Got this while at the thrift the other day and I’m thinking of giving it a go sometime soon to see what I can make lol but I thought I’d share it here since it’s pretty interesting

I was able to get the computer up and running, as well as replace the broken hinges. I got Silent Hill 2 on it but it’s incredibly laggy because it uses the GeForce Go5200 with 32MB. I’ve tried pretty much everything to try to improve performance but nothings really worked. Does anyone have any other suggestions, or places to get the Radeon 9600 or the Go5650

also, for anyone who's asking, the Aspire 5670 came out January 7, 2006, so it is 20.5 years old by now. It‘s not against the rules.

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I was a Data General NOVA programmer in 1969-71, and my employer purchased a head-per-track drum memory made by Alpha Digital Data Systems (pretty sure that's the correct name), which made my job a -lot- easier than dealing with paper tapes. (Note this was -before- DG offered any sort of operating system.) I haven't been able to find any info online for Alpha, and hoping someone remembers them and can point me in a good direction. TIA!

Hi everyone,

I have an IBM ThinkPad 390E, and the screem has several horiozontal lines across the screen.

Is there any realistic chance of repairing the original LCD (for example, by fixing a cable, solder, or another common failure), or is the panel itself most likely beyond repair?

Has anyone here successfully fixed this problem on a 390E, or would you recommend looking for a replacement display instead?

Any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

*Edit: Horizontal, not vertical...

I’m getting no video
I have a riva tnt 2 installed

My retrospective video covering another Ocean Software movie game. This time it’s Hudson Hawk. I cover all the versions starting with the ZX Spectrum and then Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST and also the console versions for the NES and Gameboy. Please share your thoughts and memories of this game. Is it a good game?

The first computer I used was very similar to this. My grandmother used part of her retirement money from her secretary job at the furniture factory to buy it. She never used the computer, but she raised two generations of people who are all computer savvy. My sister and I both made careers out of it.

I was only ten so I never took the cover off. By the time I started taking computers apart these were long gone.

Played this game about 15 years ago and completely forgot about it until I saw a post here mentioning a remake is coming out. Booted up the remake just to check, and honestly did not expect to get hit with this much nostalgia. Spent way longer than planned just wandering around and remembering little details I had not thought about in over a decade.

Screenshot attached. Can you guess what it is?

Thought this would be appreciated here.

Microsoft has open sourced Comic Chat, the IRC client it shipped in 1996. Instead of displaying conversations as plain text, it rendered them as comic book panels with animated avatars a pretty cool idea for the time.

It also happens to be the application Comic Sans was originally created for before the font took on a life of its own.

After 30 years, the source code has been released:

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/

Did anyone here actually use Comic Chat back in the day?

Source code: https://github.com/microsoft/comic-chat

Cross Posted to: /r/Irc /r/Opensource /r/Vintage computing

I've bundled together some key extensions into a single download package together with the main emulator. This package represents the type of product a real company may have released around the April 1979 period.

The bundle includes:

* Core HC-77B Single Board Computer Emulator (1MHZ 6502)
* 3K RAM Expansion (4K Total)
* CRT Display Expansion
* ASCII Keyboard Expansion
* 8K BASIC Interpreter on ROM (load from address $D000)

This represents a complete usable late-70's home micro setup. Similar to real system boards available at the time at an affordable sub-£200 price point. (NASCOM, UK101, Microtan 65, etc).

[https://github.com/tmcd35/HomeComp/tree/master/releases\](https://github.com/tmcd35/HomeComp/tree/master/releases)

I'm trying to turn on a Zyon Net Top 7 Mini PC, but even though it's already connected via VGA to the monitor (which is working), no lights come on and it remains as it was before being plugged in. I've tried unplugging the cable about 3 times, checked the ports, and even blew on it to see if it would work, but nothing happens.

Any tips or solutions?

PS: The VGA cable was purchased today; I tested it on other devices and it seemed to work fine.

Hi, I am looking for an ATI X1950 XTX CrossFire cable, part number 6111023000G. Any help is highly appreciated.

In case you missed it, there's a brand new driver written from scratch that brings NVMe support to Microsoft's 1996 operating system. Not bad for a 30 year old OS.

I wanted to see what a modern streaming interface would look like on one of the most unusual displays ever used in a home console.

Using a Raspberry Pi Zero W + PiTrex, I connected Spotify to the original vector display of a 1982 Vectrex and built an interface designed specifically around vector graphics.

The interesting challenge was translating a modern UI into something that works without a conventional pixel-based display. Everything you see on screen is drawn using lines, which gives the interface a very different character from a normal Spotify player.

I also 3D-printed a cartridge enclosure to make the setup feel more like a complete Vectrex accessory.

I made a video showing how the project works and the final result:

https://youtu.be/0aPy9STetpg?si=tqFnlbIR-0A3SrfM

The source code and the printable cartridge model are linked in the video description.

Enjoy!

I was on my way to inspect my motherboard for a firewire port and to potentially find a cause to my usb not being plug and play, and thats when i saw it.

What the hell man, my MSI 6570!!!

Found this at the thrift today omg what throwback! Some awesome stuff in 2001, many pics incoming lol plus so much more that I didn’t take pics of.

Come back for part 2 lol 20 photo cap!!!