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Review: Full Void

Portable Gaming Roundup about 6 months ago

Price: Physical £17.99 Standard/£24.99 Limited Edition Evercade (Digital: £11.99 PS4/PS5 on PSN or £13.99 on Switch eShop)Developer: OutofTheBitPublisher: EvercadePlayers: 1Also: If you like the sound of Full Void, please check out my interview wi …

Sharp PC-6340: XTIDE not loaded from ROM

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hello everyone I've got a Sharp laptop (acquired allegedly brand new unopened several years ago). I've powered it up and it's got multiple technical issues which are in process of solving or were solved. However, this one issue is troubling me most, it do …

Display Devices • New old stock CTX VL500 - blank screen

MISTerFPGA about 6 months ago

Hello all,I suspect this monitor is just faulty, as I get the same if I plug it into a Windows laptop via HDMI>VGA adapter, but...13.8" viewable area 15" CTX VL 500 monitor, immaculate, fresh out of factory sealed box. Supposedly 1280x1024.With intenti …

Compaq Contura 4/25 mono. Yellow screen, nothing visible. Please help ! :(

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hello everyone, I need help with my Compaq Contura 4/25 mono laptop. It was working fine until yesterday. It happened suddenly. The displayed screen is yellow. The laptop was turned off and turned on again but nothing helped. When I move the contrast sli …

Beware of eBay - Was scammed as BUYER (!)

Neo Geo Forums about 6 months ago

Long story short, I bought a laptop. Bunch of red flags from shipping being late, shipping coming from a different corner of the nation than user's profile, and 1 feedback. The scam: you get nothing, and they win the claim against them. eBay, unbeknown …
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Can anyone identify this mystery module I found in a box of things I purchased at the VCF Swapmeet?

VCFed about 7 months ago

I bought a box of random floppy disks. Inside were two small boxes. One with DAT cassettes and the other had this small 1.78" X 2" Ram module. My first thought was VRAM upgrade? or possibly Laptop RAM upgrade. Anyone know what this thing is? Appe …

Compaq LTE 5300 screen issue

VCFed about 7 months ago

Hello! My Compaq LTE 5300 laptop screen sometimes goes into this weird state. Issue persists even after I turn off the power. Some times later it starts working normally. What could be the reason? …

Official Addon Boards • USB 2.1 seems to be dead

MISTerFPGA about 7 months ago

I had my MISTer packed away because I am renovating my house right now.A friend suggested I play with it, so plugged everything in.. booted fine, but it does not see any of my dongles, and does not work with a usb keyboard.So very frustrating. Looking at …
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GRiD 286 Vintage laptop

VCFed about 7 months ago

Hi All, I couldn’t find any information online about this type of GRiD 286 laptop. It looks like a Toshiba T3100/20 of T3200 but it really is branded as a GRiD 286 computer. Is there anyone with more information? …

programming • BeebASM -> JsBeeb - Development Environment

Stardot about 7 months ago

Hi,I've recently decided to return to BBC Micro programming after about 34 years My ambition is to write a platform game using 6502 assembler running on a BBC Model BMy theory is that where I failed in my teenage years I can succeed because I've got more …

Documenting obscure 90s laptop brands - CTX EzBook

VCFed about 7 months ago

Did the same thing for WinBook a while back, now I've got a new target. One of my sub-hobbies from within the hobby that is vintage technology has become an effort to preserve information online about obscure and forgotten-about laptop manufacturers from …

AdvSkel65 progress report but bug still there

Apple Fritter about 7 months ago

Hi!  I just replaced the version of printtok used with AdvSkel65's no hidden memory C64 port with a newer version of printtok, disabled some at-first-unneeded code and bought .11k.  I need to continue upgrading AdvSkel65 now.  But the bug is still ther …

What do you like for salvaging old laptop hard drives?

VCFed about 7 months ago

I've got this somewhat rare Fujitsu windows 2000 tablet I want to restore. It still posts ok but I can't get it to boot. I think the hard drive no longer runs well enough to actually boot the operating system, but it might still be readable. From what I he …

Celeron M Laptop, Custom Monitor, Laptop Parts, Mirracast Extender

VCFed about 7 months ago

Few things up for sale. Open to whatever offer you have. Shipping not included in pricing. Paypal, Venmo, Check, all welcome. Laptop Parts ItemInfoPriceEverex LM7WZCeleron M. 256mb DDR2. Takes Sata HDD(Not included). In rough shape but functional. N …
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Chit Chat • C64NET ZiModem ECHOs with all echo off

Lemon64 about 7 months ago

Where to begin. Have an IBM PS/2 (ProCOMM), a Lenovo laptop. (PuTTY) and an IBM 3151 terminal and the same results happen when ZiModem is connected to any of the systems.ATE0 to turn ECHO off works only when giving AT commands. If I go into AT+IRC the …
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Emulators • Xpadder settings for VICE

Lemon64 about 7 months ago

What's this then?What's Xpadder?I love playing games sat on my sofa on the big TV, or sat in bed on the laptop. I also love the convenience of emulation. To that end, I use Xpadder as my software go-between twixt Xbox controller and VICE.Xpadder is one of …

FS: Compaq Armada E500 Windows 98 Laptop

VCFed about 7 months ago

have for sale a Compaq Armada E500 in very good to excellent condition. The system has the following specs: -500MHz Pentium III CPU -30GB hard drive -256MB of RAM -3Com PCMCIA ethernet card with dongle -AC adapter -main battery (holds a charge but needs to …
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Component ID Help needed

VCFed about 7 months ago

Ive got a CTX EzBook 800 laptop that got hit by a VARTA battery and I’d like to get a crack at repairing it soon. There are 4 components near where the battery was that are labeled LN1 through 4, and LN1 is damaged. As of yet, I can’t identify what the …

NOS Green 753 Laptop

VCFed about 7 months ago

New old stock Green 753 Pentium (non-mmx) Intel Socket 7 laptop from the early 1990's. They are new in sealed mfr's boxes with manuals, 3.5" driver diskettes for Win 3.0/95 and a hard drive caddy. Also, the laptop has internal CD-ROM drive, 3.5" …

$4,750 Laptop From 1997: HP OmniBook 800CT

LGR about 7 months ago

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Liquidating collection: 5150, ??????, TI-99, Hyundai 286, DEC Pentium PC, RS/6000, Televideo 910, others

VCFed about 7 months ago

I am offering all working machines at steep discounts! Some of the less valuable computers that work will also be offered up for free as well! Most nonworking hardware is free on the condition it will not end up in a landfill. I will ship items from my …

Compaq LTE 5400 Issues

VCFed about 7 months ago

I have a Compaq LTE 5400 laptop I bought in 2014. This laptop is running Windows 98 SE. I am having a few issues however, attempting to try and transfer files over to my modern PC. I'd like to send over a word document over! Issue 1 - I've tried to burn …

off-topic • Windows 11 Home restrictions and possible workarounds

Stardot about 7 months ago

A family member is getting a new laptop which comes with Windows 11 Home S. As the family geek, I get to deal with it and I'm trying to find information on the web and it's getting confusing. So I thought I'd ask here - because this feels like asking my m …

coco2 issue

VCFed about 7 months ago

Hello, Thanks for your attention, I'm new to the coco2 and I'm having an issue. It's a Korean basic 1.3, 16kb TRS-80 Color Computer 2. I'm able to get the game "colorpede" (which is a machine application) to transfer via .wav file from another …
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off-topic • SATA drive activity LED

Stardot about 7 months ago

I have a Toshiba laptop that doesn't have a HDD activity LED I've been looking at various diagrams for SATA and it seems that one of the functions of pin 11 on the drive power connector is an open collector output capable of sinking 300uA maximum for HDD …