Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2019-07-04, 11:47

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As a person who plays a lot of games on a tiny laptop screen I feel like I have to ask: Do you use this lil CRT for gaming or is this mostly for originality's sake? Either way, this is a really cool setup!

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2019-07-03, 07:57

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Since it's bean time, let's have a good old bean salad! Green bean, white bean and chickpea salad 1/2 kg of fresh green beans (haricots vert preferred, the broad, flat ones work in a pinch) 1 tin of large white beans (known as "Navy bean" or "Great northern" in the US; I preferr the greek gígantes …

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Re: Toshiba T4900CT

Posted on 2019-07-02, 12:47

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It gud.

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Re: Toshiba T4900CT

Posted on 2019-07-02, 07:53

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It's a Yamaha YMF262 OPL3.

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Re: LCD screen flickering/lines, wtf

Posted on 2019-06-26, 08:58

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Alright, alright, alright. After testing the LCD with another controller I'm 99% sure it's the LCD display itself that is faulty, although I can't say what exactly is wrong with it. In the best case this info will help out someone in the future with the same interference issue! While this was a …

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Re: Story behind your avatar?

Posted on 2019-06-26, 07:21

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Mine is Edgar Allan Poe in the "Hark A Vagrant" panel where he is reading fan mail from Jules Verne. http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=213 I just love that comic to death, because of it's absurdity, Verne's childish enthusiasm and Poe's annoyance. Also it does look somewhat like me. My …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-06-26, 05:58

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I've had CT65550 in laptops before, this is the first time I've seen one on an AGP card. I think it's a PCI chip, so it's probably just using the AGP slot as a PCI slot. It looks like there is 2MB VRAM on the card - does that make it the smallest AGP card ever? The odd connector on the bottom is …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2019-06-25, 09:14

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My wife recently discovered a pretty good Korean place in town. I don't remember the name of the dish (feel free to point it out) but it's like a stew of kimchi with lean pork strips that's surrounded by a "wall" of tofu slabs. Now, I'm not usually too much into tofu, but their stuff is really, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-06-18, 06:53

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I went to a kind of yard sale today where people in one part of town all sell stuff in their front gardens or in the courtyards of the apartment buildings. It's always a good opportunity to peek into people's houses and, since this was in a nice old part of Cologne, see how the other half lives. I …

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Re: Finding old hardware (UK)

Posted on 2019-06-17, 14:01

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It's a good idea to "trawl" eBay etc. with search alerts that include all kinds of permutations of search terms. Then one can go "muck diving" by using search terms that someone not familiar with the subject matter might use (i.e. "old computer parts" etc.). With this approach it's not a bad idea, …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2019-06-12, 09:38

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Had some chickpeas cooked with sage, rosemary and garlic with baked sweetpotatoe wedges. The secret is in the Salsa Verde that you generously pour over everything: (this is more of a guideline than a recipe, I use whatever herbs are in the garden and at whatever quantity pleases me :happy:) 1/2 cup …

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Re: LCD screen flickering/lines, wtf

Posted on 2019-06-06, 13:55

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I'm not sure I see what you are getting at.

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Re: LCD screen flickering/lines, wtf

Posted on 2019-06-06, 11:35

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Maybe you could elaborate on why you think it won't.

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Re: LCD screen flickering/lines, wtf

Posted on 2019-06-06, 10:34

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Right-o, thanks to everyone's input I have run through some more testing. In the meantime I tried a few more things: shielding the back of the lcd panel shielding the entire controller board swapping molex adapter for controller board switching screen resolution manually adjusting LCD screen phase …

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Re: Toshiba 400cdt problems

Posted on 2019-06-03, 07:15

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Have you opened this thing up yet? You should check to see if the keyboard/trackpoint connectors (zif) are properly seated first. Take a close look at the cables too to see if there is any visible damage. If you haven't already done so, check the CMOS and RTC batteries for leakage and then replace …

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Re: Mouse on Toshiba 400cdt problem

Posted on 2019-06-02, 12:18

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Hm, I had one of those and I just assumed the PS/2 port was broken, because it didn't accept keyboards either. I went with a Microsoft serial mouse and it worked just fine.

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2019-05-29, 13:32

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Yeah, my American mother-in-law is crazy about "danishes". Funny to hear you have them for breakfast, because to me "Plunder" is more of an afternoon cake-and-coffee type thing! Had some pretty good Spanish Tortilla (made from leftover Patatas Bravas with chorizo) and a chopped veg salad of cucumber …

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Re: Need help deciding if this laptop is worth it.

Posted on 2019-05-29, 09:36

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YOo, remember to post some pictures running some of ze games!

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2019-05-28, 09:49

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Glad to hear you got your head around cooking on your own! Too many people never quite manage. I was lucky enough to learn a lot from my dad, who got it from his mom, who is Austrian and did a lot of down-home cooking. To this day I still love things like farmer's cheese dumplings (Topfenknödel) …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2019-05-27, 13:23

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Nice going, Brostenen! I just learned that Danes have adopted a German word which imho nicely categorises such hearty, simple and affordable cuisine: Husmandskost , from the German Hausmannskost . Grilled some nice burgers and green asparagus yesterday on the Weber Classic Kettle. I never had much …

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