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acid_ra1n said:
my moms ebay account got hacked and i had to actually call ebay to get it restored
they said what email is it tied to and i kept trying emails and eventually asked her "whats the oldest email you have"
she says oh yeah its a mindspring, so i told the ebay people it and they were able to fix the account
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I never heard of Mindspring.
 
Squishie PP said:
Containerization is for street shitters. I guarantee you if you coded like a white man, you would not need it.
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Not to mention that with the most recent exploits, doesn't fucking help.

acid_ra1n said:
she says oh yeah its a mindspring, so i told the ebay people it and they were able to fix the account
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Jesus, that probably predates my Metacrawler.. which worked up through at least 2008 if you knew the whitelabel server to login to.
 

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SchizoDaemon said:
I love to find this stuff. I found some old mouse mats and even a T-short a while ago from a defunct company in my area.
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i get a lot of this stuff from my local hobby club or old tech hoarding boomers that need to clear stuff out of their house
gonna start working on a babyAT tower soon once parts come in and gonna pretend im LGR
 
SchizoDaemon said:
I would really love an AT-era PC, but where I am they are 5 times the price they should be.
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ya tbh if i get this one going and do all the mods and stuff to it i could probably resell it for like 200x what i paid for it. its an interesting one cause its i686 but still has isa slots, diamond gpu, basically a really overpowered dos gaming rig.
 
acid_ra1n said:
i686
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Majority of the DOS stuff you would want to run is probably not going to work correctly. A lot of the old games and demos from around 91 to 94 relied on certain chipset bugs. Even worse, the dos extenders like pmode were so fucking fragile to begin with- but if you don't want to play things like pinball fantasies or classic PC demos, that'll be fine.
 
acid_ra1n said:
gonna start working on a babyAT tower soon once parts come in and gonna pretend im LGR
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I have a BabyAT super socket 7 build. The platform is such a pain, give me something with built in ps/2 ports and ideally usb with bios level mouse emulation any day over that.
acid_ra1n said:
ya tbh if i get this one going and do all the mods and stuff to it i could probably resell it for like 200x what i paid for it. its an interesting one cause its i686 but still has isa slots, diamond gpu, basically a really overpowered dos gaming rig.
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Anything with an ISA slot seems overpriced these days. I got my P3B-F for almost nothing a few years ago and now they go for hundreds. So if you already have something I guess you might as well go for it.

But otherwise it's usually easier to find a good price on a Yamaha YMF based PCI card, they're really easy to get going in DOS / Win98 and give a lot more flexibility on platform. You can get away with newer stuff like an Athlon 64 or LGA775 build and just throttle speed using DOS utils.
Paul Revere Pantry Raider said:
Majority of the DOS stuff you would want to run is probably not going to work correctly. A lot of the old games and demos from around 91 to 94 relied on certain chipset bugs. Even worse, the dos extenders like pmode were so fucking fragile to begin with- but if you don't want to play things like pinball fantasies or classic PC demos, that'll be fine.
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Vast majority you would want to play aren't sensitive to chipset or speed. They just work. There's some well known cases where you need a specific speed target but unless you're really keen to play Wing Commander you can just forget about those and enjoy everything else.

There is another class of games that just fail on faster CPUs (Sam & Max for ex) but there are enough ways to slow down fast CPUs nowadays that it's not really a concern anymore.

There are some really bad unstable chipsets that can drive you nuts. VIA ones in general are a no-go for me. My main DOS/98 system has a 440BX which seems really solid.
 
Baraka Obama said:
Vast majority you would want to play aren't sensitive to chipset or speed. They just work. There's some well known cases where you need a specific speed target but unless you're really keen to play Wing Commander you can just forget about those and enjoy everything else.
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I'm not even talking about speed. There are various TSRs to slow down your machine for that. I'm talking about Watcom C Compiled DOS32 extenders that are going to shit when the machine has more than 16MB, The Demoscene-Gone-Gamer Apogee and other games of the era that used 386/486 bugs and assumed there would be backward compatibility for decades. Wing Commander was abysmal on my 386SX back in the day- when I upgraded to a 486DLC, it was nearly entirely unplayable.

Unless they've got VESA support and you can find a version of SCITech's VESA drive for your card from an old SimTel mirror, you might be fucked for anything other than base VGA, and we're not even considering the drivers for an era-compatible sound card.

VIA North/Southbridge were really problematic. I had one box that would ONLY run stable with Windows 2000, which was fine at the time, but it got turned into a FreeBSD box after that.
 
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I'm talking about Watcom C Compiled DOS32 extenders that are going to shit when the machine has more than 16MB,
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Most of these you can dodge by running games inside an MS DOS window in Windows 98. Between that and configuring a handful of games to restart into raw DOS I haven't run into any game I want to play that doesn't function great on a Pentium 3.
 
Baraka Obama said:
Most of these you can dodge by running games inside an MS DOS window in Windows 98. Between that and configuring a handful of games to restart into raw DOS I haven't run into any game I want to play that doesn't function great on a Pentium 3.
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Buddy, if you don't have 5 different boot options in your CONFIG.SYS, I don't even know.
 
Had to take apart the tower today to prep for this clock chip to come in
So guts r all over the place luckily the chip was socketed which is surprising for a pcchips board
Just hoping and praying the ancient shit in here can be replugged cause I'm expecting at least 1 card to fail being reseated
 
I am interested in XLibre since I am not big fan of Wayland. Few programs worked better for me in X11 like Goldendict (dictionary app with pop-up feature not working in Wayland), SimpleScreenRecorder and Hearthstone Deck Tracker (although it is not as important). Is it safe to install it? Could I just switch things back without much problems?

My PC is quite old if it matters (Intel i5-4690, Nvidia GTX 750 Ti and 8GB RAM on HDD) running Fedora 43 with KDE.
 
Vhailor said:
I am interested in XLibre since I am not big fan of Wayland. Few programs worked better for me in X11 like Goldendict (dictionary app with pop-up feature not working in Wayland), SimpleScreenRecorder and Hearthstone Deck Tracker (although it is not as important). Is it safe to install it? Could I just switch things back without much problems?

My PC is quite old if it matters (Intel i5-4690, Nvidia GTX 750 Ti and 8GB RAM on HDD) running Fedora 43 with KDE.
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Has Fedora 43 completely removed all X11 support? I fully support the goals of the XLibre project- the scum at FreeDesktop have proved that they are Poettring-lovers and enemies of the human race- but there should be no technical reason you need to run XLibre rather than XOrg. The RandR extension was conceived right at the turn of the century, for Christ's sake. There are tens if not a hundred million children around the world who are older than Wayland is, despite being conceived before that last useful extension was finalized.

Look, I personally know that I should be using XLibre on every single computing device I own, because it's important to make sure it's widely tested and a way forward as the enemy continues to sabotage their captive, X.Org. FreeDesktop.org could make 'updates' to X.Org tomorrow to deliberately cripple X features to bring it down to Wayland levels of functionality or even worse, and Red Hat and Debian would ship them the next day. But there's no obligation to be proactive if XOrg still works for now.
 
Vhailor said:
I am interested in XLibre since I am not big fan of Wayland. Few programs worked better for me in X11 like Goldendict (dictionary app with pop-up feature not working in Wayland), SimpleScreenRecorder and Hearthstone Deck Tracker (although it is not as important). Is it safe to install it? Could I just switch things back without much problems?

My PC is quite old if it matters (Intel i5-4690, Nvidia GTX 750 Ti and 8GB RAM on HDD) running Fedora 43 with KDE.
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What DE are you running, if it's Gnome then good luck swimming against current.
 
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