/retro/ - Retrocomputing

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My Amiga 1200 is up and running!

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Does anyone who is involved with these old computers put them to use browsing some BBSes? Do you actually chat with people on them? Is there such a thing as a collector's BBS? If there isn't there should be.

>>56929528
show some furry porn on it

>>56929528
Awesome dude! Low the slow-mo effect.

>>56916955

>>56929567
Yes

>collector's BBS
No, collectors don't do that shit

>retro hobbyist
Yes, lots, fun communities

>>56929693
Well what do you do with the old hardware then?

>>56929815
What?

Collectors just collect and fap

Hobbyist actually use and do fun stuff with their tech

>>56929629
I can't in it's current state. You won't believe how hard it was to transfer that demo and get it working.

But that's totally on the agenda when I get upgrades for it

>>56929567
Have you heard of telehack? It's not a bbs though, it's a wargaming simulation of the early internet.

I used to be on a bbs created by some anon over at (4*2)chan. But I don't know if it still exists.

I also have an account on fozztexx's level29 bbs, but I don't visit much.

>>56929680
yeah, cf cards are great

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>>56930133

>>56930141
nice

>>56930150
Thanks, love the little cute thing.

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>>56929680
Thanks!

btw how were you able to change the background wallpaper? (for future reference)

>>56930209
You mean the normal wallpaper or the background of the screen when you drag it down?

Normal wallpaper is under Prefs/WBPattern, you have to select if it's a pattern or a picture.
The black background of the screen itself is bblank.

>>56930254
ahh, I remember seeing that. (I just don't have any pictures on it at the moment). Thanks

>>56930294
You know, you're running WB3.1, then you know you can read DD 720KB DOS floppies out of the box, just go to Storage/DOSDrivers and look for PC0, double click that and insert a 720KB DOS floppy with your stuff on it, it will pop up on your Workbench, you have to wait a second or two after the first icon pops up, might show it as a corrupt icon, but then another one pops up with a DOS label.

If it's not under Storage/DOSDrivers, it might be already under Devs/DOSDrivers, then it should work out of the box.

>>56930393
Yeah, that's how I transferred the boing ball demo, thanks anyway tho

>Original Content is encouraged
But that's just it, there isn't any. The hardware doesn't change and therefore the pictures don't. That's why it's the same 10-15 pictures over and over again and just "cool pic" as in response. The only thing you can even call OC in these threads is unique circlejerking. They aren't "used" for anything, they just sit there and accumulate pictures taken and progressively more dried cum.

>>56930420
Do you even sleep or just shitpost?
First I though youre just a shit troll, but now you look pathetic just shitposting the same shit over and over.

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>>56930420
*ahem*

posts, >>56929528 and >>56930209 are original content

>>56930442
>no job
>living in mom's basement
>no money to buy your own shit
>no brain to do creative shit
>autism
>butthurt
The usual things

>>56930479
Kek, yeah that's what I though, I feel bad tho

>>56930476
what he means is that they're new photos showing nothing new

like >>56929528
is a >20 year old demo, everyone has seen it before
and >>56930209
just looks like plain workbench, not even riced up or showing anything unique

>>56930500
So? Got a problem with that? Feel free to leave.

Jesus, how desperate are you yourself for attention?

>>56930500
>mom I posted it again

>>56930526
>>56930531
literally the first time i've ever posted in a /g/ retro thread

>>56930559
Well then, found the problem, why don't you contribute something then instead of being a childish, whiny piece of shit?

I don't know if its retro but I have an ibook G4.

Can I do anything with this? It doesn't seem like anything is supported by 10.4 anymore, and I found out you can't install OS 9 on it (my comfy OS).

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>>56930420
That argument applies to nearly every /general/

>>56930591
OS 9 should be installable, just requires some messing around.

Try some alternative OS like MorphOS, might try BSD or Linux?

>>56930594
True that, but at least you can learn a thing or two lurking these threads.

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>>56930420
I heard you used to be a retro fag yourself, what are your interests? What do you have?

>>56929528
Sweet setup, what did you use to hook the tv up to the Amiga?

>>56930605
MorphOS looks cool and compatible thanks

>>56930764
MorphOS is more of an experimental OS in the legacy of AmigaOS, the demo is time limited to 30min.

Heres some OS 9 info.
https://www.thinkclassic.org/viewtopic.php?id=46

>>56930734
It's not a TV, it's a RGB monitor made by NEC from 1985. It has RGB (for computer video) and VTR (for broadcast tape recorders like U-Matic) inputs on the back.

>>56930833
Awesome, just RGB? No Y/C?

>>56930792
>the demo is time limited to 30min.
FUCKKKK

Yeah I've seen posts about installing OS9 but they are all full of shit like (taken from your link)
>I connected the iBook in FireWire Target Disk Mode to my PowerBook G3 and formatted the iBook's drive from within Panther on the PowerBook

I only have the one G4, and no Firewire cable. I'm sure it works but its not really something I want to invest money in. Least not now, focusing on my new build.

I keep getting iBook and Powerbook confused as well. Only difference seems to be PowerBooks can actually do shit and iBooks can't.

>>56931003
Pretty much screwed then, get a Leopard torrent.

I like Tiger more tho

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>>56930932
It's actually some funky connector I've only seen on certain trinitron monitors

http://www.hardwarebook.info/Sony_RGB_Multi_Input

>>56931039
Oh yeah, the digital one was used by some Japanese computers, the analog one is "American SCART", yellow and black are usual composite and mono audio.

>>56926937
>https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-98/windows-98
Oddly enough, that's where I got my 95 image that didn't work. Will still try their 98, though.

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Does anyone here post/lurk on Usenet newsgroups?

comp.sys.apple2 is quite informative.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyDa3ozCMzmIcKJuV6-Zfwbnpd-lE6g6t

Glorious channel.

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>>56930707
I think he has a pretty nice Contura Aero 4/33c if I remember.

>>56931289
Which image did you use? I use their 95c image all the time, plus a bunch of other shit, mostly 2k and NT4.

>>56930591
>It doesn't seem like anything is supported by 10.4 anymore
it's still got a current web browser, free software packages through tigerbrew, a nice *nix environment overall and modern-enough commercial staples like Office 2k8 for example, wouldn't really discount it based on version numbers alone, there's still plenty of shit you can do with 10.4

OS 9 is pretty cool too but it feels like I'd run it on something older, but mostly due to autism since running such an old-looking OS on a sleek g4-era system is kind of aesthetically triggering and classic mode is a thing anyway

FORTH IS ULTIMATE FOR RETRO COMPUTING COMPLETELY ULTIMATE NO OTHER WILL DO FORTH IS BEST REST IS REST

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Apparently the company behind this thing vanished. Underside of the PCB says it's made in 2002. Related to this,anybody remember Deer/L&C PSUs made back in 1999-2005?

>tfw I have about three of these

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OC. Picked this up a couple of weeks ago for $25!

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Does anyone on /retro/ have any sleeper computers?

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Why are all amiga users furries?

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>>56933428
Sweet find!

Do you have ADT-Pro set up on it?

>>56935372
The majority isn't but there was a artist way back in the late 80's early 90's who did furry stuff on his Amiga.

>>56931541
No wonder then, I had one too back in the day, they give you brain damage.

>>56935372
>>56935562
>tfw sole reason I want to get an Amiga emulator working is to rip that smut to a high quality & lossless format

>>56936036
Tell me more

>>56936063
http://rigby-jones.net/es/

It's cheesecake / softcore furry porn. There's a few animations on YouTube and so on from the same guy. He's still making a comic to this day, but I think it's paid access or something.

I want to rip the animations he made for the Amiga without compressing them. Everything so far has been compressed.

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>>56936138
With what do you need help?

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>>56936138
>he is still making the comic
He actually ended it last month after 20 years

>>56933428
WHAT? where can you find shit like this? I would love to get some retro tech on the cheap

>>56936419
Rub your lucky rabbit's foot every day

>>56936419
>>56936425
This, it's all about luck. You could always ask /csg/ what the cheapest good luck charm is, though. :^)

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Does this keyboard I refurbished count?

>>56936493
Neato, did you retr0bright it too? Looks shiny

>>56936369
>The End
>(at least for now)

He's still making pr0n tho.

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>>56936522
What does that mean? I just ripped the entire thing apart and dishsoaped everything inside, even got all the yellow out of it. I figured it'd still be a little sunburnt… Working fine as my main keyboard roght now.

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>tfw that typical technical japanese design will never return

>>56936616
Is that a cockpit module of a mech?

>>56936568
Retr0brighting is getting the yellow out with chemicals, but you rubbing it out is awesome too.

>>56936662
>but you rubbing it out is awesome too.
lewd.

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>>56936662
Ah, well yeah it wasn't too badly hit with yellow, so just some hard scrubbing and soaking took most all of it out. Looms really pretty.

I'll have to remember that term if I find any future projects to fuck with.

>>56936710
Man, it looks like someone teeth got blown out with it

>>56936682
Wanna come rub something out of my joysticks?

>>56936725
Haha, yeah you should have seen the underside of those keys… A lot of sticky old black shit from probably 20 years ago in there.

I also cleaned up the mouse to it, but it only has two buttons on it and it didn't seem to work on my modern machine. I wouldn't use it anyway, with no scrolly wheel…

>>56936760
>I wouldn't use it anyway, with no scroll wheel…
Was it PS/2 or serial? I need another serial ,_,

>>56931304
I thought usenet pretty much died in the 90s

>>56936788
PS2, sorry. :(

>>56936812
So did most of the machines here, still people like to mess around with it.

>>56936812
comp.sys.apple2 is still active

>>56936844
Don't know if serious or sarcastic attitude.
>>56936860
Cool, thanks I'll have to check it out.

>>56936616
An MSX2.
It's all i can manage to say, it's so magnificent.

>>56936616

>COMPUTER SOUND

>>56937540
Why?

Also, enjoy your GPU throttling.

>>56937708
>enjoy your GPU throttling.
>there's a fan blowing right on both cards.

>>56937760
Yeah, blowing hot hair from the CPU radiator onto two cards so close to each other and the bottom of the case that airflow is nonexistent.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-TkQ7KZcbI

>>56929528
what;s interesting about that demo is that the sphere is not actually 3D... it's just fancy palette rotation.

it's a clever scam.

>>56937837

that's neat as fug.

good idea for a next project.

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>>56937874
Yes, like all "3D" back in '85, unless rendered.

The demo was made to show off some multitasking and graphics capabilities of the machine, as the palette rotation, nobody said it was actual 3D.

>>56938126
>nobody said it was actual 3D.
Everyone assumed. That's why they made it. To claim anything else is disingenuous.

At least it wasn't a playback of a movie...

>>56938204
https://youtu.be/FoNmsL74T7Y?t=5m

>Everyone assumed.
>it's a clever scam.
The market for those computers didn't consist of idiots like nowadays that would be "scannable" like that, nobody said it's real time 3D.

>>56938299
thanks for that vid. it's impressive how the amiga salesman side-stepped the question of how that demo worked. everyone at that table assumed it was 3D. still, a slimy marketing tactic.

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>>56938380
Everybody at that table was impressed of the capability to make it seem 3D. People weren't dumb like today.
Even at the table in CES '84, everybody went "wow, it looks like real 3D" , you're seriously underestimating people of the time.

>>56936419
I was lucky enough to find a local guy who had few old apple computers.

>>56935398
I plan to get it. I also plan on getting a second disk II drive as well.

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>>56937837
That's what removable media is supposed to look and feel like.

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>>56940086
>posting first kodak camera made out of an old wood box full of chemicals
>not posting the first kodak camera that stored images as digital information

Brother found a Commodore 64 cleaning some old guys house and gave it to me. It came with all the goodies; games, software, diskette drive, controllers, monitors, mouse, and a 30 MB hard drive.

It's all really cool but other than playing a game or two idk what to use it for.

Any ideas?

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>>56940148
Holy fuck that's an awesome find!

>Any ideas?

get a 1541 emulator so you can run every program ever written for it

build an rs-232 interface to use it as a serial terminal

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i got one of these a week ago. came partly destroyed in the mail, so i'll have to replace some parts.

>>56940142
>full of chemicals
what?

>>56940252
>build an rs-232 interface to use it as a serial terminal
More like a NIC64 and browse the C64 BBS'es

>>56940148
Post pics! That's a great set.

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>>56940292
not _literally_ filled with chemicals, but chemicals were required in the developing process to get a final picture

>>56940148
DEMOSCENE!

>>56940148
>30 MB hard drive
shit's worth it just for that, don't think I've ever seen a 64 with a hard disk ever

>>56940260
that sucks shit
is it an r5k or one of the later ones?
really want to pick up a nice O2 some day for audio shit and also just to complement my vw540

>>56941147
it's one of the worst:
180mhz r5k with 64mb ram /* lol */

I was honestly thinking about burning some audio CDs as well, as to deprecate youtube / streaming audio.

>>56940148
Sell it to some luddite and buy actual useful stuff

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>>56929183
That picture is cool, I'm guessing you had to write your own program to put that picture on the screen.

I did something like that myself on the BBC Micro. I wrote a BASIC program that drew pictures on the screen (converted from .bmp files on my PC) in graphics mode 1 (resolution 320x256, 4 colours). The program is probably very inefficient and it takes about 20 minutes or something to draw a picture on the screen, but it does work.

>>56941731
least the R5K sounds cool under the hood, but do the extensions really make a difference on the O2 like they did on the Indy?

as far as audio goes, for some reason I always felt my Indigo2 made a pretty good recording box for stealing songs off of streaming services to burn CDs for my car changer, maybe it's just the sheer novelty of it, or my sound system is too shit to meaningfully show any introduced interference

>>56942378
>That picture is cool, I'm guessing you had to write your own program to put that picture on the screen.
Just a jpg/gif viewer. There are shitloads of programs like that.

>>56942428

If you mean 'does a r10k make CRM graphics faster than an r5k' then yes. In fact, if your indigo2 had an r10k it would be faster than this.

>>56936325
Haven't found any guides for getting an Amiga OS up and running in an emulator.

>>56942756
Enjoy.

http://pastebin.com/EUi6uuqN

>>56930559
Jordan you fucking queer you aren't fooling anyone

>>56942801
Thanks!

>>56942378
Thanks

>>56942637
It's actually a picture viewer that takes an HGR file and binary-loads it into memory, sets video mode to HGR, and pokes a memory location that lets it take up the whole screen (usually it has 3 text lines at the bottom).

The HGR images are generated with a separate piece of software on my PC (vnIIc)

>>56942756
>>56942916

http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/aGswhM9o/file.html

Here, to help you out, if you can't bother with Amiga Forever or wait while it download, this is a pack with WinUAE and ROM and Workbench floppy. Just 10MB, it's the bare bones you need to watch those furry animations.

Once you unzip if and start WinUAE for the first time, first thing you have to do is go to Paths on the left side and then you should see a dropdown menu with with option "WinUAE default (EXE directory)" select that and click "Reset to defaults" (Just a one time thing when you first run it) after that you can go to Configurations on the left and select "Barebones" and click "Load" and then you can click start and you're in Workbench 2.1.

Ask if you need help with the animations.

>>56943168
furfaggots everywhere will either benefit or have a hip new virus to call their own, thanks

>>56943258
I'm just bored, it's just the executable straight from winuae.net and a ROM and floppy image from my own catalog.

>>56942378
>I did something like that myself on the BBC Micro.
Real awesome mate, looks great

What kind of music do you listen to while retrocomputing, /g/?

http://www.strawpoll.me/11372143

>>56943778
if you have tracker music there, you have to have a category for sid chiptunes too

>>56943890
fugg i forgot that one

I love chiptunes

>>56943778
Everything in that list is comfy.

>>56942378
kickass product.

>>56944094
WHOEVER THE FUCK THAT IS TURN YOUR GOD DAMN SHIT OFF!

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>>56944786
well that came out of nowhere

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There's nothing more comfier than browsing /g/ on Windows 98 while listening to vaporwave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scpL3ob1Y1s