Re: Amiga 500 600 or 1200

Posted on 2011-08-20, 23:35

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by beepfish

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

ermm... thanks for the replies to my long dead thread.:lol: in the meantime i've had a 500+ [yuk, battery leaks] and a 1200hd. for the 1200 i used whdload and a pcmcia ethernet card, though to get the amiga setup in the first place i had to use an old win95 486 to write floppies. as i recall. long …

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Re: Better OpenGL PCI video card

Posted on 2011-03-18, 18:31

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by beepfish

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The best OpenGL game cards are NV. I guess that's probably true as I've seen it stated in plenty of places. But I have found that that a Wildcat VP870 will run glquake at 1600x1200 when anything else [nvidia or ati] just crashes out or infact crashes the OS. It seems bizarre, but it's my experience …

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celeron 1ghz => tualatin 1.4

Posted on 2011-03-02, 19:38

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by beepfish

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Here's what I've put together so far, really just for playing quake 1-3 but maybe a few old dos games too. The wildcat card seems pretty good so far - I was reminded of this card by a post someone made here, it's not a gaming card but it does glquake smoothly at 1600x1200 when my other cards [even a …

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Re: COPYING TEXT FROM A DOSBox WINDOW to the Clipboard

Posted on 2011-02-28, 07:24

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by beepfish

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

If it ran in xp, would it run using a microsoft virtual machine for xp? In which case you might be able to cut and paste.

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Re: fast micro-atx board with an isa slot?

Posted on 2011-02-22, 11:07

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by beepfish

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One thing I have found a bit irksome with that chaintech board is the positioning of the front panel pinout right behind the isa slot. Will have to work out a means of connecting the on/off switch horizontally or I'm limited to cards no longer than the slot. I did wonder about using wake-on-lan …

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Re: DOS/4GW Transfer stack overflow - warcraft orcs and humans on 98SE

Posted on 2011-02-16, 17:27

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by beepfish

in DOS

in DOS

dos32a did the trick...many thanks!

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Re: DOS/4GW Transfer stack overflow - warcraft orcs and humans on 98SE

Posted on 2011-02-16, 17:00

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by beepfish

in DOS

in DOS

Yes I have a real CD, bought from a retailer years ago. I've got all the memory sizes set to auto in the pif. The program runs ok if I exit to dos, but not from within 98se either by clicking the pif icon or by running the .exe from a dos prompt. I'll look for this dos32a you mention.

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DOS/4GW Transfer stack overflow - warcraft orcs and humans on 98SE

Posted on 2011-02-16, 15:59

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by beepfish

in DOS

in DOS

Bit of an odd error. I have a system based around a Chaintech 6VIA5T motherboard. I have a vortex2 SuperQuad soundcard with a MIDI daughterboard. Windows 98SE. The vortex2 is emulating an sb pro and has its midi port at 330. I can select DOS midi as "wavetable" for the daughterboard or "mpu401" for …

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Re: fast micro-atx board with an isa slot?

Posted on 2011-01-14, 21:11

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by beepfish

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm in the uk. The board is from an NEC Powermate VL4, it's an N4-IBFGL v1.6(GV). Feel free to PM me if interested.

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Re: fast micro-atx board with an isa slot?

Posted on 2011-01-14, 19:16

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by beepfish

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Manual sent. Please check your email. Great, I've got it - thanks again :happyhappy:. So far the installation seems fine - I hacked the NEC case connector apart and fitted the wires on individually. System boots ok, I've installed 98SE and the only devices not found are the graphics and network …

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Re: fast micro-atx board with an isa slot?

Posted on 2011-01-14, 16:16

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by beepfish

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Heh, I was just about to post that same diagram. I found it just looking with a generic search for "Chaintech front panel pinout". It was in a manual for one of their S478 boards. Oh, and for future reference, a trial-and-error method won't really hurt anything, worst case. I've had boards where I …

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Re: fast micro-atx board with an isa slot?

Posted on 2011-01-14, 15:56

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by beepfish

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That was quick! Many many thanks, but can I ask where you found it?

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Re: fast micro-atx board with an isa slot?

Posted on 2011-01-14, 15:08

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by beepfish

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Motherboard has arrived, got it installed into the case but... no manual of course, and I cannot see how to connect it to the case switch. The board doesn't have anything helpful silkscreened onto it near what I am guessing are the pins for the power switch and led's. All it says is things like R20, …

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Re: fast micro-atx board with an isa slot?

Posted on 2011-01-10, 17:46

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by beepfish

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In the end I have bought a Chaintech socket 370 model 6VIA5T. Yet to arrive. Apparently it can run at 133mhz so it shouldn't be celeron-only.

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fast micro-atx board with an isa slot?

Posted on 2010-11-17, 18:38

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by beepfish

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What would be a fast cpu/board with an ISA slot that is also windows 98 compatible? An agp slot would be nice but not imperative. Would I be looking at a p3 system?

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Re: A radical decision, for sale, a LOT of vintage sound stuff

Posted on 2010-09-23, 19:27

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by beepfish

in Milliways

in Milliways

i didnt get a PM 🙁

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Re: A radical decision, for sale, a LOT of vintage sound stuff

Posted on 2010-09-23, 06:40

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by beepfish

in Milliways

in Milliways

Interested in the following: could you give me prices and approximate shipping costs for these individually please [to the uk]? - Gravis UltraSound Max (boxed) - Gravis UltraSound ACE (boxed) - Roland MPU-401AT (boxed) - Roland SCP-55 + MCB3 break-out box (boxed) - Roland LAPC-I, shielded Op-Amp …

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p4 with 3 pci: graphics cards?

Posted on 2010-08-10, 20:48

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by beepfish

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've got an NEC Powermate VL4: P4 2.6 512mb ram i845 chipset [intel extreme graphics, ac 97 sound] 3 pci slots What graphics cards would you recommend as either interesting or a good match?

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AT psu standards - how far back?

Posted on 2010-07-08, 06:51

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by beepfish

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

486 motherboards I have come across use and AT psu plug. How far back was this used - right back to ATs? Do 386 boards use AT plugged-psu's? What about 286's? I am guessing they might as the AT was an IBM 286 machine so presumably it's where the psu standard originated. But did the XT use the same …

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using compaq and dell 386 or 486 boards

Posted on 2010-07-08, 06:42

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by beepfish

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In the uk, ebay doesn't often have 386 or 486 boards, except for one seller who regularly has compaq boards [and maybe dells, i'm not sure]. I was wondering if these are straightorward to use as the basis of a retro pc. Or do they use proprietary fittings? I saw a reference to compaq psu's somewhere …

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