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

Posted on 2023-12-16, 19:33

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I can still remember that people used to think that the monitor was the computer and called the computer a hard drive. But this one is my hard drive.... https://yuri.dk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/atari_mega1_003-1024x768.jpg Computer and hard drive: https://yuri.dk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/atari_ …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-12-15, 23:11

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...I don't need to have it ... i know these words... but they make no sense in this combination to me :smirk: Don't tempt me; I already have four or five Commodore Amiga 500s - and roughly the same amount of Commodore 64s;) I did manage to find the problem with the fan; let's just call it a used …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-12-15, 15:12

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I think the issue with an SSD is that neither 2K or XP is aware of SSD, and thus wears it out "real quick" if it's an issue on an intermediately used retro computer, I don't think so, but you may be aware. Where in Denmark are you located? My local recycling station (Næstved) had a ton of T60s at …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-12-15, 10:44

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Kind of in the sweetspot between modern and retro, I picked up an Lenovo IBM ThinkPad T60 last night for less than 15 USD/ 14 EUR including original docking station and the large battery: I was originally looking for T43 spares when I saw this cheap one - the power supply was lost (or died) so he …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-12-15, 08:50

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Few days ago I picked up Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition (2010) which I had started December 2021 but didn't play since, although I was about half way through the base game (2009). Been giving it a couple of hours each day for the last couple of days and it have some good things and some bad things. …

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

Posted on 2023-12-12, 13:58

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Spent time dismantling an IBM ThinkPad 760 XL which no longer starts up (before dismantling), but just have a speaker symbol flashing. I read that it could be just the switch for hibernation, but that didn't seem to be the case. I also read that it could be most likely the main system board or the …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-12-12, 12:59

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I am almost finishing the Quarter Mile expansion of Car Mechanic Simulator 2014; I was quite dissapointed in this expansion compared to the base game and the 4x4 expansion: The game has no controller support so your throttle control of W/Arrow-Up can be quite thickle before you get a perfect launch …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2023-12-12, 12:48

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devius wrote on 2023-12-12, 12:35: CrazyCatman wrote on 2023-12-12, 12:09: MadMac_5 wrote on 2023-12-09, 22:49: Shipping will be from Canadian postal code R2M 0H5... Where are you shipping from? Dude.... 🤦 Oops, skipped a line no wonder my coding today have been a mess

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2023-12-12, 12:26

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More games... found cheap at the thrifts. FS X don't got the manual boo, hope there's a pdf somewhere. I hope these can become useful: Manual (uploaded by Microsoft): https://archive.org/details/fsx-manual "Fundamentals": https://archive.org/details/MS_FLIGHT_SIMULATOR_X_and_2004_Fundamentals There …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2023-12-12, 12:09

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I've got an old Abit KR7A-RAID motherboard to give away, as well as an Athlon Thunderbird 1 GHz CPU (currently in the board) and an Athlon XP 2000+. The motherboard refuses to POST for me, and it's probably due to the fact that it accidentally spent 4 years in uncontrolled temperatures when it was …

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Amitech FreeNote 4407 / Mitac MiNote 7125C

Posted on 2023-11-30, 08:07

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My grandparents opened up a radio and TV shop with repair shop in 1978. During the years up to 2005 when they closed shop to retire my grandfather had a whole bunch of microfiches and binders with electronics schematics. In 2002 he bought a laptop computer to use in the workshop to get the new files …

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

Posted on 2023-11-29, 06:44

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Spent time dismantling an IBM ThinkPad 760 XL which no longer starts up (before dismantling), but just have a speaker symbol flashing. I read that it could be just the switch for hibernation, but that didn't seem to be the case. I also read that it could be most likely the main system board or the …

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Re: Problematic Windows games list

Posted on 2023-11-28, 12:02

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Not sure if you will consider this as following the criteria, but since the two .dll that do CD-check is removed from Windows (since 8?), you can't play Rome: Total War and Medieval Ii: Total War (including Gold Edition) on Windows 10. However you can enter your serial/CD-key in Steam ("Add games …

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Re: Screen turns white (SiS630 on laptop)

Posted on 2023-11-28, 09:43

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I am using the ISO of the Danish edition of Windows 2000 Professional SP4 that Microsoft uploaded to the Internet Archive REMOVED but without any additional updates. I also tried a less official ISO REMOVED a try as a final test. After the Danish Win 2K with Swedish error, I tried to install Windows …

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

Posted on 2023-11-28, 08:30

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I spent my night/early mornings on working on my Amitech FreeNote 4407 (Mitac MiNote 7521C) first doing some trial and error on Windows 2000, then in the end deciding to install Windows Me instead and patch up with all the updates I could find, and install the drivers. That's going to be it for now …

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Re: Screen turns white (SiS630 on laptop)

Posted on 2023-11-27, 21:12

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Tried to connect my Mirai DML-417N200 screen to see what would happen. Sadly the laptop's screen burns white like before, but the a Mirai stays on - however Windows 2000 freezes: ezgif.com-optimize-3.gif Again: it's a .gif so you may have to click it to see it. Next step have been to take the …

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Re: Screen turns white (SiS630 on laptop)

Posted on 2023-11-27, 13:43

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Thanks .... found what I think is the equivalent manual -> https://www.manualslib.com/manual/478873/Mitac-7521-Plus-N.html Going by the read, will have a sis630S and sis301 video bridge... this maybe your unknown device? The driver installs both a SiS630, SiS630V, SiS730 and SiS300 drivers in C: \ …

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Re: Big Box PC Games – Show and Tell

Posted on 2023-11-27, 13:12

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Every year I do bring out one specific Amiga game as a part of my Christmas decoration at my office - the 1993 Christmas Lemmings: It does look very special and festive. The manual is quite big too, does it include tutorials? It's 28 numbered pages (last two are blank, and the cover sheet is not …

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Re: Screen turns white (SiS630 on laptop)

Posted on 2023-11-27, 11:30

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It is an Amitech Freenote 4407 - a rebadged Mitac MiNote 7521C - also tried to search on that model, but I mostly just get battery packs when searching. I previously had a link to the SIS site, but indeed it have been down for some time. I saved it exactly to be able to find drivers for this …

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Re: Big Box PC Games – Show and Tell

Posted on 2023-11-27, 11:03

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Most of my Big Box games are Amiga games; I only have a handful of Big Box DOS/Windows games left unfortunately. Every year I do bring out one specific Amiga game as a part of my Christmas decoration at my office - the 1993 Christmas Lemmings: Filename IMG_20231127_120048.jpg File size 1.41 MiB …

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