Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-22, 22:00

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by Greywolf1

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Speaking of food I always have a challenge getting stuff in the uk cuz it’s not popular to British taste It quite funny as I shared stuff I got for st Nicolas with my colleagues and they asked me how I could eat this stuff. (Speculas, brok speculas, taai taai, pepernoten and kruid noten.

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-22, 18:56

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I know most westerner countries are always complaining about child poverty but won’t let them work until their 16 😉 People are exploited everywhere some aware some unaware and a lot of people ignore it for personal conveniences

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Re: Thor - my attempt at a high-end Windows 98 build, based on the Pentium 4

Posted on 2024-02-22, 09:12

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I’m messing around with two P4 HT rigs tho due to lack of knowledge mine seem to be either home/office desktops with limited expansion due to between having pci slots and one pci-e x1 slot. So finding cards that fit and work in the 98/xp build is challenging. Tho I have a new untested motherboard …

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-22, 08:51

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I’m a Dutchie who has moved to the north of England tho I never really fit in anywhere even in my birth nation but England is my home now and integrated to the the best of my ability so much so that I sometimes have to translate the Yorkshire dialect for my English colleagues. There are quirks here …

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-21, 17:25

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Or as the Scot’s say if that’s a moose I wonder what the rats are like

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Re: Nostalgia for old Graphics Programs?

Posted on 2024-02-21, 09:03

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I remember using ms paint and zooming in so far to do pixel art or modify existing pictures

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Re: PCEM vs 86Box vs UniPCEM vs DosBox-X

Posted on 2024-02-21, 07:35

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After dosbox I find pcem quite functional and once setup configured it can be used just like a normal pc unfortunately my host machine is lacking and best I can do is stable win95 and patchy win98. Dosbox is quite involved and I’m not very dos savvy and always need to use cheat sheets to mount and …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2024-02-21, 07:24

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I was gutted when I had to get rid of pc game boxes as I had no room to keep them anymore could only keep all the booklets ended up eventually having to get rid of the cd cases too

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-20, 19:12

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@megatron sound like there’s a fellow northerner here 🤣

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-20, 15:20

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Other than hostile countries I think people will have similar views of their own country just in varying different climates.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-02-19, 18:00

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Plenty to pick from Dark forces Depth dwellers Rise of the triad Blake stone Hexen Heretic Blood System shock Cyclones Tek wars Amsterdoom Don’t know if you can include the next ones, Magic carpet Stonekeep Decent

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Re: Planning for Building a Windows 98 / XP Dual Boot builds

Posted on 2024-02-18, 16:57

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For pci options is 8mb video card the best I can get for xp and win98 because all the cards I get referred to are either agp or pci-e x16 I have a P4 system

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Re: Planning for Building a Windows 98 / XP Dual Boot builds

Posted on 2024-02-17, 17:54

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I’m currently working on 2 Pentium 4 waiting for a floppy drive to arrive so I can try installing win98 Just recently managed to reinstall xp on a partition as the previous xp partition was locked in activation mode and unusable and only had win7 available but it’s not the os I want to use The other …

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Re: Voodoo 2 4444SX

Posted on 2024-02-17, 17:40

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I feel like an advanced civilisation is trying to teach a Neanderthal reading all of this

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Re: Voodoo 2 4444SX

Posted on 2024-02-17, 09:43

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I’d love to see a motherboard with integrated graphics and 3dfx for 32bit retro gaming like the Pi or arduino projects

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Re: Voodoo 2 4444SX

Posted on 2024-02-17, 08:41

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If you can do that surely someone is able to do some new 3dfx replications for the retro players rather than collectors

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-02-16, 16:04

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I love the little quirks in it like the the peons going huh! huh! Stop touching me! When you click on them 🤣

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Re: Windows vista 32bit vs XP 32bit

Posted on 2024-02-16, 14:11

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Other than hardware issues win 10 totally made my laptop unusable and ended up having to reinstall win7

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-02-16, 14:09

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Currently playing the lands of lore series with a little bit of dark forces, duke3d, warcraft2, krush kill n destroy and dune 2000 and breath of fire3 on the ps1(batocera)

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Re: Windows vista 32bit vs XP 32bit

Posted on 2024-02-16, 09:26

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My wife has a vista 32bit so laptop never been a fan of the os other that work or home it’s been awkward for gaming be it installing or playing and compatibility more was practically defunct.

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