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Re: Has VOGONS banned me by IP?

Posted on 2023-05-26, 13:01

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Contact an admin by PM as per the terms and conditions page: 8. You won’t try to hack or disrupt the site or its members, or bypass moderation of your account. (If you discover a security problem, please send a private message to a VOGONS administrator straight away. We will fix the problem and give …

Re: What old software do you still use daily ?

Posted on 2023-05-23, 18:05

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I have old stuff installed but it's not used daily except when there's some particular thing I'm doing. The oldest stuff I have called up recently (last week) would be: AnyDVD - but I couldn't work out how to do what I wanted... (mount an ISO...) CloneCD (or one of the related tools)- to simulate CD …

Re: Nostalgia for vintage PCs in the future

Posted on 2023-05-09, 18:35

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Pretty much this is how TV and films are already, feels like it's getting more intense - in terms of docu-dramas and so on that on the face of it are dramatisations of real events but in reality are mostly fiction where the writers have imagined what might have happened. Recent-ish things of the …

Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-13, 11:48

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My kids are around age 25-30, nowadays they either have old consoles or mostly emulators for various Nintedo/Sony/Dreamcast. Some buy or otherwise obtain old PC games on steam or whatever (not gog so much). But they have zero interest in my old computing gear, even when it was stuff they played on …

Re: The PC parts market is weird sometimes

Posted on 2023-04-09, 10:27

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Some weirdness for sure on ebay. I bid £152 on an item a while ago but it sold for £205. The next day the seller sent me a second chance of £152 (which was my bid). Started at £150. Three others (only one a zero feedback) bid it up to £205.

Re: Whats the most rare piece of hardware you own?

Posted on 2023-03-08, 00:52

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Rarest I have now is probably a boxed set of Metabyte 3D glasses... think the name was Eye Scream. And a boxed Metabyte Vengeance Banshee. I guess Banshees aren't rare in themselves, but I never came across this brand in the flesh before or since. I have a few Wildcat VP cards (760, 870, 970, 990 …

Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2023-02-19, 00:42

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Swapped my slow old non-turbo petrol Forester for a not-quite-so-old diesel XC70 last year. Loved the Subaru but Volvo is way more comfortable and the engine so much more powerful. But tbh the switch of brand was due to local service availability, multiple Volvo speciallists in town but the nearest …

Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2023-02-04, 19:20

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If you thought the intro to Half Life was too long, you're either too young to have played it when it came out, or a hipster. I suppose you could also have been a mac only user at the time. Hahaha! I'm over 60, and I've been a PC user since 1986. Too old maybe. .... I'm reminded of the satirical, …

Re: How much of your retro hardware do you actually use?

Posted on 2023-02-04, 16:14

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I've moved on to other interests so I have a cupboard etc of stuff the contents of which I'm starting to forget... one PC full of old parts that's mothballed, and one that is operational but I seldom even turn on. It's got the main games I wanted to play, or play again. I got over most of the …

Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2023-02-04, 15:53

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I got bored watching the long-winded intro scene to HL1, so I shut the game down and never went back to it. I had played the demo, and even then wondered why it was so popular.

Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

Posted on 2023-01-20, 19:41

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Photography is another area with an elitism problem. The new generations of smartphones have some pretty fancy optics that make them competitive with much more expensive professional cameras, but of course smartphone photographers don't get any respect. All those millions of smartphones users and …

Re: Video games are too heavily monetized these days

Posted on 2023-01-08, 16:56

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Yeah. One of the many things that made me stop subsidising blizzard was monetisation - especially where you already pay monthly. Though in amongst the crap I did buy the mount post thing in WoW (ah... warforged nightmare i think was it)... Guess it was going that way. Years later I liked Sunless Sea …

Re: Hardware you wish you'd never bought.

Posted on 2022-12-10, 11:33

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Nostromo keypad N50 - really could not get on with it Microsoft Strategic Commander - likewise Seriously? I swear by my Belkin Nostromo N50 and Nostromo N52. The N50's wheel throttle works well for "lite" flight sims where I'm too lazy to use "real" throttle like Thrustmaster FLCS or CH Pro …

Re: How do you plan a new retro-build? How did you?

Posted on 2022-11-29, 00:21

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For my only long-lasting PC-for-old-games .... I had a set of games I wanted to play, together with a view on the hardware necessary to get those games running how I wanted (from previous builds). It then grew from there, adding a few other games and swapping cards around until I got the …

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