Re: Just in the off chance anyone knows where to find this... (old Windows game disk)
Posted on 2012-10-08, 08:42
Did you actually ask every seller out there listing the book at Amazon, Abebooks, Alibris, Half, Ebay, etc? I don't think so.
Re: Mismatched Voodoo2 SLI and motherboards incompatibility
Posted on 2012-09-26, 07:49
Whats' the primary video card on the non-working BX/ZX motherboards? Did you check if there is any memory address range overlapping?
Re: Mismatched Voodoo2 SLI and motherboards incompatibility
Posted on 2012-09-23, 14:02
Do both cards work separately? Did you try a premade SLI cable, besides the DIY one? What do you mean by "I cannot run them in SLI"? System crashes, games do not run, you cannot play at 1024x768...?
Re: What's the attraction of legacy hardware?
Posted on 2012-09-20, 08:34
Emulation is to real hardware as masturbation is to real sex. Yeah, many times you just want a cheap and easy way of playing your game, and don't want to go through the hassle of finding the proper hardware, the proper configuration for that particular game, and all kind of troubles because your …
Re: Cheapest Sound Blaster Compatible PCI Sound Card?
Posted on 2012-09-19, 20:22
nforce4max wrote: How would a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz rank amongst pci sound cards? It's arguably the best "modern" PCI sound card with a wavetable header. Aureal Vortex2 might be a better all-around card, but its Win2K/XP support is poor.
Re: Cheapest Sound Blaster Compatible PCI Sound Card?
Posted on 2012-09-18, 16:40
My vote goes for Yamaha YMF-7x4: true OPL3 FM synthesis, nice MIDI via XG synth, and 100% Sound Blaster compatible if you can attach a SB-LINK cable to a PC/PCI header. Its only drawback would be the lack of a wavetable header, but internal MIDI synth and MPU-401 UART compatible gameport can …
Re: What should I do with this computer?
Posted on 2012-08-13, 20:01
Jorpho wrote: Two years of critical updates is a whole lot better than no updates at all. And NO WPA is a whole lot better than EVERYTHING ELSE.
Re: What should I do with this computer?
Posted on 2012-08-12, 13:43
Why a 12 year old OS is too old for today's computers, but an 11 year old one is recommended? because winxp is still in microsoft's support cycle today, while many software have dropped support for win2k (adobe flash for example). Wrong. Mainstream support has already ended for XP (all versions). …
Re: What should I do with this computer?
Posted on 2012-08-11, 23:34
Why a 12 year old OS is too old for today's computers, but an 11 year old one is recommended?
Re: Spam, spam, spam
Posted on 2012-08-10, 08:25
Re: Bad hardware?
Posted on 2012-08-02, 13:56
A Tualatin CPU won't work out of the box with an ASUS S370 slocket. You need either to do the pin-mod or to get a Tualatin-compatible slocket. Read previous posts.
Re: Bad juju from my SLI Voodoos
Posted on 2012-07-30, 19:46
Reinstall your Voodoo^2 cards, go to control panel -> System -> Device manager, and check if you have a hardware conflict (i.e., if Voodoo^2, GeForce, or whatever, is sharing a memory address range with any other device). What's the wattage of your PSU, by the way? Also, did you mean System Shock or …
Re: Bad hardware?
Posted on 2012-07-11, 10:53
A free bit of advice, Don't ever throw any old hardware out, unless it's stuffed of course. Dial-up modems throw out, they're the exceptions in my opinion. Agree, but I wouldn't throw out dial-up modems, either. I keep all the external modems I've ever used (4 in total), and the last one, an …
Re: Harvester
Posted on 2012-07-11, 08:13
- First get the game working with the standard setup (read the 60 seconds guide, and not only read, but follow it, and so on). - Then try to get it working with your awkward setup. - And finally, if it still doesn't work, come back here and ask for help POLITELY.
Re: Worth selling Hercules monochrome card + monitor?
Posted on 2012-07-10, 09:10
Of course it's worth the hassle. There must be people interested in this. Take me, for example.
Re: Bad hardware?
Posted on 2012-07-09, 15:19
I know that Asus P3B-F can provide 1.45-1.5V for Vcore and therefore it doesn't require a Powerleap PL-IP3/T. That's why I mentioned other options. And yes, there's a fourth option I didn't mention, making the pin-mod by yourself. But come on, dforell isn't confident enough of his soldering skills …
Re: Please suggest GPU for Windows 95 PC
Posted on 2012-07-09, 10:03
I had a QDI Explorer II as my socket 7 retro machine, too (later replaced by an Asus TX97-E). It's based on 430VX chipset, so it supports Pentium MMX CPUs. I used a Matrox Mystique 220 as 2D card and a Voodoo 1 as 3D card. That rig was almost able to play Unreal smoothly.
Re: Bad hardware?
Posted on 2012-07-09, 09:46
Don't get rid of CPU and RAM yet. A P-III 800 is more than enough for every DOS and most Win9x games. If you just replace the motherboard, everything else will keep working fine. Also bear in mind that not every slocket adapter will support a Tualatin core (P-III CPUs over 1 GHz). You would need a …
Re: Bad hardware?
Posted on 2012-07-08, 09:38
Damn, several appear "bloated" and one looks to be "leaking". Sorry to read that. If you are handy with the soldering iron, you can buy a replacement kit and recap the motherboard by yourself: http://www.badcaps.net/store/product_info.php?cPath=1_17&products_id=18 Alternatively, you can buy another …
Re: Bad hardware?
Posted on 2012-07-07, 23:30
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague Looking for bad caps should be one of the first things to do when you find an unstable system built around a motherboard made circa 1999-2000. Of course, there are other possible issues that may cause the same symptoms (bad ram, power supply fault, hard …
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