Re: Annoying eBay snipers....

Posted on 2013-03-24, 01:20

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by Markk

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First off, you cannot just "retract" your bid. You can only retract a bid with the agreement of the seller. I repeat that I watched a friend of mine doing this over a year ago. He used to search in help for "retract bid", and found a form where he would enter the auction number, and that would …

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Re: Annoying eBay snipers....

Posted on 2013-03-23, 16:01

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It's been over a year since I saw that happening live, but I think that it wasn't like that. Perhaps there's a difference if the other bidder bids $51 in the beggining, or keeps raising by $1 or any other small amount each time. After all it makes sense not to go back to 0.99. Your maximum bid was …

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Re: Annoying eBay snipers....

Posted on 2013-03-23, 00:13

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I think he's talking about somebody else's bid being retracted, not his own. If the other person is constantly raising the price until he is the highest bidder ($51) and then retract it, the closing price will be the highest bid of the first bidder. I've seen it be done by a friend of mine just to …

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Re: Looking for 486 PCI Motherboard

Posted on 2013-03-22, 18:36

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by Markk

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The last one is only for Pentium CPUs, not 486. My vote goes to the Gigabyte board.

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Re: IDE to ATA-FLASH Card Reader

Posted on 2013-03-18, 22:45

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by Markk

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Try running FDISK, and delete the second partition. Create a new one and a logical drive and see if it works

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Re: SIMM Ram not detected

Posted on 2013-03-15, 18:46

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by Markk

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As far as I knoıw, you cannot make use of upper memory with a line of "EMM386.EXE RAM". I think that emm386 is essential in order to access the upper memory area. No matter if the switch used is RAM or NOEMS or a specific amount. If you need EMS, you're probably going to use the RAM switch. If you …

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Re: SIMM Ram not detected

Posted on 2013-03-15, 10:09

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Did you add dos=high on config.sys ? It seems that dos is taking up too much conventional memory. On my Pentium PC after running memmaker dos takes just 17kb. In total I have 615kb free. I would suggest to run memmaker again. Choose Custom Setup in the beginning, choose yes on EMS memory, and try …

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Re: SIMM Ram not detected

Posted on 2013-03-14, 23:51

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by Markk

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Jorpho wrote: The CONFIG.SYS has DOS=UMB. It should be DOS=HIGH,UMB, and it probably has to be on the second line, after HIMEM but before EMM386. +1

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Re: SIMM Ram not detected

Posted on 2013-03-14, 21:45

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That's a little strange. Type mem /c /p on the dos prompt, just to see what's taking up so much memory. Also you can try another memory manager like QEMM. Back in those days that I was using it, I remember having free up to 634kb of conventional memory.

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Re: SIMM Ram not detected

Posted on 2013-03-14, 19:40

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by Markk

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Run memmaker first and check how much conventional memory would be available after optimizing. 518kb is somewhat low for most programs.

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Re: Comparing the Roland SC-55 vs Yamaha DB50XG

Posted on 2013-03-14, 15:18

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The best way to play Monkey Island on a Yamaha daughterboard is to use Scummvm . It sounds great that way. If you play it on DOS, it sounds weird, indeed.

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Re: help getting soundcard (ES1869) working windows 98SE

Posted on 2013-03-14, 09:14

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Yes, just tried it, all games seem to work fine in DOS mode (except for aladdin perhaps, forgot to try it though) Aladdin on my PC won't work on DOS mode (or even in DOS 6.22), displaying "XMS allocation error". I found that this is happening if the system has more than 32MB RAM. I have 64, so in …

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2013-03-13, 09:04

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vidymary Post 298190

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Re: Turbo Button and LED MHz Display

Posted on 2013-03-11, 10:34

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by Markk

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There's also another way. The turbo led is connected directly to the small pcb of the display, and then only the display is connected to the turbo switch header on the board. Depending on the state of the switch it will light the led. I guess it has to do with the design of the display.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-03-09, 14:18

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A process used to revert the yellowing of old plastic parts. Read here for more info : http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-03-09, 13:47

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That case reminds me a lot. I have a school mate whose dad owns a computer shop near my house, and used to sell those cases. I had bought one for the pentium 100 pc I had. Later I gave it to a friend who sold it... Last year I was given an identical case for free, but it was very yellowed. I tried …

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Re: Old fart topic: What was your hardware specs in 1992?

Posted on 2013-03-09, 13:41

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by Markk

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The result was quite creepy. Do you remember some key combinations was doing weird things to the game, like ctrl+L, ctrl+K, etc. One of the combinations was making everything but the prince invisible. I mean a balck screen with only the prince himself ovisible n it. After finishing the game and …

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Re: Old PC socket 7

Posted on 2013-03-05, 12:55

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by Markk

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Perhaps you should try a cd-rom driver specifically for LG, just in case. I've had problems in the past regarding cd-rom drives not recognized by the oak driver, but I think they were made by toshiba(not sure, though). I'm attaching a zip file with the installation disk of a LG cd-rom.

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Re: Mi future 486...hopefully!

Posted on 2013-03-04, 10:07

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by Markk

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Yes, I've used such a card in the past successfully. If it doesn't boot, like the CF cards don't sometimes when bought new, I just wipe them using the clearhdd utility( which I've attached here). Then all you have to do is create a new partition and format it.

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Re: Place your bets :D

Posted on 2013-03-03, 02:05

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by Markk

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Bear it with pride, Markk! http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120229014134/elderscrolls/images/thumb/2/24/StaffWabbajack.png/250px-StaffWabbajack.png Thank you very much! I feel a little embarrassed, as I had no clue about your gift. I had to google it, in order to find out what it is. I saw …

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