and Wolf3D!... I remember asking my mother if I can play with it (I didn't want any trouble and you know Wolf3D; swastikas and such everywhere : D) . I wasn't so modest with Duke3D and its striptease girls a bit later on. : D My Prince was a cracked version with game save disabled. Can you believe …

Please do. I identify myself very much with your story. : ) Back in my 486 / 5x86 days, there was a program, which made it possible to (almost) double up HDD space in exchange for a little performance drop. I remember using it on my 540 MB Conner to make it 900 MB and it worked just fine. This was …

The problem was that the CPU itself was not powerful enough to do it, and GPU-accelerated decoding had not been realized yet. That's what software HD-decoders are for. Arguably the best is CoreAVC Professional. Really low CPU-usage and the latest release is perfectly fine with Hi10p as well. It's …

BTW, that Linux box does okay with 480p flash videos, but I think it doesn't have enough oomph for 720p mkv/wmv videos. X2 4200+ + 2 GB RAM + 7800 GTX SLI is more than enough to play any 1080p HD flawlessly (even Hi10p *.mkvs) . The problem probably lies in the player and codecs under Linux. Beefy …

Minimum OS that is. Some people are a tad spoiled with 98se and forget that 95C is almost as capable too :) of course you could use Win98SE with 98lite to regain some speed with the old 95 shell. Also if you don't mind a NTFS partition, you could even stretch down to NT 3.51 as a minimum OS. It …

I completely fail to see the point of setting up an old rig for these tasks though? The reasons are quite simple: - I like old computers - low power consumption - cheap - maybe I can get a few parts completely free or for a chocolate / beer - feeling - feeling : ) …

Hey fellas, I was wondering about what rig and OS + softwares would be the absolute minimum for the following tasks: - browsing the web relatively comfortably (maybe 480p YouTube would be nice too, but it's not THAT of a big deal, if the Flash plugin is not working, if otherwise I can use Google and …

For HD - Blu-ray (rip) playback, I would suggest install only The KMPlayer 3.0.0.1442 (or latest build - I didn't check for updates in the last few months) , and then, integrate CoreAVC Professional Edition v3.0.1.0 as an external video decoder for H.264 and AVC1. CoreAVC is arguably the best …

Both of those CPUs appear to be identical spec wise, so either should be fine. Same socket, same clock speed, same L2 size and FSB, but they must be different is some way hence there's a different code for each of them. Guess I'll have to resort to the depths of Google, maybe I'll find some info …

There were quite a few regrets in my "career" so far. I'll try to list stuff in timely order (when I parted with them, not their "active" time period) . Regret parting: My NES . No further explanation is needed. My first ever config (AMD 386 DX-40 w/o coprocessor, 4 (8 ) MB SIMM, Trident 8900C 512 …

Welcome in this thread. I'd like to build a Voodoo box. 3dfx and Glide is dear to me and after so many years without them, I realised that I want that feeling back, even if it won't be the same as back in the days. So far, the rig's main parts would be: MB: Legend QDI P6V694T Advance 10T CPU: Intel …

i'd personally stay away from ***, PC Chips, Asrock,... AFAIK, older ASRocks were made of components which failed to be the parts of an Asus board - hence the low quality. But I agree, that ASRock is pretty good nowadays. On the contrary, I have good experiences with PC Chips; while not being a …

In '92, I played with Atari 2600 at my neighbour's. In '93, I got my NES. Between '93 and '96, aside from Nintendo love and unforgettable memories, I was keen on the C=64 and on a 80286 with CGA (later on 80386 + EGA, after that DX2-66 + VGA and later on, the uber-powerful P75 + SVGA) graphics at my …

Interesting question. Anything dual core and PCI-E is out of the game of course. Same with DDR memory and most of the AGP cards. s478 / s754 / s462 systems are still being used as a primary computer by many users, even today - they may be outdated a bit, but with good software and at least a ~2.4 …