Re: "The Tiniest 486 Computer" video
Posted on 2023-04-24, 05:42
Still has the room for 5.25" floppy drive, impressive. The monitor doesn't have to be small though.
Re: Denuvo removed from Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands and Star Ocean: The Divine Force
Posted on 2023-04-21, 17:19
A great start, hopefully more games will follow.
Re: have anyone seen such a case before?
Posted on 2023-04-17, 08:18
Seemed to be pretty common in my country during 486 era. Details may vary, but it typically has power button, reset button (which is as large as the power button), and a keyboard lock.
Re: Anyone notice the eBay shipping costs have doubled!?
Posted on 2023-04-17, 07:57
I'm not an American, but I heard the US gas prices has been going up lately. Perhaps it has something to do with the rise of shipping cost from the US?
Re: The most misleading game intros
Posted on 2023-04-09, 03:06
Delta Force 2 (Novalogic). Its intro is relatively non-violent, showing a team of Delta Force ambushing and arresting a bunch of insurgents in what appears to be a South American jungle. Yet the game itself, while not gratuitously violent, is indeed violent. An example is your character crawling …
Re: The PC parts market is weird sometimes
Posted on 2023-04-05, 23:43
I'm frequently looking around on ebay to pick up good deals on old PC gear (I hate the terms vintage and retro, they're consumerism buzz words used to misrepresent the actual value of something), and it's interesting to see what some items sell for vs others. The most recent example, I was looking …
Re: Which games are better on a Macintosh?
Posted on 2023-04-03, 05:33
Colonization PC, Amiga, Mac To be honest the Amiga version looks the best to me. I think there is a big number of players that like more the Amiga version. I have seen the game a little on my Amiga 1200 (not the Aga version) and I can say that it is very attractive. :) The Amiga version looks …
Re: Which games are better on a Macintosh?
Posted on 2023-04-02, 06:06
Dimitris1980 wrote on 2022-06-07, 11:55: Colonization PC, Amiga, Mac To be honest the Amiga version looks the best to me.
Re: Denuvo has published a book on the dangers of emulators
Posted on 2023-04-01, 18:40
It seems to me, when a corporation has reached the point when they can afford to screw their consumers, they will screw their consumers. No exception. I think, sadly, you are right. It doesnt even have to be malice - just the clumsy overbearing application of 'copyright' to everything. Things are …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2023-04-01, 18:27
That has got to be War of the Lance! That's correct! :D I actually played the game a little bit late. It was a 1990 game (DOS version), yet I played it somewhere in 1992. Of course it felt very primitive compared to other games I played during that time, but so engrossing! How is it? I've always …
Re: Denuvo has published a book on the dangers of emulators
Posted on 2023-04-01, 17:18
I like how he is concerned about revenues from old games, as if games from the 80's and 90's were still selling enough to raise substantial revenue for the copyright holders. I'm not talking about just PC and Mac games, either. I'm including Atari, Texas Instruments, Apple II, etc games from back …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2023-04-01, 15:54
Could anyone guess? https://i.postimg.cc/V5W0NbFW/DOSBox-2023-04-01-22-41-16-87.jpg Deployment. https://i.postimg.cc/2VjbL8cR/DOSBox-2023-04-01-22-41-41-61.jpg Diplomacy. https://i.postimg.cc/rKhd1X3d/DOSBox-2023-04-01-22-42-53-60.jpg Attacked by enemy dragons. https://i.postimg.cc/cvrvTkGF/DOSBox- …
Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards
Posted on 2023-03-28, 14:19
I'm not sure, but these bridges themselves should in theory support more than one ISA slot... just normally only one is being provided considering a motherboard's form factor. I have seen many 845 and 865 motherboards that only provide four expansion slots, one AGP and three PCIs. As far as form …
Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards
Posted on 2023-03-28, 13:23
A pity. And it's not dISAppointment's fault, it's Intel's limitation. But alright. Let say I use an ordinary ISA sound card like Sound Blaster 16 and Sound Blaster Pro, which only consumes one I/O address (220). Is it possible to use more than one ISA sound card with dISAppointment? Perhaps using …
Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards
Posted on 2023-03-28, 07:35
I read about it from my Android phone's Google news feed instead of here in Vogons. Great job nonetheless. I wonder, is it possible to have more than one ISA slots with this solution? Perhaps using split connector or such? For example, using a Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold and a Yamaha SW60XG MIDI card …
Re: What music are you listening to?
Posted on 2023-03-27, 21:55
Phonique - A Change Receives The Blessing, and that's after I added a Velodyne SC-8 subwoofe into my existing NHT SuperZero loudspeakers.
Re: How has your interest in vintage computing changed over time?
Posted on 2023-03-27, 16:21
I used to be an old hardware hoarder , but as emulation is getting better, now I'm more interested to build new hardware as host for emulators. yes indeed, its such an interesting thing. I agree with the nostalgia and the 'sensory' thing with old hardware (the sounds, the screen, the keyboard, the …
Re: Why do we collect things? self-reflection and crisis
Posted on 2023-03-27, 16:06
For me, perhaps because it runs in the family. My paternal grandfather collected horses. My father collected 4WDs. I have to settle with retro PC games and retro hardware . Perhaps collecting things is part of our OCD . However, I don't go as far as collecting vintage audio gears despite my love …
Re: Why do we collect things? self-reflection and crisis
Posted on 2023-03-27, 14:30
For me, perhaps because it runs in the family. My paternal grandfather collected horses. My father collected 4WDs. I have to settle with retro PC games and retro hardware . Perhaps collecting things is part of our OCD . However, I don't go as far as collecting vintage audio gears despite my love for …
Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards
Posted on 2023-03-27, 14:20
Disappointed that your modern PC doesn't have ISA? Well - you've been lied to. Your motherboard does have an ISA bus, but it's locked away inside the chipset. And we can help it escape through the TPM connector. I've designed an adapter that uses the Fintek F85226 LPC-to-ISA bridge to allow you to …
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