Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-08-03, 14:24
28e shipped from the same hoarder I got a few sound cards in June.
Re: VGA games with only 16 colors
Posted on 2015-08-02, 14:24
I thought the number of colours were printed on the box regardless whether it said VGA or not. And again, Sierra was the worst offender. I remember buying the EGA version of Red Baron by mistake because it had this transparent sticker on the cover which you easily missed. I mean look at it, that is …
Re: Wing Commander 2 - Midi problem with ICL computers
Posted on 2015-08-01, 17:02
Finally got it to work with an Aztech Sound Galaxy Pro 16 II. None of the SB cards I tried worked, not even AWE32 non-PnP, they all froze. I used the ICL's own PnP Windows tool and even if it showed everything to be OK, the boot sequence still gave error for each PnP card I tried, CTCM or not. This …
Re: Wing Commander 2 - Midi problem with ICL computers
Posted on 2015-08-01, 14:26
Well, I finally got it to start by removing the SB16 completely. I really don't know what the conflict could be as all the other games seem to work fine and there are no shared resources. I'll have to go through all my sound cards to see which work and which don't. Too bad the motherboard/BIOS …
Re: Downloading an 84GB torrent that only has 1-2 seeds
Posted on 2015-08-01, 09:44
Not really, it's less than 20GB per film and most BD-movies are 30-40GB with DTS-HD master audio.
Wing Commander 2 - Midi problem with ICL computers
Posted on 2015-08-01, 09:40
Anyone else run in to a problem with WC2 (or other games) not working with certain motherboards? I have an ICL 486 and Pentium that refuse to run with SB+Roland combination. If you select SB only, it works fine. I tried both floppy and CD-versions, but both hang at the "Expanded memory detected" …
Re: Best WWI or WWII Air Combat Simulator?
Posted on 2015-07-25, 19:54
I don't know if it meets your demands, but Red Baron 2 (3D) is pretty hard to beat when it comes to WW1 sim. I'm not talking about the flight model, but the overall feel of the campaign and randomness of events. Falcon 3.0/4.0 is pretty much the only thing that comes close.
Re: Downloading an 84GB torrent that only has 1-2 seeds
Posted on 2015-07-25, 10:24
snorg wrote: What the hell kind of torrent is 84GB? Every episode of Dr. Who ever? There's a 111GB torrent with just the 6 Star Wars movies in it. 🤣
Re: Happy 30'th birthday. Dear Amiga...
Posted on 2015-07-24, 13:31
Commodore bought Amiga, and is also blamed with killing it by neglect and serial incompetence. I think it was more like clone PC's killed Amiga/Commodore and there was nothing they could've done to prevent it. The time of the home computer was pretty much over when the cheap PC's started to flood …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-07-24, 13:24
I really like these Microsoft...wait a minute! (1€ flea market).
Re: Post your 386 Speedsys results here
Posted on 2015-07-24, 11:36
Anyone else had trouble with the graphics in Speedsys? My ICL 486DX2 only shows the borders around boxes and no text. I tried with two different graphics cards with similar results. Some incompatiblity with the mainboard I presume? The program works fine with the AMD 386sx though, and it's the same …
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2015-07-23, 08:02
King_Corduroy wrote: sf78 wrote: 5€ a piece. ALPHA CENTAURI? YOU LUCKY SOMANABATCH! 🤣 Yeah, but the tech tree poster has been ruined. Someone spilled soda(?) on it and then it was folded, it's glued shut. 😢 But the price was OK, so I'll get over it...in a week or so.
Re: Commodore 64 revival (warning, wall of pics)
Posted on 2015-07-23, 07:51
Yes the new cases eventuated and people have been posting pics. They look fine and all but I don't see the attraction myself - a) I don't do C64C's and b) the colours look a bit odd. The transparent ones are pretty cool though I must admit. And most people would need a new keyboard to go with the …
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2015-07-22, 14:14
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2015-07-17, 08:15
Re: Still much old hardware available?
Posted on 2015-07-16, 14:13
FI is obviously a country with a relatively small population. Are there recycling outfits that you can ask to keep an eye out? They probably receive generic (mini / midi / full) towers periodically. :lol: + I'm pretty sure our government is to be blamed in this matter. :D Infact, people here pride …
Re: Still much old hardware available?
Posted on 2015-07-16, 09:59
Are this some very slim desktops? Almost every small tabletop desktops 486 i have seen have a 3.5" integrated in some way and a place for a 5.25" device. AT minitower cases seems to become rare, so in time maybe someone have to start a Kickstarter project for a new one for retro computing? What …
Re: Project MPU (bringing MPU-401 BOBs back to life)
Posted on 2015-07-15, 11:54
3: 1000(0)s of MPUs were sold in the 1980s so they will continue to appear. I'm sure that's somewhat true, but it just seems that more people are churning out new versions of the card than there are available MPU's for it. I also presume many MPU's were discraded long time ago because the interface …
Re: Still much old hardware available?
Posted on 2015-07-15, 11:38
I actually posted a WTB advertisement which said that I was willing to pay 10-15€ for ANY 386/486 machine, regardles of condition. I got 0 (zero) replies in 3 months. So far I have managed to get one Pentium and one 286 this year. Last year I got 486 and a Pentium MMX. I doubt next year is going to …
Re: Project MPU (bringing MPU-401 BOBs back to life)
Posted on 2015-07-14, 12:06
I don't really see the point of making several different clone cards when the availability of the actual MPU-401's seem to be nonexistent these days. Only few have beens sold in the past few months on eBay and the prices are only going to get higher when all the interface card owners fight for the …
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