Be very interested to see if this works. I have a dicoloured but otherwise mint AT101 from my childhood full of juicy black alps switches in need of some love.
What retro things have you done today?
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Be very interested to see if this works. I have a dicoloured but otherwise mint AT101 from my childhood full of juicy black alps switches in need of some love.
I’ve had one of the speakers out in the sun for two days now, and there is definitely a noticeable difference. Peroxide cream is quicker and makes a bigger difference but you run the risk of streaking
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is it possible to play the arcade / japanese version of Final Fight on any console? i know they watered it down a lot for the snes
i see they have final fight on the capcom arcade stadium on the Switch, probably the snes version...
i see they have final fight on the capcom arcade stadium on the Switch, probably the snes version...
It needs to be applied evenly or this will happen
It's definitely the arcade version on the arcade stadium collection. In fact you can choose the world or Japanese rom on launch
I have one of those still from when I used to review hardware. I used it recently to build a new ITX PC before I crammed everything into the case!
Edit: Biggest challenge with modern systems is getting a GPU to sit nicely using gravity alone.
Edit: Biggest challenge with modern systems is getting a GPU to sit nicely using gravity alone.
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Bought this QTronix QX901 on eBay for £30
Its just a slider and rubber dome, but I think it would look perfect with my PS/2, no Windows keys, and the lock lights are in the IBM style.
I don't usually buy keyboards, I find them for free or get them bundled with other things, but I've been trying to find one that will suit the PS/2 for a while.
I'm not sure why the space-bar is upside down, hopefully nothing more sinister than it just being upside down... We'll see.
Oh yeah and it comes with that trackball wrist rest thing, which is interesting. I haven't seen one of those before.
The PS/2 for reference.
It should have a model M or H I think, I'll get one someday!
Its just a slider and rubber dome, but I think it would look perfect with my PS/2, no Windows keys, and the lock lights are in the IBM style.
I don't usually buy keyboards, I find them for free or get them bundled with other things, but I've been trying to find one that will suit the PS/2 for a while.
I'm not sure why the space-bar is upside down, hopefully nothing more sinister than it just being upside down... We'll see.
Oh yeah and it comes with that trackball wrist rest thing, which is interesting. I haven't seen one of those before.
The PS/2 for reference.
It should have a model M or H I think, I'll get one someday!
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I also bought this early 90s Honeywell mouse. It has an alternative to a ball on the bottom. Something which was short lived when new, I think only two manufacturers tried it.
It has two spring loaded wheels, one angled for the X axis and one angled for the Y axis. Supposedly they have greater accuracy and work on practically any surface, but cost over twice as much as a ball mouse.
I'd never seen one before!
It has two spring loaded wheels, one angled for the X axis and one angled for the Y axis. Supposedly they have greater accuracy and work on practically any surface, but cost over twice as much as a ball mouse.
I'd never seen one before!
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dug out my old quad 2 system, gonna restore it. more to come!
Keyboard arrived, space bar went back on the right way up thankfully. It was an involved process so someone must have put it upside down on purpose!
Put my Mitsumi mouse next to it just so it looks like a whole thing, yknow.
Yeah this will go okay with the PS/2.
And the weird/neat trackball mouse wrist rest thing it came with.
Also I added my most yellowed mouse to the lightbrighting pile. Which is conveniently a second identical Mitsumi!
Here is a before picture. I'm going to take an after picture after it has been in direct sunlight for say, 12 hours total.
Put my Mitsumi mouse next to it just so it looks like a whole thing, yknow.
Yeah this will go okay with the PS/2.
And the weird/neat trackball mouse wrist rest thing it came with.
Also I added my most yellowed mouse to the lightbrighting pile. Which is conveniently a second identical Mitsumi!
Here is a before picture. I'm going to take an after picture after it has been in direct sunlight for say, 12 hours total.
It's been a while.... new job, illness and family stuff have meant my retro habit has taken a back seat.
Today I finally got hold of a case in the form of a Corsair vengeance C70 in military green with a NZXT Sentry 3 in it from a guy round the corner on Facebook who wanted it shot from his garage.....after getting home and looking on eBay these appear pretty rare cases! Winner!
This now means I can finally start on my 1366 Xeon Crossfire build
Now have:
X5650 Xeon
Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer cooler
Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
16GB DDR3 Patriot Viper RAM
X-FI Fatality soundcard
2x HD4870 Reference cards
Corsair Vengeance C70 case
So just need to source a PSU and should be able to get it up and running! Anyone know what the above is going suck power wise?. Thinking circa 750w is going to be safe PSU to aim for.....
Can't wait to get started on it
Today I finally got hold of a case in the form of a Corsair vengeance C70 in military green with a NZXT Sentry 3 in it from a guy round the corner on Facebook who wanted it shot from his garage.....after getting home and looking on eBay these appear pretty rare cases! Winner!
This now means I can finally start on my 1366 Xeon Crossfire build
Now have:
X5650 Xeon
Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer cooler
Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
16GB DDR3 Patriot Viper RAM
X-FI Fatality soundcard
2x HD4870 Reference cards
Corsair Vengeance C70 case
So just need to source a PSU and should be able to get it up and running! Anyone know what the above is going suck power wise?. Thinking circa 750w is going to be safe PSU to aim for.....
Can't wait to get started on it
I haven’t been doing much retro stuff lately. Something I need to do this year is clear out a lot of my gear. Last year I sold most of it off, but I’ve still got some nice AGP cards (probably 30 odd) and way too many PCIE cards, though I’ve got my motherboards down to only about 15 now. I’ve managed to narrow my collection down to a handful of machines, that’s the idea anyway. One being a 4790k with a Titan Black as my ultimate XP machine, with SLI cards for Windows 7 (shame you can’t use a pair in XP). It was the last and most powerful supported card in XP from NVIDIA. You can run 980Ti and Titan X with driver hacks, both of which I have got but there are some weird issues with Maxwell cards.
Debating selling my AGP FX-57 system though. I have an FX-60 with SLI 7900 GTO’s as the kind of pre Direct X 10 XP machine for period correctness. The FX-57 feels a bit lost. Trouble is selling this stuff isn’t easy and I don’t want to give it away as it is a special CPU being the fastest single core AMD ever made I believe.
Debating selling my AGP FX-57 system though. I have an FX-60 with SLI 7900 GTO’s as the kind of pre Direct X 10 XP machine for period correctness. The FX-57 feels a bit lost. Trouble is selling this stuff isn’t easy and I don’t want to give it away as it is a special CPU being the fastest single core AMD ever made I believe.
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I'm having a big clear out. Its always the big ticket items that are the hardest to sell. Just put them up on eBay and when they sell, they sell. Items eventually do. That's what I do now.
I'm keeping my 233mmx Machine with an orginal Voodoo, my VIA C3 machine with a Voodoo 3 3000 and a Matrox M3D. I have a nice 4770K XP machine with a GTX 780Ti which is also staying.
Just got too much for me, last year I had so much stuff it was ridiculous. It had got to the point where I had collects most of the main NVIDIA and ATI GPU’s sometimes with double or more for SLI. Not sure what I was thinking haha. The irony is I had so much I just didn’t use it. I’m hoping with less things I may use what I have more.
I’m tempted to put the FX-57 up for a fairly ‘silly’ price to be honest. Or try and sell the entire machine which is a really high spec (has an X1950 Pro AGP in it) in a Coolermaster 201. We shall see.
I really like the 3/4th gen Intel i7’s. They are amazing for XP and Windows 7 and still entirely usable on 10. Great basis for a high end retro machine. Even something like a cheap 2500k is fast in Xp.
