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Anyone happen to have the 64 bit version of max 9 lying around? Archive.org only has the 32 bit, even though its got the 64 bit version of the sp2 patch.

on a whim I stopped at my local goodwill today. They didnt have anything interesting, but I found myself standing in the music section wondering if and jewel case games had been mixed in to the CDs. I grabbed off the shelf at random... And found myself holding a copy of Riven, sequel to Myst.

I hate to get all mushy but I want to share how much I appreciate this community. More and more when I try to join other internet community, the other members are about as interactive as spam-bots. I post a question or topic and people reply with "a link", and no context whatsoever. I really...

Now that I've "solved" the suicide battery on my dual G4, its time to get the operating system set up. Someone on here(wave if it was you) suggested doing separate partitions, one for OS9 and the other for OSX. I liked this idea so I did what any windows weenie would do - I zeroed the drive...

I was laying in bed feeling depressed because yet another thing I used to enjoy doing has become some unpleasant I've had to stop. And it got me thinking back to other things I once enjoyed but can't do anymore. I used to absolutely LOVE visiting CompUSE, Frys, and the various other big...

Hey guys, its me again, trying to restore my stupid dual G4. I finally got around to opening it up for a quick HDD swap and I found... THIS!!!! It hasn't leaked and the machine posted just fine a few weeks ago, but I knew I wasn't going to be able to sleep knowing it was in there. So I need...

I know there's a lot of work being done to keep the old CRT monitors plugging along, I'm curious if any similar projects exist to get aging LCDs back on their feet. I've got a pair of 16:10(1920x1200) monitors I pressed back into service recently because of the screens in my collection, these...

Whilst going through a box of old components I stumbled on a 50 pin SCSI hard drive. This drive came out of a machine my dad brought home from work and used for a while, then gave me to fiddle with. I recall that it ran Windows NT 4.0 on some kind of Pentium 1(I think 166MHz but not sure). When...

This auction has been making the rounds at work: https://gsaauctions.gov/auctions/preview/282996 Cheyenne, ranked the 20th fastest computer in the world sometime in 2016, being decommissioned and sold. Kind of interesting since purely-CPU-based top500 systems are a thing of the past. There's...

Does anyone ever do retro-style game development where the objective is to recreate the look and feel of old games?

Long ago in the forgotten time known only as "highschool", departed friends and I often exchanged forbidden burnt disks containing the latest in cutting-edge software of which we were most certainly not supposed to have. I will speak no more on this specific count, save to say that it bridges...

A series of fascinating clicks last night got me reading about the old Lisp machines of the 60s and 70s. I'm curious if its possible to reproduce these machines today using off the shelf components, or if they relied on custom parts that don't exist anymore? Apparently the original machines are...

I know this is a longshot, but is there anyone in the SoCal area with a very large E-ATX case they are looking to part with, hopefully for cheap? Some years back, I stupidly e-wasted all my largest cases(and my smallest ones. I regret everything). Now I've got a fun retro workstation build...

All right, I've finally decided on a course of action for my pet Pentium 4. Its going to be installed in my Coolermaster Elite tower and be configured to triple-boot Windows 2000, IcarOS, and just for fun Windows XP. I have a 1tb hard drive set up for this. The question of the day is: what...

Random headcannon got me reading about IBM TopView, and now I am curious. What hardware would I need to boot this natively? It fascinates me.

Aside from the basics, video, network, and audio; what other kinds of PCI cards do you like to use?

Some kind soul at VCFSoCal left this beautiful dual opteron motherberboard on the free table. Given my love for all things DP, I brought it home, and am presently assembling a system around it. Here's the rub: The fan headers on the motherboard are these impossible 5 pin style I've never...

This article has been making the rounds at work and I thought I would share it here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/stuart-parkin-disk-drive-storage About the inventor of Spintronics.

The other day I got my hands on a microATX socket775 motherboard which I'm planning to turn into another XP rig. As is my pattern, I immediately sat down to max the board out with whatever spare parts I had lying around. It came with a 2ghz Core2Duo, and the only faster LGA775 CPU in my...

I have this gigantic 21" NEC monitor that appears to use the exact same stand as the 15" variant. It feels unstable and is too big to move around on the stand for any kind of positioning. I have a much bigger, tougher universal stand, but I cannot get the included stand off the NEC. Anyone else...