Re: School PC with D850EMV2 MoBo,P4 2.4gz,Radeon 7000, Best OS & Games?

Posted on Today, 10:18

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by chinny22

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Mostly it works just like XP, so you can set compatibility mode though the shortcut just like XP. But for the most part the games just work, only ones I own that don't are: Need for Speed 3, 4, Porsche (XP patches may fix this, I've never really tried and just play in 98) Return Fire, Early Win95 …

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Re: what cool retro thing would mean little to you?

Posted on Today, 10:02

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by chinny22

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386 and below, Our first PC was a 486 so have no nostalgia for anything earlier. It would be fun to tinker with earlier machines but would never really appreciate it for what it is. GUS is actually high on my wish list but not for the prices they sell for. I put them in the same category as say …

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Re: My Dual Socket XP Build

Posted on Today, 09:36

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by chinny22

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I also had G5 with FB DIMMs but cooling FB-DIMM was hell it was running at 75 C° and more some times.. with all Banks fully equipped. Yeh both this and the G5 have active cooling over the ram slots and heatsinks on the ram itself!? When I first saw that I thought it's a bit overkill from HP not …

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Re: EU votes for Right to Repair

Posted on Yesterday, 16:09

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by chinny22

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They attempt, they succeed, the game goes on as normal. But if they fail, it's not Apples fault the consumer failed to do so and also void the warranty in the process. But your already exercising your right to repair!? https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=868458#p868458 "We have a 2009 24-inch …

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Re: Doom not properly working on 486DX-66 PC running Dos 5.0

Posted on Yesterday, 15:39

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by chinny22

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delete everything on one of your floppies, to do this type from a dos prompt: format a: /q unzip the dosbench_v_1.4_jan_2017.zip file to a temp location on a hard drive say c:\temp Open c:\temp\marks\speedsys copy these 2 files to the floppy disk may as well copy the 3 files from c:\temp\marks\ …

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Re: EU votes for Right to Repair

Posted on Yesterday, 14:39

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by chinny22

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Couch? as in sofa? As in no formal qualifications/ self taught and openly admit not a trained expert We wouldn't stand for such nonsense in other areas. Imagine having to go to a GM- or Volkswagen-approved re-filling station, because they were the only ones with the custom tool to open the fuel …

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Re: What are the best retro ISA and PCI slot network cards?

Posted on Yesterday, 13:05

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by chinny22

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Good idea! I have a small stack of network cards, but never tried anything else than Realtek cards in DOS. They "just work" but I have no idea how these compare to other cards. We could make a "benchmark" list or something with transfer speed and memory requirements of each card! Do all Realtek …

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Re: AWE64 Gold Driver on Audigy 2 ZS Card

Posted on Yesterday, 12:57

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by chinny22

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No, ISA and PCI are very different things for dos. In fact Create never succeeded in creating their own dos PCI driver, instead they purchased Ensonic and used the ones they created. Audigy 2 ZS can be made to work in dos with modified Audigy 1 drivers, Compatibility is so-so http://www. …

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Re: My Dual Socket XP Build

Posted on 2020-11-30, 13:10

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by chinny22

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I used to work for the IT department of a printing plant a few years ago. I have never seen computers collecting more dust and dirt than those near the printing presses... So yeah, I can relate. Yeh most guys in my company hate working there coming home filthy. I on the other hand I saw the pile of …

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Re: Wanted to share my ultimate Pentium 1 system

Posted on 2020-11-30, 12:34

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by chinny22

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Not sure what I think about the case design with the bulge and buttons above the CD drive, I don't hate it, not sure I like it but its definitely interesting. Agree dos/Win3x is much better match, simply basically it matches BIOS. I also thought this was really cool when I first came across it. But …

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Re: Doom not properly working on 486DX-66 PC running Dos 5.0

Posted on 2020-11-30, 12:25

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by chinny22

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Hey, I'm not usually active over weekends. Each benchmark lives within the Marks folder in Phils pack. You should be able to copy majority of them over in 3 disk's (or same disk wiped after each copy) if you exclude doom and quake folders. Speedsys will be interesting as that'll show how your cache …

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My Dual Socket XP Build

Posted on 2020-11-26, 17:29

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by chinny22

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Ok so working from home has it's benefits. One of these is having my MP3 library playing in the background. What I've since discovered is having an old PC's on for 9hrs pumps out a lot of heat, even if just playing music, who would have thought right? I decided that I was putting unnecessary hours …

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Re: AMD DX4 100MHz build

Posted on 2020-11-26, 14:07

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by chinny22

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Just watched Pt 3 of your video, 100% agree re networking is an overlooked god send for majority of builds. I'll be pointing future newcomers to your video as it makes a nice simple how-to guide covering both superior ftp but the much more fun SMB options. Just a thought re your NAS. Have you set up …

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Re: hdd replacment - sd card, cf card or scsi

Posted on 2020-11-26, 13:58

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by chinny22

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Sorry yes you are 100% correct and I am wrong re the scsi card. I'm just too used to old adaptec cards and the like, I tend to forget about these new aspi based cards With windows if all drives were equal then wouldn't be much benefit of windows on another drive but windows will benefit been put on …

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Re: Anyone English Based Members here?

Posted on 2020-11-26, 11:48

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by chinny22

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That's a possibility. I see you are very active on here and that's a positive. Where are you based? I am just North of the North Yorkshire Moors, just where North Yorkshire ends. I have left messages with a few YouTubers so will just see if any are interested. If not I could get some photos and see …

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Re: Windows 98 and DOS Question

Posted on 2020-11-26, 11:23

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by chinny22

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Also another question, for the CuteMouse directories, do I only need the bin folder and not doc or source, those are not needed I am pretty sure, it seems that the bin has the important stuff like ctmouse.exe and a couple .com files. You don't even need the folder, just ctmouse.exe the rest is more …

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Re: hdd replacment - sd card, cf card or scsi

Posted on 2020-11-26, 10:42

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by chinny22

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thank you so far for advice and comments i did cross my mind to keep the old seagate drive for the sounds and slight nostalgia and use a cf/sd/scsi card/adapter for performance increase on games where this build meets the requirements no issues but doesn't preform well as i said pure dos is ok (so …

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Re: What is the loudest hard drive you have???

Posted on 2020-11-26, 09:59

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by chinny22

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This is mine, jump to 1:00 if you want to skip right to the offending drive https://youtu.be/Y_ztYj80HSY When that video was made the last 3 HDD's were 18GB Seagate Cheetah ST318203LC so the drive before gives an idea how noisy it should be. I'm not bothered by fan/HDD noise for the most part. but …

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Re: School PC with D850EMV2 MoBo,P4 2.4gz,Radeon 7000, Best OS & Games?

Posted on 2020-11-25, 11:36

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by chinny22

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Yep think your spot on with OS's Either a killer 9x machine or early-ish XP system I've a S478 98/XP dual boot machine, it's best use is running games like GTA3 in the more stable XP. That said I'll admit I still prefer 9x gaming on my P3, it has more nostalgia and prefer the S775 for XP with where …

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Re: Anyone English Based Members here?

Posted on 2020-11-25, 11:16

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by chinny22

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I'm not a blogger or anything but I'm willing to collect and redistribute in my spare time. Car could do with a good stretch and I've benefited from others offloading old hardware so good opportunity to give back to the community.

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