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Re: vinyl making a comeback?

Posted on 2015-05-03, 04:50

in Milliways

in Milliways

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/27/record-collector-zero-freitas-worlds-largest-vinyl-hoard The collection is so vast that it has to be housed in several large warehouses, in boxes and crates stacked high on pallets and covered in polythene or plastic sheeting. Many are likely to stay …

Re: wow this is slow

Posted on 2015-05-01, 18:35

in Milliways

in Milliways

You're connecting your main computer to the internet via your phone? I remember a friend with a laptop doing that in the 1990s. Being able to browse the internet while lying on a beach was pretty amazing at the time.

Re: I ran my PIII, V2 SLI machine through 3DMark and some other bookmarks!

Posted on 2015-05-01, 18:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think 3D Mark ignores the Voodoo and just tests the 3D card it's connected to?

Re: Opinions on Gotek floppy emulators?

Posted on 2015-04-30, 18:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How do these work? You just put an .IMZ file on a USB stick and the computer sees it as a floppy?

Re: need help with batch file

Posted on 2015-04-29, 16:53

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

You're right, it makes sense. An "error level" of 4 implicitly includes levels 3, 2, 1 as well.

Re: need help with batch file

Posted on 2015-04-29, 15:30

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

Why was it done this way? Was this something that was copied from CP/M?

Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2015-04-29, 15:17

in Milliways

in Milliways

Quake 3 was a disappointment compared to previous games of the series, and also Half-Life which had come out the previous year. They decided to focus 100% on multiplayer deathmatch and left out the traditional single player adventure mode. Anyone who didn't have a good internet connection (this was …

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

Posted on 2015-04-29, 15:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I saw a screenshot of "Pong" there somewhere. What system was that on?

Re: Deteriorating game collection - how to preserve it?

Posted on 2015-04-29, 14:23

in Milliways

in Milliways

Yes they are, especially if you play them on a proper audio CD player. I have audio CDs that are badly scratched and unplayable on computer drives, but which play flawlessly in an old Sony Hi-Fi system.

Re: need help with batch file

Posted on 2015-04-29, 14:14

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

It's been a long time but I think you have to test them in the reverse order, so 4 first, 3 next and 1 last. I think ERRORLEVEL=1 actually means ERRORLEVEL>=1 so it will be valid for all values

Re: Deteriorating game collection - how to preserve it?

Posted on 2015-04-29, 05:03

in Milliways

in Milliways

Might be poor manufacturing quality of course. I wonder about those boxes though. Maybe disks stored that way are more likely to overheat, or perhaps the lack of ventilation may cause some airborne chemical to do damage?

Re: Deteriorating game collection - how to preserve it?

Posted on 2015-04-29, 04:47

in Milliways

in Milliways

They were stored vertically in a conventional CD 'cake box'? I'd like to know myself if these are safe for long term storage of optical disks.

Re: Going to Be Without Internet... or a Home... for a Week

Posted on 2015-04-29, 04:37

in Milliways

in Milliways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0-wNWJxGFM#t=1m00s

Re: The factory worker that helped bring the Music Industry to its knees

Posted on 2015-04-29, 04:01

in Milliways

in Milliways

The earliest stuff was actually mp2 IIRC.

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

Posted on 2015-04-29, 03:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

^^ bearded fatguys are to old computers as bees are to honey

Re: If you could play any game for the first time ever again...

Posted on 2015-04-29, 03:41

in Milliways

in Milliways

World of Warcraft. I was so blown away the first time I played it with my friends. I avoided this game for years because I knew it was a major time waster. I did eventually try it though. The first time playing was amazing. I just wandered around for hours awestruck. Riding that tram for the first …

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

Posted on 2015-04-29, 03:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That looks fun. Did you have to drive far? I'd be nervous of taking old computers on long road trips due to the vibration.

Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2015-04-29, 02:57

in Milliways

in Milliways

Someone criticised WC3 earlier. I came to it new without any knowledge of the previous games and liked it. However I can see why people used to WC2 would dislike it, because it's a simpler and smaller game by comparison. There are also three distinct 'modes' of gameplay: single player, custom and …

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

Posted on 2015-04-27, 14:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That reminds me, there was some piece of software in the old days that would add 'wallpaper' to the backgrounds of MS applications, like Word and Excel. Does anyone remember what it was called? I wish I knew, I saw that on toastytech.org years ago on Nathan LIneback's "Computers I've Had" page or …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2015-04-23, 22:45

in Milliways

in Milliways

Yes the game gets very strange later on. The 'dark' bit at the start is just common sense. IIRC the evil thing about that part is that if you forget to bring the toothbrush with you the game becomes unwinnable...

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