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A regular day at the Diskette... The preparations for "Online worlds from 1978" are in full swing! This Saturday, 9.5. from 12-19. ☎️

https://diskette.ch/ausstellungen/onlinewelten.html

#computermuseum #diskette #dust #vintagecomputing #oldcomputers

Ein ganz normaler Tag in der Diskette... Die Vorbereitungen für die "Onlinewelten ab 1978" sind in vollem Gange! Diesen Samstag, 9.5. von 12-19 Uhr. ☎️

https://diskette.ch/ausstellungen/onlinewelten.html

#computermuseum #diskette #dust #vintagecomputing #oldcomputers

Ein ganz normaler Tag in der Diskette... Die Vorbereitungen für die "Onlinewelten ab 1978" sind in vollem Gange! Diesen Samstag, 9.5. von 12-19 Uhr. ☎️

https://diskette.ch/ausstellungen/onlinewelten.html

#computermuseum #diskette #dust #vintagecomputing #oldcomputers

Ein ganz normaler Tag in der Diskette... Die Vorbereitungen für die "Onlinewelten ab 1978" sind in vollem Gange! Diesen Samstag, 9.5. von 12-19 Uhr. ☎️

https://diskette.ch/ausstellungen/onlinewelten.html

#computermuseum #diskette #dust #vintagecomputing #oldcomputers

Ein ganz normaler Tag in der Diskette... Die Vorbereitungen für die "Onlinewelten ab 1978" sind in vollem Gange! Diesen Samstag, 9.5. von 12-19 Uhr. ☎️

https://diskette.ch/ausstellungen/onlinewelten.html

#computermuseum #diskette #dust #vintagecomputing #oldcomputers

Ein ganz normaler Tag in der Diskette... Die Vorbereitungen für die "Onlinewelten ab 1978" sind in vollem Gange! Diesen Samstag, 9.5. von 12-19 Uhr. ☎️

https://diskette.ch/ausstellungen/onlinewelten.html

#computermuseum #diskette #dust #vintagecomputing #oldcomputers

#Retro geeks.. #tech #BBS #BBSing

Check Constructive Chaos BBS
https://conchaos.synchro.net/ @codefenix Tour Op.

#msdos #desqview #desqviewx #multitask #unix #xwindows #oldcomputers #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #history #geek #bulletinboards #dovenet

#Retro geeks.. #tech #BBS #BBSing

Check Constructive Chaos BBS
https://conchaos.synchro.net/ @codefenix Tour Op.

#msdos #desqview #desqviewx #multitask #unix #xwindows #oldcomputers #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #history #geek #bulletinboards #dovenet

#Retro geeks.. #tech #BBS #BBSing

Check Constructive Chaos BBS
https://conchaos.synchro.net/ @codefenix Tour Op.

#msdos #desqview #desqviewx #multitask #unix #xwindows #oldcomputers #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #history #geek #bulletinboards #dovenet

How’s your day going? Mine is cleaning the dissolved remains of the drive and counter belts of this old tape recorder and finding replacements. 😅

I am covered in the black goo, send help!!!

#Retro #RetroTech #TapeRecorder #Cassette #CassetteRecorder #DataCassette #OldComputers #ComputoneCRC1001

Quake II
I'm moving forward slowly.
The goal is to finish it.

What a joy to revisit the game. :0)

#fps #action #quake #quakeII #quake2 #idsoftware #classic #games #gaming #videogames #videogaming #retrogames #retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers #PCGaming #DOSgaming #DOSGames #MSDOS

Quake II gaming session (continuation).

Entering Jail Area (Unit 3)

#fps #action #quake #quakeII #quake2 #idsoftware #classic #games #gaming #videogames #videogaming #retrogames #retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers #PCGaming #DOSgaming #DOSGames #MSDOS

Forgetting a single switch that opens a door can leave you spinning around in circles for quite some time..

:0))

I'm entering The Warehouse which will allow me to finish Unit 2.

#fps #action #quake #quakeII #quake2 #idsoftware #classic #games #gaming #videogames #videogaming #retrogames #retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers #PCGaming #DOSgaming #DOSGames #MSDOS

I'm moving forward slowly. I'm spinning around a bit to find the four power cubes in the Supply Station to finish this passage.

I'll eventually find them, more than 25 years later I've completely forgotten.. where.

But so much fun!! :0)

#fps #action #quake #quakeII #quake2 #idsoftware #classic #games #gaming #videogames #videogaming #retrogames #retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers #PCGaming #DOSgaming #DOSGames #MSDOS

The Quake II #GOG game launcher have nice options!

#fps #action #quake #quakeII #quake2 #idsoftware #classic #games #gaming #videogames #videogaming #retrogames #retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers #PCGaming #DOSgaming #DOSGames #MSDOS

My Big Boxes! :0)

That was the time..
Real content!

#fps #action #quake #quakeII #quake2 #idsoftware #classic #games #gaming #videogames #videogaming #retrogames #retrogaming #retrocomputing #oldcomputers #PCGaming #DOSgaming #DOSGames #MSDOS

#Tech #Computer #RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputers #VintageComputer #RetroComputing #Magazine #PowerMacintosh #Apple #VintageAd #PowerComputing #Macintosh9600 #ClassicMac #CreativeComputing #OldComputers

I can hardly explain just how crazy warp speed this is to me. I started on my 1200 baud modem, lived through the 'what even is 56k spec'.

#56k #modem #oldprogrammer #oldcomputers #internet

I am considering the configuration of my Amiga 2000 w/ 68020 accelerator... I would appreciate opinions from drivers of slotted Amigas, here.

I have an Amiga 2000 with SCSI + SCSI2SD, 4MB 16-bit FAST RAM, 1MB CHIP RAM, etc. It also has an A2620 68020 accelerator (14MHz) with 2MB 32-bit FAST RAM which is meager, but makes things noticeably faster on the Workbench. Most of what I do on this is watch demos and play games, though. All I do on desktop, really, is use AmiTCP and ncftp to bring files over and run IMP sometimes.

I recently downloaded the Amiga demo 'Downslope' and noticed it's less fluid / smooth with the accelerator enabled. I've seen this before here and there, but assumed that the accelerator was doing my a solid in demos - giving a bit of a boost.

I commented about this in the Pouet 'Downslope' thread and the developer came in and commented,

---
"Accelerators often introduce an asynchronicity between CPU and chip memory, which adds to chip access latency.
This can be worsened by the occurrance of many interrupts, which can cause additional strain on memory on a higher CPU.
If we are unlucky, not even the much faster execution time of the higher CPU can make up for the additional latencies and strain on chip memory.
It's a matter of focus on the target. There are side effects on higher CPUs which are difficult to anticipate, and usually you have only a limited number of machines for testing."
---

This makes sense, I suppose. Is this common? Are people with '030, '040, '060 accelerators having a lesser experience with demos due to CHIP RAM latency than with base '000? Certainly in some scenarios the more powerful CPU helps hugely for demos and games alike - I've seen this on my '020. But, yes -- demos are the most tightly coded of all Amiga apps, certainly. To the metal, etc.

So I am wondering now, should I remove the accelerator to get the most out of OCS/ECS demos on the system? Yes, I can disable the accelerator with a right mouse click at reboot, but that gets in the way of keeping Degrader's PAL state in effect, causing a hassle. (it's an NTSC A2000, unfortunately).

Anyone been down this road? Thoughts?

#Amiga #Commodore #CommodoreAmiga #A2000 #A2500 #MC68000 #MC68020 #MC68030 #demo #demos #demoscene #scenedemo #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #retrocomputers #retrogaming #hardware #vintaghardware #A2620 #A2630 #DaveHaynie #ZorroII #terriblefire #oldcomputers

I am considering the configuration of my Amiga 2000 w/ 68020 accelerator... I would appreciate opinions from drivers of slotted Amigas, here.

I have an Amiga 2000 with SCSI + SCSI2SD, 4MB 16-bit FAST RAM, 1MB CHIP RAM, etc. It also has an A2620 68020 accelerator (14MHz) with 2MB 32-bit FAST RAM which is meager, but makes things noticeably faster on the Workbench. Most of what I do on this is watch demos and play games, though. All I do on desktop, really, is use AmiTCP and ncftp to bring files over and run IMP sometimes.

I recently downloaded the Amiga demo 'Downslope' and noticed it's less fluid / smooth with the accelerator enabled. I've seen this before here and there, but assumed that the accelerator was doing my a solid in demos - giving a bit of a boost.

I commented about this in the Pouet 'Downslope' thread and the developer came in and commented,

---
"Accelerators often introduce an asynchronicity between CPU and chip memory, which adds to chip access latency.
This can be worsened by the occurrance of many interrupts, which can cause additional strain on memory on a higher CPU.
If we are unlucky, not even the much faster execution time of the higher CPU can make up for the additional latencies and strain on chip memory.
It's a matter of focus on the target. There are side effects on higher CPUs which are difficult to anticipate, and usually you have only a limited number of machines for testing."
---

This makes sense, I suppose. Is this common? Are people with '030, '040, '060 accelerators having a lesser experience with demos due to CHIP RAM latency than with base '000? Certainly in some scenarios the more powerful CPU helps hugely for demos and games alike - I've seen this on my '020. But, yes -- demos are the most tightly coded of all Amiga apps, certainly. To the metal, etc.

So I am wondering now, should I remove the accelerator to get the most out of OCS/ECS demos on the system? Yes, I can disable the accelerator with a right mouse click at reboot, but that gets in the way of keeping Degrader's PAL state in effect, causing a hassle. (it's an NTSC A2000, unfortunately).

Anyone been down this road? Thoughts?

#Amiga #Commodore #CommodoreAmiga #A2000 #A2500 #MC68000 #MC68020 #MC68030 #demo #demos #demoscene #scenedemo #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #retrocomputers #retrogaming #hardware #vintaghardware #A2620 #A2630 #DaveHaynie #ZorroII #terriblefire #oldcomputers

I am considering the configuration of my Amiga 2000 w/ 68020 accelerator... I would appreciate opinions from drivers of slotted Amigas, here.

I have an Amiga 2000 with SCSI + SCSI2SD, 4MB 16-bit FAST RAM, 1MB CHIP RAM, etc. It also has an A2620 68020 accelerator (14MHz) with 2MB 32-bit FAST RAM which is meager, but makes things noticeably faster on the Workbench. Most of what I do on this is watch demos and play games, though. All I do on desktop, really, is use AmiTCP and ncftp to bring files over and run IMP sometimes.

I recently downloaded the Amiga demo 'Downslope' and noticed it's less fluid / smooth with the accelerator enabled. I've seen this before here and there, but assumed that the accelerator was doing my a solid in demos - giving a bit of a boost.

I commented about this in the Pouet 'Downslope' thread and the developer came in and commented,

---
"Accelerators often introduce an asynchronicity between CPU and chip memory, which adds to chip access latency.
This can be worsened by the occurrance of many interrupts, which can cause additional strain on memory on a higher CPU.
If we are unlucky, not even the much faster execution time of the higher CPU can make up for the additional latencies and strain on chip memory.
It's a matter of focus on the target. There are side effects on higher CPUs which are difficult to anticipate, and usually you have only a limited number of machines for testing."
---

This makes sense, I suppose. Is this common? Are people with '030, '040, '060 accelerators having a lesser experience with demos due to CHIP RAM latency than with base '000? Certainly in some scenarios the more powerful CPU helps hugely for demos and games alike - I've seen this on my '020. But, yes -- demos are the most tightly coded of all Amiga apps, certainly. To the metal, etc.

So I am wondering now, should I remove the accelerator to get the most out of OCS/ECS demos on the system? Yes, I can disable the accelerator with a right mouse click at reboot, but that gets in the way of keeping Degrader's PAL state in effect, causing a hassle. (it's an NTSC A2000, unfortunately).

Anyone been down this road? Thoughts?

#Amiga #Commodore #CommodoreAmiga #A2000 #A2500 #MC68000 #MC68020 #MC68030 #demo #demos #demoscene #scenedemo #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #retrocomputers #retrogaming #hardware #vintaghardware #A2620 #A2630 #DaveHaynie #ZorroII #terriblefire #oldcomputers

I am considering the configuration of my Amiga 2000 w/ 68020 accelerator... I would appreciate opinions from drivers of slotted Amigas, here.

I have an Amiga 2000 with SCSI + SCSI2SD, 4MB 16-bit FAST RAM, 1MB CHIP RAM, etc. It also has an A2620 68020 accelerator (14MHz) with 2MB 32-bit FAST RAM which is meager, but makes things noticeably faster on the Workbench. Most of what I do on this is watch demos and play games, though. All I do on desktop, really, is use AmiTCP and ncftp to bring files over and run IMP sometimes.

I recently downloaded the Amiga demo 'Downslope' and noticed it's less fluid / smooth with the accelerator enabled. I've seen this before here and there, but assumed that the accelerator was doing my a solid in demos - giving a bit of a boost.

I commented about this in the Pouet 'Downslope' thread and the developer came in and commented,

---
"Accelerators often introduce an asynchronicity between CPU and chip memory, which adds to chip access latency.
This can be worsened by the occurrance of many interrupts, which can cause additional strain on memory on a higher CPU.
If we are unlucky, not even the much faster execution time of the higher CPU can make up for the additional latencies and strain on chip memory.
It's a matter of focus on the target. There are side effects on higher CPUs which are difficult to anticipate, and usually you have only a limited number of machines for testing."
---

This makes sense, I suppose. Is this common? Are people with '030, '040, '060 accelerators having a lesser experience with demos due to CHIP RAM latency than with base '000? Certainly in some scenarios the more powerful CPU helps hugely for demos and games alike - I've seen this on my '020. But, yes -- demos are the most tightly coded of all Amiga apps, certainly. To the metal, etc.

So I am wondering now, should I remove the accelerator to get the most out of OCS/ECS demos on the system? Yes, I can disable the accelerator with a right mouse click at reboot, but that gets in the way of keeping Degrader's PAL state in effect, causing a hassle. (it's an NTSC A2000, unfortunately).

Anyone been down this road? Thoughts?

#Amiga #Commodore #CommodoreAmiga #A2000 #A2500 #MC68000 #MC68020 #MC68030 #demo #demos #demoscene #scenedemo #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #retrocomputers #retrogaming #hardware #vintaghardware #A2620 #A2630 #DaveHaynie #ZorroII #terriblefire #oldcomputers

I am considering the configuration of my Amiga 2000 w/ 68020 accelerator... I would appreciate opinions from drivers of slotted Amigas, here.

I have an Amiga 2000 with SCSI + SCSI2SD, 4MB 16-bit FAST RAM, 1MB CHIP RAM, etc. It also has an A2620 68020 accelerator (14MHz) with 2MB 32-bit FAST RAM which is meager, but makes things noticeably faster on the Workbench. Most of what I do on this is watch demos and play games, though. All I do on desktop, really, is use AmiTCP and ncftp to bring files over and run IMP sometimes.

I recently downloaded the Amiga demo 'Downslope' and noticed it's less fluid / smooth with the accelerator enabled. I've seen this before here and there, but assumed that the accelerator was doing my a solid in demos - giving a bit of a boost.

I commented about this in the Pouet 'Downslope' thread and the developer came in and commented,

---
"Accelerators often introduce an asynchronicity between CPU and chip memory, which adds to chip access latency.
This can be worsened by the occurrance of many interrupts, which can cause additional strain on memory on a higher CPU.
If we are unlucky, not even the much faster execution time of the higher CPU can make up for the additional latencies and strain on chip memory.
It's a matter of focus on the target. There are side effects on higher CPUs which are difficult to anticipate, and usually you have only a limited number of machines for testing."
---

This makes sense, I suppose. Is this common? Are people with '030, '040, '060 accelerators having a lesser experience with demos due to CHIP RAM latency than with base '000? Certainly in some scenarios the more powerful CPU helps hugely for demos and games alike - I've seen this on my '020. But, yes -- demos are the most tightly coded of all Amiga apps, certainly. To the metal, etc.

So I am wondering now, should I remove the accelerator to get the most out of OCS/ECS demos on the system? Yes, I can disable the accelerator with a right mouse click at reboot, but that gets in the way of keeping Degrader's PAL state in effect, causing a hassle. (it's an NTSC A2000, unfortunately).

Anyone been down this road? Thoughts?

#Amiga #Commodore #CommodoreAmiga #A2000 #A2500 #MC68000 #MC68020 #MC68030 #demo #demos #demoscene #scenedemo #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #retrocomputers #retrogaming #hardware #vintaghardware #A2620 #A2630 #DaveHaynie #ZorroII #terriblefire #oldcomputers

This must be the world's only 500MHz PC with an ISA slot in a laptop form factor. In this 3 minute video I show the basics.

Realtime AI voice over by my 7900XTX GPU. I'm quite an amateur video maker. Still learning the tricks of the trade.

#vintagecomputing #oldcomputers #ancienttech #dinosaurhardware #techthrowback #nostalgia #midi #wavetable #retrocomputing #trackermusic #demoscene #retrogaming #retrogames #vintagegaming

The Zune is a killer mp3 player despite the crap it got. I LOVED my Zune.

I got a bit sad just now - on this early 2000s Dell I re-set up the other day, there's some old Zune art files on it. Some jerk broke my car window and took my Zune from my car when I lived in Florida probably ~2006. I had a beautiful brown one like the one below, and I'd still have it today if that dick hadn't taken it.

I WILL buy another one someday. 🔥

#Zune #mp3 #mp3players #OldComputers #Dell #VintageComputers #OldComputing #WindowsXP

These little pieces of chinesium crap that convert from IDE/PATA to SATA are like 4$ and work wonderfully.

None of the crappy USB ones ever work correctly as they try to abstract too much somehow.

#RetroComputing #OldComputers #DataArchival

A really great YT channel that has finally cracked the deserved one million subscribers! Check it out! Rarely seen such a fantastic old school desktop as here. I love it! ❤️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOK108FHZ_s

#youtube #oldcomputers #retrocomputing #oldschool #computer #linux #unix #opensource #windows #windowsxp #explainingcomputers

Random #OldComputers Fact: #Hyundai, known to me primarily as an auto maker, once manufactured #Sun #SPARC clones and compatibles called #Axil and #HWS. #retrocomputing

See this article from 1994:

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/axil_launches_sun_compatible_axil245_and_axil320_with_choice_of_hypersparc_or_supersparc_and_offers_server