Osgeld

dammit! 667

its very rare that I play on old hardware, I just dont have the space or the drive to make a "game room" for something I honestly don't do all that much. I still play old games, but its just once in a while at a whim

When I had a 400 (upgraded to 48k) it would do the same thing I used an older firmware on the sio2sd wiki and it was fine

if you are hooking it up to 9v it will be slightly dimmer

I used to watch them but ya they are ... Unique... And after a few years you have seen everything they have to offer And ya they are arrogant assholes, its not like they hide it and be a gushy cause some fan donated a unboxed Mario paint cart or whatever

a "12 volt" LED is just a normal led with a resistor already attached to it, sometimes its in the wire, sometimes its in the LED itself

Pick one out of a hat doesnt matter whatever gets the delay

I run DOS 6.22 all the time on my FX and i7 machines not to actually run programs and whatnot but sometimes its just easier to set up a hard drive in dos on a newbox, pop into windows and dump the drivers and utilities that went with it I downloaded from compaq or whatnot and move on with life its still x86, it works fine ... within reason, bone stock forget USB, SATA in AHCI mode etc

I wont sell stuff given to me by community members, but random joe at works hands me a box of money (which has happened a few times) game on

They may know they are not stupid, its just the rest of us who are questioning it

all in one pu, tis intergrated graphics and cpu in one its not a bad deal, I made my dad a new ryzen apu box, cost about 200 bucks for the core system + windows reusing his case & drives, its a super gaming machine .... for a 76 year old who hasn't played a game since we got rid of the colecovision for the rest of us, a 2400G (which is the top dawg ryzen apu) will net rock solid 720p at low - mid settings in most lower end games, and can fit inside a NES shell ... so to fit it in a smaller than a laptop space, given their dipshit layer design, one could expect a hdmi dongle level of performance, which could be ok if they were not charging 300 bucks for something you can already buy for less than 200... for the last 5 years

have no clue of the history of the board, AFAIK it was sitting in a plastic tub out in someone's garage for 2 decades, then I go and plug a 400 watt ATX supply (with an AT adapter) in and fireworks to be fair I got the entire tub and everything else worked fine, so imagine my surprise and the language I used when I hit that board ... I replaced them with ceramics since they were only 10uf and it now works fine

There was concurrent dos by Digital Research (of cpm fame) but it really was only used in small biz

I just had a 486 board explode like half of its 26 tantalum caps in one shot and took 3 days to repair so yea

I never even thought about dos until it was already on its way out, most machines didnt have hard disks, you just put in a floppy and ran what you wanted, didnt really matter about the OS, by the time everyone had hard disks well everyone had a GUI option as well so I could play with dos all day long and my mom could come in and run the print shop with a couple clicks

agreed

that's nice and all but they did have magnetic tape for computers BACK then as well which was what my original reference was to in the first place but thanks for being in left field with you FINGER up your nose whats with the random words being shouted anyway

PlayStation 1 Found everywhere always needs repair doesn't sell well play the games on 25 other platforms

All magnetic media is ANALOG including a 4tb hard drive manufactured today

I have had hard drives randomly go into stiction mode just sitting in a drawer ... course they were almost 30 years old when doing so ... grease only lasts so long um no, last I checked the general notion on flash memory is if you wrote something to it, and store it in ideal conditions, bit rot would start occuring in 10 years, magnetic media is much longer term storage, which is why you can read shit off of tapes from the 1950's

if one was playing brands, they would be lapping up "new super mario zelda land 3dS II switch"

I use a computer from 2008 every day out in the non climate controlled garage so almost 12 years

how hard could it really be, I have owned over 100 2600's in the last 3 years, hell I haz 4 out in the garage right now

I have made a number of computers in my life, I still have a 6809, a cpm compatibly z80 box (in brushed aluminum and pale blue) and a few micro controller based designs. Its fun to do, but making your ideal computer out of whatever is the easy part, its the decades of software and experiences that make our old machines special. Sure, right now in my garage, like if I could reach though the wall where I sit, I can grab my z80 single board computer that's got a 128meg compact flash card and a FTDI EVE2 graphics processor that does 640x480x who the cares amount of colors, open CL and GL acceleration and 16 bit stereo sound, and its not nearly as fun as my 65XE why? simple the only things I have for it is a crappy port of tiny basic, pong and a snake game with some bitmap display examples