What retro things have you done today?

phatboy · 12 Oct 2019 at 22:05

Not a bad little stash there for £25. You would make you money back at least which is good I guess

MSI Socket A looks quite nice

DELL Northwood P4 reminds me of my dad's old dimension....that chip was SO bad

phatboy · 12 Oct 2019 at 22:10

A retro thing today for me was digging out my dreamcast and the VGA cable ready for when my boss is back Monday

Was at a conference in toronto and video called me one afternoon from a retro games shop he found. Asked on off chance if they had a copy of Alien Front Online as getting a good copy here of an already fairly rare US only title is tough sub £60-70.

Big box copy in store, picked up for £16.....YES!!!

paradigm · 13 Oct 2019 at 05:45

almoststew1990 said:
£25 well spent? Eh kinda. Bit annoyed I didn't check the boards before I bought them and just picked up the Socket A for £10 or something.

The Dell will happily take a standard ATX PSU, and recapping the boards is a 1hr job max, so potential for all the boards to be good again. I’d say a decent haul for £25, especially with the ceramic TBird 1400!

paradigm · 14 Oct 2019 at 11:27

LewisRaz said:
Nice work!

I planned to do the mod on my DMG but then was given a backlit SP and didnt even touch the old one again

Thought I'd upload a photo of how it now looks:

almoststew1990 · 14 Oct 2019 at 13:26

Now I've got a potential Socket 478 PC I'm back to eyeing up fast AGP cards (even though a week ago I told myself I wasn't going to

) Hmmm... Do I spend £30 on a 6800LE; £18.50 on a 6600GT; or £11 on a 5700LE/9250/9550? 6600GT I think (especially as it is advertised as a vanilla 6600!)

Edit- the listing/seller auto accepted my offer of £17. That's pretty good for an AGP 6600GT! Thanks for the heads up on the listing @phatboy

phatboy · 14 Oct 2019 at 16:30

almoststew1990 said:
Now I've got a potential Socket 478 PC I'm back to eyeing up fast AGP cards (even though a week ago I told myself I wasn't going to) Hmmm... Do I spend £30 on a 6800LE; £18.50 on a 6600GT; or £11 on a 5700LE/9250/9550? 6600GT I think (especially as it is advertised as a vanilla 6600!)

Edit- the listing/seller auto accepted my offer of £17. That's pretty good for an AGP 6600GT! Thanks for the heads up on the listing @phatboy

Awesome, glad you managed to get it

The 6600GT is faster than a 6800LE as the LE is a pretty crippled card tbh. My 6600GT in my Skt A goes like stink still

elh_2009 · 14 Oct 2019 at 18:44

Nothing as good as any of you guys but today is my birthday so I got out my DMG and two games I spent hours with as a kid, Tetris and WWF Superstars 2. I had a quick half hour blast, still as good as ever

LewisRaz · 14 Oct 2019 at 21:02

paradigm said:
Thought I'd upload a photo of how it now looks:

That actually looks amazing!

almoststew1990 said:
Now I've got a potential Socket 478 PC I'm back to eyeing up fast AGP cards (even though a week ago I told myself I wasn't going to) Hmmm... Do I spend £30 on a 6800LE; £18.50 on a 6600GT; or £11 on a 5700LE/9250/9550? 6600GT I think (especially as it is advertised as a vanilla 6600!)

Edit- the listing/seller auto accepted my offer of £17. That's pretty good for an AGP 6600GT! Thanks for the heads up on the listing @phatboy

Thats a good deal on that!

elh_2009 said:
Nothing as good as any of you guys but today is my birthday so I got out my DMG and two games I spent hours with as a kid, Tetris and WWF Superstars 2. I had a quick half hour blast, still as good as ever

Happy birthday fella. I never played the WWF game but the tetris theme still haunts me

phatboy · 14 Oct 2019 at 21:08

Agreed that Gameboy looks fantastic, my old girl is so yellowed and needs a full refurb as a project next year

phatboy · 18 Oct 2019 at 19:37

Bought a brand new sealed boxed copy of the remake of PONG for the PC. Hilarious multiplayer PSone games and was chuffed to get this for £4.90 posted

LewisRaz · 18 Oct 2019 at 21:04

Does anyone know if its possible to get USB drives working on win95? Or even a way it can see my network drives?

The only thing with a CD writer in the house is my mrs laptop and its terrible

Other than that I have managed to get the audio from the win95 pc to play through my main pcs monitor so I dont need any extra speakers or headphones which is nice.
Also had a quick blast on the original tomb raider to test out dos sounds (First dos game I could find in my pile)

almoststew1990 · 18 Oct 2019 at 21:42

LewisRaz said:
Does anyone know if its possible to get USB drives working on win95? Or even a way it can see my network drives?

The only thing with a CD writer in the house is my mrs laptop and its terrible

Other than that I have managed to get the audio from the win95 pc to play through my main pcs monitor so I dont need any extra speakers or headphones which is nice.
Also had a quick blast on the original tomb raider to test out dos sounds (First dos game I could find in my pile)

I don't know why it wouldn't be possible as it is fine in Windows 98 with a special driver. Have a go with nusb36e.exe from here:

https://www.philscomputerlab.com/windows-98-usb-storage-driver.html

I've not had any issues installing it after chipset drivers (or even before actually) but make sure you follow the instructions about removing any USB related drivers first.

LewisRaz · 18 Oct 2019 at 22:38

almoststew1990 said:
I don't know why it wouldn't be possible as it is fine in Windows 98 with a special driver. Have a go with nusb36e.exe from here:

https://www.philscomputerlab.com/windows-98-usb-storage-driver.html

I've not had any issues installing it after chipset drivers (or even before actually) but make sure you follow the instructions about removing any USB related drivers first.

I realised that I have that file already from my windows 98 builds. Went and found the disk and then realised that this PC doesnt actually have USB

There is a header on the motherboard for it but I have not tested it yet. Dont want to wire it in wrong

elh_2009 · 19 Oct 2019 at 09:52

Yesterday I went to EGX and spent a good amount of time in the retro section, pinball machines, light guns and for the first time ever i played on the virtual boy. What an amazing bit of kit, now I'm searching market place for one Haha, they are pretty expensive!

LewisRaz · 19 Oct 2019 at 11:20

elh_2009 said:
Yesterday I went to EGX and spent a good amount of time in the retro section, pinball machines, light guns and for the first time ever i played on the virtual boy. What an amazing bit of kit, now I'm searching market place for one Haha, they are pretty expensive!

Did you see linus tech tips did a video on the Virtual Boy recently. They had 2 of them playing multiplayer

elh_2009 · 19 Oct 2019 at 12:53

LewisRaz said:
Did you see linus tech tips did a video on the Virtual Boy recently. They had 2 of them playing multiplayer

No, I will have to check that out

Kainz · 19 Oct 2019 at 18:38

Went to EGX and spent more time in the retro section than anything else. Queues for your average games were stupidly long so what better way to wind down, then by killing a 8yr old in Golden Axe

phatboy · 20 Oct 2019 at 11:02

spent the weekend in Brum last year and was brilliant, as many said I spent more of my time in the Retro and Indie sections than anything else. it was accessible, had some great 4 player Timesplitters 2 matches and tbh….more fun.

Central London was just a no go for me this year, I really don't like the place if I am honest. Do enough events / meetings for work to do me

paradigm · 20 Oct 2019 at 19:24

Built the modified DMG a friend today, will be used for GBC, GBA, NES and SNES on the go.

almoststew1990 · 20 Oct 2019 at 20:12

I picked up a few of my retro bits that were at my Dad's house whilst my partner and I moved house. Good to see you again Game Boy Micro and PSP!

The GBM will be particularly useful as I now cycle to work and I try to keep my bag as light as possible. It weighs basically nothing!