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

Posted on 2020-12-10, 09:20

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What I despise the most is that when you mess up a driver installation or need to rollback something it's difficult to know how much garbage is being left behind that will come and bite you later on. DOS in comparison is so much lighter and easier to troubleshoot, just add or remove stuff from …

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Re: Post your favorite video game cover (MS-DOS/Early Windows edition)

Posted on 2020-12-10, 08:56

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Some very cool covers in this topic! Here's the one I like Filename 5008-chasm-the-rift-dos-front-cover.jpg File size 120.74 KiB Views 1244 views File comment chasm the rift

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-08, 19:53

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Interesting. Once you receive it, may you please archive the installation diskette(s)? I bought one myself that is only the unit and PCMCIA card with the cable for $24.26 shipped + tax Sure, will dump the diskettes. In the meanwhile you can try these drivers http://nwserveur.no-ip.org/win3xorg/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-08, 11:36

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Snatched this sealed EXP PCMCIA CD-ROM with built-in sound ( Soundnote ) from Ebay. 30 dollars shipped. Found it absolutely accidentally. As it was listed under the name «Vintage 1998 PC Portable 8X Speed Multi Media Kit». So if you’re after interesting PCMCIA devices (like me) this one was almost …

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Re: Changing Windows 3.11 settings from DOS?

Posted on 2020-12-05, 15:39

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And what is that you want to change? Usually it's, as you wrote, setup.exe, config.sys and autoexec.bat

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-12-04, 13:00

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Errius wrote on 2020-12-04, 09:29: I have both an empty box + instructions looking for a game, and a game + instructions looking for a box. Games are a bit diferent. But when it comes to hardware, I'd never pay extra for having something boxed.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-12-04, 12:52

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Miphee wrote on 2020-12-04, 10:07: I sometimes snipe auctions that have a certain buyer's highest bid just to get back at him for beating me in a previous auction. I'm very petty sometimes but I HATE losing. I wonder how you identify them. By feedback count?

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-12-04, 09:21

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I confess that I don't really care about boxes. I mean boxed items. If I happen to buy something boxed for my collection, I take it out of the box and keep it with other things without a box. And I don't really understand why this piece of cardboard costs 600 bucks Filename Audioport.jpg File size …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-27, 18:07

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Received this 16-bit I/O Data PCCAP video capture card. It's a clone of NOGATech card. Tested it in W98, and it actually works. Filename IMG_2693.JPG File size 319.82 KiB Views 1797 views

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

Posted on 2020-11-26, 20:21

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Hooray, welcome to the A31p club! It took me four tries to finally get enough parts for an almost perfect machine. Especially the screens are so hard to come by in good condition, since they haven't been produced for a very long time. I maxed out my machine with a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 Mobile M. Back in …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-11-26, 09:17

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Playing Virtual Pool for DOS. Totally forgot about this game! It was such a fun back in the day. Filename 6074_564b730810158.JPG File size 26.66 KiB Views 977 views File comment vpool

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

Posted on 2020-11-25, 10:13

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Installed Windows 98 on my IBM Thinkpad A31p. It's a maxed out P4 machine with 1600x1200 LCD and ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 graphics onboard, and it officially supports W98. The interesting thing is that I read everywhere that W98 does not work properly with more than 512 Mb RAM. And this laptop has 1 …

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-24, 11:20

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I'd think Adrians Digital Basement is probably my favorite channel at the moment (well hello hello). I think his format is really good and I like his mail call videos where he actually takes the time to go through the items. Not a big fan of candy reviews though... I have also enjoyed this channel, …

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-23, 18:52

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I would actually love to make a German spinoff of my English YT channel, however I don't have the time and resources at the moment. But you might want to follow me, for when I actually get the time to make this a reality. :) That would be great! Will check out your videos now. And hopefully the …

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-23, 12:00

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I find Adrians Digital Basement and Jan Beta more interresting than 8bit guy. Other great ones are Retrocengo, although it is about Amiga and Commodore64. Then there are GadgetUK164 and Nostalgia Nerd. Nostalgia nerd makes great videoes if Octavius kitten joins him. She just Troll's him so much. …

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-20, 11:07

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Overall I agree that 8 bit guy's videos lost the initial freshness. Maybe this is due to the big load and also the recent fail with IBM prototype. Of course, becoming pure business has it's impact as well. But I believe he still has potential, his new game project looks very promising. I also like …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-19, 09:37

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I confess that I download old DOS games from different places without even trying to check if there is an official paid version of it.

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Re: Lesser known Win9x MIDI Softsynths

Posted on 2020-11-17, 15:24

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I found Altec Lansing WaveCUBE software on this disc here https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31120 Path to extract is A.PAQ\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS\WAVECUBE It installs fine in W98, but doesn't work. It crashes as soon as it tries to make any sound. Initially it's a W95 program. From …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2020-11-15, 16:07

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Could not test the CD version as it's setup program does not detect any sound device for some reason... It offers either No sound or Speaker. I mounted the .iso file that is on PCMCIA-CF card, and it works along with the REX-5572. I could not use KXL-D20 as it does not work with CS, SS drivers, …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2020-11-07, 21:42

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I think no. Will try the CD version as well.

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