Re: Joystick recommendations

Posted on 2023-09-21, 03:51

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by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've a Flightstick Pro but most of the CH range was considered pretty good. Anything here from the mid 90's onwards would be ok I'd think. http://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Manufacturers/chproducts.php

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Re: phases of vintage computer interest

Posted on 2023-09-21, 03:46

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by chinny22

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I've definitely got too many machines. I've only got 4 in regular use for dos, 9x, XP and modern gaming. yet I've another 2 dos, 3 Win9x, 2 XP builds not to mention my retro servers and most these PC's dual boot. but I remember before having "backup" machines when I'd want to play Need for Speed and …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-09-21, 03:16

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Love the sound old Conner's of that era made

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Re: Actual value of some bits on the interrupt status register on the ES1371

Posted on 2023-09-20, 04:52

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by chinny22

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Very interesting. I've only got ES1373 based cards and while no doubting they are a budget card compared to a Live! which are just as cheap now. They aren't as terrible as everyone makes out and often overlooked.

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Re: Finally doing it.

Posted on 2023-09-20, 04:18

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by chinny22

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Looks to be a well thought out build. Even 1GB is enough to confuse windows setup but sounds like your already aware of this and the work arounds. Persaonnly I'd of gone with a SATA drive. Pretty sure BIOS has the option to set SATA to compatibility mode basically turning it into an IDE drive as far …

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Re: phases of vintage computer interest

Posted on 2023-09-20, 04:02

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by chinny22

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Overall I break it down to only 2 phases. Software - In the mood to mess around with an old OS or play a certain game. Hardware - upgrading or building a new PC. Most my retro PC's are permanently setup so when I'm in the "software" phase and feel like a game of Doom I can simply turn on the 486, If …

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Re: Building a 486 VLB system

Posted on 2023-09-08, 07:08

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've 3 486's DX2/66 VLB, It's my childhood PC and the stereotypical 486. POD 83 VLB, due to it missing 3.3v, haven't had any issues. 586 133 PCI, my "late" 486 I can't think of any games that work on the faster machines that don't work on the DX2. It's true some of the larger levels in Doom aren't …

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Re: Dual Pentium 133: what to use it for?

Posted on 2023-09-05, 07:06

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dual socket systems are more for playing with then on. Could be fun to install NT4 or Windows 2000 and try out which of your games do and don't work. I've a similar era dual PPro system that I play around with NT3.51 just for fun but can boot into Win98 for dos/windows gaming and the 2nd CPU just …

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Re: 600MHZ Gaming PC - Complete Rebuild

Posted on 2023-09-05, 06:53

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I really like my P3 600, it plays a good 90% of my games. Most dos games are fine, as are Win9x games that don't like XP I do have faster P3's but really 600 is just fine

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Re: A Kick-Ass Dual 3.8GHz NetBurst Xeon Build

Posted on 2023-09-05, 06:49

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ System Specs

SLI and SMP I love the way you think!

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Re: Which harddrive solution for a fast 486 system

Posted on 2023-09-04, 07:01

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Good choice, nothing better than the sound of spinning rust in old PC's like this!

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Re: Need Some Guidance for Building a Dual Boot Win98/WinXP

Posted on 2023-09-04, 06:59

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm going to assume your dad is more interested in the games then the hardware running them. Also the 2 games you mention are RTS which are not as demanding as 3D shooters or driving games so it may well be an underpowered late XP graphics card doesn't really matter. I'd also check Steam out first …

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Re: How to contribute to Vogons Drivers?

Posted on 2023-09-04, 06:37

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by chinny22

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Vogons drivers is a spinoff of vogons proper VOGONS Driver Library As your new you can post the drivers or links to the drivers in the above link and someone with an account can upload for you as well

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Re: What can I do with a Pentium 2 400 mhz?

Posted on 2023-08-29, 04:25

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Slot 1 system makes for a great late dos/Win9x System. The CPU doesn't make much difference for dos side of things but will increase how many 9x games are playable. Anything but the slowest Slot 1 CPU is already crazy fast for dos and as already mentioned P2's are tricker to slow down then say a …

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Re: DOS/Windows 3.11 (WFW) CDROM Sound Issues

Posted on 2023-08-28, 02:24

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by chinny22

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in DOS

Windows requires sound drivers of it's own. When using the original SB16 drivers it has a check box to install windows and dos drivers. I haven't used Unisound so not sure if this is an option or if it's even supported? Alternatively you can use a dos cd player in windows as this will fall back onto …

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Re: Resurrecting a Compaq Presarrio 4110

Posted on 2023-08-28, 01:55

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Very cool, I've also still got the families very first PC. A 486/DX2 66. I've only got the PC itself and keyboard though, everythng else has been lost to time. I couldn't bring myself to upgrade the CPU, etc. I figure it's all part of the nostalgia now. I kept spinning rust for c:\ as the sound of …

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Re: reliable floppy

Posted on 2023-08-25, 02:58

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Don't think I've ever had a Mitsumi drive die on me. The one in my very first PC back in '95 is still going strong and that got some heavy use with disks taken to school and back in my far from clean school bag. Sony also seemed to be good quality. These days I'd say good disks are harder to find …

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Re: Can a CD drive's audio be connected to two sound cards at the same time?

Posted on 2023-08-25, 02:22

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ Sound

Cant see why not, it's just an analoge "out" signal

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Re: Help - How to get Soundblaster Live SB0410 working in Win 98

Posted on 2023-08-24, 05:32

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ Sound

This guy thinks he got it working with a bit of persuading. https://msfn.org/board/topic/152729-help-find … comment-1142567

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Re: hp vectra e-pc 42: Can't replace CD-ROM with literally any other drive while still having the ability to boot from i

Posted on 2023-08-24, 05:17

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The thing is a normal D510 SFF will accept any old drive and basically the same size. I guess given the E-PC is a low cost variant they were making sure once warranty was over a sale of a new PC was "secured"

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