Re: Best memories of Windows or OS?

Posted on 2019-05-14, 08:25

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Most fond memories are from Windows 3.1, even though I used 95 and 98SE for much longer than any other Windows version. Win95 on my 486 was major, really liked it at first but had trouble with DOS games (didn't know as much back then), which I didn't have with the Win3.1/DOS 6.22 combo.

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Re: Is collecting cellphones a thing? (Odd quenstion, I know)

Posted on 2019-04-18, 10:57

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It's a Handspring Visor Deluxe (classic visor+microphone) with the VisorPhone springboard expansion! Mail etc are not really useful as they work with HotSync (came with Palm Desktop, proprietary software for synchronization with Outlook and other old apps) or by using the VisorPhone as 9600 dial-up …

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Re: Is collecting cellphones a thing? (Odd quenstion, I know)

Posted on 2019-04-15, 20:28

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i already do have a thing for these devices, but saw this visorphone add-on with charger and really couldn't pass it up... trying to use it as a daily driver w/ a silver visor deluxe for a more carefree life (as in, no wifi-data conn. => no mail/IM/facebook/etc)... certainly not a "dumb phone", …

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Re: 10 year cpu challenge

Posted on 2019-01-23, 10:48

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1999: Celeron 400MHz (Mendocino) on a VIA 693 pcchips mobo 2009: Core 2 Duo E6550 on ASUS P5KC 2019: Intel i5-4440 on ASRock H97 Anniversary

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Re: Your mobile tech

Posted on 2018-11-12, 13:45

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Heh, I can't leave home for long without a portable music player! Be it a tape walkman, a CD walkman, a MD, a MP3 player (<3 my purple NW-A1000), or at worst a slim MP3 collection in my Android phone's sd card, anything will do as long as it has a 3.5mm headphone jack... Since I started to make a …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-05, 10:00

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Not really modern but bleeding edge for me anyway :lol: , but yesterday I got an MSI 750Ti/2GB for cheap from a friend and 2x8GB HyperX Fury (2x8GB) DDR3/1600 for my i5-4440, to replace the old and trustworthy Point of View 8800GT/512MB modded with Arctic L2 fan and ram heatsinks, and some kingston …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2018-07-29, 22:32

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Despite having recently received a Mega Everdrive, I am still impulsively grabbing whatever PAL Mega Drive-related thing I can find... :confused: Today's scores: Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Sonic the Hedgehog (the first one, only had the third) Eternal Champions Rise of the Robots Still haven't done …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-07-26, 18:17

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Got a Nintendo 64 Memory Expansion Pak, now waiting for the games...!

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2018-07-24, 20:56

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had to have this... because SVP 🤣

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Re: Opinions on these (modern) SSDs

Posted on 2018-07-16, 22:07

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We've had several Team Group L5 SSDs failing at work lately, so I'd certainly recommend to avoid them. Our daily drivers are Samsung 850s which seem pretty reliable. At home I have an 860 and a Crucial BX100 250GB which literally takes daily hammering the last two years and it's still fine...

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

Posted on 2018-07-14, 21:30

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Since the RF adapter which came with my Mega Drive II refused to work, until now I had temporarily soldered a composite cable just to test if the MD was working, and I had no sound. Today I butchered an ethernet cat5 to make a MegaDrive II (9pin) <-> RGB SCART cable so as to enjoy an Everdrive which …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-07-08, 21:35

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Got myself an almost pristine PAL SMS2 w/ built-in Alex Kidd (no sonic 🙁) and two games (Super Off Road, Master of Darkness)!!!!!!111

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

Posted on 2018-07-07, 18:57

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Recapped the mainboard of a PAL Saturn Model 2 I got last week. After some time of playing, the video was getting a certain tint (as if missing the red channel?) until powering off for some time; recapping solved it. Next week I'm doing the PSU.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-23, 12:57

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Got myself two bog-standard 32GB SanDisk U1 V30 Extreme microSD cards for use in a chinese PhotoFast μSD->Memory Stick adapter... Now the PSP has ~60 gigs of space... 😊

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Re: Media center visualizer recommendations?

Posted on 2018-06-01, 15:42

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http://projectm.sourceforge.net/ !

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Re: Eyecandy Archive

Posted on 2018-05-17, 12:06

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Is the eyecandy archive down? 😮 edit: the name does not resolve, crosschecked with mxtoolbox.com, though works when accessed by ip+host header (143.95.228.42)

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2018-05-16, 08:48

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still on a HP EliteBook 2540p ~ i5-540M/Intel GMA, 2x4GB DDR3@1333, Samsung 850 Evo 512GB and a unibody MacBook (late 2008) - c2d 2.4GHz, nVidia 9400M, 2x4GB DDR3@1066, 1x1TB HDD+1x250GB SSD (removed broken superdrive)... not really up to date huh

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2018-04-30, 07:31

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Weird Fan Speed Cycle 😵

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Re: Capitalism Plus - Enlight Software release disc?

Posted on 2018-03-07, 07:48

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I had GoblinUpTheRoad's version too, OP's CD-R doesn't ring a bell 🙁

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Re: What you thought you will never have?

Posted on 2018-03-04, 22:18

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More of a PC guy, I was drooling all over the PowerPC platform. Liked PowerMac G4s when I was at school, had seen them live a couple of times, was reading about them a lot, thought of them as something totally unreachable. Now I have like, 5 of these? Guess I'll never have a PPC accelerator for my …

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