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https://homestarrunner.com/disk4of12 Bless the nerds that created Ruffle for rescuing these flash games from obsolescence 
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graphics cards compatibility matter more than cpus for stuff from that era, there's a giant insane table of what works with what here: https://gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS/ prepare to fiddle around constantly with config.sys and autoexec.bat getting the XMS/EMS memory configuration just so for each game while still having enough free conventional memory, it's easy to forget how much of that frustration is taken care of automatically when you emulate those old games in DOSbox
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Mar 6, 2021 12:28
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if you want to be a huge nerd you can make your own https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:918504 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=arcade+joystick+diy it is surprisingly nice to use
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Mar 10, 2021 23:00
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I'd like to think my entire vintage computer collection won't be going to the landfill when I die but I don't have high expectations for my family
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Mar 23, 2021 22:12
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On the one hand I'm really glad a friend gave me his old A1200 for free 20 years ago, on the other hand I've wasted so much money on upgrades for it like the Indivision AGA, new top case to get rid of his ugly spray can paintjob etc
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Apr 1, 2021 06:40
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the only downside i can think of with cheap usb cdrom drives is that they don't have audio output, but for games that use red book audio (the kind where you can listen to the music if you stick the cdrom in a regular cd player and skip to track 2) your best bet is probably to install a virtual cdrom drive like daemon tools inside the virtual machine and mount a bin/cue rip of the original cd
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Apr 26, 2021 19:30
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didn't a lot of computers use a regular rca plug for the RF signal and include a switch box with the proper antenna connectors on it? like the ones you got with old nintendo and sega consoles? 
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May 9, 2021 11:26
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Install wacky wheels and jam out to the intro tune for a while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfzg2vuqia0
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Jun 24, 2021 21:31
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I still have the floppies from my old BBC micro that I wrote some basic on when I was around 10 years old It’s all complete garbage, but I can’t really say I’ve improved since then
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Aug 8, 2021 21:26
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the tricky bit is the error correction, it doesn't take much to get bit errors on a digital tape philips made a digital cassette format back in the 90s that was pretty cool but a commercial failure https://www.dccmuseum.com/the-dcc-story/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkGMJBqZawA
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https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=31922 says it's doable to run 3.11 off fat32 but it sounds like you are better off using partition magic or something similar to resize your harddrive and add a 2gb fat16 partition to install dos 6.22 and 3.11 on. you might want to image the harddrive before trying to resize it in case it blows up
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Nov 21, 2021 21:26
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look at it with fdisk in win98, the modern computer most likely made the wrong partition type. how big is the whole harddrive? anything bigger than 120gb can behave weird due to lba48 limits. if fdisk shows weird partition sizes don't use it to recreate the second partition or it will probably corrupt the first one. It's easy to forget just how much legacy hardware crap you had to deal with back then, https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/tp/137gb.pdf
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Nov 21, 2021 22:47
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there's some discussion here https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=52049 I think you'll have the best results if you  and make sure to install DOS 6.22 to a 2gb partition first, then boot from the win98se cd and create a big secondary+logical partition that can be fat32 and contain all the win98 data.reinstalling everything every couple months was a big part of the win9x experience anyway
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I run my windows 3.11 stuff on the PC Compatibility card on a Macintosh, it's real hardware but the hard drive is a 2gb file that i can duplicate to have a backup or multiple os installs Almost all windows 3.11 games work fine in windows 95/98 but you do need a 3.11 install to be able to experience the glory of Bob 
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Nov 22, 2021 21:05
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if you have a supported AMD radeon card you can use CRT Emudriver to get 15khz video modes https://geedorah.com/eiusdemmodi/forum/viewtopic.php?id=295 actually getting RGB into the TV depends a lot on the TV. If it's PAL with SCART inputs it's a lot easier and you probably just need the right VGA to SCART cable, if it's NTSC you should look at a GBS-AIO scaler kit or something
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Apr 7, 2022 12:46
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Hope you're handy with a soldering iron! https://geocities.ws/podernixie/htpc/cables-en.html#vgascart sounds like that is confirmed working here https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=66970 make sure to check out GroovyMAME once you get it working, it interacts with CRT Emudriver and lets you run native video modes and oddball refresh rates for a whole bunch of arcade roms. It looks amazing on a CRT. r u ready to WALK fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Apr 7, 2022 |
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the printable enclosure for the greaseweazle is really neat! https://www.printables.com/model/83539-greaseweazle-v4-f1-plus-mini-case-with-space-for-3  
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i made the mistake of answering an ad for someone getting rid of his entire retro mac collection and now i have to step over computers every time i need to get something from the basement it's really hard to decide on which of them i should let go though, i want to keep the bonkers apple studio crt but it makes an awful whining noise   and i want to sell the lovely all-in-ones but their flybacks keep arcing and i'd feel guilty if it conks out after 5 minutes for the new owner 
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Sep 3, 2022 06:16
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just cram it back into any hole that is supposed to be a ground (common) pin you could try to bend out the little metal retainers a bit more on the pin so that it doesn't just fall out again 
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Yeah a couple years back i bought a MiST fpga (the original fpga project before MiSTer) and it came with a really nice amiga HD file on the sd card with a heavily customized workbench and hundreds of games. If you find something similar you can just copy it to a FC card and hook it up to the IDE interface of your accelerator and it should boot on real hardware. It was nice and snappy on my 030-upgraded A1200 Unless you want to use the installation and configuration from scratch as a learning process I think it's better to reuse the image that some Amiga fanatic put thousands of hours into perfecting for WinUAE or MiSTer.
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I am willing to support this company if it means a Hand486 and a Handium in the future I am sure they could find an old industrial SoC that runs windows 98 and early 3d games great and has sound blaster emulation
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May 15, 2023 06:54
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Yeah, it depends entirely on whether you enjoy squinting at a tiny postage stamp or not
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May 15, 2023 10:31
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I got my A1200 for free from a friend of a friend probably 20 years ago I bet he's still kicking himself over it
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It's a real shame that MIDI died out on home computers after the 90s, I wonder what could have been if the industry had been more eager to create a more modern common standard after GM.. Since Roland had GS and Yamaha had XG competing against each other pretty much nothing used it, sticking to the crappier GM standard. Especially XG could sound amazing if you used the full range of insert effects, but I think the biggest omission from the MIDI standard have always been a standard way to embed samples in the midi files. Every MIDI file being stuck with the same 128 instruments, most of which sucked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OVPVBcnagA
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There were some old mod players that used the AWE32 for hardware playback, check out https://hornet.org/cgi-bin/scene-search.cgi?search=awe32 But targeting a specific card meant they had a really short lifespan as everyone moved on to newer cards.
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The Kins posted:They're pretty good ports! You can also get them on Itch if you prefer that platform. that android Glider port is pretty darn cool 
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falz posted:That was insane. Like, how. This message with quote is 225 bytes. Hopefully there will be a writeup explaining some of how it's done like there is for https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/index.php You are allowed to call system APIs and firmware so I wonder if they base the geometry on some predictable blob of data somewhere or if it's all self contained in those 256 bytes. Computers are really good at recursion!
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