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I can't find any history on the Everex Stepnote SK - any ideas?

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2024/10/31
16:48 UTC

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Decided to fire up my Strawberry iMac and play something

While I sold off my Bungie Mac Action Sack a while ago, I realized that I still have the games saved on here. Time to give Pathways to Darkness a spin

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2024/10/30
03:03 UTC

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Ray Tracing on MSDOS

2 Comments
2024/10/29
22:35 UTC

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What do we think so far?

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2024/10/26
21:51 UTC

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Thinking of Buying an Apple IIE

Hey guys I'm thinking of buying an apple 2E. Mostly for nostalgia, we had them when I was in school between kindergarten and first grade. I really know nothing about the Apple twos, but what I'm looking for is a basic system that I can just play some games on, and I want to run the later Apple unidisc drive, rather than the early one that kind of looks like the Tandon drive from an IBM 5150. That's the one we had when I was in school and I kind of missed that clunking noise it made when it loaded. I see that there's different model floppy drives is there different floppy controllers also? Or are they all the same? Also what should I look for in getting a machine that'll work pretty good? I've read about the capacitor that needs replacing in the power supply. But is there anything else I should be looking for like expansion cards or anything of that nature that'll make it a more playable system? I'm hoping I'll enjoy it, I already have a Commodore 64 and an Atari 800 that I play a lot, hopefully the apple is as entertaining

7 Comments
2024/10/25
23:04 UTC

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Viewsonic g810 no picture but high voltage

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2024/10/22
01:51 UTC

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Target Renegade for the ZX Spectrum. The best beat-em-up on the platform? Behold my silly love letter to this game!

2 Comments
2024/10/19
19:42 UTC

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My pentium II 300mhz only running at 275mhz

I have a FIC kl-6011 motherboard I tried lots of jumper setting but still it's either 275mhz or 133mhz and some times it's 266mhz PS: in CPU Z vintage edition it says the specifications are a pentium II 366 Klamath which is not true and it says the core speed is 133mhz the multiplier is 5.5x and the bus speed is 24mhz even when I play quake 2 in windowed mode it's still 133mhz and 24mhz fsb

6 Comments
2024/10/19
11:20 UTC

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How much ram and rom does the MODEL LCD – 286 have?

I found a good offer on a MODEL LCD – 286 on the Facebook Marketplace, I need to know how much ram it has. Does anyone know?

2 Comments
2024/10/18
17:10 UTC

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help please! Problems with a vintage laptop Toshiba Satellite 4090xcdt motherboard

Hi everyone! A few days ago i bought a vintage Toshiba Satellite 4090xcdt laptop. Before buying i saw from the pictures that the laptop is very dirty (the seller didn`t even bother to clean it on the outside) , the next day i received the package with the laptop through courier. I opened the package i set up the laptop on the table connected the power supply and the laptop started showing it has some problems with the hard disk and asked me to do a disk scan, i did it and it booted fine on the os (windows 95) all it was fine i navigated the os until suddenly the laptop shut down dead. I thought it was a power outage or something but it was not. I unplugged the power supply, plugged it back in and to my unfortunate surprise nothing did work not even the power led on the laptop wasn`t lighting anymore. So now the laptop was completly dead. I begun disassembling it, starting with the keyboard and the signs were bad already: something brown and sticky like dried coffee was on the back of the keyboard. From that moment i allready suspected it has to be the cmos/rtc battery leaked inside it, and i disassembled the laptop completely. Well inside it was a complete mess all the plastics were full of that gunk but to my surprise the motherboard didn`t` have that stuff on it but it had a loose square component, i don`t` know what it is maybe a capacitor or something it says ''tokin'' on it. I saw it loose and i wiggled it a bit and it came off the board revealing some broken traces, great! (not even!) See pictures, the last picture is showing how it should be looking if it wasn't to be broken. Now the questions are: 1. Can the laptop function ok without that component? (though i suspect not, because i think it failed because of that component becoming loose not because the sticky gunk that was only onthe plastics) and 2. Can those two broken traces be rapaired and if yes, how? (scraping the protection to reveal some copper and using wires to connect the component back?) I would like to repair it myself because in my country (Romania) everything is expensive even the laptop itself was 250 lei ( 70 dollars/50 euros) and the electrician repairs would be half of that price so it is not worth it. Thank you for the help.

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5 Comments
2024/10/16
22:10 UTC

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GPU overclocking software for windows 9x (98)

i want to overclock my trident 3d image 9750 (dookie tier GPU) in windows 98, any programs?

7 Comments
2024/10/15
19:19 UTC

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Are there any portable computers?

I just got into the world of vintage computing and I currently need a portable computer I can easly find used online for a low price, because I was just watching at the Commodore SX 64 but it has a very high price.

19 Comments
2024/10/15
18:18 UTC

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Help a Wang out? VS 5, looking for a 4 pin keyboard.

0 Comments
2024/10/14
16:30 UTC

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Washed a Filthy AT Keyboard

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2024/10/14
01:20 UTC

1 Comment
2024/10/12
16:27 UTC

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putting an untested gpu in my 1997 pc

so basically would putting an untested gpu that i found in a e-waste centre break my other components in my pc, if the gpu would be faulty?

2 Comments
2024/10/12
12:14 UTC

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Vintage Computer Find: Garage Pickup - Part 1

2 Comments
2024/10/12
01:30 UTC

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Mac OS X 10.4.11 back to factory setting need help

1 Comment
2024/10/12
00:48 UTC

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Why I love Tomahawk on the Amstrad CPC

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2024/10/11
14:12 UTC

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Playing R-Type, the emblematic 1988 shooter, simultaneously on 3 different computers and their original CRTs: C64, Amiga 500 and Atari ST. My kids helped. An incredibly enjoyable experience, close-ups of lovely pixels and glorious soundtracks... Enjoy the video and tell me what you think

6 Comments
2024/10/10
09:55 UTC

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Idk if this works here but i cant find ANYTHING on this find. Anybody have any idea.

7 Comments
2024/10/09
04:14 UTC

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