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Milliways
RAM prices have gone insane

I'm talking about that. It's product policy exactly like the artificial memory limitin XPSP2 and later, exactly as aero disable […] Show full quote

Milliways
The Adventures of Willy Beamish bitmap format.

Personally I love that you get to play a at first bratty and later heroic nine-year old in a relatively contemporary and somewhat realistic setting. I also love the satire on 90's pop-culture. 😀 While the game is pretty solid on a technical level, especially for its time, the interface could definitely be made more user-friendly. Just a bit more clarity about what does what and a little less pixel-hunting would make for a huge improvement. Furthermore, I don't mind the diffilculty level per se, however like many adventure games of its time it is pretty inflexible in how it allows you to reach its conclusion. King's Quest VI, for example was a game that offered the player multiple paths without pandering.

General Old Hardware
Old hardware giveaway thread.

Used once for an archival project, so basically new. Comes with adapters and cables as pictured. Free shipping to the lower 48 only. Just post "claimed" in a post below if you want this. PM me your shipping details. Filename T48.jpg File size 1.36 MiB Views 17 views File license Public domain

Milliways
RAM prices have gone insane

🤣 . ok then. Back to sanity. Thanks for the laugh though. I already wasted my time replying to your dumb message, with an intelligent one. It will not happen again. Live long and prosper in your alternate universe.

General Old Hardware
The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

I decided to tinker with a ThinkPad i 1124 2609-53J (240x) laptop featuring the SM712 video chip. It’s not a huge issue, but there is a quirk: the "HW Expansion" setting in the BIOS—designed to scale resolutions lower than the native 800x600 up to 800x600—doesn't work for 640x480. For instance, 320x200 in games fills the whole screen, whereas 640x480 remains in a small window. I decided to ask ChatGPT to write a TSR program for an experiment with *Duke Nukem 3D*. The game runs smoothly even at 800x600, but I was simply curious if it was even possible to scale its 640x480 output to full screen. In hindsight, perhaps I should have used Claude from the start; after fifty reboots of the test machine—cycling through suggested tests and every possible register—it feels like we're just going in circles. Early attempts involved a TSR using a laughable software-based method: the image scaled perfectly, but the frame rate dropped to a mere 2–3 frames per second! I had provided ChatGPT with everything available: the laptop's BIOS firmware, the game's source code, and the PDF datasheet. The best result I managed to achieve is shown in this image: scaling worked only horizontally, and the FPS remained stable, but there were minor artifacts—specifically dots (and a repeated image at the bottom): Filename file-00000000a6fc81f58fe18fa83a2526c7.jpg File size 62.09 KiB Views 8 views File license Public domain Whenever ChatGPT attempts to correct the vertical aspect as well, the image does scal

Milliways
RAM prices have gone insane

Nobody is talking about the inbound SMB file sharing I'm talking about that. It's product policy exactly like the artificial memory limitin XPSP2 and later, exactly as aero disabled on win7 starter, and so on... Then if you don't understand the analogies, it's your problem not mine. You said many chipsets that support 4Gb or more. Yes, in 2004, the year the limit was introduced by SP2 lets start in the NT4 era... I said that NT had already solved the problem of managing more than 3GB, in 1996, not that it was common use on consumer machines. You realize that NT4 was a thing EIGHT YEARS before XP SP2? Normal people ran it on 64MB machines not 8GB ones. Is that hard to understand? Nvidia driver 333.11 was released in May 2014 A month after Windows XP reached End of Life, and ten full years after XP SP2 released in 2004. What has to do XP here? Im talking about W7/Win8 drivers. Can you stop to post random facts just to mud the waters, please? With that one example you have to land on a hyper specific, curated, enterprise derived driver branch from 2014 to stop the machine from falling over. Another string of invented things All driver before 333.11 Work W/O any problem no matter if consumer or enterprise, no matter if we are takling of Geforces or Quadros or NVS, desktop and mobile. Period. Its exactly like forcing WinXP onto a modern motherboard with an unsupported ACPI table (anything beyond ACPI 2.0). You can slipstream patches, bypass the 0x000000A5 stop error, and trick the

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88Emu is out (Roland SC-88/Pro/50 Emulator)

This is because that midi file is set to port two for those midi tracks. i have found that midi file form the wayback machine, and loaded it into cakewalk pro audio 9. So this is expected behavior from the internal midi player. Any midi sequencer program that understands port select meta events will show this. The sierra midi driver most likely recognizes these port selects. Filename proof.png File size 441.5 KiB Views 15 views File license Public domain

Milliways
RAM prices have gone insane

I think you have that backwards. If one company is paying 1000 euro and another is only paying 300 , people will flock to the company paying more. I thin you mean that a company wont pay worked 1000 euro when there are workers who will take the job for only 300. Yeah, sure lets wait for a billion and half of Chinese or Indian or Africans move all together to France, Italy, Germany... just to make your point. And even when few thousands of immigrants move in the western countries for real, like it's happening the effect is to move the salary and rights competition from an international threat to a national one, lowering the salary which in turn helps the return of populism and fascism. Something already happened in the US, Italy, Argentina and another long string of countries. And it's about to happen in France, Germany and another long string of countries. What can get wrong?

General Old Hardware
Chip Tray Generator — stackable 3D-printable trays

I printed two 1x1 Athlon trays. They came out fine and stacked okay. But the push-out hole is quite small. I would like to use my pinky to push it up. Maybe use a chamfer there as well and make the hole larger? This also saves some material during printing. Some other minor points: change the default "Label on the front wall" text with the selected socket. I was a bit confused at first why the AMD K6-III+ text didn't change when selecting a different socket. 😀 Also hope that the engraved label style will make it to the STL of 3MF export in the future.

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