Soldato
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I've been lucky so far! Even if bricked though, piece of history!
What retro things have you done today?
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I've been lucky so far! Even if bricked though, piece of history!
Of course, although I will probably have to leave it to you in my will. Just for you though....
I posted the "build and test" of this a couple of pages ago if you want more LANParty pron.
...and there is a LANParty DK P35-T2RS with some work needed on the way.
I wish they still made them, good times!
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I've been using Windows Vista lately and is it me or is it actually both really nice to use and looks great too! It performs well on a late C2D and a 9500GT. Sadly Gog launchers won't launch on it which is has pushed me back to XP for my retro nonsense.
Vista was great, the whole glass theme looked great at the time and even now has aged well
The issues were that the OEMs were allowed to sell machines that were way underspecced.
I think 256mb laptops were common during that era and that speaks volumes for the slander it got.
Funnily enough I built my first custom build around that time, it was a X2 6000+ 2gb ram with a vista x64 license and it ran fantastic, I can't recall the GPU though, it may have have been a 6800gt
Not exactly a retro activity as such, but I was astonished to find a BBC Master 128 being used for label printing and stock recording at a business I was delivering to this morning!
The guy who was unloading me said he'd been working there for over 30 years and the computer has been there since he joined, they've replaced the printer numerous times over the years.
The guy who was unloading me said he'd been working there for over 30 years and the computer has been there since he joined, they've replaced the printer numerous times over the years.
Microsoft really should have had some rules in place about that. Although I did make a little bit upgrading pcs/laptops to cope with it better or even to "downgrade" to XP from 1 person.
Funny that the whole "glass" style is apples new thing right now
Funny that the whole "glass" style is apples new thing right now
Got a Ducky Origin for one of my MiSTer setups
Where did you get that from? I ordered one from OcUK and they told me theres no ETA on stock.
Also, I really wish they had thought about it a bit more and not used the current Windows logo on the Windows keys... Use the word WIN, an old logo, a ducky logo, anything!! Poorly considered...
Ordered from OcUK three days ago, they had most of them in stock, I got one with Blue switches
