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Re: What do you regret throwing out?

Posted on 2021-07-31, 20:06

in Milliways
Once upon a time a long while ago, I let go of an original Amiga 1000, matching RGB monitor, and a ton of game disks. I also remember having an Atari 130XE (8-bit Atari with 128K RAM) and floppy drive, but no disks..also eventually given away. As a result of recent COVID19 related economic struggles …

Re: How many working computers do you have right now?

Posted on 2021-04-01, 08:17

in Milliways
right now? 16. My currently linked up machines: 1. My current daily (Core2Duo era iMac) 2. Dell Optiplex GX240 (SDRAM P4, dual boots XP and 98) 3. AMD Athlon II X4 (Windows 10 Steam game box) 4. Beige box 865/P4/DDR (XP GOG game box) 5. Intel Atom gateway box/FTP/DLNA/proxy server 6. Nehalem Xeon …

Re: What made you join VOGONS?

Posted on 2021-03-02, 08:58

in Milliways
I originally lurked a lot on MSFN's forums for older operating systems, i.e. their Windows 9x and NT4-2K-XP forums. Posters there would refer to users or posts on here, and I'd hop over here and lurk here a while. Eventually I decided to sign up here as well.

Re: Do you keep your retro rigs offline?

Posted on 2021-01-19, 10:30

in Milliways
I'm actually posting this from a retro rig- namely, my HT NW P4 running XP. It helps to use a lighter browser like K-Meleon, or an older version of Firefox (~52esr) with NoScript set up.(JavaScript is the main thing that makes browsing that would be fast on a Pentium 2 require a Core 2.) …

Re: Could you build a retro PC right now?

Posted on 2020-09-02, 03:48

in Milliways
Right now, I could build: 3 Socket 478 machines for use from Win9x-Win7 2 Socket 775 machines for use from Win2k-Win10 I also have some odd Geode boards (not Geode NX) that I'd bought for use as routers that could be pressed into use for running some DOS or Win9x apps (but driver support is around …

Re: Pi to Modem and pre renderer concept questions

Posted on 2020-07-26, 03:49

Something I was thinking about while getting ready for work: Most of the systems on the OP's last post, including the higher-end 8 bit systems (the Commodore 128 and the MSX TurboR) have graphical operating systems available (GEOS for the C64/128 and SymbOS for the MSX), and could probably handle …

Re: Pi to Modem and pre renderer concept questions

Posted on 2020-07-26, 01:48

Can any of those 8-bit systems run their own TCP/IP stacks and some sort of text based browser? If not, I'd think they'd be stuck as text terminals running copies of Lynx or Links on the Pi. The 286 could probably run Windows 3.1 or a really recent version of Geos/Ensemble/Breadbox, using a SLIP …

Re: Pi to Modem and pre renderer concept questions

Posted on 2020-07-26, 00:13

OP, Is your retro system limited to something like a serial cable connection? (I'm asking because you used the phrase 'modem emulator'.) Could it possibly use an Ethernet connection to the Pi? I was originally going to suggest something like a VNC client or perhaps something like a local X server on …

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