Gammitin (Ben) 💾
@Gammitin
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Obsessed with Vintage / Retro tech - I collect, repair, upgrade retro Laptops, Desktop Computers, Consoles, unusual tech. Also love Gaming and Cats 😸
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Easy "anyone can do with minimal effort" Retro-brighting tutorial:
I have been asked many times how I retro-bright things, so I wanted to share the method I used, that's very simple, requires no special tech and gives fantastic results.
(Use relevant PPE, gloves etc.)
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25x Cd-r spindle is the perfect eco-friendly reusable bagel holder, 50x for two and 100x if you're extra hungry, or want to add some doughnuts.
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Cray-1 Supercomputer [1975]
- 80Mhz 64Bit CPU
- 8.39 MB RAM
- 303 MB Storage
- 160 MFLOPS
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Remember LogoManager for Nokia Phones?
I randomly found my Nokia 3210 data cable today!
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Let's go back in time, 25 years ago to 1999; what was your daily driver Operating System?
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Microsoft Windows Install CD's/DVD's for workstations over the past 30 years. Will 11 be the last one on physical media?
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Want to hear old HDD sounds on your modern near silent computer, check this out:
DiskClick!
Link:
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Sim City 2000 Big Box (MS-DOS 3.5" floppy version) [1993]
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Adobe Photoshop was released 34 years ago today on February 19, 1990. Which version did you start on?
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Microsoft Golf (1.0 - 1993) installs fully and works perfectly with sound in Windows 11.
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Have an amazing weekend everyone, I'm kicking mine off with a bit of 3DFX powered gaming.
Unreal (1998)
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10 year old me could have only dreamed of owning a Big Box copy of this masterpiece. 😍💾💾💾💾
Flashback (1992)
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Weezer - Buddy Holly
Included on the Windows 95 CD: Probably the first music video ever watched on a computer for many people!
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One of my all time favourite simulation games, Theme Hospital was released 27 years ago today (yes, 27 years ago!), on 28th March 1997. Who's a fan?
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It's Friday night and Fun shall commence in my CRT Corner!
Have a great weekend peeps!
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Stunt Car Racer (1990) for MS-DOS, on 286 Harris 16bit CPU with 1MB 0ws DRAM.
I've still got it - 33 years later! 👍
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It's 1996, you just built or bought yourself an AMD K5 133Mhz or an Intel Pentium 166Mhz Rig.
What OS are you installing?
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This Pentium II 350Mhz machine will be my Voodoo 3 3000 test rig, it's from exactly the right period - 1999.
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A real emotional moment, please give me a minute......
🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
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For anyone interested, this is what the full Linux for Playstation 2 kit looked like, this is a press photo from the time:
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I've probably installed Windows 98SE a thousand times, but it's my kind of entertainment!
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Just wow, what an absolutely amazing result! 👍
My first ever Retrobrighting experiment, this is a '93/'94 DEC Digital PS/2 PC mouse, I don't have time to wash it today, but I'm really happy with the result! 👍
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The essential 1980's kid accessory: the sound effect keychain.🤘
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Another Pentium II laptop, but this time instead of a Gateway Solo, here's an IBM ThinkPad 390E running Windows 2000, this is an absolute vibe!
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This is what I like to do with my Friday nights and have no shame about it, that is all. 🤓
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Some people like: Yogo, Meditation, Pilates, Quiet Walks, I'm more of a Windows 2000 soul cleanse kind of guy...
......Pure Aesthetic Bliss...... ☺️
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My absolute all-time favourite MS-DOS gaming laptop: The Toshiba 320CDT, Pentium 233 MMX, the screen on this is 800x600 amazingly clear TFT, it also has a floppy and CD-ROM built inband SB Pro V3 and OPL3 Adlib sound.
I've got a Win98SE/MS-DOS dual boot, it also has working WiFi.
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What was your favourite game based on the Quake III engine (other than Quake III itself)?
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Created one for my garage:
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Where are my people at?
/msg [bot-name] xdcc send pack-number
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Last year I recreated my first childhood PC - an Intel 386DX-25. 😍
I've finally sourced new HDD, Turbo and Power LEDs which had blown in the case, looking forward to putting the finishing touches to it.
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Happy Friday Retro Computing and Gaming Friends!
Whatever you're doing this weekend have fun and most importantly,
#KeepItRetro
💾 💿📀🖥️ 💻 🎮🖱️🖲️⌨️🕹️
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So I got a thing for £10.50.
Will it arrive in one piece and will it work? 🤔
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Playing a little DOOM on my Dell Inspiron 3000 - Pentium 233Mhz MMX from 1997 in MS-DOS 6.22.
It blows my mind that when it was released it cost $3,999, which is around $7,843 today 🤯
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25 years ago, remember when nearly every household had a scanner on their computer desk!
When you bought your beige computer, it was a standard bit of kit!
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It's time to upgrade the RAM in my childhood (rebuilt) 386DX dream machine from 4MB to 8MB (I could have only dreamed when I was a kid)!
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Windows 1.0 - 4x 5.25" 💾
Windows 2.0 - 4x 5.25" 💾
Windows NT - 7x 3.5" 💾
Windows 3.** - 8x 3.5" 💾
Windows 95 - 27 to 30x 3.5" 💾
Windows 98 - 39x 3.5" 💾
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OpenGL Quake II running on Windows 98SE at 1400x1050 >54FPS, music is perfect and everything is flawless.
I'm going to do a driver pack and share it with anyone interested in playing.
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I've fully refurbished the Plextor PlexWriter on the bottom, inside and out, I need to get these other three sorted! 👍
💿📀📀📀
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I feel like making an old html website, accessible by retro computers with useful files and info, I'm thinking I'll use Macromedia Dreamweaver 3, like back in my old webdev days....
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My Dell Latitude D610 has arrived, not only does it have a dedicated X300 GPU, it also has a high-resolution SXGA+ - 1400x1050 screen! Yasssss
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On this day, 26 years ago (June 25, 1998) Microsoft Windows 98 was released generally to retail. It's probably my all time favourite MS OS, I have so many good memories from that era:
Winamp, mp3's, DVD playback, P2P, classic games, 1st Broadband experience, Eax, SB Live! ☺️
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I have a new retro computer to check out; I'm happy to report that the packaging was VERY good and has sustained no damage at all.
🍏 Apple Power Macintosh G4 400 (AGP)🍏
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I have bought 5x Iomega ZIP100 drives in 2023, none of them have worked! I've taken a gamble on number six, these things have not stood the test of time, so fingers crossed for this one! 🤞
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The Secret of Money Island running on the new Book8088 V2, VGA and Adlib mode:
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Feels good to crack open a fresh, sealed box of floppy disks in 2024, especially snazzy ones!
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Doing Windows updates in Windows 98SE makes me feel like I've time travelled back to when I ran a computer shop, back 25 years ago. My happy nostalgia place 😊
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I'm really, really getting into OS/2 Warp 4, it blows me away that this gem was doing its thing alongside Windows 95, it's a bloody beautiful OS. What better OS to test and format a load of floppies, the built-in disk checker is great! 👍
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There's something very satisfying about doing Windows Updates in XP in 2023, well I think so anyway......
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Quake II as it was meant to be played: Win98 on a good Trinitron at 120Hz. Looks so damn good!
#RETROGAMING
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Gorillas, or GORILLA.BAS (1990)
Remember finding this treasure in MS-DOS 5.0?
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Installing Windows NT 4.0 Workstation on my Pentium II - Gateway Solo 2500 laptop, it has drivers available, so why not!?
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Napster launched in June 1999, forever changing the music industry and forcing change. Although it was by no means the first filesharing platform, specialising in MP3's it came at just the right time to shake everything up - at its peak it had 80 million active users!
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Sorry if everyone is bored of this, but I needed to do a fly-by on these pre-2000 laptops before tidying up for the night. Woooooooshhhhh.....
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Voodoo 4 M4800!
The world's first laptop with an internal 3dfx graphics card.
Image source and link to the article:
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Sun SPARCstation LX update:
I have the internet working in Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7). Obviously I had to load up the oldest website on the internet (it's been live since August 6, 1991), it predates this computer by just over a year. Buzzing! 👍🤓
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