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Articles restructuring and Video importing.

Posted by Gandalf42, in Site Related 29 October 2011 - - - - - - · 141 views
site related, media, lgr
I've added a few new categories to the front page in an attempt to tailor the news system a bit better. Some of the articles were being dumped into rather odd but somewhat related categories.. so I created a few more categories and resorted the articles into them. All old article links should still parse correctly.

I'm also working on getting the...


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C64 hit's the skids

Posted by Gandalf42, in Retro Computing 25 October 2011 - - - - - - · 154 views
c64, commodore 64
Well, I just got my new replacement power supply for my C64 today... Plugged it in and it was rock solid. Had the thing running for about three hours.. then. gone. Screwed up characters on the screen.. colors everywhere. Tried a buddys supply and no go. Tried replacing the VIC-2.. nothing. Looks like it's really fried this time. Probably from...


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OnLive contest yields $1 game.

Posted by Gandalf42, in Modern Computing 22 October 2011 - - - - - - · 1,183 views
duke nukem forever, pc, onlive
OnLive is a streaming game distribution service that runs the games on a server farm and then dumps the videostream to the player. This offloads the heavy lifting (read: processors speed / video rendering) from the player and allows you to run AAA titles...


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Damn Commodore 64 power supply

Posted by Gandalf42, in Retro Computing 15 October 2011 - - - - - - · 217 views
retro computing, c64
So I've recently modded my Commodore 64 with JiffyDOS and also built a 64 HDD server for mass storage. Everything was working great until I started noticing color changes on the screen and characters popping in an out of existence.
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Importing videos

Posted by Gandalf42, in Site Related 15 October 2011 - - - - - - · 150 views
site related, media
Well, I just got done importing all of Matt Barton's "Matt Chat" videos.. which was a daunting task. They were added out of order, but you can sort them newest to oldest if you so choose.

So, I've moved on to importing Clint Basinger's "Lazy Game Reviews" videos.. which are even more extensive... but this time I'm at least adding them...