ZFH

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by ZFH 5mo ago
15khz 320x200 with proper CRT scanlines (like in arcade games and home consoles and computers on a standard TV) is immensely more pleasing to the eye than the same resolution displayed on a PC monitor.
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by ZFH 5mo ago
It was all about saving RAM on the Amiga.
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by ZFH 1y ago
cries nostalgia tears in Propellerhead Rebirth Thanks.
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by ZFH 2y ago
Probably true for the US. In Europe, it was very country-dependent. Here PS2 sold simply because it was the new PlayStation, to a public that for the vast majority wasn't even aware there was competition.
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by ZFH 2y ago
The PS1 monstrous success sealed the DC's fate. It created a huge new demographic of first time gamers that equated "PlayStation" to "console".
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by ZFH 2y ago
Yes, SCART was for all of Europe. Mass adoption was kind of slow though, low end TV models often lacked the port well into the early 90s.
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by ZFH 2y ago
Got to agree here, in fact what I remember is that the Riva TNT 2 already was the smart pick vs. what 3Dfx had out at the same time, even though Voodoo was the cooler brand and had all that previous goodwill.
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by ZFH 2y ago
It's one of those rare cases where being in the US or Europe gives an uniquely skewed perspective. It's astonishing to think that the Amiga hardware was done in 1984 and the A1000 came out in 1985 - the same year the NES released
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by ZFH 2y ago
> Wikipedia-depth knowledge of this The filfre.net series of articles on the history of Commodore and Amiga is truly great work, and should give you a much clearer picture than pretty much anything else.
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by ZFH 2y ago
I was waiting for this comment :) I'm sure nobody expected it to live this long, as the grumbling about its various shortcomings must've started in the late eighties at the latest. The curse of good enough strikes again ...
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by ZFH 2y ago
How timely! I was watching a video about the ill fated Vector W8 supercar last night, and wondered about that awesome CRT proto-GPS thing seen in some shots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFDBs15EYjs
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by ZFH 3y ago
I agree it's not optimal. It's not like every game changes on every MAME release, but some indeed get re-dumped from time to time. The usual example is encrypted audio data or color palette ROMs. In an earlier version, lacking the
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by ZFH 3y ago
Works fine - thanks!
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by ZFH 3y ago
That might be the first recorded case of a subpar headline detracting from actual quality content :) What about "Adventures in MAME ROM dumping and games preservation"? It's the one that might stand the test of time to be use
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by ZFH 3y ago
Don't let the clickbait headline dissuade you, this is a great read if you're into emulation/retrogaming/any kind of software preservation.
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by ZFH 3y ago
Those prices are not what I remember from back then, at least in Europe. Comparable 386 and 486 PCs cost way, way more than an Amiga 500 or later 1200 respectively. The filfre.net Digital Antiquarian articles on the Commodore/Amiga his
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by ZFH 3y ago
You're better off without the Store, but in rare event that it's actually needed for something there are scripts on GitHub to add it back in.
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by ZFH 3y ago
"I have no moat, and I must scream"
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by ZFH 5y ago
It's generally called 'Attract mode', and at least from what I recall from the golden era arcade games (from the mid '80s up until the mid '90s) it's never an intro video, rather something done completely in-en
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by ZFH 5y ago
"Apple says it will scan only in the United States and other countries to be added one by one, only when images are set to be uploaded to iCloud, and only for images that have been identified by the National Center for Exploited and Mi
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by ZFH 5y ago
Possibly misreading you, but updates behave differently in LTSC. It stays at the same level (1809 in LTSC) until the next major release and just auto-installs (very quickly, in between reboots and without forced prompts) security updates ev
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by ZFH 5y ago
This, a thousand times this. It's strange it's still somewhat under the radar, it should be much more widely known. They call it LTSC, but it's really Windows As It Should Be.
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by ZFH 5y ago
Rufus has other use cases: imaging distros for Raspberry Pi, and (especially handy) reformat HFS, APFS and Ext4 pendrives for FAT or NTFS under Windows without jumping through hoops.
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by ZFH 8y ago
You're right, with a caveat. While it's true that 320x200 VGA DOS resolutions didn't have scanlines, arcade games and home computers did, and generally looked much better. A MS-DOS arcade port for example would look very blo
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by ZFH 9y ago
Too little too late. It's telling that they sell so few Mac Pros that they can ignore the Osborne effect of soft announcing a new model at least one year away in favor of some fluffy PR. It's strange they don't understand tha
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by ZFH 9y ago
Audio user here too. I just updated to 10.12.4 yesterday on a test install and it went without a hitch, but only because I checked Tonymac and updated Clover beforehand, which I wouldn't have done otherwise. And I'm on a old GTX 6
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by ZFH 9y ago
Been running hackintoshes since 2007 or so. Mostly smooth sailing. Off the top of my head: - It's all about making it easy for yourself. In short, motherboard and GPU choice change the experience from 'almost effortless' to &