Cool Retro Term (terminal on Linux)

Posted on 2017-02-26, 23:52

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Been playing 15 minutes with this, and now I got a headache..... So I guess they did a wonderful job in recreating the old experience. :lol: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/11/make-cool-retro-terminal-ubuntu Working perfectly on Xubuntu, so I guess it is working on all the other Ubuntu deriatives. …

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

Posted on 2017-02-26, 18:39

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If indeed the NX pro 16 is the one with empty socket in the corner and it does excist. Then that was what I had for my first soundcard. By far the best in terms of noise. Just that I as so many others, had that model in my country. Hence being a card that I need to find for my collection. 😀

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

Posted on 2017-02-26, 00:09

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Tested my SCSI zip-100 drive for the first time ever, since I found it in a dumpster around 2012/13. It is working flawless, and is the first time ever, that I have seen ZIP drives working in real life. Then I changed the capacitor on my ET6000. Some of the yellow chips had loose pins, that had come …

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Re: What capacitor rating is this?

Posted on 2017-02-25, 21:04

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Nice.... 😀 Thanks. I had an idea that I read it right, I just wanted to make shure as I am a bit insecure when it does not explicitly say "uF".

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What capacitor rating is this?

Posted on 2017-02-25, 20:12

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What fahrad is this 16volt cap? I have an idea that it is 10 micro-farad/uF. And the positive is the side with + right? Filename What-Cap-01.jpg File size 242.79 KiB Views 661 views

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Re: New Hardware Trading Forum

Posted on 2017-02-24, 11:33

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Yeah... That would be me, trying to get at "mysterie package" thing going. It flat out hit the floor, as not even sending a package of unidentified give-away was recieved as a good thing. So I just abandoned getting that idea up and running.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-22, 13:10

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5volt 3amp power supply for my Orange Pi Plus 2 and a 16gb Sandisk ultra SD card as well. Going to be sweet to run operating systems from the internal emmc storage. Now I am only missing a case for that board. Somehow they are hard to source, even on eBay at a decent price. Guess I have to build my …

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Re: I need advice for a 3DFX Config

Posted on 2017-02-22, 03:51

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I wouldn't recommand a p2/slow p3 because even voodoo 2 sli can scale up to the pentium 3 1GHz. My pentium 2 400 overclocked to 496 struggles to have a constant 60 fps under half life or unreal with my voodoo 2 sli whereas seing how those games run using the exact same gpus on a 1GHz pentium 3 …

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Re: I need advice for a 3DFX Config

Posted on 2017-02-22, 03:46

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Ok thanks now I see how you put it. Gonna try when I grab a voodoo3. Its a cheap way to cool the voodoo nice job :p as for the RAM i only own 1GB stick so I guess I will limit the ram in W98 and keep 1gb physical. I want the PC to run 3dfx games, i'm not interested in geforce/ati oldies. W98 is …

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Re: I need advice for a 3DFX Config

Posted on 2017-02-22, 00:27

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Go for something like Geforce 6800 if you want to run WindowsXP software/games on that machine. If you want to run Win98 games, then go for the Voodoo3 card and install 512mb Ram instead. There is indeed holes for zip ties. The heatsink has 4 holes and only 2 are used to secure it to the card. EDIT: …

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

Posted on 2017-02-21, 23:49

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Got a lot of the missing pieces for my collection, between december 2016 and this month. So now I am only missing a couple of vital parts, before my "project" is finished. Shure more will come, though they will not be what I planned to get in the first place. Still missing these parts, in order to …

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Re: I need advice for a 3DFX Config

Posted on 2017-02-21, 23:34

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It is a nice Win98 machine. Running XP for gaming, you might want to go for a faster GFX than Voodoo3. I have no idea about any possible driver issues with Voodoo3 and XP. So you might want to check up on that, just to be shure. For a case. I recommend something with a good airflow. And if you …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-19, 21:55

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This is such an awesomme toy. My daughter can practice english in a totally different way. Filename Dino-01.jpg File size 106.08 KiB Views 1005 views

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Re: ET6000. Tantalum trouble.

Posted on 2017-02-18, 14:23

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You only wrote about replacing. You can remove it without replacing to test the card. This... Or do I have to wait untill I can buy a new one? I just thought that this was obvious. Anyway. I meant that if I needed to wait with testing untill I got a new capacitor. Sorry for not making it clear …

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Re: ET6000. Tantalum trouble.

Posted on 2017-02-18, 12:52

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h-a-l-9000 wrote: Remove that cap before you test. Yes. I am fully aware of it. This is what I wrote in the first place.

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Re: Thermal Paste and Socket 7 chips

Posted on 2017-02-18, 09:48

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The function og thermal paste, is to even out scratches and things like that. Don't use too much. A drop spreaded out is enough.

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Re: ET6000. Tantalum trouble.

Posted on 2017-02-17, 22:00

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Thanks... As you might be guessing. I am really looking forward to test it, in order to see if it was money out the window or not. 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-17, 21:56

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and last one I bought boxed R9200SE http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz23/prospekty7/hwnet8/DSCF5066_resize_zpsyweix1xh.jpg but it wasnt 9200 there :-D http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz23/prospekty7/hwnet8/DSCF5067_resize_zps4np3lr0n.jpg http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz23/prospekty7/ …

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ET6000. Tantalum trouble.

Posted on 2017-02-17, 21:48

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So... I recieved the ET6000 card today, and it is an awesomme looking piece of hardware. I really like the logo on the back. :-P Now. I have discovered that it has a broken tantalum cap' right on the botton. Obviously I have to replace it, so I want to know if the card can be tested or tried before …

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Re: I blame Phil..

Posted on 2017-02-16, 16:46

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I blame Phil too... Though not entirely. I blame Phil for being a part of the bug. :-D Naa.... I have had this feeling of wanting to go back to my roots of computing. And as I had tróuble with getting something to work, I discovered this forum. Hence I discovered Phil's channel. (and other people's …

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