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[The Fifth Horseman]

Originally Posted by Drath

I had an old windows 95 in my room until 2004.

Windows 95 is an operating system, not a computer.

My 486 DX4/100 lasted until 2004 too. Until the very day I was reassembling it after a failed hardware upgrade and plugged in the AT power connectors wrong. Ouch.

[Tracker]

Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

Windows 95 is an operating system, not a computer.

My 486 DX4/100 lasted until 2004 too. Until the very day I was reassembling it after a failed hardware upgrade and plugged in the AT power connectors wrong. Ouch.

...and thus you came to Abandonia.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Actually that was a few weeks after I registered on AB - and months after I originally found it.

[Funkmaster5000]

"Why do you still use ancient computers? With all these emulators out there, it's quite easy to disclaim on the real hardware."

I get to hear that quite often. I don't know how to explain that, but there's nothing better than the blue flickering screen and the good old


What are your arguments then?

[gregor]

Originally Posted by Funkmaster5000

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What are your arguments then?

you can get the emulator to look liek that old screen. for example many spectrum emulators (such as Klive or is it clive?) can make your monitor look like CRT TV. add the original screen to that and it is almost perfect. then you add a tape and load a tape manually at normal emulator speed. i mean who doens't want to wait 5 minutes to load a game?

if course you can also run it with "current graphics" mode and increase emulation speed to load the tape in few secs. or just use image file.while loads instantly.

[Drath]

Using programs like VM is a good alternative when its near impossible to get your hands on an old machine

[RRS]

The debate of "emulators versus old hardware" can be compared to "MP3 of an old record versus the gramphone disc on a turntable".

- emulation is rarely 100% accurate
- yet having everything in physical format is for serious collectors only, as it's more expensive, requires more storage space, proper handling etc.
- however it allows for celebrating the real old items and how they were used
- at the great cost of wearing them down (playback devices and medium)

So there are drawbacks on both sides.

[seconteen1001]

I have a Packard Bell with a 133Mhz Pentium, 8 MB RAM and a 7 GB HDD. It runs Windows 95 beautifully.

[saibot216]

When I came home from college on fall break I noticed my family chucked the old Dell Windows 95 we've had since I was a little kid. So many memories - gone. The ability to play games like ZPC without hassle - gone. I currently operate a Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) laptop from about 2010 that is making it's way to the grave.

[florianix]

Currently tring to get some stored old PCs runnig again.

My 286 has the combined battery/RTC devices that are dead now. It refuses to boot with a mesage that it lost its BIOS settings.
Seems impossible to preserve those for the future as those devices are not produced any more.

A 386 is still working perfectly, but the battery is already leaking.

The Pentium 100 that I used for about 10 years seems completely dead. :-(

Maybe the Pentium II is old enough to use all the SW on this site.
Otherwise I'll have to find some replacements. I hope there are still enough (used) spare parts in working condition from that time available.