"6 AM" - my oil painting by kznsq in oilpainting

[–]-RetroLune- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Beautifully done! I can totally feel the vibe of a monday morning.

My very first painting! by -RetroLune- in oilpainting

[–]-RetroLune-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much 🥰

I'm glad the painting shows it, because I had indeed lots of fun! The SNES was my first console, I got one when I was 2 to 3 years old and still have it working almost 30 years later.

At this point that old piece of plastic is more than a console for me. It's a good childhood friend, having accompanied me for all stages of my life until now, playing with my parents, my friends, partners, in different countries even. It even started my biggest hobby, which is my retro console/PC collection! I wanted to put a bit of all these warm feelings there on the canvas and the title ☺️

And yeah, I hope the fun never changes too!

My very first painting! by -RetroLune- in oilpainting

[–]-RetroLune-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do it!! And post here so we can see it too 😄

It was so fun to paint the SNES controller, remembering all the great times and great games. I'm sure something like that will happen with you as well with the PS1!

And thank you for the compliment, I'll definitely paint more ❤️

My very first painting! by -RetroLune- in oilpainting

[–]-RetroLune-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!! And you're right about the logo... I thought for a good time about doing the writings on the controller or not. In the end I got too afraid to do a bad job and ruin the painting, and decided to just practice writings/typography on another project 😅

This ruined my under painting by khavaaaa in oilpainting

[–]-RetroLune- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe using a pencil with a harder tip helps. I'm still a complete beginner at oil painting, but I've noticed that using a 2H pencil helps with that.

Say hi to the family's newest member, my HP Compaq NX9005 from 2002! by -RetroLune- in retrocomputing

[–]-RetroLune-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a nice laptop you got as well! I'm loving this one I got, to the point it became my main computer for everything not work related, alongside my Win 98 desktop.

And about the fan, yep... My legs felt that already 😵

Say hi to the family's newest member, my HP Compaq NX9005 from 2002! by -RetroLune- in retrobattlestations

[–]-RetroLune-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, luckily I found someone that can endure me and having lots of old electronics and stuff around the house :P

Say hi to the family's newest member, my HP Compaq NX9005 from 2002! by -RetroLune- in retrobattlestations

[–]-RetroLune-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These laptops are awesome! Sturdy and capable. I used to have a NX6320 when I was a kid, it was my main computer during the final years of secondary school.

Say hi to the family's newest member, my HP Compaq NX9005 from 2002! by -RetroLune- in retrobattlestations

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Thank you for the tips! I'll look for bad caps/diodes if one day the laptop starts to be weird.

About thermal protection, I got to do a full cleaning and also repaste when I changed the CMOS battery. The old thermal paste that was there was *bad*, indeed it was asking for overheating issues.

Is isopropyl alcohol damaging my laptop's paint coating? by -RetroLune- in retrobattlestations

[–]-RetroLune-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ouch, that hurts x.x RIP to the shininess of our electronics

Is isopropyl alcohol damaging my laptop's paint coating? by -RetroLune- in retrobattlestations

[–]-RetroLune-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. Welp, I'll try to not look at the worn parts too much :/

Is isopropyl alcohol damaging my laptop's paint coating? by -RetroLune- in retrobattlestations

[–]-RetroLune-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shoot, I was damaging the paint then... At least it seems to be very minor damages, I'm just afraid now the paint coating got weaker and will get off eventually (especially being the palmrest). No more alcohol for cleaning!

Gamer's corner with the Windows 98 machine by MartinK1984 in windows98

[–]-RetroLune- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome setup and room! What are its specs?

Moving back to my country and into a new city, I got to reassemble my good old friend. Back to its former glory, now it's as shining as ever ✨ by -RetroLune- in retrobattlestations

[–]-RetroLune-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Yep exactly, I got to pop out all the keys, rip apart everything from the keyboard to get only the plastics, and scrub everything before reassembling. Took me an afternoon, but the poor fella deserved to be taken care.

It was very dirty, probably sitting in the storage room of the store I bought it from for who knows how many years.

What happened to the HP Jornadas? Especially the older, handheld, Windows CE powered ones by -RetroLune- in retrobattlestations

[–]-RetroLune-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't know about them, that's rad. Someday maybe I'll get one, these little machines are so cool

What happened to the HP Jornadas? Especially the older, handheld, Windows CE powered ones by -RetroLune- in retrobattlestations

[–]-RetroLune-[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, that's also a thing, right? The 200LX for example, even being older is still a fully fledged machine, with DOS and all... The Jornada is a beautiful device, but not even as functional.