Forum: support.Hardware
26 February 2021, 12:11
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Replies: 23
Views: 814
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Forum: request.Old Rare Games
26 February 2021, 02:26
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Replies: 5
Views: 598
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Forum: support.Hardware
26 February 2021, 02:13
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Replies: 23
Views: 814
I still think the ACA500plus offers the best...
I still think the ACA500plus offers the best balance of features, at the expense of not fitting inside the case. The fast 68000 is plenty for almost all WHDLoad games, and while the A1200 accelerator...
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Forum: support.Hardware
26 February 2021, 01:54
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Replies: 10
Views: 412
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Forum: support.Hardware
25 February 2021, 13:03
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Replies: 10
Views: 412
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Forum: Amiga scene
25 February 2021, 05:51
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Replies: 89
Views: 3,238
People had no trouble word processing on CGA...
People had no trouble word processing on CGA 640x200 15Khz. For most MS/DOS apps, this remained the standard through the mid-80s -- even if you had an EGA card, most of your software worked in 80x25...
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Forum: support.Hardware
21 February 2021, 02:17
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Replies: 7
Views: 361
Turn down the contrast (and then turn down...
Turn down the contrast (and then turn down brightness to match). a.k.a. white level and black level. As CRTs age, they take more power to drive the beam, and thus they don't behave as well if you...
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Forum: support.Hardware
20 February 2021, 21:28
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,316
Technically, Akiko was primarily the CD-ROM...
Technically, Akiko was primarily the CD-ROM controller. The C2P feature was added in as a bonus. The only games I remember using it for C2P were Wing Commander and Gloom.
Instead of having...
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Forum: support.Hardware
20 February 2021, 10:51
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Replies: 8
Views: 581
He was talking about the 256k front panel...
He was talking about the 256k front panel expansion that increases the total to 512kb (including the 256k on the motherboard, not counting the kickstart RAM).
You can add a ROM adapter to the...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
20 February 2021, 00:10
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,322
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Forum: support.Hardware
13 February 2021, 18:44
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Replies: 24
Views: 976
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Forum: Amiga scene
06 February 2021, 15:54
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Replies: 49
Views: 4,047
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Forum: support.Hardware
06 February 2021, 15:40
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Replies: 7
Views: 499
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Forum: support.Hardware
31 January 2021, 06:07
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Replies: 2
Views: 228
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Forum: Coders. Asm / Hardware
29 January 2021, 13:05
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Replies: 234
Views: 13,643
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Forum: Coders. General
29 January 2021, 12:48
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Replies: 76
Views: 5,008
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
26 January 2021, 01:57
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Replies: 257
Views: 17,828
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Forum: support.Hardware
26 January 2021, 01:30
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Replies: 35
Views: 2,011
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
22 January 2021, 15:01
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Replies: 98
Views: 5,606
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Forum: Hardware mods
22 January 2021, 07:34
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,807
This would be incredibly nice to have....
This would be incredibly nice to have. A3000/A4000 Z3 is criminally slow vs. its maximum theoretical performance. It's over 10X slower than theoretical maximum. Even a 3X-5X improvement would be a...
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Forum: support.Hardware
22 January 2021, 07:23
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Replies: 27
Views: 2,036
Simple synthetic benchmarks are very, very...
Simple synthetic benchmarks are very, very misleading on JIT emulators because they are essentially the absolute best case scenario for JIT. Real world performance is an order of magnitude slower....
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Forum: support.Hardware
22 January 2021, 07:19
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Replies: 35
Views: 2,011
There was an add-on board for the A3640 called...
There was an add-on board for the A3640 called XCalibur that added a local RAM bus. I wish someone would reverse-engineer that to make a clone. It would instantly turn the A3640 (and clones) into...
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Forum: support.Hardware
22 January 2021, 07:14
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Replies: 9
Views: 524
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
22 January 2021, 07:07
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,022
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
22 January 2021, 07:03
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Replies: 57
Views: 3,431
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Forum: Amiga scene
21 January 2021, 22:48
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,128
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Forum: Amiga scene
21 January 2021, 15:01
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Replies: 590
Views: 37,282
AGA was a huge lost opportunity for sprite...
AGA was a huge lost opportunity for sprite enhancement. It's great that they can be 64 pixels wide instead of 16, but it would have been far, far better if they had used the bandwidth to allow 32...
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
21 January 2021, 14:45
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Replies: 3
Views: 944
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Forum: Nostalgia & memories
21 January 2021, 14:40
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Replies: 98
Views: 5,606
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
21 January 2021, 14:20
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,022
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
21 January 2021, 14:14
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Replies: 57
Views: 3,431
He was being sarcastic. In the 90's the Wintel...
He was being sarcastic. In the 90's the Wintel duopoly was well-entrenched.
Though in the 80's, the IBM PC-compatible (particularly outside the US) *was* struggling in the home market, because...
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Forum: support.Hardware
18 January 2021, 20:54
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Replies: 14
Views: 20,853
There needs to be an easy way to repair/replace...
There needs to be an easy way to repair/replace the plastic disk body since a lot of them seem to be glued together. As mentioned above, a dirty disk will mean dirty pads inside the case. A lot of...
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
18 January 2021, 20:41
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Replies: 257
Views: 17,828
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
18 January 2021, 20:36
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Replies: 57
Views: 3,431
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
03 January 2021, 07:03
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,856
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
27 December 2020, 06:42
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,856
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
24 December 2020, 20:55
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Replies: 51
Views: 3,472
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
24 December 2020, 20:39
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Replies: 5
Views: 535
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Forum: Retrogaming General Discussion
24 December 2020, 20:30
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Replies: 257
Views: 17,828
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Forum: support.Hardware
14 December 2020, 08:41
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Replies: 91
Views: 6,369
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