Re: Retro Supplies Australia

Posted on 2013-05-07, 05:46

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by badmojo

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Oh yeah you gotta be sneaky! Fortunately for me the guys that work out the back of mine are all a few beers short of a six-pack. I've also had some success having a look around during our annual hard rubbish pickup. I feel like a bit of a scumbag scrabbling through my neighbor's junk but it's been …

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Re: O hai!

Posted on 2013-05-07, 05:40

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by badmojo

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Hi! A 5 year-old hard drive is considered brand spanking new around here 😀

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Re: Retro Supplies Australia

Posted on 2013-05-07, 00:53

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by badmojo

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Yeah it ain't easy finding stuff for cheap (as this stuff should be). I spent a year or so looking for stuff with little to show for it, and then I found the recycle center down the road. They do put some of the newer stuff up for sale but the old stuff is always scrapped, so I always keep some old …

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Re: Mainboard ID: Found this 486 at work! Biostar with VLB?

Posted on 2013-05-06, 10:33

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by badmojo

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Nice work! Pretty standard looking vlb board, someone's taken the vga card, etc but that's no big deal. 50% of the boards I find from that era have acid damage but I can't see a battery there at all? Hopefully there's an external battery header to make things easy on you.

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Re: Malaysia General Election 2013

Posted on 2013-05-05, 23:10

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by badmojo

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Not a good result, I hope you're staying safe over there.

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Re: Doom: General MIDI VS Sound Canvas

Posted on 2013-05-05, 03:19

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by badmojo

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I've never noticed any difference, just making Sound Canvas owners feel special perhaps? (as they should!)

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Re: Signal output quality difference S3 Virge vs Matrox Mystique

Posted on 2013-05-04, 03:42

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by badmojo

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To me it looks like the color difference is just brightness / contrast. The cards have different maximum levels on the analog outputs, this could be compensated by the controls of the CRT That's almost word-for-word what I was about to say. Some cards just drive the output signals a little hotter …

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Re: SB16 Ct2230 + NEC XR385 vs YMF719 + NEC XR385

Posted on 2013-05-02, 22:26

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by badmojo

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@Mau1wurf1977 I think the issue here is the choice between SB16 and Yamaha SAx. For all practical purposes, I prefer Yamaha. Yeah but what are the practical purposes? As Mau1wurf1977 said the "SB16 is not fully SB Pro compatible" thing is a non-issue, and the YMF's are not 100% compatible anyway …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-05-02, 11:38

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by badmojo

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Getting my hands on this was an unlikely coincidence. I’d bid on the SCC-1 in the ‘eBay auctions that might interest you’ thread not expecting to win and didn’t, and then I happened to click on the ‘other items like this’ link in eBay – which I never do – and it brought up an ‘pickup only’ auction …

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Re: Developers releases DRM free game, 93% pirated on day one

Posted on 2013-05-01, 10:06

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by badmojo

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Kreshna my friend, the world is not that complicated. These companies - who make computer games remember - want your money, and my money; they'd probably even accept my mothers money despite her being a low income earner. To get our money they produce a product which they think we'll want to buy. …

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Re: Help with Yamaha Audician 32 Plus ISA sound card, please

Posted on 2013-05-01, 09:44

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by badmojo

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That's great news - is it the exact same card, the Audician 32?

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Re: Games like Daggerfall

Posted on 2013-05-01, 02:48

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by badmojo

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It's not first person but have you tried Ultima 7? Great game that. If you want first person then Strife is fun - more of an action game but does have RPG elements.

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Re: Developers releases DRM free game, 93% pirated on day one

Posted on 2013-04-30, 09:57

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by badmojo

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I'd like a show of hands - who here is saying "pirates are greedy assholes" on the one hand, and downloading game of thrones on the other? My hand's up!

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Modern Model M keyboard equivalent.

Posted on 2013-04-30, 04:51

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I found a Model M a while back, restored it, and it's ruined me for rubber dome keyboards forever more. I did a bit of research and bought a mechanical DASKeyboard for a decent sum, but it's just not right. The first 2 (!) I was sent were busted, which wasn't a good start. The keys on 3rd one, which …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-04-29, 05:23

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by badmojo

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Artex wrote: Another haul over the last 2 weeks! I think you mentioned a while back that you have a wife, my question is - do you still have a wife after buying all this stuff??

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Re: Possible project: preserve/replicate our hardware!

Posted on 2013-04-29, 03:06

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by badmojo

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The gameport cable is a good idea, since brackets are easily available. The cables themselves seem to be getting rarer. A serial port can also work similarly. MIDI out only requires three pins. MIDI in requires two, but also an Optoisolator. I believed that the game writes a MIDI command to the …

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Re: Help with Yamaha Audician 32 Plus ISA sound card, please

Posted on 2013-04-27, 09:51

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by badmojo

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I've installed the Windows 3.1 drivers now. All it seems to do is install the same DOS setupsa as before and put it into autoexec just as before. Same errors. No sound. Yes but can you use the windows software to configure it instead of setupsa? You still need to run setupsa for dos, but I'm under …

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Re: Possible project: preserve/replicate our hardware!

Posted on 2013-04-26, 05:21

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by badmojo

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I've always wondered if there was a software solution to this problem. I know nothing about the hardware / software involved but from what I understand MIDI devices are not particularly complicated, and I've wondered if it would be possible to write a little TSR that could monitor and intercept …

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Re: Help with Yamaha Audician 32 Plus ISA sound card, please

Posted on 2013-04-25, 23:19

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by badmojo

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I have a YMF701 based card which allows you to disable the WSS from within the setupsa program (same version of the program, it just displays different options for the YMF701), but given my bad experience with setupsa I'd be surprised if that option actually did anything. My only other suggestion is …

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Re: Help with Yamaha Audician 32 Plus ISA sound card, please

Posted on 2013-04-25, 04:13

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by badmojo

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I don't think it's a ridiculous idea, it's definitely some sort of resource clash. I have the exact same card and have gotten the exact same error in a socket 7 machine. It works fine in a VLB motherboard so I suspect it has something to do with the PCI bus. Even "working" though these cards are a …

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