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Re: Any love for AM2?

Am2/+ can easily be skipped. Early am2 basically 939 refresh on ddr2 and then later better binned but still behind intel. I went from 939 to am3. Phenom ii was way better. Am3 was my platform until intel haswell. Never looked back. I did the same thing and went from s939 to a AM3 Phenom II. I stuck …

Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

in Milliways
There is no problem to solve, people have been like that with everything for all time, the solution is indeed grow a thicker skin, reject, ignore. Also, retro gaming as an identity? Get a grip. The outrage video is good for clicks though. This. It's the sort of stuff that used to be called "first …

Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

in Milliways
Of course there's gatekeeping, it comes in the form of hoarding and monopolizing of various retro sources, one can observe it on this forum. A small amount of people keeping big collections of old gear is exactly what keeps it out of the hands of folks looking to get into the retro world. There are …

Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

in Milliways
The bitchyness and drama in the retro-console world sickens me. I am glad I am not part of that community. I was never really into the retro consoles, even though I had consoles from the Atari 2600. I should feel more nostalgic about consoles, but for some reason I don't really. And the whole YATA …

Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

in Milliways
I won't be surprised if that whole thing from that video, which is a comment on another video btw, is overblown out of proportion because it's missing certain context. I wouldn't be surprised if almost all had been made up, kinda like the 'based on a true story (but we made everything up)' movies, …

Re: Any love for AM2?

XP PCs around here seem to always be Socket 775 based C2D or C2Q systems, when they're not modern over powered systems! No one seems to build AM2 / Athlon X2 or AM2+ / Athlon Phenom II X2 X3 x4 builds much. Why is that? I know they were generally not as good as Intel's competition at this late …

Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

in Milliways
Of course there's gatekeeping, it comes in the form of hoarding and monopolizing of various retro sources, one can observe it on this forum. A small amount of people keeping big collections of old gear is exactly what keeps it out of the hands of folks looking to get into the retro world. Same goes …

Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

in Milliways
When I rebuilt my 486 in 2008 here (M919 AM586@160+s3trio64v+awe32=59.79speedsys), there wasn't an exponentially growing PC collection from there (I never caught "the bug"). That machine would later be used to crosscheck some bugs in DOSbox and PCem. It was then decommissioned for a PSU failure. …

Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

in Milliways
I don't think there's any gate keeping in retro, just people making snarky comments trying to feel superior over others. (and I don't mean the sarcasm and jokes ^^) I guess a lot of people spend money to feel superior, it's the classic trope of having to have a better house, a better car than your …

Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

in Milliways
Of course there's gatekeeping, it comes in the form of hoarding and monopolizing of various retro sources, one can observe it on this forum. A small amount of people keeping big collections of old gear is exactly what keeps it out of the hands of folks looking to get into the retro world. Same goes …

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