Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-01-21, 08:28

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I was less impressed with JRPGs. There are some great RPGs on the 8-bit systems, such as Final Fantasy trilogy (FC), Dragon WarriorII&III (NES), Mother (FC), and Phantasy Star (SMS). JRPGs definitely lost something for me in the transition to the 16-bit consoles, as they (mostly) became extremely …

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Re: 2 very different computers to cover many years

Posted on 2021-01-19, 20:12

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I have: A Pentium 133 for DOS/Win3.1 (Voodoo Banshee) An Xeon 3230 for Win 98SE (Radeon 9800pro/Voodoo 2) And a Xeon 5960 for Windows XP (GTX 780ti) I am an overkill builder who likes to max everything out, so I think you could get by with 2 machines if you're not too picky about performance. I run …

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Re: What old software do you still use daily ?

Posted on 2021-01-19, 03:01

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ZDir for all your DOS directory needs. I always rename it Z. Im so use to it I try to use that command on others machines.

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Re: How do your organise your DIGITAL game storage?

Posted on 2021-01-19, 01:39

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When on the platform intended for Usage I always organize by Publisher. Some exceptions are when games switch publishers for sequels, I tend to leave those in the original publishers directories. When stored, so I can pull them down to the machines for play, it depends. For consoles and Amiga I …

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Re: Any way to recover data from 20+ year old CD-RW that has degraded to the point of being undetectable?

Posted on 2021-01-19, 01:31

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Alls well that ends well. Was going to suggest:

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Re: What was considered the best gaming keyboard in the early 2000's

Posted on 2021-01-18, 18:06

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Ah! Just remembered Razer was also a thing early 2000. I remember them for their mouse abomination, the Boomslang. boom320.jpg It had amazing specs at the time but hated how it felt with a passion. There used to be a boomslang! meme before they were called memes but its all but disappeared from the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-11, 06:54

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Craigslist has no deals anymore. Ebay prices but no shipping. Use to be awesome.

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2021-01-09, 23:02

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Matthew Li wrote on 2021-01-09, 22:58: Hi Guys, i've got a question, i recently bought a GTX 980Ti, but cannot boot my 4coredual-sata2 with it. does any one know any possible reasons ? i can boot it with HD3870 PCIE though. This was already answered, this board will not support PCIe 3.0.

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2021-01-09, 22:44

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Sure, let's also run abacus on it :D Use prime95 with small FFT preset. How long should I run Prime 95 with small FFT preset? Been going almost an hour so far. Hottest core at 44c tops. Well, it depends. There's a holy war going on interwebs right now on what to use, how to test, how long to test …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2021-01-09, 21:49

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Linpack. Sure, let's also run abacus on it :D Use prime95 with small FFT preset. How long should I run Prime 95 with small FFT preset? Been going almost an hour so far. Hottest core at 44c tops. Edit: It went through all the tests and started going back through them again. I stopped it after I got …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-09, 02:28

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It's not a big loss, so I guess it's just time to move on. Got the card for free, alongside the FX5200 I bought for a different computer, so there's that. You could always try another motherboard to be sure. False alarm. I removed some jumpers from my 440BX board, and the card works fine now. Glad …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2021-01-08, 21:11

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So the Linpack bootable shows nothing on my screen, it loads for a while then sits there. Then when I boot up next all the fat32 drives are tagged for error checking, I imagine because I have to reset the computer to get out of the linpack bootable. It doesn't work in graphics or text mode, so I …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-08, 06:21

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Ah, a shame. Are there any visible signs that it's dead, other then plugging it in and checking? I'm sorry I don't know of any physical signs that would be indicative. Plug and Pray. It's not a big loss, so I guess it's just time to move on. Got the card for free, alongside the FX5200 I bought for …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-08, 06:10

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So, I have this card lying around, which appears to be a ATi Radeon 9700? https://puu.sh/H4Smv/5b2da28639.jpg According to this http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html#universalagp30card , ATi Radeon 9700 is compatible with an AGP 2x slot in theory, but it doesn't seem to work in my i440BX …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-08, 05:53

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Is FX5200 or FX5600 better? Depends on what you want. FX5200 is passively cooled and if you find a 128-bit model it will be more than good enough for any 2x AGP platform. That said, FX5600 is the faster card, obviously. That performance difference will likely not be observable on an AGP 2x platform …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2021-01-08, 01:38

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Linpack. Is there an XP version? I'm not set up to run a more modern OS on this machine. I'm also running an AGP video card, I don't know if that makes any difference. If there's no XP version is there another benchmark you'd recommend for exposing stability issues with this build? It seems to do …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2021-01-08, 01:24

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Not with quads. I run a X3230 on this board and it seems supremely stable since I got ram that really works with it. What kind of test do you think would show its instability?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-02, 19:36

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Thanks for the great info.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-02, 19:16

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Interesting, I've always had a couple devices on my Windows 98SE machine that didn't have drivers and I always assumed it was the PCIE Bus. I've got a 4CoreDual-VSTA motherboard, maybe these devices should be working? This motherboard has both AGP and PCIE slots.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-02, 17:49

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I didn't know that PCIE worked at all in Win9x. Does this work because its really some kind of AGP bridged card? I thought you couldn't use PCIE until XP.

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