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Re: Adventure games for beginners

Posted on 2020-10-13, 10:53

in Milliways

in Milliways

I remember Flight of the Amazon Queen and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis being very comfortable to play. Full Throttle was also okay, except you have to remember that the real time action sequences are also puzzles. Those gave me the biggest problems. I never played them seriously but the …

Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App

Posted on 2020-10-12, 17:26

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

I made a Python script to populate the Launchbox.txt file. I can polish it a bit and share it. It works by comparing what's already in the file and the contents of a games directory (C:\Games in my case) and guesses what the game and setup executables are (which works better than I expected). Then …

Re: HP Jornada 680E: opening up the bottom / accessing the system board

Posted on 2020-10-12, 17:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, I found a small strip of copper-looking tape under the keyboard and below it I there seems to be the bottom of a screw. My guess is that it is the other end of the 'VCI logo screw' because it's in the same position of the device. I will wait a bit longer in the hope someone with experience …

Re: HP Jornada 680E: opening up the bottom / accessing the system board

Posted on 2020-10-12, 08:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks! There seems to be a screw hole around the place of the 'VCI' logo but I'm not sure how he got to that screw, and if there was a screw or if it's just a hole. But I can take look under the keyboard to see if I can see anything and below the plastic cover under the keyboard. Maybe the screw is …

HP Jornada 680E: opening up the bottom / accessing the system board

Posted on 2020-10-10, 13:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I recently got a hold of 2 HP Jornada 680Es. They both work but on one of them some pins on the PC card connector are bent. I'm trying to get it open in an attempt to straighten the pins. I got the entire edge loose (wasn't easy) but it's like there is one more screw in the middle of the device …

Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2020-10-07, 09:40

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

They are. Although the Sony's anti-reflective coating is a bit scratched. Not much of an issue when you use it. That coating had "gone off" in a NOS Sony screen I found a while back - darkened the whole image. I painstakingly cleaned it all off and the image was nice and bright, but the tube was …

Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?

Posted on 2020-10-05, 09:54

in DOS

in DOS

I find it interesting with these kinds of games that it's often easy to tell what country are from. I didn't read your line about it being in German only but one look at a screenshot and it was "Aha, Germany"

Re: I made a miniature IBM PC

Posted on 2020-10-03, 16:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ajacocks wrote on 2020-10-03, 14:44: A pair of Micro SD card readers might be the right scale. - Alex Huh, neat idea. If I will get this 3D printed I might paint or draw over some SD cards in a floppy disk look 😁

Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App

Posted on 2020-09-30, 16:03

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Better yet; is anyone interested in the source code? If there's interest, I'd be willing to Github it. Hi Jason, did you ever got around to publishing the source somewhere? If putting it up on GitHub is too much work, would you mind just posting it as an attachment here? In that case you wouldn't …

Re: 8-bit guy gets ultra-rare NOS IBM (prototype?) from Computer Reset then proceeds to obliterate it

Posted on 2020-09-28, 09:34

in Milliways

in Milliways

Ah, I'm glad I'm not alone in disliking him. I wish I had a way to block his channel altogether but YouTube keeps recommending them for some reason. Man, what a waste of this machine. I guess "props" to him for daring to display his carelessness to the public?

Re: Windows XP Updates?

Posted on 2020-09-27, 11:00

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Huh? That is a surprise

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

Posted on 2020-09-25, 18:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was happily enjoying my new(ish) ESS AudioDrive ES1868F when I decided to play an old favorite of mine, Xargon. I was immediately startled by how damned loud the music was! I quickly turned the speakers down and shock turned to despair when I realized how distorted the audio was... did I just …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-18, 14:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought a Creative Sound Blaster 2.0 (CT1350B rev 4) for a very reasonable price, and with it I finally got all the retro hardware back that we used to have at my parents' house and (for reasons I still don't understand) went to a landfill. The card works well because sounds the same as many other …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-17, 12:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought a Creative Sound Blaster 2.0 (CT1350B rev 4) for a very reasonable price, and with it I finally got all the retro hardware back that we used to have at my parents' house and (for reasons I still don't understand) went to a landfill. The card works well because sounds the same as many other …

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

Posted on 2020-09-16, 10:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bah, I seem to be having some really bad luck lately. I missed playing SC3000, so decided to install it on my Pentium 4 system. Put the CD in the drive, closed the door, and somehow the CD shifted in the tray and got stuck between the door and the drive. The disc was slightly scratched. The game …

Re: Setup for recording (DOS) audio

Posted on 2020-09-13, 19:26

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Thanks for the information and links everyone. I'm going to dive into the different options and see what's available (and affordable) around here 😀

Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-09-12, 22:22

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Very nice, congratulations! I am a bit confused about the PCMIDI addon. How do things work if you have 2 MPU devices active at the same time? Is it meant for composing music using MIDI?

Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2020-09-12, 18:45

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

😅

Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2020-09-12, 16:47

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Interesting, thanks for double checking it. So the 210GS's might still fit but I'll have to carefully confirm the size with sellers. Do you perhaps have a photo of your CRT, Klw2? I'm curious if it looks distinctively different from Gered's.

Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2020-09-12, 15:01

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Ahhh, that's too bad. You're right that ~16.5" isn't deep for a CRT but when you tilt it up it probably needs a bit more space. I'm hoping to find something that's 40cm deep when setup on a flat AT case. It's already an indulgence so I'm trying to keep this excess as small as possible :P I'm …

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