Re: What old software do you still use daily ?

Posted on 2023-05-23, 22:31

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Even after all these years, VRML is still my prefered choice when outputting 3D (and 2D) geometry during debugs. And my goto viewer, which is by far best (And I have tried a lot of VRML viewers, if not all of them) ... is this one. Screenshot 2023-05-23 230727.png Every development environment I …

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Re: ZSNES sound problem (AC97)

Posted on 2023-04-22, 22:48

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Have you tried different versions of zsnes? I had no problems running zsnes on P233MMX back in the day. I probably had a dedicated sound card though. Many a moon ago, I had to roll different versions of WinUAE to work correctly on a crappy Intel Atom machine as later versions seems to break sound …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-22, 22:42

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Ozzuneoj wrote on 2023-04-22, 22:14: Meatball wrote on 2023-04-22, 20:09: If you typed all of that out, bravo! 😁 No way, I just asked ChatGPT to give me an equation that made 800 + 50 look like a 50% increase. 🤣 🤣 and people are scared of AI... 850 / 1.5 = 566.666666...

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-19, 22:15

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I highly doubt there will be any physical addressing going on, we're all at the mercy of the OS virtual addressing for allocation and access these days.

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Re: 3D Savage Wonder 4000, Can you help me identify this card?

Posted on 2023-04-19, 10:38

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It also says "Glide"... whatever that means 😀 Munx wrote on 2023-04-19, 09:45: It is, but with a TV-tuner. No TV tuner, just TV out... apparently.

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Re: Anyone notice the eBay shipping costs have doubled!?

Posted on 2023-04-17, 23:11

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I have a feeling the USA government is going to make the US Postal service a privately owned company soon. That would be a bit of a loose-loose situation. If it's failing to be solvent now... a) No company is going to take it on if it's perpetually loosing money. b) If a company does take it on, it …

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Re: Nanobox - Minicomputer for XP + Linux

Posted on 2023-04-15, 14:34

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I would like to present my current project: It goes by the name "Nanobox" and is a Haswell-based mini-ITX computer in a stylish, minimalist aluminum housing. The aim is to have a small, quiet and energy-efficient Windows XP computer for more demanding games and to run Linux as a second OS. The …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-12, 14:48

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Well I must be doing something wrong then, as I haven't found 16GB to be limiting in either win10 (for about 7 years) or win11 (for about 6 months). In fact both seem to be similar in idle mem footprint, with all the updates and offical bloatware pushed on to me. On the very few occasions that 16GB …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-10, 20:15

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Windows 11 works best with 32GB or more Why do you say this? What are you doing that requires that much mem usage? My Win11 box has been perfectly happy with 16GB... 'idleing' (relativly speaking) uses ~6GB (VS2019, Firefox {youtube +3/4 other tabs}, MS Teams {you'd be surprised how much this uses …

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Re: GPT-4 implements Minesweeper using a retro GUI framework it hadn't seen before

Posted on 2023-04-06, 07:23

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It would be interesting if you could have it do things to C (or C++) code that are repetitive and tedious but just a bit too complex to try and do with macros or other programmatic transformations of the source code. For example, backporting some C code so that it will compile against Windows 95 …

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Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-04-03, 18:57

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The right to use the software is sold as a license. Most licenses include clauses regarding the revocation of those rights. Whether or not the terms of the license are legal will ultimately depend on individual jurisdictions and what the courts decide. This. So whoever sells software is always …

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

Posted on 2023-03-26, 10:43

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[*]A WinXP rig that can handle all WinXP games and can act as a reserve machine / LAN party for lightweight modern games (dual boot) Ultimate choice: i7-3770K + GeForce GTX TITAN Z (for the record, TITAN Z is just as fast as 1080 or 2060) + SB X-Fi Titan Z would be cool to have, but impractical imo …

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Re: Win xp games on Win 7 compatibility

Posted on 2023-03-24, 17:18

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if you want to forgo a dedicated sound card There are some low-profile options, including Creative. Yeah no space though after a double slot low profile 750ti goes in. Single slot low profile quadro might be better then. Also might need an optiplex with 2 PCIe (models can vary), and they tend to …

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Re: Win xp games on Win 7 compatibility

Posted on 2023-03-24, 17:02

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Optiplex 30XX (4th gen intel/Haswell) coupled with GTX 7XX would cover pretty much anything XP with ease (@ 1440p too)... Can be had pretty cheap on uk ebay right now as there are oodles of them (recycled from enterprise), and just a bit too old for many other uses (although still good for most not …

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Re: 2D Acceleration - first chipsets

Posted on 2023-03-19, 22:08

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The irony is that the PC platform already had a graphics accelerator since the very beginning - the math co-processor. It can greatly accelerate the drawing in a coordinate system, can assist colour filling of forms, can draw all the graphics primitives, such as rectangles, circles (using Pi), etc. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-28, 13:42

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It was changed but like you said it can use the older model you just lose the newer features added in the newer WDDM, much like Windows 10 and 11 can use the older model driver format or the much newer one. In Win10 and 11 however the newer driver format actually removes some features and shifts …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-02-13, 10:46

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Affiliate link spammers ruined it iirc. Years ago, one of the most popular threads on vogons was (the now) 'infamous' ebay thread... got out of control... for obvious reasons... Shame the thread was nuked from history, would have been interesting to see "then and now" pricing, I expect some people …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-02-08, 22:31

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wow, at that price, I hope the playdough is included for free...

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Re: Program that searches words inside multiple files

Posted on 2023-01-24, 21:58

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I don't clearly remember if it ever happened or was just another deceptive brain idea, I think Windows could earlier read inside files what I searched using Windows search and display it to me. I can't find it anymore. Was there/Is there any such 3rd party program? Thanks. It's still there... Using …

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Re: Can anyone identify this PCI video card?

Posted on 2023-01-10, 21:10

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Looks like it has a VESA feature connector and some audio jacks? Maybe a MPEG decoder card of some sort?

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