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

Posted on 2023-06-27, 03:44

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Today I managed to replace the speakers in my iMac G3. The old ones were so rotted out that they were rattling cones more than anything else. I mean, just look at them. IMG_1979.jpg I was able to put modern speakers that looked incredibly similar in to them without issue, leaving it sounding mostly …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-06-22, 06:11

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After finishing Zelda, and falling back into then out of the Crusader Kings III hole, I've drifted back to Guild Wars 2. I've been wanting to get back in to TIE Fighter, as I finished X-Wing a year and a half ago, but Something about longform missions is just not jelling with me right now.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-22, 05:55

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As an excuse to give my parents a better machine than their 2015 Macbook Air, and a reason to get myself on a far more useful for my uses/mac-collecting, I upgraded to an M2 Pro based Macbook, then proceeded to get Guild Wars 2 running on it via the game porting tool and Whisky. IMG_1965.jpg I …

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

Posted on 2023-06-14, 07:30

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I spent way too much time today trying to figure out why a Powerbook G3 is so unhappy with installing an OS from CD, and finally ended up figuring out that it simply doesn't like reading from a CD and writing to an SSD . the SSD can talk to its self without issue, though. I also ended up thinking …

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

Posted on 2023-06-05, 16:12

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After feeling the need to play through TIE Fighter again, I finally moved my UMAX mac clone out of the way, and set up my DOS machine again. This, in turn, led me to figuring out why windows 3.11 wasn't happy with my sound setup, and figuring out that I had accidentally set both sound cards to …

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

Posted on 2023-06-05, 06:17

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After feeling the need to play through TIE Fighter again, I finally moved my UMAX mac clone out of the way, and set up my DOS machine again. This, in turn, led me to figuring out why windows 3.11 wasn't happy with my sound setup, and figuring out that I had accidentally set both sound cards to using …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-03, 18:16

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TBF Rage 128 cards are like the cockroaches of the retro hardware world, there are 10's of thousands of them out there selling for pennies, you cant give them away and in the end how many people would actually use one even if it was working ? (Does testing and benches count here? I'm thinking of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-01, 04:38

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He has a syndrom of "all what is not high class is garbage". He knows only black and white. He is like Retro Hardware channel on youtrube, scrapping functional Ati Xpert 2000 (Rage 128) cards, just because "it's junk", according him, and he already have 1000x better stuff. It's kinda disrespectful …

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

Posted on 2023-06-01, 04:33

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Today I installed windows 98 on my P233 rig, and gave it a Voodoo 3, all so that I could post a CPU-Z validation at a friend.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-27, 07:20

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Today I managed to get a pair of 64MB 5V 168 Pin EDO DIMMs. That jumble of terms does describe a real thing, I swear. Doing this has allowed my UMAX Mac clone to finally have more than the 48 it previously had. IMG_1859.jpg Now to figure out if I want to give up my UMAX Computer logo for running Mac …

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

Posted on 2023-05-24, 21:29

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Today I managed to plug everything in, and get a family photo of sorts going with almost all of my Apple hardware. Filename IMG_1849.jpg File size 589.91 KiB Views 1771 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-16, 22:25

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I managed to grab a goldie IBM 6x86L. Might never put it in to something, but it’s nice to have regardless. Filename IMG_1806.jpeg File size 1.65 MiB Views 1307 views

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-11, 07:25

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I played Shogo for 30 minutes for the first time on my modern pc. A great game with a unique setting. Unfortuantely the gog version likes to crash on a regular basis. So I will move this game on the already quite big list of games to play as soon as I have finished my first retro pc build. I also …

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

Posted on 2023-05-11, 03:51

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Today I switched my 6851 SID chip out with a BackSID, as the original was missing a sound channel entirely. and, now that I am looking at the chip without the rest of the system around it, it looks like it's been heat damaged in the 38 or so years it wasn't mine. the middle of the logo is a …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-03-26, 06:25

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I've been painfully getting through TES Arena once more. I enjoy this jank, but something about the low framerate that I am forced to run the game at in order to keep things from being unplayably fast is getting to me this time around.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-02-12, 20:18

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I've been going through Guild Wars 1 recently, and it's made me kind of tired of it. Prophecies is not designed to be played mostly solo, especially on a new account. Me and my wife are going to start GW1 probably this summer. We're currently working on map completion for Central Tyria and getting …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-02-11, 20:15

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I've been going through Guild Wars 1 recently, and it's made me kind of tired of it. Prophecies is not designed to be played mostly solo, especially on a new account.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-08, 17:26

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BitWrangler wrote on 2023-02-08, 04:44: Nice, you can still do some stuff with that, vid editing, crunching stuff, grating cheese etc. Yeah, I was thinking along the lines of using it as a storage server that can also do things for now, at least until I can figure out something more useful. Keeping …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-08, 02:36

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Not the most recent, but it's less than 15 years old, so in here it goes. Filename IMG_1333.jpg File size 1.55 MiB Views 1308 views Got myself a Dualie 2010 Mac Pro 5,1 for $30. Even came with an RX 460 and 48GB. Filename IMG_1334.jpg File size 1.57 MiB Views 1308 views Filename IMG_1335.jpg File …

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

Posted on 2023-02-02, 19:23

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I’ve finally realized that my generic need for retro shifts around but usually stays contained to late DOS, so I’ve chosen to put old reliable back together. Originally it was gonna use a voodoo 3, but I was having the horizontal lines problem that couldn’t be fixed via tweakBIOS. So instead it’s …

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