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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2012-01-21, 21:43

in Milliways
A little time ago i was searching for old games and i found a person selling a large amount of games cheap . It turned out that the seller wanted to get rid of the games without throwing them in the trash . I only wanted a few of the games but the seller just wanted to get rid of it in one go , in …

Re: Finally it is done my 486 build

Posted on 2012-01-16, 22:10

The build was not easy but it was really rewarding to be able to be able to finish it after all those years ! :blush: However there are a few issues with the rig . Issue 1 : i can't get the serial ports to work with my 2 serial mice (cutemouse gives me no device found) i am using a ps/2 mouse right …

Re: Finally it is done my 486 build

Posted on 2012-01-15, 13:31

The fun thing is that the case has all the holes and mounting points for the LCD so if i had a LCD that would fit i could mount it on the case . Well about the cache , that is not something i am comfortable with (as i do not have the massive amount of experience and electronic skills that most of …

Re: Finally it is done my 486 build

Posted on 2012-01-15, 01:22

@ Mau1wurf1977 One of the reasons it took so long is that i got discouraged a few times and put the project on hold , the other reason is that it is REALLY hard to find 486 parts here in the The Netherlands . @ Tetrium Yea it would be better if i did add a fan the problem is that i only have one fan …

Finally it is done my 486 build

Posted on 2012-01-14, 22:36

The rig i build is basically a replacement for my 486DX2 that died due to a leaking battery years ago . Getting the parts was a good bit of work but i managed to get everything except the motherboard for free . The motherboard took me years to find locally and the first 2 i got my hands on were …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2012-01-14, 13:29

Hehe funny, duke nukem 2 actually seems to use the 16 color mode and changes the palette. It doesn't work in ega mode since you only have 16 colors in ega mode due to it's cga monitor compatibility for lowres modes. Didn't the EGA standard have a palette of 64 and a maximum of 16 colours on screen …

Re: Advice needed for Win98 gaming pc

Posted on 2011-08-30, 14:44

in PC Emulation
Thanks for the help everyone So the g200 is going to be replaced with a v3 for sure . Perhaps i'll replace the sb64pci and the CPU depending on the performance of the system but i doubt it , like Tetrium said may as well build a new rig then

Re: Advice needed for Win98 gaming pc

Posted on 2011-08-28, 17:53

in PC Emulation
Ok , so do the Voodoo3 and the TNT2 have specific quirks and what are the pro's and con's of the cards ? It's a sound blaster 64 pci , i already feared that it was not that good of a card . So what is a nice sound card for this rig ? The AWE 64 has good dos support but the Live! has EAX , decisions …

Advice needed for Win98 gaming pc

Posted on 2011-08-28, 14:27

in PC Emulation
Hi everyone i need some advice . I'm building a Win98SE rig aimed at the year 1999 . the current specs are : Asus P2-99 motherboard with intel 440ZX chipset Pentium 3 450 MHz 512 MB ram (i think it's pc 100) Matrox G200 sound blaster 64 I'm thinking about replacing the G200 with a TNT2 or Voodoo3 …

Re: The Mystery -5V Rail

Posted on 2011-08-17, 22:34

in PC Emulation
Sorry for digging this up but what was the -5 volt line used for ? All i know is that it's used by some isa cards. Can i use this motherboard without the -5 line safely ? Also that were to happen if i accidentally put in a isa card that used the -5 line ?

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