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vwestlife replied to a thread OEMs & clones on eBay (continuous listings) in Vintage Computer Auctions

FWIW, that was actually a 486/5x86 upgrade board, not a 286 upgrade board as the listing claimed.

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January 15th, 2021, 06:14 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread Composite color artifacts: made by design or happy coincidence? in PCs and Clones

If you wanted sharp text, IBM would gladly sell you an MDA card and a matching monitor. :) Remember, there was no color monitor from IBM for the...

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January 12th, 2021, 08:36 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread Do VGA monitors distinguish between NTCS and PAL? in PCs and Clones

The Mitsubishi Diamond Scan AUM-1381 has inputs for composite video, digital RGB (MDA/CGA/EGA), and analog RGB (VGA, Mac, Amiga, Atari ST, Apple...

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January 8th, 2021, 08:55 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread Has a game ever used the IBM 5151's "long" P39 phosphor to get around charset limits? in PCs and Clones

Not sure about the Compaq -- I know their monochrome CRTs also have fairly long persistence. A look at the schematics would reveal how they're...

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January 7th, 2021, 12:38 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Has a game ever used the IBM 5151's "long" P39 phosphor to get around charset limits? in PCs and Clones

The ATI Small Wonder card does that in hardware, using PWM of the video signal to produce 16 shades of phosphor when emulating CGA or EGA on an MDA...

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January 7th, 2021, 06:40 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread Has a game ever used the IBM 5151's "long" P39 phosphor to get around charset limits? in PCs and Clones

IBM did release an MDA-only game, 101 Monochrome Mazes, but not for this reason -- even though it only used text mode, it wouldn't run on CGA,...

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January 4th, 2021, 01:59 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Would it be possible to design a 16-bit VGA card for AT&T 6300 / Olivetti M24 PCs? in Hardware

You're going to make Tandy 1000 TL / TX owners jealous. You have a 16-bit bus on an 8086 system, while they only have an 8-bit bus on a 286 system!

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December 31st, 2020, 06:48 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread Vintage Anti-virus software in Vintage Computer Software

After battling this infection, I made a habit of always write-protecting floppies after scanning them for viruses, and only un-protecting them when I...

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December 30th, 2020, 01:57 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Vintage Anti-virus software in Vintage Computer Software

I use IBM AntiVirus for DOS, which came with IBM's PC DOS 7 and 2000. The command line version will run on an 8088 and is small enough to fit on a...

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December 30th, 2020, 11:34 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread Copyrights trademarks etc in Tandy/Radio Shack

I like the idea of changing "Radio Shack" to "Retro Shack".

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December 29th, 2020, 01:57 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Tandy 1000 TL/2 not booting, buzzing tone from speaker in Tandy/Radio Shack

The constant tone from the speaker means the CPU is not running, because one of the first things it does during POST is silence the output of the...

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December 29th, 2020, 12:29 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread Copyrights trademarks etc in Tandy/Radio Shack

I've been thinking the same thing about Commodore for years. If there ever was a prime opportunity to legally use the Commodore name, "The C64"...

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December 28th, 2020, 08:07 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread First YouTube video experience in General Off Topic

Much of the alleged censorship on YouTube is due to the "adpocalypse" -- several incidents from 2016 to 2019 when major corporate advertisers pulled...

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December 23rd, 2020, 12:33 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread First YouTube video experience in General Off Topic

Just read Wikipedia's description of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitChute

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December 22nd, 2020, 12:17 PM

vwestlife replied to a thread First YouTube video experience in General Off Topic

A teenage viewer asked me recently if I was going to start me own Discord server. And they were not the first to ask if I'm on that platform. But I...

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December 21st, 2020, 08:54 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread First YouTube video experience in General Off Topic

They do, but on my channel those auto-generated captions have never worked. I can see them, but none of my viewers can, even with all the settings...

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December 21st, 2020, 06:46 AM

vwestlife replied to a thread First YouTube video experience in General Off Topic

My channel has been doing poorly since March 2020 (coincidentally or not, around the time the pandemic hit). Most of my videos since then have...

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