Re: The Joy of MMX

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I have a pc with socket 7 mb, mmx Pentium at 166mhz, 64mb edo ram, mach64 and sb16 compatible isa card [...] however i am very aware that mine is fairly ordinary, i follow some mmx build here with interest and so wondered what would be the 'ultimate' pentium 1 mmx build? perhaps you have one? [...] …

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Re: I got defeated by a case

Posted on 2023-05-28, 22:59

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I don't know how relevant this is for your case (pun intended!), but I was puzzled once by a... broken switch, a stuck reset switch. Of course this can only be a possibility to consider if you are not connecting the switches when outside of the case but you are connecting them when inside it. And …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-26, 14:28

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ubiq wrote on 2023-05-25, 21:30: Did we all used to pull our desks a foot away from the wall for our CRTs to hang off? I feel like that was a thing. This was the norm back then indeed, especially since at the time many people were using way too tiny desks to do their pc stuff on 😋

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-26, 14:26

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I have a pc with socket 7 mb, mmx Pentium at 166mhz, 64mb edo ram, mach64 and sb16 compatible isa card i bought it new in 1997 and at the time was aware of the mmx hype and pleased to own one it felt (and still does) very responsive. even now with win 98 its fast, even with the non 3d video card it …

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Re: Would this be a good basis for a Vodoo 2 or Vodoo 3 system?

Posted on 2023-05-25, 12:38

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Greetings vogons. New guy from Austria here. I have been dreaming about a 3dfx System since my childhood/early teens but never could get one. I have been considering building a now retro vodoo system for quite some time already but have always postponed it due to high prices of the cards. But now I …

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Re: I got defeated by a case

Posted on 2023-05-25, 12:33

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I'd suggest putting your mobo+tray on your workbench and having the combo lean against a wall or something and then powering it up and see if it still works or then doesn't work. Don't need to have any PCI/AGP cards in for this test, just the basics (CPU + mem). I thought similarly, he can try with …

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Re: Would this be a good basis for a Vodoo 2 or Vodoo 3 system?

Posted on 2023-05-25, 08:46

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Greetings vogons. New guy from Austria here. I have been dreaming about a 3dfx System since my childhood/early teens but never could get one. I have been considering building a now retro vodoo system for quite some time already but have always postponed it due to high prices of the cards. But now I …

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Re: I got defeated by a case

Posted on 2023-05-25, 08:39

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If the above 2 are not the issue, another thing you could try is to take the mobo+tray combo outside of the case, but then not lay it flat on your testbench but holding it up horizontally and then try to start it up. It may be causes by some kind of mechanical failure somehow (cold solder joint, …

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Re: I got defeated by a case

Posted on 2023-05-25, 08:32

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mrfusion92 wrote on 2023-05-24, 21:39: I don't understand at all what it can be. A short somewhere? But the motherboard is always on the tray even outside the case. Ok, I must have overread this bit. At this point, I'd suggest to try another known working motherboard inside this case and see if it …

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Re: I got defeated by a case

Posted on 2023-05-25, 08:30

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I have this full ATX case with detachable tray where the motherboard is screwed in. So I screwed the motherboard on the tray, and then placed inside the case. Connected the power supply, a video card and... no POST with random beep codes. I'm not kidding the sequence of beeps doesn't match any …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-24, 10:37

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That's a futile dream, a collection can never ever be complete. Museums care about milestones in history, not a huge and boring collection of cheap items made by Chinosium companies to get the biggest profits they can. The reality is that your collection is only valuable to you while you are still …

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Re: Nostalgia for vintage PCs in the future

Posted on 2023-05-23, 15:11

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let's imagine someone in 2050 remembering their far away youth in the late 1990's They want to relive the past, revisit and re-experience it a little to the AI interface that is permanently present they say "I want to experience the late 1990's again, the movies and songs but especially the …

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Re: Your favourite coop games for dos and windows 98?

Posted on 2023-05-22, 23:03

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Could also have a look at Get Medieval, if that is your kind of game. No shortage of enemies to slay 😋 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb7dDaeOji0

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Re: Your favourite coop games for dos and windows 98?

Posted on 2023-05-22, 19:17

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DOS coop usually meant you'd have to share your keyboard with the other, or one had to use a keyboard and the other a joystick. ut is a good one. Total Annihilation can also be played vs bots and it should still have good mod support though I do not know if these modern mods are still compatible …

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Re: General advice for building first retro gaming pc

Posted on 2023-05-22, 19:02

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This is kind of showcasing one issue with asking for 'general advice' with retro PC building. You'll get pulled everywhere with suggestions based on so many people's experiences. In either case, any of the suggested builds over the past 6 pages should do you well. Lots of choice and options, it …

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Re: Are prices for retro hardware slowly coming down?

Posted on 2023-05-22, 11:38

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video just increases interest in old hardware I doubt that. Like I said, majority of interested people tend to pay more interest to game stuff an not ugly gray boxes from 90s. That also applies to old consoles. Because emulation is more convenient. Because it's the fastest P3 you can build? PIII …

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Re: Are prices for retro hardware slowly coming down?

Posted on 2023-05-22, 11:26

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PCemu. Is a great curiosity, but most retro enthusiasts want to feel the physical hardware, so PCemu can only marginally reduce the target market, nothing more. I’d imagine that the biggest driver to currently reduced prices is the cost of living crisis being faced by most western nations due to …

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Re: Bought a couple of systems to try and get back into retro/old computers!

Posted on 2023-05-20, 12:29

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Well, my first system came in finally. This is the Gateway 2000 GP6-400 system with a PII 400MHz. Started it up and had to install the integrated sound card drivers, then started having BSOD, Windows Protection Error's. Tried formatting the HDD and could only get to 20% then it would freeze. Tried …

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Re: What ATX case is this?

Posted on 2023-05-20, 12:22

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That plastic shroud on the side is even named on that page, as the Optional Vortex Air Duct. Info like that is easiest to get lost in time.

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Re: What ATX case is this?

Posted on 2023-05-20, 12:19

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pan069 wrote on 2023-05-20, 03:12: It's this one, right? https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811108420 Not this one, but it put me on the right track. OPs case looks like an In Win C583 Link: https://www.in-win.com/en/computer-chassis/c-series/APAC

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