Re: Transfer files to and from an old pc with no USB

Posted on 2022-07-27, 21:18

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by leonardo

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Hi, as per subject, besides IDE to USB adapters, any suggestion for transferring files to an old PC (Pentium 1) ? As far as I know: - IDE to USB adapters - CD-DVDs - Network, but I'd rather not connect that old computer to anything - Any PCI 1.x USB extension available? So far I've only found PCIe …

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Re: SoundBlaster 32 drops after idle-time, needs to be re-probed

Posted on 2022-06-29, 13:00

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by leonardo

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I might be a dumb- err.. I might be dumb. I even posted that the sound card completely stopped working when I plugged in the 3Com in my original thread. However after configuring the resources for the 3Com using their PnP utility the sound card came back, so I assumed it was fine. This is clearly …

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SoundBlaster 32 drops after idle-time, needs to be re-probed

Posted on 2022-06-29, 12:49

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by leonardo

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So I've got a 486-project on-going and I decided to post this question as a separate thread in the event its a known issue or misconfiguration. The card in question is SoundBlaster 32 (CT3670). The symptoms as I observe them are: - Card resources are successfully set during boot and the card is …

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Re: Alias for DOS?

Posted on 2022-06-27, 13:53

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by leonardo

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To complement the prior responses with a bit more detail, place nano.bat in your path, such as C:\DOS. The file could contain the following lines: @echo off pico %1 The above will result in someone typing nano autoexec.bat being executed as pico autoexec.bat . If pico accepts more parameters or …

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Re: CRT monitor for playing DOS and Windows 98 title with 3dfx

Posted on 2022-06-26, 17:03

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by leonardo

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Uff, I think I got a not so-good monitor. I tried for two days, with different systems (radeon 9100 and matrox g400) and in Windows 98se ambient, when I go over 1024x768 I find the fonts little blurry, not so sharp like I was expecting for a monitor of that importance. What can be the problem? …

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Re: CRT monitor for playing DOS and Windows 98 title with 3dfx

Posted on 2022-06-23, 11:42

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by leonardo

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I own an Eizo T766, basically a bigger and younger nephew of this monitor. I think they are awesome displays. It doesn't really matter what kind of connection you use, both will be fine. The monitor looks really good on these photos, but leonardo is right, for 100 bucks you should see it running …

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Re: It might be a good idea to open a session for Apple

Posted on 2022-06-22, 17:51

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by leonardo

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The more the merrier? I have some fond memories of gaming on a classroom Mac, even if the most of my life I've spent gaming on PCs. There were some really cool games back in the days of Ambrosia that were even exclusive to the Mac. Like some others pointed out, it might make sense to make it a non- …

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-22, 12:05

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by leonardo

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Too many games try to be interactive movies. Not dismissing Call-of-DOOty here, but the one thing that unites all the bad games today (and from which a lot of bad stuff such as linearity and unskippable cutscenes stem from) is the fact that games became a vehicle for narratives to people who should …

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Re: CRT monitor for playing DOS and Windows 98 title with 3dfx

Posted on 2022-06-20, 20:56

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by leonardo

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...but I'm quite annoyed for the viewing dimension. I always loved the big screen, and I don't want to take this monitor and remain sad. Are you saying you'll be sad because the Eizo is smaller in size..? I'd take a smaller CRT with better image quality any day. Most consumer CRTs had such poor …

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Re: Voodoo2: video is offset

Posted on 2022-06-15, 20:38

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by leonardo

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Yeah... tube monitors feel like steam engines do nowadays, obsolete, but yet somehow still beautiful. This weirdness with the image adjustments is very specific to the 3Dfx add-on card (or separate "3D-accelerator") solution. Starting with the Voodoo3 (which has the more standard video card design, …

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Re: Voodoo2: video is offset

Posted on 2022-06-15, 19:23

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by leonardo

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Hi, do I have a faulty Diamond Monster 3D II? As you can see in the screenshots the screen screen is offset to the right. Right now I'm capturing the PC throught a VGA-HDMI converter, but the issue appears also with a VGA monitor connected directly. It is a LCD tho, I don't have a CRT. It happens …

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Re: DirectX and OpenGL problems for my Matrox G200?

Posted on 2022-06-12, 21:29

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by leonardo

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The 'Cannot Display This Video Mode'-error is likely caused by the video card trying to push a refresh rate that your monitor can't handle. Be sure to go over the settings for different resolutions in Windows' Display Properties and set the default (rather than optimal) refresh rate for different …

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Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. (i486 DOSBox)

Posted on 2022-06-12, 18:23

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by leonardo

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If you were trying to resell, I'd whack a DX2-66 and a GL-5428/29/30/34 VLB in it. The only place where I notice the age of the system (so far) is scrolling the map, which is clearly laggy. ISA graphics card? No wonder. OK, I went ahead and ordered the Cirrus Logic GL-542XVL/H! I sought some …

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Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. (i486 DOSBox)

Posted on 2022-06-12, 15:50

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by leonardo

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Disruptor wrote on 2022-06-04, 17:22: Yes, and please post a photograph of your graphics card. It's here! So far POSTed successfully, only didn't get to games testing yet because I went and also plugged in a 3Com EtherLink III NIC and it done futzed up the sound card resources somehow... Filename …

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Re: Should I use Win98 or XP for my Build?

Posted on 2022-06-11, 15:43

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by leonardo

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I have been wondering past few days if the system I'm building would be better served with having 98 or XP as the OS. I still have a bunch of parts to get but I've nailed down the main 4: Pentium iii 1ghz Coppermine DFI CS61-EC Motherboard 512 PC133 SDRAM (Max the above supports) Nvidia Geforce 4 …

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Re: SE440BX-2 won't work with Celeron 300A

Posted on 2022-06-11, 11:08

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by leonardo

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Hello everyone, I got a very clean looking Celeron 300A (SL2WM) off greedbay this week and I was planning to do the overclocking with a piece of tape business. So first I plug it into my board, which is an SE440BX-2 so should support this processor, without the tape, and... nothing. Power supply …

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Re: So, like, does the K6 3+ 550mhz really exist?

Posted on 2022-06-05, 22:21

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by leonardo

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What do you all think about the TriLevel cache feature of the K6-3? Does it make a noticeable difference? I have a K6-3 450 (256K L2) and my board has 1MB cache, but I can't enable it with the K6-3 or a K6-2 500 (no L2), not even at FSB 66. Just wondering how much I might be missing out on if the …

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Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. (i486 DOSBox)

Posted on 2022-06-04, 15:31

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by leonardo

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If you were trying to resell, I'd whack a DX2-66 and a GL-5428/29/30/34 VLB in it. The only place where I notice the age of the system (so far) is scrolling the map, which is clearly laggy. ISA graphics card? No wonder. OK, I went ahead and ordered the Cirrus Logic GL-542XVL/H! I sought some …

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Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. (i486 DOSBox)

Posted on 2022-06-01, 18:17

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by leonardo

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The only place where I notice the age of the system (so far) is scrolling the map, which is clearly laggy. ISA graphics card? No wonder. Would a Cirrus Logic CLVGA542XVL/H be a good VLB-card for some ~25€? Seems very cheap after basically everything I've encountered so far is $50-60 minimum without …

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Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. (i486 DOSBox)

Posted on 2022-06-01, 18:01

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by leonardo

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BitWrangler wrote on 2022-06-01, 02:59: 50Mhz on VLB, with i/o and video... first you find an I/O card that runs on 40Mhz 0ws on it's own, then you find a VGA card that runs 40 Mhz 0ws with it, then you run them on 50Mhz 1ws and 60mhz 1ws if you crap leprechauns. Well I better get my stool examined …

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