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Re: Dell CPI

Posted on 2012-11-03, 15:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

my modern day laptop only goes up to 32-bit color and its a damn good laptop. its a 2007 Toshiba L300D with 4GB DDR2 RAM and 700MB ATi Radeon graphics, almost a gaming laptop for 2007, lol. you cannot get a CPi to go up to 32-bit color if thats the max for a modern laptop, lol. you can do 24-bit …

Re: Is computing as much fun as it used to be?

Posted on 2012-11-02, 02:57

in Milliways

in Milliways

stuff very good point, it all depends on what you want to play. the best "modern" game in MY opinion would be GTA San Andreas. it had a good storyline, a HUGE map, always somthing to do, and great graphics (for the time) and it would run on a piece of crap system quite well on low graphics. thats …

Re: What you call it when a rapper raps a word or two in the back of a funky song every now and again?

Posted on 2012-11-02, 02:38

in Milliways

in Milliways

I mostly like metal myself, but I do listen to old school rap. I grew up in the early 1990's so I kind of naturally like some rap since it was stupidly popular back then. I don't like the newer stuff so much though... Billy Idol had a bunch of good songs. White Wedding is probably my favorite.

Re: Analog Devices AD1881 DOS driver

Posted on 2012-10-22, 02:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

those drivers only work under Windows, they are DOS compatible, but Windows must be loaded to use that feature. I meant DOS drivers that could be loaded and used in DOS.

Analog Devices AD1881 DOS driver

Posted on 2012-10-21, 19:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I need a DOS driver for the ADI AD1881 audio codec, using an ISA soundcard is sadly not an option on this particular machine... it looks like SoundMax (Analog Devices) only sold the chip, no drivers. all the OEMs seem to have broken links to their DOS drivers (Damn you HP) but its an Acer board. …

Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2012-10-16, 02:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was using a Pentium 133 non MMX, a random un-branded socket 7 AT motherboard, 32 MB of RAM, 2x 1GB Seagate Medalist HDDs, trident 2MB VGA card, Soundblaster AWE32 ISA, some crappy CD-ROM drive, and a half dead floppy drive. it was outdated at the time, but my current system is still outdated, a P4 …

Re: Retro PC for MS-dos games

Posted on 2012-10-14, 17:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

that would make a nice DOS/3Dfx rig.

Re: Does anybody know about Cyrix CPU support on Intel AN430TX?

Posted on 2012-10-13, 23:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It will not POST unless an intel chip is in it. "It is due to the absence of the "Genuine Intel" string that the BIOS checks for in the CPU's microcode. If it isn't there (and it wouldn't be, on your Cyrix-designed processor), the board won't boot." https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic …

Re: NFS SE Windows 98 SE no sound

Posted on 2012-10-12, 21:30

in Windows

in Windows

It happened to me with NFS SE on my 3Dfx voodoo machine, a re-install fixed it for me, did you try re-installing it?

Re: Newest Old System, an Athlon XP box

Posted on 2012-10-12, 02:09

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I still use a P4 today, they don't show their age if you upgrade them to 2GB of RAM and a 128MB vid card, it can still do more than my new laptop can. and the main computer I use was made in 2004, and re-built by me in 2008.

Re: Uknown UMC 486 board

Posted on 2012-10-10, 21:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have soldered before on a few P4 boards with bad caps, and I was successful each time, except for my first attempt. I just don't want to mess with it too much even if it is junk, but its vintage junk, the world can't afford to lose another 486. it is important to not get the PCB too hot, or the …

Re: Intro + Seeking Advice For A New Retro Computing Enthusiast

Posted on 2012-10-10, 21:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@hatta no, but some DOS games don't run right on newer CPU instruction sets, but thats a very small amount of games. it won't actually matter, but Win95 may not like the fast CPU... I have a PIII Win95 box with an 800MHz PIII in it, and its quite unstable. BUT when I put a 733MHz PIII in, its fine. …

Re: Newest Old System, an Athlon XP box

Posted on 2012-10-10, 21:27

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

old thrashbarg is right, it can cause irreversable damage to the CPUs voltage circuitry, which is 1 thing you don't want unstable. if it gets too high, no more CPU. if too low, it will perform like crap/not at all. @luckybob what I meant to say was as long as its same/higer it doesn't matter, my …

Re: Intro + Seeking Advice For A New Retro Computing Enthusiast

Posted on 2012-10-10, 01:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

for the early win95/late DOS game machine, I would downgrade the PIII 933 to a PII 333 or so, and leave the ram at 128MB. for the win98SE gaming machine I'd get a Voodoo 3 and get a slotket (slot 1 to S370 adapter for putting flip chips in a slot 1) and a 1.1GHz tualtin IF it would support it, …

Re: Uknown UMC 486 board

Posted on 2012-10-10, 00:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oh god no. my 486 has a similar motherboard (it has 32 pin SIMM slots and 72 pin fast page SIMM slots) its made by PCCHIPS and has got to be the crappiest board I ever saw (aside from any acer newer than 2002, they are worse) there is a sticker over the chipset that says " Write back Cache!" and …

Re: Newest Old System, an Athlon XP box

Posted on 2012-10-10, 00:43

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

if the caps are all about to blow, replace the board. if its a real nice board you like, then you can re-cap it. just make sure the uF rating is the same, voltage doesn't matter.

Re: Retro PC for MS-dos games

Posted on 2012-10-10, 00:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the default sound blaster 16 IRQs are always wrong for me, they never work. just change the numbers until it starts working properly.

Re: Retro PC for MS-dos games

Posted on 2012-10-08, 17:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

people dual boot because its always nice to have an authentic DOS 6.22 install instead of having to boot windows then switch to dos mode... but you can edit MSDOS.SYS to not automaticly load windows, then just run C:\WINDOWS\WIN.COM when you want to start windows

Re: High end windows 98SE gaming computers

Posted on 2012-10-05, 18:45

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

thinkpads were IBM branded much longer than the desktops were after the transition... most people still call them IBM thinkpads.

Re: High end windows 98SE gaming computers

Posted on 2012-10-04, 13:01

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

2005 is when lenovo started putting their logo on it, I knew there was a ton of thinkcenters branded as IBM but were actually lenovo. they were just re-using the same IBM chassis that IBM designed3 years earlier for the netvista product line, only changes were a bigger PSU hole and a thinkcentre …

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