Re: Gamestop To Begin Trading in Retro Consoles and Games

Posted on 2015-04-23, 18:19

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I don't see this as working too well, most Gamestop patrons I come across are too busy talking about the latest Halo or Gears of War to really give a crap about some 10-20-30-40 year old game console. Plus, one of our local ones (Montlake Terrace to be exact) had some NES stuff the last time I came …

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

Posted on 2015-04-23, 17:43

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Worked on the game I'm creating some more last night, this time mostly drawing the "Rooms". Very cool, creepingnet. Are you writing your own game engine? Or using one off-the-shelf? I'm using an old copy of Adventure Game Studio in which the room editor runs in DOS. I'm keeping on vintage hardware …

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

Posted on 2015-04-23, 17:31

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Worked on the game I'm creating some more last night, this time mostly drawing the "Rooms". I might show some of that off in little "teasers" later once I have all the rooms setup, I have my own artwork style that I feel blurs reality and cartoonish-ness quite well without looking "wacky", though …

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Re: Another retro PC - iBM Aptiva

Posted on 2015-04-20, 23:01

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That model shares the base chassis with the IBM PC-330 100DX4 I had. Looking at the center of the front inside of the lower chassis, I can see where the PC-330 power button and power/HDD LED lights would have gone, and where the 1.44M Floppy would have mounted under the CD-ROM.

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

Posted on 2015-04-20, 22:55

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That's quite a project you're contemplating. Do you really want to do this on an old computer? Never mind the speed and other technical limitations, are you sure it's not going to malfunction and take out hours/days/weeks of work? And anyway didn't the professional game developers of old use proper …

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Re: a humble 386

Posted on 2015-04-20, 18:12

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http://i.imgur.com/WrByCFr.jpg Love that case, reminds me of the GEM 386 I had years ago that I converted into a PIII eventually. I wonder if the same company made it. Mine was a clone of a Deskpro though. http://rs31.pbsrc.com/albums/c362/creepingnet2001/Computers/The%20Creeping%20Network/GEM% …

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

Posted on 2015-04-20, 18:05

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Started working on the puzzles/scripting ideas for a AGS Graphical Adventure game that I've been ping-ponging around in my head for years now. It's starting to turn out rather well. That's one reason I just ran through Monkey Island 1 & 2 - so I could take a look at how Ron Gilbert and co got their …

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Re: tom's Hardware piece about building a vintage PC

Posted on 2015-04-17, 16:06

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I could write a better article - a P200 is way too fast for most things 1994 on back, heck, it's too fast for some stuff from 1996 on back! I set it up like this, there are far more "ages" to gaming.... EARLY DOS ERA Either an 8088 or a slower-clock-speed 286 with a turbo button will do the job. CGA …

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Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2015-04-16, 21:25

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Back To The Future games for the NES - I sooo wanted to drive that DeLorean, game one was just me at age 16 (I wore jeans and a black sleeveless) running to the malt-shop as the only sober guy in town, and that Super Mario Bros. + Donkey Kong rip-off that was II & III. Never expected much from LJN …

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Re: Great game-oriented screensavers?

Posted on 2015-04-16, 18:42

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You bet your head from AfterDark For Win3.1x/Win95 is one of my favorite Game-that-Is-A-Screensaver dealies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lzRy7QbU8k I might need to come here after hours and grab some of this stuff for the 486 DX2! Especially the LucasArts stuff, might go good with my 256 color …

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Re: What's in your PCI/ISA slots?

Posted on 2015-04-16, 00:51

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No Pictures (as of yet) - will be moving to a new photo-sharing host for computer stuff that's not so slow (trying one from another thread). 1985 Tandy 1000 A 8-Bit ISA Slot #1 - 384K RAM Expansion (total 640K) - Tandy Branded 8-Bit ISA Slot #2 - Intel EtherExpress 16 in 8-bit Mode 8-Bit ISA Slot #3 …

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Re: vinyl making a comeback?

Posted on 2015-04-15, 19:03

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Vinyl seems to be increasing it's market share over the past 2 years enough that a official "Chart" company has now created an "official" Vinyl Chart. Can't remember who or what, you guys can probably google it. To me, Vinyl is more than just the little platter inside, there's the artwork and …

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Re: How many of you guys still use CRT monitors on all your retro computers (and maybe your modern ones too)

Posted on 2015-04-15, 18:52

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After awhile of being LCD only, and killing a few LCD's with the obnoxious graphics modes a old VLB VESA video card on a 486 can throw out, I went back to using classic 14-15" CRT monitors again. For my 486 I picked up a CTX digital control monitor from 1994 for free off Craigslist. Some guy had …

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

Posted on 2015-04-15, 18:30

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Try PostIMG.org; http://postimg.org/ It's not always the fastest out there, but it should be fast enough and makes up for it with the direct linking and such. Funny you mentioned screen savers, I've been messing with those a lot lately... What's the point of building a kickass machine and then …

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

Posted on 2015-04-15, 15:34

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Spent last night trying some "Junk" DVD-RW and DVD-ROM Drives out on the 486, those were pretty much dead, one would not start, the other the door would not open - back to the pile with those parts along with the Video card from the same Sony Vaio that died. Took the chipset heatsink from the Vaio's …

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Re: network shareing method with windows 95 on windows 8?

Posted on 2015-04-14, 23:03

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All you need to go is the following to my knowledge....I grabbed this from elsewhere. I did the same thing in my Windows 7 machine. Instead of using my DOS/WFWG box(es) to connect to the modern machine, I do all administration FROM the modern machine in the modern Windows. It also works better that …

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

Posted on 2015-04-10, 23:04

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Have decided to "downsize" a bit. I will be putting some hardware, software, and classic videogames on E-bay within the next month or so, whenever I get out of my walking-boot (broken ankle) and am walking 100% again. Lots of PC, Atari 2600, and NES stuff. I've got cards, drives, motherboards, …

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Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P

Posted on 2015-04-08, 20:17

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I'm just looking to get each machine into a cohesive state for display once I move out of that moldhole piece of crap place I live in currently. Tandy 1000 - Tandy CM2/CM3/CM4/CM5 color monitor so I can give it a dedicated spot on my "retro PC table" in my new man cave. Optionally some other type of …

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Re: Best OS for a 286?

Posted on 2015-04-08, 16:33

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My old GEM 286 has been running 6.22 since the day I bought it off E-bay in mid 2005. I upgraded it to 6.22 from 5.00, but kept DOS Shell and the optional QBASIC games and stuff from 5. It's a 10MHz Intel 80286 SX-10 overclocked to 12MHz via BIOS glitch because I put in a ITT 802c87 Math Co- …

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Re: Found a Dell Precision T3400 in the trash

Posted on 2015-04-08, 15:51

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Ah yes, the T3400, those things are literal tanks. I've worked in 2 enterprise environments where those were used as high end workstations for CAD, programming/software development, and man, every last one of them are still kicking around past the 5-year cycle. They are one of the very very few …

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