retro

Myself I have an old Core 2 Quad 9400, 6GB RAM Dell system I use as my bed room PC. Upgraded with SSD of course. I'm not a sado-masicust! Watches YT and plays vids just fine. Also my only PC that has a PCI slot so it has my Firewire card for when I need to grab something off an old tape. I also...

So I'm looking to start learning a little about electronics. I'm never going to be a master, but I would like be able to recap things and maybe solder a new i/o port or some RAM on a board. I've got a butane fueled soldering iron now, and I've been practicing with wires. From what I've read I...

I'm looking at building a couple retro PCs. Prolly something P-II/P-III based to be "reliable" and then a SS7 platform to play with. Get my quake on on a Cyrix MII and stuff :D Any suggestions on power supplies? I figure theres prolly some ATX -> AT adapters out there. Not sure how reliable...

Post up some pictures of your old cooling solutions. Air, water, extreme -- CPU, chipset, GPU coolers -- doesn't matter. I'll get us started with some pictures from my collection.

It begins. The components have already been shipped, and now I must simply wait for the glorious day that they arrive. Hours upon hours of searching has yielded me the Jetway 663AS Ultra Motherboard. A Socket 462 aka Socket A motherboard equipped with the VT82C686B chipset. Yes, the 686B, not...

Only the best modules. Playlist of the channel revolves from chiptune to trance/metal/chillout or anything you could imagine. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYve8LYtwZ7PE9Jet5owpfA Listen to mods and keep cool. PS What is tracker music?

Sony has announced the 20 classic PlayStation games that will be preloaded onto the PlayStation Classic when it launches on December 3, 2018 for $99.99. A few of the fan favorites are Metal Gear Solid, Wild Arms, Cool Boarders 2, Mr Driller, and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. PlayStation...

I'm trying to clean out the closets and have some odds and ends. I don't mind trades. Here's my WTB Thread. Heatware under suiken_2mieu. I accept Paypal. Shipping is from 23608, I generally use UPS for big stuff, and generally USPS for small stuff. I always add insurance. Let me know if you want...

If you remember the old arcade days and spent a lot of time there then you're bound to be excited about the release of Donkey Kong on the Nintendo Switch. Take my PC Master Race card from me, but I loved the arcades and the fact that Nintendo is making an official release of Donkey Kong for the...

Amazon is jumping into the retro gaming scene in a big way. They've launched their Retro Zone and you can go there to grab all of those old games you used to play. What's great about this is you can find much of what you want in one stop and get great Amazon pricing and shipping as well. Go...

Hi al, Since this is my first post; Hi! My name is Marinus from The Netherlands. :-) (I couldn't find an introductory thread :-) ) I took a leap of faith registering today after seeing a very old thread from 2004 by Strikemaster; https://hardforum.com/threads/applebred-duron-as-mp.753085/ I'm...

Selling NEC XP29 Plus in Los Angles/San Diego, proper shipping an option as well. (XP not XM, P is better) You’ve probably heard of the NEC XM29 Plus and it being arguably the best retro CRT you can get. These are XP29 plus, same but better, more rare, more signal range, so they can do 1024x768...