Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2021-01-07, 12:23

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Jazz remastered? No way. I even hated 2 back in the day. Jazz1 is what it is and we love it for exactly that. I'd say Tempest but it's been done with Tempest 4000 (I hate it), however X3 on emulation is nice. So there's that. Sam and Max had several sequels in form of episodes, that's already …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-03, 21:56

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I eventually managed to get the 2600Jr to work, replaced its on/off switch and did the composite mod. That's two dead machines rescued! :P Since the output quality was much cleaner than RF, I returned to the six-switch one to do the corresponding AV mod with the 2N3904 transistor. Now to service the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-02, 14:25

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today there was no great success but slow progress... :P Replaced the 5->12VDC circuit in the VTech Laser 200 with a step-up/dc booster board. That's progress, I get very fuzzy RF output but it turns out that the floating board with the PAL demodulator chip is also responsible for the colour, so now …

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Re: VTech Laser 200 trouble

Posted on 2020-12-30, 21:33

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That sounds about right, thanks. Just a little update since I don't have the SRAM chips yet, I fiddled around not really knowing what to do. Tested the ram chip input voltages according to Hitachi datasheets and they seem about right at 4.99V, so the board appears not to have any more problems, so …

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VTech Laser 200 trouble

Posted on 2020-12-28, 19:41

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Hello, happy holidays! I tried to repair a VTech Laser 200 which wouldn't turn on. I replaced a faulty 7805 voltage regulator and disconnected the power cables from the RF modulator, which is shorted and is what caused the regulator to overheat in the first place. Now it powers up and outputs …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-20, 18:37

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Last retro hardware purchase for 2020, arrived today... Sonnet Encore/ST G4 Duet 1.3GHz - two 1.3GHz PPCs on a G4 CPU card This went in a side-of-the-road find 400MHz Sawtooth PowerMac which had its HDDs taken out and a dead PSU. I have already restored/upgraded it with: a bigger PSU (ATX pinout …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-04, 19:04

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Some NOS stuff arrvived to the house ! Now it will be Super Mario Sunshine tonight on the Switch.. :D 🌈☀🌞⭐ I really like the GC controller! Coincidentally I took out my GameCube from storage a few days ago, to fit a XenoGC in it... Originally bought it in a bundle with a memory card and Super Smash …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-12-03, 12:39

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Nowadays I'm into maintaining my Amiga gear. Found six of my old joysticks, three arcade sticks and three flight-yoke type ones! The two were already fully working, I restored and cleaned the other three, will change a damaged 9pin female connector on the fourth later today. Got an external Amiga …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-04, 21:17

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I received an ECS Hires Denise and a 512KB trapdoor RAM (A501 is dead due to corrosion) for my rev5 A500 . The Hires Denise wouldn't play with the original OCS 512KB Agnus in the rev5. While a 1MB Agnus is still in the mail on its way here, I couldn't really wait; screw it, moved the Gotek and the …

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Re: Voodoo3 2000 with missing caps

Posted on 2020-10-31, 11:04

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Yep, the three edge caps are notorious for falling off easily when the V3 cards are in storage/being pushed around by other items due to their position, I've had to solder new ones in lots of them.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-10-20, 21:09

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Three years ago I got hold of a (then wet) red-power-light OCS Amiga 500 rev5 (KS1.2) with a bottom full of mud, a missing trapdoor and a severely corroded memory add-on (some parts of the motherboard near the trapdoor RAM connector and the audio filter were badly greenish as well) due to barrel …

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Re: Sony Vaio PCG-FR102 running with windows 98SE

Posted on 2020-10-03, 10:41

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Go editions needed modified driver INFs so as be able to be installed. Try some driver from here: https://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/29-pre-100-driver-releases/ edit: here's a modified inf for a 9x driver that supports 420 Go https://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/6328-v6642-9xme-nv/ source: …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-27, 14:58

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Yesterday I got an AverMedia TVBox9 standalone VGA TV tuner for 2€, no PSU/remote/cables etc. No DVB, just analogue. Dunno what I was thinking, maybe probably to use it as a composite->VGA upscaler. Guess what; with a generic 12V PSU (positive tip) and a PSone connected, it worked, latency being on …

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Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2020-07-15, 09:56

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Count me in for testing and actual use, I'd love emulators which could run on Pentium/PIIs and Win16

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Re: Your oldest favorite computer game?

Posted on 2020-06-21, 20:32

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In my early computing days I was more into QBasic 4.5/BPO 7.0 (a dull, boring nerd born in the beginning of the nineties), but these are the first games I played A LOT back then, in no particular order: Leisure Suit Larry I (AGI) Mindscape's 4D Sports: Driving (yes, Stunts!) Secret Agent Man (sam1! …

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Re: Story behind your avatar?

Posted on 2020-06-06, 09:23

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Meet Chuih, one of SEGA's space mice from ChuChu Rocket (Dreamcast title) which I used to play a lot in my early teens 🤣

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Re: Faint vertical lines (shadows) on a CRT

Posted on 2020-05-30, 12:58

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Have had this happen on an LCD too (SyncMaster 720), output from my 486 (CL-GD542x VLB cards, Pine Technology iirc). At first I thought the card was bad, got a replacement, the second one gave me similar results. It got fixed after replacing the caps on them!

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Re: My Dream Pentium MMX Build

Posted on 2020-05-29, 15:16

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Ah well, too bad, were nice builds, but as you wish... Even when not sharing builds, just the knowledge-sharing part of vogons is immense!

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-17, 12:44

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not really retro, but cool nonetheless. Apple begs to differ :< Considers everything >4yrs "vintage" iirc, however Core2Duos are still perfectly usable. They provide no support at all, when my keyboard got damaged I had to track down a used one and replace it myself, same with the fan, I got a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-17, 10:22

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Reformatted the 250GB SSD and the 1TB HDD on my daily driver MacBook 5,1 aluminum unibody (late 2008) and installed Fedora 32 KDE. Installed nvidia 340 driver for the 9400M and fixed the brightness control, installed broadcom fw and mbpfan to get it silent again, paired KDE Connect with my mobile, …

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