Re: NEC Proserva V Plus (dual socket 7 system) (have a lead on multiple of these)

Posted on 2019-11-07, 11:55

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by chinny22

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Think my interest would be in a fully kitted (spare?) board only, as while I'd love a full unit I suspect cost + shipping to Europe would be unrealistic - if not then as long as such neat kit get saved by you guys I'm happy. Weight is from here https://web.archive.org/web/19970517193830/http://www. …

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Re: Culling the herd

Posted on 2019-11-07, 09:27

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by chinny22

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Keep whichever is your childhood 486. When deciding if I want to use my my childhood dx2/66 or the 5x86 the dx2 wins 9 out of 10 times. Never underestimate Nostalgia. You can always keep the CPU and swap between the dx4 or 5x86 depending on how you feel at the time. And system 2, the 486 is your " …

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Re: advice for Retro Rigs

Posted on 2019-11-06, 17:36

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by chinny22

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As you already have the Sata to IDE converter I would try that first. The benefit of these are no drivers needed as far as the PC and windows knows its a standard IDE drive. Negative is still limited to the motherboard BIOS limit (8GB?) Just plug in a large disk and see what BIOS comes up with and …

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Re: Installing win98 games on NAS?

Posted on 2019-11-06, 14:14

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by chinny22

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Nobody mentioned yet that for many (if not most) windows games you can't just point a shortcut to the installation folder and play. Installation does additional things like registry keys, try to copy an installation folder from a computer to another and see for yourself. Some games will work, many …

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Re: NEC Proserva V Plus (dual socket 7 system) (have a lead on multiple of these)

Posted on 2019-11-06, 13:49

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by chinny22

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Ah man would go nice with my duel PPro from last years haul. Damn the Atlantic!

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Re: Choosing The Right Open-Casing for Retro P3/Celeron Slot1

Posted on 2019-11-06, 13:35

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by chinny22

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This? It was good enough for google

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Re: Win95 OSR 2.1/2.5 Install ERROR Message

Posted on 2019-11-06, 13:17

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by chinny22

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One of the earlier replies already linked Nathan's page, but I'll give you a more direct link below: http://toastytech.com/evil/lab.html#rem95 Here he lists all the files that are in fact unnecessary, if you modify for installation without IE. Just remember that if you remove the files, you need to …

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Re: OldNewThing: What happened if you tried to access a network file bigger than 2GB from MS-DOS?

Posted on 2019-11-06, 12:32

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by chinny22

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Then create an array of 100 drives, which would put you at $180,000. Though you could probably get a bulk discount. Loved that line, would almost justify the expense

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Re: Building a Windows 98 Pentium III NOS PC

Posted on 2019-11-06, 12:20

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by chinny22

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What games you planning on running? Lack of AGP is definitely a bottleneck but that may not matter depending on the games. Soundmax will just be a generic AC97 codec. Fine for basic office tasks but not something I'd personally want to use on a games rig. I don't know, to me it seems the motherboard …

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Re: Where to get Windows 98/95 versions of older games?

Posted on 2019-11-06, 12:04

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by chinny22

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always worth checking out 2nd hand shops. Prices can be dirt cheap compared to ebay if your not in a rush for something

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Re: Dual Pentium Pro build questions

Posted on 2019-11-06, 11:25

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by chinny22

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I'm assuming you know about this The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018 I have no idea what if anything is left but you can try sending liqmat a PM.

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Re: Command & Conquer Remaster 2D 4k gameplay

Posted on 2019-11-06, 11:15

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by chinny22

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kiss slap scene/ seth blown away / "REAL FUNNY TOUGH GUY REAL FUNNY HERE YOU GO" All Classic's :) Just read the post about the music, where they are including both versions with and without vocals. I agree they seem to actually deliver what people want. I'll hold judgement till its released …

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Re: Installing win98 games on NAS?

Posted on 2019-11-06, 10:53

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by chinny22

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So if I understand the "problem" you want to avoid having to install your games on multiple PC's? Another, simpler option is to use a 2nd HDD in each PC and clone this onto all of you systems. You will still have problems with games that read settings from eh registry as only the initial PC will …

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Re: Does the maximum Windows 98SE HDD size apply to partitions?

Posted on 2019-10-24, 08:35

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by chinny22

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what about external usb drives using the nusb stack? i've got a 500gb external hdd which has 7 x 32gb FAT32 partitions and one big NTFS partition. will i have problems after the 4th partition where the size gets over the limit? i haven't noticed anything strange (yet) and i've swapped this drive …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-23, 15:47

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by chinny22

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i love your netscape avatar Aw thanks :) I actually got really frustrated at work and sat down to create it to get my mind off things, glad someone liked it. It was hard to get it down to <64KB but dropping half the frames did the trick without much compression :) must admit, I usually watch it for …

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Re: LGA 775 CPU compatibility

Posted on 2019-10-23, 15:39

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by chinny22

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That's an interesting page but I'm not entirely sure all the info is accurate. That is to say, my AsRock 775i65G, not the R2.0 or R3.0 and for sure on paper and on the Asrock site it states it only supports Pentium D or lower. That said, it has Conroe Celeron 420 in it and it POSTs at least. That's …

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Re: For *only* 2002-2006 era games any benefit to Win Xp 64-bit over 32-bit?

Posted on 2019-10-23, 15:35

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by chinny22

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I think whats confusing some (if thats the right word) is the 2 goals in 1. People that are building period correct machines aren't worried about playing games of the era optimally, If anything the PC will be closer to optimal for games a few years older. Likewise people who are building PC's to run …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-23, 10:49

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by chinny22

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I'll do the same with 7, keep it up to date, change to some free but decent antivirus (just using Microsoft's ATM, no doubt that'll complain once it goes EOL) Windows Defender on Vista is still receiving definition updates, even though Vista doesn't. The same may happen to Win7. Good to know! I …

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Re: P5PE-VM dying - advice on new 775 mobo?

Posted on 2019-10-23, 10:39

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by chinny22

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Posted to this lots today! https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=50665#p537820 Socket 775 has been out of production for quite a while now but you can still find NOS if you look. I got this Jan last year, any Asus branding was covered in Permanent marker on the board itself so when I asked the …

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Re: LGA 775 CPU compatibility

Posted on 2019-10-23, 10:29

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by chinny22

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Double check your motherboard against the list here, MB's like the AsRock 775i65GV have issues with their AGP port https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=50665#p537820 Re the CPU, as long as the motherboard supports it so should Windows as its a case of windows simply been to "dumb" to …

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