Re: The Most Beautiful Laptop Ever.

Posted on 2024-05-03, 14:35

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Most beautiful laptop is a black Thinkpad with a red trackpoint, you can choose anyone from 1992 to present models. Totally agreeing! Take a look at my ThinkPad A22p. 1600x1200 and a Rage 128, what a beast. ThinkPad-A22p.jpg It also runs well with a Radeon 9250 in its docking station: …

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Re: What would you do different?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 14:28

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When my dad bought my first computer I would've told him to not take the AMD K5 90MHz just because the PC case was black and beautiful, if I had known. He didn't want to buy a beige computer, which is fine, but getting a Fujitsu PC with a CPU much slower than a Pentium and a BTX motherboard instead …

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Re: 694D Pro2 (MS-6321) dual P3 motherboard

Posted on 2024-04-24, 21:30

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I finally got this board today. It took a month to arrive and the package was soaked by rain - never use Mondial Relay to ship something to Germany. It miraculously survived, only the vertical battery holder broke off and I'm currently looking for a replacement that will fit. The first thing I did …

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Re: Anyone else noticing the large number of misleading titles/descriptions on ebay for items?

Posted on 2024-04-20, 23:53

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Aliexpress has the most unuseable search feature I've ever experienced on a website. When I look for a chip with the number ABC123 it displays chips with the number XYZ456 and a myriad of iPhone cases. How can you fuck something up so badly?

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Re: What Is the Best Way to Creating a Windows XP/98 Dual Booting Environment?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 20:15

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by schmatzler

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I definitely had problems with XP on the D: drive and 98 on the C: drive with some installers. Most software handles it just fine, but not all of it. I don't want software I install in Windows XP messing with my 98SE install, hence the "complicated" solution without ntldr.

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Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2024-04-18, 19:42

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The directory name probably changed, too. So the start menu is pointing to the wrong directory now.

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Re: Are VIA chipsets bad for retro games?

Posted on 2024-04-16, 04:03

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by schmatzler

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The Abit VH6T with a Via Apollo Pro 133T chipset is one of the most stable boards (after recapping) that I own. It's my retro "daily driver", so to speak. I only encountered one problem with it, I can't run Archimedian Dynasty with a Voodoo II, the game either never turns on the monitor or it simply …

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Re: Fujitsu Stylistic comptable active stylus pens

Posted on 2024-04-04, 22:47

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I have a few Stylistics. A really old one for Windows 95, which has an active pen with an AAAA battery in it (Stylistic 2300). I have no idea where to get a pen like this. It predates Wacom technology and seems to be a custom solution built around the Windows Pen Services CIC PenX. The later models …

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

Posted on 2024-04-01, 19:48

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rmay635703 wrote on 2024-04-01, 14:15: I’ve seen mention of smtube but no idea if it’s safe. It's part of smplayer, which is an open-source media player. I would regard that as safe.

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Re: Windows 98 software that allows you to properly move exe files without making shortcuts instead.

Posted on 2024-03-27, 19:05

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by schmatzler

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TweakUI has an option to change the default drag-and-drop behaviour, I think. That's also mentioned here.

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Re: 694D Pro2 (MS-6321) dual P3 motherboard

Posted on 2024-03-23, 14:02

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by schmatzler

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Really interesting board! It seems to have the same chipset as my Abit VH6T which is rock-solid and one of my favorite boards. There was one of these on eBay for 100€, so I just ordered that one! :) I wonder if it'll work with my Tualatin 1.4GHz with a coppermine adapter. I only have one of them, …

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Re: "Windows95man" - Finland Eurovision Song Contest entry 2024

Posted on 2024-02-11, 14:11

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That's one of the worst songs I've heard, Windows 95 does not deserve this. The "singer" seems to have smoked a few too many packs of cigarettes 😁 However, I'm sure us Germans will be able to top this and produce an even worse title, just like last year.

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

Posted on 2024-02-08, 19:20

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Just tried searching how to get my external IP address and google basically told me to shove my fingers up my ass… That's because someone messed up their JSON-LD. You can add a FAQPage element on your website and Google crawls it to display these question/answer boxes in search results. Still very …

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

Posted on 2024-02-05, 21:50

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Is this available for shorts too? I haven't been able to find it, but maybe it's because I'm on mobile. If you're on Android, you can use Revanced to remove Shorts from the official YouTube app. There are also filters for uBlock Origin that remove Shorts. They may work on Firefox Mobile, but I've …

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Re: Installing posready 2009 updates on XP

Posted on 2024-01-28, 18:41

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The easiest way is https://legacyupdate.net/ That site is even intelligent enough to disable PosReady when the CPU of the system doesn't support SSE2.

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

Posted on 2024-01-26, 15:33

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I bet a good cup of coffee is more expensive. In a world full of subscriptions where even the heating system in your car can be a monthly payment I have to carefully decide where I put my money into. Google has slowly crept up Youtube's price because "it's just a dollar more" and most people keep …

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

Posted on 2024-01-26, 13:07

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Since youtube forces me to watch ads Use the "UBlock Origin" browser extension and keep its filters up-to-date and you can watch YouTube ad-free. For ads embedded into the video you can use "SponsorBlock" which will automatically skip them. I had a YT Premium account for over a year, but they …

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Re: Opti High Fidelity 16i Yamaha YMF262-M OPL3 ISA Sound Card 82C929A Drivers

Posted on 2024-01-26, 05:20

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by schmatzler

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I use this driver for my Mad 16 Pro: https://github.com/JKnipperts/OPTi82c929_Driver

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

Posted on 2024-01-24, 13:02

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My favorite bigger vintage computing youtube personality is without a doubt cathode ray dude. Same here. It's one of those channels where I really feel the passion of the creator. CRD can talk about a Boot Manager for over an hour and it stays interesting. kudos to that. I also like to be surprised …

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Re: Why does Half Life 1 barely work on my a22e?

Posted on 2024-01-19, 02:37

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by schmatzler

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That's normal. The GPU's on the A22 line are very weak and don't have the best drivers. Try using OpenGL mode, I believe that works a little better. I had an A22m a while ago, it could acceptably run HL1 at 800x600. IBM added a Rage 128 into the A22 p . Now that's a beast. Much better drivers, can …

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