Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-06, 00:05

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Speedlink controller for RetroPIE or Windows/Linux/Mac gaming. Bought-04.jpg Will be getting one of these from Santa since you say you really like it. Will be for my Pi project as well. Close to, yet not 100% identical to a real Ps2 controller. Buttons are close to 95%, weight is a bit lower and it …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2018-12-06, 00:01

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by brostenen

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December 8

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2018-12-05, 23:50

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gdjacobs wrote: "Spare Shit I've Got" thread? Any mention of currency in the forum and the offender is instantly reminded (visually) that Sean Connery once wore a red diaper on film. Not scary. Just post a picture of a hand with lots of holes in the skin, and pray members do not have Trypophobia.

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2018-12-05, 23:42

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December 18

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-05, 23:12

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I have recieved these goodies the last couple of weeks. Everything except the Amiga500 trapdoor ram is brand new. - Rom switcher that can be used for both audio equipment and Amiga's. - 68030 40mhz CPU that can be clocked at 50 without heatsink. - Amiga 500 512kb memory upgrade for the trapdoor. - …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-05, 22:47

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I bought a Sony Mavic too last month. Mine came with a pack of floppies too. Nice Camera's. Then post a picture of your own and not a stock image FFS. Got a new pet last week. 71-dPjoSeWL._SX425_.jpg Beautiful! What breeder? This is my cat being playful. Such a silly one. catplay.jpg HUH' :-O What?

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Re: What use are old IDE hard drives for today

Posted on 2018-12-05, 09:48

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What about those compatibility problems some people have been having with CF cards? I have seen in youtube videos many people getting all kinds of errors when trying to use a CF card in an old pc. I have never seen it on any PC. Yet I have seen it on Amiga's. This however comes down to the adaptor …

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Re: What use are old IDE hard drives for today

Posted on 2018-12-05, 09:40

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The usage for old harddrives, is when hardware will not accept anything else (yes, I have seen controllers that refused to work with CF/SD) or if you absolutely love loud noises so much that you can not live with CF/SD cards. To me, the only time I use real drives, is when I can not get anything …

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Re: Which GPU for a Pentium 3 750 MHz?

Posted on 2018-12-05, 09:31

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I am trying to put together a new P3 build from my old spare parts. It is a Pentium 3 750 MHz. The following are the old cards I have. I have some older 16MB cards as well but I thought they would be too old for this. I have no idea of the age of some of these. Maybe some are too new or too old? …

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Re: From your experience, what have you found to be the most robust, reliable hardware to date?

Posted on 2018-12-05, 08:39

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I think creative suffer from the same illness as Apple. Once they became too popular, the quality went down the drain. It is like... All sorts of issues with the PNP part and build quality on AWE64's and some AWE32's. Yet SB-Pro/SB 1.5 cards are really reliable like a workhorse. The only Creative …

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Re: From your experience, what have you found to be the most robust, reliable hardware to date?

Posted on 2018-12-04, 21:57

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I will tell you my best and most reliable computer is an “iPad”. Ahhh... Uhmmm... NOPE. They tend to go bad after 2 to 5 years. Computers from the 8-Bit era, still have lower fail rate. If you think that any iPad will still work after 20 to 30 years after it left the factory, then think again. My …

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Re: From your experience, what have you found to be the most robust, reliable hardware to date?

Posted on 2018-12-04, 21:41

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The Amiga 500 on the other hand would be on my list of the most unreliable computers; I've owned too many with defective disk drives and the A500 Plus has the leaking clock battery issue. You have been unlucky. Though any drive need service at some point. Any floppy drive will be unreliable if it …

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Re: From your experience, what have you found to be the most robust, reliable hardware to date?

Posted on 2018-12-04, 21:25

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Intel486dx33 wrote: I will tell you my best and most reliable computer is an “iPad”. Ahhh... Uhmmm... NOPE. They tend to go bad after 2 to 5 years. Computers from the 8-Bit era, still have lower fail rate. If you think that any iPad will still work after 20 to 30 years after it left the factory, …

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Re: From your experience, what have you found to be the most robust, reliable hardware to date?

Posted on 2018-12-04, 21:21

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Atari 800xl and Amiga 500s are the most reliable two machines imho!. Also the later C64s.. not the early ones. I've never seen a failed later revision C64c in my life, not once. True that... You need to through in Vic-20 as well. What I don't get, is people saying that they are not reliable. If you …

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Re: From your experience, what have you found to be the most robust, reliable hardware to date?

Posted on 2018-12-04, 10:41

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Capacitors aside. Then I have found Commodore64 model C to be the most reliable. Then comes Amiga500 and finally 286 to 486 era hardware. When stuff is past 1995, then it is mostly Intel and Asus motherboards. Worst hardware that I have seen are Asrock motherboards from around 2003 to 2006. I have …

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Re: 3DFX cards - too expensive

Posted on 2018-12-04, 09:42

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I wanted them (Voodoo's) as well a couple of years ago. And I found my self not using them at all, because I did not want to wear them down. So I did a hard choice, selling them, while people was still able to aford them. Because ulrimately they a invented to be used, right? It was not to make money …

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Merry x-mas 2018 everyone....

Posted on 2018-12-03, 16:04

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by brostenen

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That time a year, and as well as last years, I wish a happy/fun/warm/cosy xmas-2018. Hope you all recieve nice gifts and eat a lot of goodies. (Uhh... And a good new year).

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-12-01, 09:09

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I thought BX is far superior than the apollo? Well... The benchmarks that I ran on an Intel VC-820 and an Intel SE440BX-2 said that the 440 was a better solution. Yet in real life usage (gaming), I did not see any real differences. Both stable, and both gave the same user experience. If you run …

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Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?

Posted on 2018-11-29, 22:33

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Well... Since this tread has been revived, I need to give feedback on my SocketA board. It is not the fastest SocketA board at all, yet it has a lot of features and is really stable. It is the Asus A7V266-E. I can only say, that it is freaking awesomme for a Win98 system/setup. Raid, Universal AGP. …

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

Posted on 2018-11-29, 06:46

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It's not the volts, it's the amps that kills you. Voltage just increases the ability of electricity to jump through less-conductive materials, like skin, or air. That is kind of a misconception, since voltage and current are related. While currents of 0.1 - 0.2 amps are considered lethal, the max. …

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