out for a quality desoldering iron. I absolutely love hakko and my hakko is the best soldering iron I’ve ever used, you can’t go wrong with a hakko, but make sure whatever you get costs 100+ and is …

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Re: Multimeter recommendation

Posted on 2024-04-10, 15:16

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I totally get the price thing, but I did want to mention the way I always look at purchases like this even if it’s just a hobby: Multimeters tend to last forever, let’s say you use whichever one you buy for the next 20 years: would you rather use a crappy one every time you need one for the next 20 …

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Re: Which Sound Canvas Module to use for a MIDI Soundtrack?

Posted on 2024-04-10, 00:50

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Sc55 is overall my personal favorite midi module, but I’ve heard some really amazing sound tracks in Japanese games done with the sc88. But I just love the 55. Some of it just comes down to which one you like the most.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-10, 00:46

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by midicollector

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Occasionally, rarely, I bought something sealed mostly on accident. I immediately opened it. No regrets.

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Re: "Shader Model 2.0" games released in 2003

Posted on 2024-04-09, 18:21

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by midicollector

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Heh maybe you can install dx9 even if your card doesn’t support dx9 features in which case maybe they meant “install dx9.” Either that or some part of these requirements are a lie.

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Re: Can a faster ISA Graphics card be built?

Posted on 2024-04-09, 01:26

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by midicollector

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There isn’t any software that would benefit from it. That’s the other side of the equation. Also keep in mind that you have to turn the speed of a lot of early software down on faster machines to get it to run right.

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Re: Multimeter recommendation

Posted on 2024-04-09, 00:21

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by midicollector

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Fluke is my recommendation.

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Re: PS/2 Mouse glitch on ASUS P5A-B

Posted on 2024-04-08, 22:04

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by midicollector

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I encountered this sort of thing as a teenager, I used to assume it was the mouse failing (clearly not the case here), so I’d be super curious to know what causes this.

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Re: "TRL" CRT Horizontal Position issue

Posted on 2024-04-08, 21:58

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by midicollector

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Wow, the fact that it went through all this and still works great, what a monitor.

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Re: Hex editing a game exe - How do you figure out which parts represent what?

Posted on 2024-04-06, 03:00

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by midicollector

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Yes they do, they either do it at the assembly level or they decompile using Ghidra. Ghidra is actually the easier option in many cases, but the really old school people just went through it at the assembly level. Edit: I should mention that people who do this sort of thing tend to use a debugger to …

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