Re: The Ultimate Hardware 2019 (UH19) project- a stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2021-04-08, 20:07

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One thing I noticed is that it's apparently mandatory to include a (clear) picture when adding a new board and this will prohibit the addition of new entries. There are for instance around 10 motherboards made by ASUS which support the Mendocino of which I'm fairly sure only 1 (or 2 at the most) I …

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Re: AMD K6-2+ 500 will only run on a 66Mhz FSB

Posted on 2021-04-08, 16:12

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At first glance the CPU packaging doesn't seem off apart from the top markings seemingly being somewhat vague (as if there is some stuff filling up part of the engravings or it was not as deeply engraved as it should have been). Can't tell if this is from how the pic was taken though. The 2 marks on …

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Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-08, 15:51

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I really never expected this much discussion on this topic. It is great to hear everyone's opinion. Retro computing has really taken off in the last few years. I remember being able to buy complete Tandy 1000 systems for less than the cost of shipping. I bought 3 in 1999 for $25 a piece on eBay. Oh …

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Re: Something for lovers of bad video cards (youtube)

Posted on 2021-04-08, 15:33

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chinny22 wrote on 2021-04-06, 09:24: Stumbled on your YouTube channel by chance just last week. Just wanted to say I'm really enjoying it! Yes, it's very nice indeed! 😀

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Re: The Ultimate Hardware 2019 (UH19) project- a stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2021-04-08, 15:31

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Something that has to be done as well is to patch things so they're more accurate. At the moment, form factor aren't quite accurate (they didn't exist in TH99 so I tried to automatically add it ... Which worked for the most part but some board have a "unidentified" form factor, or a wrong one). …

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Re: Is it possible to activate retail copies of Windows XP home is 2021?

Posted on 2021-04-04, 14:28

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My copy of Windows XP Home was pretty old(around 2002) and it required activation after Windows was installed. Today I decided to take out this copy and put it in my VMware; but the activation servers are down and the telephone servers are unavailable too. A friend of mine has a SP3 copy which even …

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Re: Party like it's '98: My first MMX build

Posted on 2021-04-04, 14:11

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Rollotiz83 wrote on 2021-04-04, 10:54: Hi! I'm building an Mmx build like yours...I have the same mb, ct4810, trident agp and voodoo 2... can I ask you something about? Better to create your own thread.

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Re: My First(ish) Socket 370 build.

Posted on 2021-04-04, 09:55

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But it's still a nice build =) I am on the hunt for a 478 M-ATX board with a SIS chipset - I had one before and it worked great. I bought a 2GHz Northwood a while back that is 50 watts or so, and the CPU (or perhaps more importantly the board VRMs?) don't actually get that hot on my ATX 478 board. …

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Re: The Ultimate Hardware 2019 (UH19) project- a stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2021-04-03, 13:33

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Hi, question: Will there be an option to sort boards by their picture like in TH99 instead of or in addition to the motherboard names? And will there be an option to group several groups together, like for instance wanting to look for a 370 board with ISA regardless of what CPUs it supports instead …

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Re: My First(ish) Socket 370 build.

Posted on 2021-04-03, 13:19

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I've been building retro PCs since about 2016 and in the last five years I've not really messed with a Socket 370 system. I've picked up a broken Dell with a S370 that got sold as parts at some point but other than that I've always, by coincidence, found myself buying Slot 1 or Socket 478 / 462 …

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Re: New User

Posted on 2021-04-03, 12:18

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Welcome aboard! =) Trading is not allowed on these forums as this (and the people this brings in) have caused quite a lot of drama here before and imo it really helped to avoid things becoming one huge mess. Apparently user made projects are being allowed but many of those are either open source, …

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Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-03, 12:04

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What do you consider the Golden Age of computing for personal computers? For me it starts in 1977 with the release of the Apple II, Commodore Pet, and TRS-80 Model I and runs through 1999 ending in the Windows 9x era. Computers and the Operating Systems that followed put more and more software …

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Re: Is it possible to activate retail copies of Windows XP home is 2021?

Posted on 2021-04-03, 11:32

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My copy of Windows XP Home was pretty old(around 2002) and it required activation after Windows was installed. Today I decided to take out this copy and put it in my VMware; but the activation servers are down and the telephone servers are unavailable too. A friend of mine has a SP3 copy which even …

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Re: Win98SE reads as Windows ME!!! WHY???

Posted on 2021-04-01, 12:02

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I know this is a bit of a necropost but this is the thread Google found when I was looking into it. I had installed 'nusb36e.exe' for USB drive support. I edited sysdm.cpl to change 'Me' to '98' and removed the 'Disable System Restore' option. I just did it by editing the file in Notepad++, I only …

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Re: Why I do this

Posted on 2021-04-01, 11:49

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so I can play battlefield 1942 and it fits better with the Pentium 3. Maybe it's more fun to think about playing Battlefield 1942 than it is to actually play Battlefield 1942? It's usually more fun with specifically BF1942. Nothing quite beats killing yourself because you dropped a bomb then dove a …

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Re: Why I do this

Posted on 2021-04-01, 11:44

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I build a Pentium 2 450 MHz voodoo2 sli system. Then I'm like mmm, maybe I should swap the slot 1 cpu to a Pentium 3 so I get the best out of the voodoo2's. Then I'm like, maybe I should swap the matrox g200 for a GeForce 2 GTS so I can play battlefield 1942 and it fits better with the Pentium 3. …

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Re: NVidia RTX 4090

Posted on 2021-04-01, 11:09

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I already (pre-)ordered mine about an hour ago 😁

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-01, 10:25

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Finally bought a new graphics card to replace my now 7 year old aging AMD card. I especially like that I don't even need to upgrade my PSU for this card, so I save a lot of money =) Can't wait till my new card arrives! xD A review of my new Nvidia RTX 4090 can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/ …

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Re: Let's Build 3 systems together. Brainstorming needed.

Posted on 2021-03-31, 15:11

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System III Mobo: Tekram P5T30-B4E CPU: The 200MMX with Setmul will give you the best flexibility here Ram: 32MB or above, max out the 64MB if possible. Graphics: This depends on how good your S3 cards are; most have very shitty washed out and muddy output, but if you are lucky enough to have one …

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Re: Let's Build 3 systems together. Brainstorming needed.

Posted on 2021-03-31, 05:08

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My Vanta ran totally fine without a heatsink and is very similar (if not identical) to yours here. These often came without a heatsink and should run fine. You can put a cooler on there if you want to. There's a fair amount of graphics cards from that era that tended to run fairly hot (with Voodoo 3 …

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