Re: Curious about world first ATX motherboard and case
Posted on 2013-01-16, 01:25
Is this a rhetorical question?
Amstrad Mega PC - anyone got one / had one?
Posted on 2013-01-09, 04:38
I noticed this ad in a local computer magazine (from 1993) and am impressed - a 386SX25 AND a Sega Mega drive in one! There's a review included too and apparently it worked pretty well. Did anyone here have one? At 2000 bucks I'd say that was a pretty good deal at the time. http://i1096.photobucket. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-01-06, 02:07
Artex, this isn't the first time you post pictures of hardware,but they are gems as always. I don't know where you're getting it all from, but keep it up :) Thanks!! LOTS of searching. :) Wow I love that gateway. Do you have the missing 5.25" panel for the front of the case? It's such a pain to …
Re: A Pentium III Windows 98 build to complete the gang.
Posted on 2013-01-06, 02:01
Edit:Your CPU cooler looks a little bit on the light side for a 1Ghz Pentium 3 though, hope it won't cause you any problems. Is that a Pentium 1 cooler? The box the cooler came in does say "socket 370" on it but yes they fit a socket 7 too - I use the same on on the Pentium 166. Maybe the …
Re: A Pentium III Windows 98 build to complete the gang.
Posted on 2013-01-05, 11:51
But the more I think about it I might just go with a test bench setup for easy swapping parts, because that's really what I enjoy the most :) I'd like to get a test bench setup at some stage too, it is fun to benchmark this old stuff and see what works with what. The SS7 stuff is great, very …
Re: A Pentium III Windows 98 build to complete the gang.
Posted on 2013-01-05, 11:47
Do you have a shed or something to keep all this in? Yeah I have a huge shed so I can store them out of the way easily which makes all the difference. No way I would get away with having all this stuff in the house, my wife would have my balls in a jar! Like you say though getting the time to play …
A Pentium III Windows 98 build to complete the gang.
Posted on 2013-01-05, 09:48
After years of collecting parts and testing different configurations, I've been finding myself finalising my various retro PC's lately, and after tracking down a decent ATX case for my Pentium III, I'm finally able to call it finished. I lost interest in gaming for a while during the reign of the …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-01-04, 09:28
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium. The last X-Fi to have XP support! http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/1571/img0192gqy.jpg Cool! What's a good price for one of these bad boys would you say? A quick look on eBay tells me that they ain't exactly cheap. I paid way too much for an Asus Xonar D2X a while back, …
Re: Sound Blaster 2.0 (CT1350B) line in not working.
Posted on 2012-12-26, 11:31
Where would one get these chips though? Do they ever come up for sale on eBay, etc? I know the chip content has been dumped and reproduced but my understanding is that this will work for the revision 1+, not the revision 0 which I have.
Re: Sound Blaster 2.0 (CT1350B) line in not working.
Posted on 2012-12-25, 08:54
I tried various hi fi speakers / amps with my PC as a kid but they were always cheap crap I'd get from garage sales, etc. But I'm using some new 2.0's at the moment and I like the simplicity of them.
Re: Sound Blaster 2.0 (CT1350B) line in not working.
Posted on 2012-12-24, 09:13
Excellent, thanks for the help guys. What would I do without vogons? Good luck with the mixer Mau1wurf, 2 months! I think I'll just tuck this card in the shed for now. I wanted to use it because it was the first sound card I bought as a kid, I must have been 15 or so. It was a budget card at that …
Sound Blaster 2.0 (CT1350B) line in not working.
Posted on 2012-12-24, 03:20
I dug a CT1350B (Sound Blaster 2.0 rev 0) out of a scrap heap recently and despite there being a sticky note on it that said "no sound", it seems to work fine - it's detected by games and sounds as good as a mono sound card is going to sound. With later revision sound blasters I've successfully …
Re: Retro PC for MS-dos games
Posted on 2012-12-17, 21:28
Now that I think about it, there's really a ton of advantages of a Pentium box for 90s DOS gaming. I do really like my Tandy machines and my 486, but if I could only keep one it would be my Pentium. Same here. I have a stack of retro PC's, but if I didn't have the room then a Pentium 1 + a modern …
Re: Matrox video cards
Posted on 2012-12-16, 22:12
I saved up and bought myself a Matrox Millenium back in the day, for some reason I just had to have 'WRAM' - I know not why. It was 'meh'.
Re: Hardware you wish you'd never bought.
Posted on 2012-12-15, 08:53
Quite a few. These come to mind. Colorado Jumbo 250 tape drive - so slow didn't hold much. Software was buggy. Iomega ZIP drive - I was one of the first to get one in Ohio from the distributor. I knew the guy. It started out great, but eventually would get the click of death and lost a lot of data. …
Re: Standing desks - anyone tried one?
Posted on 2012-12-11, 02:35
Thanks for the link, interesting read. I'm actually not too bad at keeping myself moving at my desk - shoulder rolls, etc. I stretch most nights to some degree and like I say I get a decent amount of exercise; I ride a pushbike to work so it's pretty low impact. But I still wake up stiff and get …
Standing desks - anyone tried one?
Posted on 2012-12-11, 01:42
I sit on my arse in front of a computer all day at work and then a couple of hours at home most nights too, and all this sitting is catching up with me. I'm only 35 and get a decent amount of exercise, so if I'm getting back pain now, what it's going to be like when I'm 70?? I have no intention of …
Re: Hardware you wish you'd never bought.
Posted on 2012-12-10, 04:08
leileilol wrote: All Creative hardware that's not a CD-ROM drive. You can't mean that 😀 I heart creative.
Hardware you wish you'd never bought.
Posted on 2012-12-10, 02:35
We have a thread here about hardware that people want, but what about the stuff you've bought over the years that you've regretted? At age 15 or so I bought a little black box called "visi 3d" or some such thing which was supposed to magically transform 2.0 speakers into surround sound. It was quite …
Re: A new 486 build - Need some guidance!
Posted on 2012-12-09, 22:18
The DX2 66 is a classic chip and I used one back in the day for a couple of years, but it falls between eras in some ways. It's a little too fast for some games (Ultima 7, etc), and a little too slow for others (Doom, etc.) My 486 chip of choice is the 486SX33. VLB is the way to go, PCI was moving …
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