Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-11, 15:23

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Does this count? I found this Socrates Educational video system yesterday and it looks very cool. Got memories, or can you do anything "interesting" with it? I have an old Vtech to mess with the z80, and a more recent Leapfrog handheld hacked to run emulators. I'm not sure yet, I need to take it to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-11, 15:22

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Does this count? I found this Socrates Educational video system yesterday and it looks very cool. Got memories, or can you do anything "interesting" with it? I have an old Vtech to mess with the z80, and a more recent Leapfrog handheld hacked to run emulators. I'm not sure yet, I need to take it to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-11, 13:25

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Does this count? I found this Socrates Educational video system yesterday and it looks very cool. I love that the game cart looks like a 3.5 inch floppy

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2024-03-08, 17:30

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This came in earlier this week. I contacted Gillian to see if she had any more games left and if she could send me one. I love that the manual says to go to the website for info on Riana rouge II. https://i.imgur.com/6sYLd6U.jpg https://i.imgur.com/1NGj1xy.jpg https://i.imgur.com/QZLVFoK.jpg I've …

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Re: Pentium III - Best clockspeed for the money?

Posted on 2024-02-26, 21:57

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Try to get a 933mhz cpu. Thats what I'm running and all those games you mentioned run well. I'm using a voodoo 3 2000.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-02-26, 13:52

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I'm playing a few different games right now. Unreal (which is the game that got me loving FPS games) Age of Empires (I have never made it past the Egypt campaign even though I have had this game since my mom bought the gold edition for me one Xmas many many years ago. Half Life (This game is great , …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-02-15, 18:51

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Hi all, I'm playing Max Payne 1 on my pentium 3. I hope to finish the game for the first time ever. I had installed this a hwile back and had this issue with blurry text previously and i managed to fix it before, but I dont remember what I did. I'm having the same issue now and its very annoying. …

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Re: Tomb Raider I-II-III remastered

Posted on 2024-02-15, 18:47

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I will most likely pick this up down the road on 50 percent sale . I'm playing through the series on my pentium 1 with my original boxes and am having a blast. They should have included Last Revelation and Lost artifact.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-02-07, 16:45

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I started playing Medal of Honor and Hellgate London on my Pentium 4. I have played Hellgate before but never got far. I plan to finish it this time. I have never played a Medal of Honor game before .

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

Posted on 2024-02-05, 15:51

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One thing I hate and I got rid of it in most games when I changed the driver on the FX 5600 is when scrolling horizontally in games, and getting that slight jitter, but its smooth when moving vertically. I was getting that a bit in Medal of Honor with the new card but the older driver. Need to test …

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

Posted on 2024-02-05, 15:29

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Took the Quadro FX 5600 out of the P4 and installed the GTX 580. one good thing is that its smaller so its fits the case better. Originally it got 25022 points, then I updated the driver and it got the 25309 . I havent had time to test games with the new driver yet, but Sanity had graphical glitches …

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Re: I realized that I was an alternative

Posted on 2024-02-05, 15:03

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I had some decent computers back in the 90s. My dad would buy them . I think one was second hand he got pretty cheap and it had a lot of games on it already. So I was able t play Doom, Quarantine, and a bunch of other DOS games, then there was a computer game rental store near by and my dad took me …

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Re: Half-Life : Blue Shift with voodoo 2 on 3dfx.

Posted on 2024-01-29, 19:22

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I played blueshift when it first came out it literally took me like 2 hours to finish. I returned it to the store and got my money back. Yes you use to be able to do that if you didnt like the product back in the day. I recall you could return opened software as well. though I loved Blue Shift so …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-23, 16:18

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I found these a while ago. I have no idea about them. Anyone know anything about these? https://i.imgur.com/Hu63Bwv.jpg https://i.imgur.com/56SvKkJ.jpg Modicon SA85 https://www.classicautomation.com/Part/am-sa85-000 That indicates Modbus Plus Interface Card, which suggests some industrial network …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-18, 17:41

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I found these a while ago. I have no idea about them. Anyone know anything about these?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-17, 15:03

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That's a very nice $5 worth, yah be a nice top end XP card without hacks and workarounds. I always love finding GPUs in box. especially cheap. Some thrift stores price retro parts and computers very cheap, and others over price them. Either way, I prefer looking for parts at the thrift stores …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-16, 19:11

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I dont know if this is considered retro, but I found this at the thrift store for 5 bucks. It will be nice for the core 2 duo build im doing, OR it might go into my Pentium 4 just for fun as it says it works with pentium 4s and windows xp....... Its a big step up from the fx quadro 5600 i have in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-14, 08:19

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Found this socket 7 mobo at the thrift for 5 dollars today. I have been looking for one to complete a build. I also saw a PC which was a celeron that i should have grabbed, but my kid was tired and having a fuss so i left it and took him home. Maybe i can go back tomorrow and grab it. Socket 7, ISA …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-14, 06:26

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Found this socket 7 mobo at the thrift for 5 dollars today. I have been looking for one to complete a build. I also saw a PC which was a celeron that i should have grabbed, but my kid was tired and having a fuss so i left it and took him home. Maybe i can go back tomorrow and grab it. https://i. …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-05, 15:37

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I tend to get bored and stop watching certain people. I loved LGR for a long time and even loved his thrifting videos, but a time came when I found his videos boring and eventually stopped watching. I used to love watching Chris Stuckman movie reviews, but one day I couldnt stand him anymore and I …

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