Re: Restoration Tools

Posted on 2018-03-06, 19:44

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by cyclone3d

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For general use thermal paste, I use Arctic Silver Ceramique 2. Works very well, easy to clean up, will not dry up or separate like cheap junk, and not too expensive. For the soldering station, the one with the buttons for adjustment will get super annoying, super fast. The other one looks fine.. …

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Re: Bootable floppy on modern mobo

Posted on 2018-03-06, 19:04

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by cyclone3d

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Why not use a USB extension cable? Also, Any of the older Dell laptop floppy modules that have the USB plug on them as well should be bootable no problem. I have a large stack of them. I can double check when I get back home. I'll check a couple other USB floppy drives I have for bootability as well …

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Re: Reasonable Roland MPU401 price?

Posted on 2018-03-06, 17:50

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by cyclone3d

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$150 is below the normal price. $100 for an mt-32 alone. MPU-401 complete with interface card also sells for $150-$200. And if somebody will not give a price what they want for something, they deserve to get offered way lower than that. Also.. this was not an eBay sale. Jerks like that probably …

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Re: Reasonable Roland MPU401 price?

Posted on 2018-03-06, 15:44

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by cyclone3d

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If he is not giving you a price he wants.. I would say max $150 USD.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-06, 03:19

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by cyclone3d

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@cyclone3d I was going to bid on that too, but I was saving my money for this auction; https://www.ebay.com/itm/253453849906 sadly it went over my limit, so I ended up getting this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/112633078329 Supposedly a high-quality video capture card. I'm hoping standard adapters will …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-06, 02:00

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by cyclone3d

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If I wasn't trying to dig myself out of a heap of old computer hardware I would have bid on that too... I saw that listing and started coming up with all sorts of crazy ideas as to what could be in there. Hopefully it isn't just a box of old interface cards, modems and network cards. :lol: Let us …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-03-06, 00:27

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by cyclone3d

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Working on recovering the data from an old laptop (IBM Pentium III running DOS.. or maybe Win98) that was used for programming a MAZAK CNC lathe. Went to transfer everything to a newer laptop and when I went to boot up the old laptop it said NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND. Oh yay... I wonder if the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-05, 23:30

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by cyclone3d

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This lot of 30+ old cards. All look to be ISA except for one VLB card from what I can tell. I was not the only bidder. I'm guessing the lot would have went for more if the seller had actually detailed exactly what was there. The poor quality pictures also probably didn't help. Anybody want to hazard …

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Re: Dr. Hardware Sysinfo (DOS) - Versions Archive

Posted on 2018-03-05, 19:50

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by cyclone3d

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Awesome. I used to use that way back in the day. Just posting in here so it saves it to my threads list.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-05, 19:40

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by cyclone3d

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Hi :) Please let me know when you get the motherboard and join my thread :) :cool: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=52486 That is precisely my plan. :cool: I still have a peltier unit laying around from the days of SS7. Paired with a nice heatpipe cooler, I should be able to push my K6- …

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Re: Something a little different, blasphemous and pointless

Posted on 2018-03-04, 18:42

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by cyclone3d

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We had some TVs where I works that came with ATOM based computer modules.... complete and utter trash. Unreliable, super slow, took forever to install even a single update and were just about too slow to even reliably display a slideshow. I was really, really glad when I was able to finally replace …

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Re: What you thought you will never have?

Posted on 2018-03-04, 03:55

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by cyclone3d

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Artex..... you have some very awesome gear there.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-04, 02:25

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by cyclone3d

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Maybe the 3rd time is the charm. Have a P5A 1.03 that arrived DOA and a P5A 1.06 that POSTed once and then never again. I may try recapping them at some point to see if that changes anything but I kinda doubt it. It seems like a legitimate candidate for a capacitor fix. Do you feel that the problem …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-03, 22:52

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by cyclone3d

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eBay has a $15 off $75 coupon going on right now IF you purchase through the mobile eBay APP - PONLYONAPP. Needed some toner for my printer so I put that in my cart but had to have $35 more in my cart before I could use the discount. Looked for random stuff and then decided to search for ASUS P5A …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-03, 07:58

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by cyclone3d

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After going back and forth on whether I wanted to spend that much on a card, I have a Sound Blaster Pro CT1330A REV 6 card on the way. $75 shipped for this too much? Dual OPL2 cards are really really hard to come by and that is what pushed me over the edge. What really kills me is that I missed a …

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Re: What you thought you will never have?

Posted on 2018-03-03, 00:31

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by cyclone3d

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A Pentium Pro setup. Got a NIB board for really cheap. Now I just need to get a CPU. I also have a MASSIVE number of sound and video cards.. big plastic bins full and a few boxed items on shelves. The more rare cards I don't keep in the bins with the others. I've also got shelves full of …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2018-03-03, 00:22

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by cyclone3d

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Ordered 3 ROMs from UTSource. We are getting ready for a new baby to arrive.. any day now, so I am not exactly sure when I will get my card put together.

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Re: best PCI sound card for win 98 and XP

Posted on 2018-03-02, 15:05

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by cyclone3d

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oeuvre wrote: Audigy 2 ZS is what I'd go with I second this.

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Re: My very first Win 98 Retro Gaming Rig - Build Advice

Posted on 2018-03-02, 01:01

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by cyclone3d

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With HT enabled, based on benchmarks and some games, it seems to split the cache in between the real and virtual core(s). So in a system that only sees one core, it is going to be better having HT disabled. There were also some strange problems that arose with certain software and games if HT was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-02, 00:54

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by cyclone3d

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Bit of a rant, but I got an ABIT KV8-MAX3 board off of ebay, and the seller shipped it wrapped in TINFOIL! And they did not even get a free priority mail box from USPS, they wrapped it up in old cardboard and duct tape. I cannot test it until the weekend, but I hope it will work. I never heard …

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