Re: Retro Consoles.... who plays them
Posted on 2016-06-05, 12:35
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Re: Retro Consoles.... who plays them
Posted on 2016-06-05, 12:34
This morning I am very sore. Yesterday I moved two entertainment centers with 37" and 27" CRT TVs along with four consoles from upstairs to downstairs. Moved them from the guest room to the newly dubbed Gaming Room. Some photos: consoles.jpg 2600-nes.jpg 2600.jpg nes.jpg Very modest collection, but …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2016-06-05, 11:48
You need...“The Quiet Canine” Electronic Dog Whistle Acoustic Management of Unruly Dogs from a Distance LOL. I kid you not, this is real. Here is the Google Group with the discussion, plans, part list, etc. Sounds like if you're handy with electronics you could build one of these for not too much …
Re: My dual 1GHZ PIII Monster, I call it "The Witch Doctor"
Posted on 2016-06-05, 01:02
Bravo! Gorgeous setup! I've got double vision after ogling those pics.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-06-05, 00:25
I moved two entertainments centers, with a 37" CRT and 27" CRT and four consoles from the upstairs guest room to what we now dub "the gaming room". This room is where my XP, Win98 and DOS PCs are as well as my son's modern gaming PC. The 37" CRT and its entertainment center were especially …
Re: My 3dfx Voodoo 3 has artifacts. Any way to repair?
Posted on 2016-06-04, 21:36
Thanks, makes sense now. 😀
Re: Would the members of Vogons like to play Xonotic?
Posted on 2016-06-04, 21:11
Errius wrote: PeterLI wrote: Looks weird. No offense. 😀 I installed it, logged on, and was killed by a pony. A pink pony. I think I'll give this one a miss. Huh? I've never seen a pink pony. 😳 Are we talking about the same game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkqk6OB1pKc
Re: My 3dfx Voodoo 3 has artifacts. Any way to repair?
Posted on 2016-06-04, 20:36
Just my opinion, but it seems baking would be safer than a blow dryer, as it is gradual and uniform. I don't see how blowdrying the heatsink (?) would do any good? I thought the purpose of the heat was to reflow the solder, and blowdrying the heatsink doesn't seem like it would reflow any solder, …
Re: Would the members of Vogons like to play Xonotic?
Posted on 2016-06-04, 20:33
leileilol, do you have any other suggestions that would be free/open source, easy to get up and going, and flexible enough to run on low end and high end systems? It doesn't even have to be a FPS (though that seems to be an obvious genre for ease of participating).
Re: My 3dfx Voodoo 3 has artifacts. Any way to repair?
Posted on 2016-06-04, 20:26
Hellistor wrote: If I were to bake it, how would I go about doing that? https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair+VGA+card+ … +the+board/2240
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2016-06-04, 14:10
PhilsComputerLab wrote: I bought that also a while ago on sale. Haven't tried testing it on a Windows 98 machine yet. Yeah, I need to try that too. I can't get D3D working without terrible graphical glitches. Tried all the switches. So I play it with software rendering on my XP machine which is …
Re: How does the Turbo Button work?
Posted on 2016-06-04, 14:04
Thanks guys. Poor choice of words on my part when I said "is it randomly slower?". I meant is the turboed down speed inconsistent from machine to machine. :) From the research I did, it seemed like the original intent was for it to hit the 4.77Mhz speed, but it sounds like that wasn't always the …
Re: How does the Turbo Button work?
Posted on 2016-06-04, 13:31
Can you define the slowed speed, or is it randomly slower?
How does the Turbo Button work?
Posted on 2016-06-04, 12:57
Back in the early 1990s, I had a Packard Bell Legend 386sx-20 with a turbo LED (I can't remember if there was a switch on the case or if it was keyboard controlled). I don't remember much about it. I've seen lots of PCs with turbo buttons over the years, and know WHAT they do. What I'm having a hard …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-06-04, 12:44
Did some very satisfying Task Scheduling on my XP machine. I've got two physical drives: a 500GB Velociraptor for C: and a 750GB Seagate for D:. I use Macrium Reflect to run weekly full images and daily differential backups of C: to D:. I wanted to set up scheduled backups, defrags and DiskFresh …
Re: Would the members of Vogons like to play Xonotic?
Posted on 2016-06-04, 11:46
It looks like a few people have interest. That hardly seems enough for you to spin up a dedicated server, Rhuwyn. If interest doesn't grow, I might try next Saturday to just spin one up within my game, then post in this thread that "it's up" along with its name and see if anyone shows up. If not, we …
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2016-06-04, 11:42
Bought this on sale for $1.19. Filename motoracer.png File size 29.05 KiB Views 1195 views . . . . . . . 😉
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2016-06-04, 11:37
I've already begun the process of moving the additional information sections on my website over to the YouTube videos themselves, and once they're all moved over, I'll be deleting the video pages on my website. Is that really necessary? :( I guess that's an extra thing to maintain, so I get it, but …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-06-04, 02:48
Are you using any Aztech utilities such has hwset.exe or diagnose.exe? Those should help you out. I can't seem to find those in any of the driver packages I have for Aztech, but I'll keep looking. Keep in mind this is a non-PNP card. I don't think those programs are meant for cards like this. I …
Re: Guess the game!!
Posted on 2016-06-04, 01:42
I thought of saying that (was even googling 'cat and mouse') but didn't want to randomly throw something out without some evidence.
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