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Boldor posted:If you want to get a USB 3.5" floppy drive to read old floppies conveniently ... avoid Amazon, look for a used IBM-branded USB floppy drive on eBay. Can confirm. I have an Amazon usb floppy drive and it’s pretty useless. Windows 10 isn’t entirely sure what to do with it. I got a Dell unit that used to go in their older laptops but takes usb as well and it works fantastic. This vid goes into it a bit https://youtu.be/wWwp3vVtElw
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Since we're having amigachat, I have an A2000 that has two hard drives in it. I'd like to be able to wipe them and reinstall the OS, but I have literally no clue where to begin. I am assuming the Amiga OS is stored on the hard drives and not in the ROM? How would I wipe them? And how would I reinstall the OS?
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Thank you for the offer, but yeah, I’m in the US. Can a PC or Mac write Amiga boot disks? I have some older windows 98 era laptops with floppy drives and a Mac with a floppy and os 9.0 that maybe could do that if it’s possible E: I totally forgot I have a gotek floppy emulator! Does the Amiga take a standard floppy cable? And are there images online somewhere?
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Just to be clear, you need to step down from 120v to 100v, correct?
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Also there is a boot loader called plop that you can install on a floppy, boot from the floppy and instruct it to boot from the CD, even if the bios doesn’t support it. Very slick. https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html
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Nvidia Riva 128. The pci version is harder to find than the AGP, but it’ll be a strong performer
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Don’t toss that printer. Someone on ebay will snap that up guaranteed.
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What can you actually do with that? If I recall it’s not just a regular z80 pc right?
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I had fomo for a minute and then I realized I’d never use it and I have no nostalgia for it or any z80 machine
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Those graphics for some reason made me think of Elastomania Man I played the poo poo out of that game
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Jehde posted:Elasto Mania rules. You can buy it, and its predecessor Action Supercross, on steam now. Really? If they work on the steam deck I’m all over that
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Retrocomputer Gaming Thread: NABU FOMO
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Feb 26, 2023 19:36
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I thought that was a vinyl at first
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I played a ton of hyperspace delivery boy on my old windows pocket Pc. A John Romero pocket pc game!!! I see it’s been ported to windows and Linux so maybe it also works on modern stuff? Either way I agree that I don’t have a ton of knowledge here but I’m glad you’re doing this. E: a bunch of stuff from the man himself. Romero leak the GBA build https://romero.smugmug.com/Video-Games/Hyperspace-Delivery-Boy/ Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Mar 11, 2023 |
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drrockso20 posted:At this point if you don't already have original hardware it's probably best to just stick to emulation where possible when it comes to retro computing I’m sort of the opposite in this regard. I’m more interested in the hardware and getting it to work. Having an emulator sort of defeats the purpose for me, even if it is much easier and painless
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I also struggled with displays for a long time, with both retro games and retro computers. I finally bit the bullet and got a small Sony trinitron for old computer use and I’ve discovered that half the vibe with old OS’s for me is seeing them the way I originally saw them, on CRT screens. There is just something about things like System 7,8,9, DOS, Windows 3.1 and 95 that just looks right on a CRT. I can also accept period correct crappy laptop screens.
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I do agree, and there is realistically 0 probability that the average person will dedicate an entire car stall in their garage to housing a PDP-11 so they can mess around with it. In that case, just playing with the emulator is more than fine, IMO
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The way I look at it is that PC is a pretty unified platform but the interesting part comes in the add-ons that can be in them. Graphics accelerators, sound cards, drive controllers, and whatever else make up the bulk of what makes a PC interesting, because, yeah, a 486 is just a fast 386 is just a fast 286, etc To this end: I just bought an nVidia (remember when they used to stylize it like that?) Riva 128 because it was the first actual 3D GPU I owned and it definitely had a look all it’s own, one that isn’t replicated without that card. You could argue the look was “bad”, but it colored so much of my early PC gaming experience, that the Riva 128 look is something I remember fondly. Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Jun 28, 2023 |
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Another big part of collecting hardware for me is getting the things I used to lust after in PC Magazine as a young nerd. I used to page through that magazine and dream about how cool the various computers and software packages were. Those $3000 machines that I never stood a chance of using back then are (relatively) cheap nowadays, and to this threads point, fairly boring, but it’s like if the Lamborghini countach from the poster that everyone had was only $5000 today
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Its weird where people split it in their heads. For me, old computers generally stop being interesting after the Pentium 3. P4 and onwards are all basically the same (C2D onwards for absolutely sure), and are just slower versions of what we have today. In fact, I'd argue that if you took the best Core2Quad, loaded it up with RAM and an SSD, it would probably still be a decent PC today. Also, one of the things I find interesting about older PC's is the ways in which they tried to accomplish things that we take for granted today. Like multiple processors/threads. When every CPU was a single core and non-hyperthreaded, the only way to get more threads was to get more CPU's. I have an older Dell Poweredge kicking around with 4x Pentium III's in it and the design is absolutely wild. And now we've gone in the opposite direction. CPU's have multiple cores with hyperthreading, and the only place you see multiple CPU's anymore is in the server space.
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For sure I think there is a split where computers stopped being the new space age cool technology and started being "BEIGE SPREADSHEET BOX" and things definitely got less exciting in general then. They went from special to commodified. Its a good thing because it meant that lots of people could get their hands on a computer, but it also meant that some of the innovation was pushed out of the industry.
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The best bet is probably RF->Composite and then Composite->HDMI with two adapters chained together.
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The amiga got eclipsed in most ways I. The mid 90’s but it’s astounding how many amigas with video toasters held on until the death of SD video.
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I used to rent snake rattle and roll constantly for my genesis back in the day because I couldnt find a store that sold it near me Loved that game
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Since we’re talking fiction computers, are the macro data refinement computers from Severance based on anything?
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Trabant posted:Yup: https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/03/28/severance-prop-terminals-appletv-severance/ Nice, of course they are all $$$$$ on eBay. Oh well, I have a Data General 8086 luggable with an inbuilt oscilloscope that satisfies my 80’s corporate aesthetic needs.
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namlosh posted:Gonna need a pic of this… sounds incredible It’s amazing, honestly and I’m super disappointed in myself that I haven’t properly written it up yet. I bought it from a tech that used to work for Data General, it was his field diagnosis and repair machine, used to repair Data General mainframes and minicomputers. I have a full set of blueprints with it and a ton of internal Data General documentation on it, and given the dearth of information available online I strongly suspect I may have some of the only copies of this info in existence. The first thing I did upon verifying it boots was back the software up onto 720k floppies, so at least I have that if the hard drive in it dies. Here’s my artsy fartsy shots of it, but I’ll get some better documentation of it soon  
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Old processors are cool and good. Just emulate the whole machine if you’re gonna emulate the CPU
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