Re: Unease feelings on other forums visited ?

Posted on 2021-07-18, 14:15

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The controversial topics of the outside world are extremely compelling, but people become unhappy if they spend much time in stressful situations. It's increasingly recognised that a big chunk of humanity's online time is stressful time - spent on unhealthy activities: the arguing, the politics, the …

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Re: You fly into space once and you're an astronaut

Posted on 2021-07-16, 00:13

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/shitposting_with_the_masses

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Re: Do you dislike the British?

Posted on 2021-07-13, 21:55

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To "dislike the British" because of England, would be a disservice to Scotland and Wales, which are also part of (the island of Great) Britain. And therein lies part of the problem. Those islands (including Ireland) have such a fractured identity. Sometimes it's "the UK". Sometimes it's "England". …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-07-13, 01:26

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^I like this post. "Back to basics" - where it's often most fun. My Mrs likes to have an occasional smash on the catchily-named " Tetris: The Absolute: The Grand Master 2, PLUS " using my arcade cab, and no other version will do. But even on a original Gameboy (or is that.. "particularly" on an …

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

Posted on 2021-07-12, 23:21

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Partly depends on your other hardware. A modest 486 CPU (~40-50Mhz) with a $100-at-the-time VLB card would run Doom fine*, iirc. Versus say, the same 486 with a 1MB Trident ISA card. Evidence : Up to ~400% framerate difference between the lowest and highest cards. *for a given value of "fine" - …

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

Posted on 2021-07-12, 21:00

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Partly depends on your other hardware. A modest 486 CPU (~40-50Mhz) with a $100-at-the-time VLB card would run Doom fine*, iirc. Versus say, the same 486 with a 1MB Trident ISA card. Evidence : Up to ~400% framerate difference between the lowest and highest cards. *for a given value of "fine" - …

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Re: Did you ever have a realisation that your retro memories or assumptions weren't quite accurate?

Posted on 2021-07-11, 04:41

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I remember, about 1993, lusting after the talkie versions of games that I read about in gaming magazines, and saw occasionally in stores. CDROM was too expensive at first, and even after I blagged a drive one Christmas, I was still only young and did not have an adult's wage with which to purchase …

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Re: McQub : QS1000 based waveblaster module

Posted on 2021-07-10, 21:03

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Given that Yamaha 719 cards often seem to come with an unpopulated QS1000 pad (albeit perhaps for use with a 1MB on-card ROM), perhaps this module would be a good pairing for those cards.

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Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever

Posted on 2021-07-09, 02:11

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I've done the multiple-simultaneous-flaky-old-motherboards dance a time or two before. It can be extremely frustrating, particularly if an issue is intermittent, and without physical sign (e.g. caps look good). It's possible to flush a lot of time down the drain and still get no good result.

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Re: A troubleshooting guide for Caluser2000.

Posted on 2021-07-09, 02:00

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The mainstream end user experience of "click button, do thing" doesn't greatly differ between the main options.

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Re: A troubleshooting guide for Caluser2000.

Posted on 2021-07-08, 22:36

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Namrok wrote on 2021-07-08, 18:05: Is it really a lie that everyone who tries to keep a computer working ends up quietly weeping? Going back to the scale... Filename yesorno.jpg File size 33.78 KiB Views 592 views #slight_exaggeration

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Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever

Posted on 2021-07-08, 22:16

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With the benefit of hindsight - being able to skim the entire thread all at once - it seems obvious there is (likely multiple) hardware issue(s) going on here. The user's disbelief that similar issues could be happening to two similar computers of similar age probably from the same manufacturer, is …

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Re: Retro computer builds that surprised you the most because they worked better than expected

Posted on 2021-07-07, 08:24

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A long time ago when I was much younger and stupider, I foolishly threw away a bunch of old gear. Many of us have such stories. In particular, I was cleaning out a shed, and roughly shoved some old Socket 7 gear into plastic trash bags. The bags also contained random rubbish and bits of dirt etc. …

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Re: New sound card(s) project(s): Vortex2+YMF744 Tribute

Posted on 2021-07-05, 23:17

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Another thing. Any ideas on the card name? I'm thinking about Fortex - F makes some reference to FM and to F in the YMF. Forte (It.) - strong, cool. X makes some reference to XG. And overall, Fortex is like Vortex, but Fortex. Also, Forte is a notation in music, and it can be written like f . So, …

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Re: New sound card(s) project(s): Vortex2+YMF744 Tribute

Posted on 2021-07-05, 22:21

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Another thing. Any ideas on the card name? I'm thinking about Fortex - F makes some reference to FM and to F in the YMF. Forte (It.) - strong, cool. X makes some reference to XG. And overall, Fortex is like Vortex, but Fortex. Also, Forte is a notation in music, and it can be written like f . So, …

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Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-05, 19:54

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Upon further reflection, I can't help but think of Windows 95 and the world wide web (with the Pentium and ATX standards developing on the hardware side) as being the turning point between the previous and current "overall styles" of computing. Before, PC was a minority niche with a steeper learning …

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Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-04, 21:05

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I agree with the time frames already discussed, all have fair points. There'll never be one absolute perfect answer/year. I know it's not a moving/relative reference, but the turn of the millennium is another very simple milestone which anybody can relate to. A somewhat inversion of the hopeful …

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

Posted on 2021-07-04, 20:38

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"I mean, shall we really talk about how much of Europe's population is currently obsessed with swinging one's leg at a sack of air?"- Haha, I must have missed something. What is this trend called? It's called "kicking Boris Johnson in the nuts". No it isn't, I jest. It's the game known as football. …

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Re: graphics that over promise and under deliver

Posted on 2021-07-04, 01:48

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This reminds me of the concept "uncanny valley" which used to be bandied about quite a lot 10-20 years ago regarding robotics, cinema movie special effects, and computer games. A term often used to describe the mixed experience of hyper realistic technology : it fools the surface of the brain, but …

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Re: graphics that over promise and under deliver

Posted on 2021-07-03, 22:25

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This reminds me of the concept "uncanny valley" which used to be bandied about quite a lot 10-20 years ago regarding robotics, cinema movie special effects, and computer games. A term often used to describe the mixed experience of hyper realistic technology : it fools the surface of the brain, but …

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