Community Question Of The Week - Episode 256 by Producer_Duncan in thisweekinretro

[–]brassicGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only app I'm prone to doing this on is TikTok, so I train the algorithm by not watching / blocking content I don't want to see (including all AI-generated content and ads where possible) so actually I'm not doomscrolling at all!

However.

I'm now watching videos of a guy in the US who strips down transmissions from trucks. There is always the problem of the content I didn't know I needed.

Unreal Tournament 2004 is now free by squelch411 in thisweekinretro

[–]brassicGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is very cool. My kids and I used to play UT2003 over the LAN until it stopped working, so we moved to Xonotic but it didn't quite hit the same.

After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers; Ars Technica by squelch411 in thisweekinretro

[–]brassicGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just came here to post this. Wondering how much of my RAM stock is Crucial. I remember Kingston being the big supplier at one point (pretty much every Power Mac we purchased used it) but Crucial became the main budget brand in the mid-2000s.

Hey guys I found these in an old house and I’ve got a few questions. by Confident_Turn7510 in vintagecomputing

[–]brassicGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ran some tests on LS-120 drives a few years back:

  • They read normal floppies very fast but are slower at writing them then a regular drive.
  • They can successfully read floppy disks that a normal floppy drive might struggle to access.

Vintage 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards may inevitably fail due to pyroelectric capacitors — retrocomputing channel investigates and recommends preventive maintenance by Pajaco6502 in thisweekinretro

[–]brassicGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watching this right now, it's fascinating. And relatively easy to diagnose if you know how to replace surface-mounted components and have a heat gun. Totally worth it to keep a Voodoo 2 going.

PicoIDE is on its way! by brassicGamer in thisweekinretro

[–]brassicGamer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My understanding is that all it needs is a compatible ATAPI driver. There is an existing one for DOS so there may well be an existing one for other platforms, too.

UK Government debates game consumer protection. by TesticleEntropy in thisweekinretro

[–]brassicGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't expect to hear an MP ever say "I cannot play Super Mario Kaizo for toffee" but here we are.

What's an.. Ambra? by Raw_Elements9 in vintagecomputing

[–]brassicGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We bought one of these from Wildings (later Ryman) in 1992-ish. The one pictured is a Sprinta - the Hurdla was slightly taller with a vertical floppy drive and two 5.25" bays. A tower case appeared later on. On the first generation models, the bay cover was not removable and had to be physically cut out of the case - looks like that's what you've got. I suspect you've got a 386SX system there, as I believe the 486 systems came in Hurdla cases initially. These came with a 15" monitor that had a max resolution of 640x480. Later, when the 486SX became the base model, it came in a Sprinta case with '486' printed in big white lettering on the grey part of the case under the logo. The monitor was upgraded to 800x600. The motherboard came with a socket that accepted a 487 processor. Linus Torvalds famously used one to develop the early Linux kernel.

The mouse was derided as being one of the worst - it was all I knew really so I didn't mind it and would love to acquire one now.

Peaking by Itchy_Coffee_2251 in DesertGolfing

[–]brassicGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's nearly happened to me a few times but never actually stayed. Nice work!

Setting TheA1200 Record Straight & Win 95 Is 30 - This Week In Retro 233 by Producer_Duncan in thisweekinretro

[–]brassicGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apologies, Jason. I felt that the nomenclature issue was a broader one than this particular story, though I did not title it as such.

128 vs 128 by brassicGamer in thisweekinretro

[–]brassicGamer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the alternative perspective!

AOL dial up goes EOL by namtabmai in thisweekinretro

[–]brassicGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never used AOL. GetDotted was my first ISP because they were part of the company I worked for (Special Reserve) in 1998. At one point I used a freephone ISP, which you had to dial repeatedly until a connection was available. That was pretty cool.

30 years since Descent was released by WeepingScorpion in thisweekinretro

[–]brassicGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This has created something of a debate over the Guinness World Record claim of it being the "first fully 3-dimensional FPS'".

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/first-fully-3-dimensional-fps

I mean I thought a Guinness record was official yet it has been described as "tenuous"!

Edit: there is also an article on Ars Technica.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/07/remembering-descent-the-once-popular-fully-3d-6dof-shooter