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Re: If we were to accept 15 years ago as retro....

Posted on 2021-02-01, 09:36

in Milliways
CONSOLES To me, consoles really don't become "vintage" to anyone other than the group that grew up with them. I was watching a video with Pat the NES Punk a few days ago discussing how the Gamecube is the #1 most populare retro-console right now. One thing discussed in his video was how the Atari …

Re: If we were to accept 15 years ago as retro....

Posted on 2021-02-01, 09:24

in Milliways
retro does not have a specific year attached to it for me, the way computers worked in 2006 is pretty much the same as today, so there is nothing fundamentally different about them apart from being slower. but once you go to the early 2000s and before, computers were a lot more "diverse" so to say, …

If we were to accept 15 years ago as retro....

Posted on 2021-01-29, 10:02

in Milliways
... then here are a couple of anniversaries coming this year intel core 2 (july 2006) Playstation 3 (november 2006) the question of how many years ago something needs to be in order to be 'retro' is subjective and contextual (15 year old PC might be, 15 years old office building not so) nevertheless …

Re: Ruined memory of an old game by playing it!

Posted on 2021-01-29, 09:38

in DOS
I seem to end up playing Doom or Doom 2 about once a year, That inital first half hour it looks like big blocky mess till I adjust and get used to it again. I find alot of games especially dos games I can only play for about an hour at a time before getting bored with it unlike all those years ago …

Re: A tale of two 486s

Posted on 2021-01-26, 11:20

shame about that 2nd PC, it could be all kinds of things - damage to the motherboard, failed capacitors and so on - hopefully it rings a bell with someone on this forum and they can give you some tips the first pc sounds great though, especially for your intended use and somewhat upgradeable …

Re: Looking for childhood game

Posted on 2021-01-22, 14:56

in Windows
i too find this kind of thing fun! I am imagining in this case a limited volume published game or a small shareware game from around 1993 - it just sounds a bit like a game from the halloween harry, jill of the jungle era. to the OP, I hope someone recognises it from your description!

Re: Ruined memory of an old game by playing it!

Posted on 2021-01-22, 14:50

in DOS
sometimes it's not the game as such but the nostalgia that disappears upon replays irksome controls that once were acceptable, the inability to jump in some FPS games, being unable to skip animations and so on moreover there was a kind of ignorance one had about games when younger, beliefs that were …

Re: 1997 Pentium MMX Rebuild

Posted on 2021-01-22, 09:52

a very nice maxxed P1! i have a P1 mmx 166mhz with 64mb of glorious edo ram! I'd recommend doubling the ram if you can, but to be honest your PC as it is can run window 3.1, 95 or 98 and masses of dos and early windows games just fine as it is great components, mine has only the basics (2mb graphics …

Re: Do you keep your retro rigs offline?

Posted on 2021-01-19, 10:10

in Milliways
All of my retro rigs are online as much as possible. You would be surprised the utility you can get out of mTCP, Links, Arachne, etc. in DOS, and various old internet programs with proxies in Windows No, you won't get malware. That's a myth. Just don't download anything shady. Nobody cares about …

Re: Do you keep your retro rigs offline?

Posted on 2021-01-19, 09:59

in Milliways
however having old machines on a home network completely protected from the online world, seems like a good idea Having all your computers on a network is 100% worth it, even 200%! Anything I have gets a network card. My rigs are on a switch that's connected to the router. I only turn the switch on …

Do you keep your retro rigs offline?

Posted on 2021-01-18, 10:58

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I do. Out of all the machines I own i only allow a couple cheap 4 year old windows 10 machines and a 7 year old laptop with Linux to go online all the others, even a couple that could still just about cope with the modern internet and have windows 7 - stay offline it's mostly for security reasons, …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2021-01-18, 09:45

My AMD 386 DX 40 build, almost complete. Board with surface mounted AMD 386DX-40 arrived from Ukraine 🇺🇦 this morning! Rest of specs: Installed 8MB Ram -70 Cirrus Logic 5428 1MB ISA Video Creative Labs CT1740 Soundblaster Card 1GB CF-Card for HD 1.44 Floppy GoTek Emulator Drive 52x LG CD-ROM 300w …

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-01-18, 09:36

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I'm about to throw away the original box of a small IBM CRT monitor... it's only a monochrome POS monitor so not that special, but it was nicely boxed, while cleaning up today I noticed mold on the box though, it arrived in pretty rough shape already so I guess this was always there and I haven't …

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