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

Posted on 2021-07-16, 13:48

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Finally found a new case for my Win98 rig, my old beige Aopen model was boring me so bought this nice Ultra model unused still in box. Added some be quiet! fans front/back for cooling "just because".

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2021-07-15, 15:12

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Lawnie, Have you ever done a piece on what equipment you're using to run these dos games? Some of us would be quite interested in if you're using a retro pc or something modern in tandem with GOG or whatever.

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Re: Sun Microsystems IPX to the Max.

Posted on 2021-07-15, 15:07

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Yeah back in 1994 where I used to work doing CAD drafting we used Sparc stations on a network. They were slick even back then and very fast compared to what we used previously (some unisys machines - don't recall). Wish I could find one in decent shape to tinker with. Love those CRT's, seems like …

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2021-06-22, 15:44

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Hey Lawnie, how about doing some videos on american football dos titles? Front Page Sports Football series 92-96, Unnecessary Roughness, Madden and etc. IBM came out with some older DOS football games in the early 90's for NFL and college too. Just some ideas I thought you could look into, as always …

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Re: Some of my retro computer builds

Posted on 2021-06-19, 18:16

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Never seen a beige case with black interior, nice!

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Re: Blood II: The Chosen

Posted on 2021-06-19, 18:04

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For the record I installed the GOG version on my XP sys and the highest I can go is 1024 x 768 using a Geforce 7950 GT. Haven't applied any patches yet though so can't vouch for them yet. Maybe in next few days I'll try some and post the results. Got me curious on running this on a modern sys, I'll …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-19, 17:55

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Won 2 NES consoles with 2 controllers, the RF module, the power brick, Zapp controller, and the SMB+Duck Hunter game. Both of these consoles will get looked inside, cleaned, and get new 72-pin cartridge slots with a bit of TLC. Seller's photo: NES.jpg Nice. I sold my NES, SNES, and Gamecube a few …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-14, 14:02

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Nick4 wrote on 2021-06-14, 12:44: Got this new-in-box case recently: https://i.imgur.com/qsWlAhcl.jpg Really heavy, made of thick metal. Unfortunately, the PSU is […] Show full quote Got this new-in-box case recently: Really heavy, made of thick metal. Unfortunately, the PSU is missing. Will fit …

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Re: Building an XP gaming PC for early 2000's games

Posted on 2021-06-14, 14:00

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My Xp system (listed in my signature) cost me under 200 bucks total but of course it's housed in a much cheaper case. It runs games from 1999 to 2006ish ok plus does just fine with Dosbox. Sampling of games: Motorcross Madnesss 2, NCAA Football 99, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Serious Sam 1/2, Doom …

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Re: Installing SB Live on system with ISA SB 32pnp

Posted on 2021-06-10, 16:57

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BitWrangler wrote on 2021-06-10, 16:14: There's 2 main philosophies, summarised by.. […] Show full quote There's 2 main philosophies, summarised by.. 1 Add soundcards 2 ??? 3 Profit and 1 soundcard; some noise, 2 soundcards; more noise, 3 soundcards; all the noise. More noise for me I guess, just …

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Re: Installing SB Live on system with ISA SB 32pnp

Posted on 2021-06-10, 15:18

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Never done this before so was wondering if it's pretty straightforward or not. Why don't you try it and find out..? Do I first disable the 32pnp card in windows 98 and then install the Live? That should not be necessary. How will this affect the 32pnp in DOS if at all? The cards should end up on …

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Installing SB Live on system with ISA SB 32pnp

Posted on 2021-06-10, 13:51

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Never done this before so was wondering if it's pretty straightforward or not. Do I first disable the 32pnp card in windows 98 and then install the Live? How will this affect the 32pnp in DOS if at all?

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2021-06-01, 14:26

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Lawnie, hope you get to feeling better. By chance do you have any updated news on the Tie Fighter total conversion project? Much better, thank you! I've been chatting with the project lead and working on some additonal music for the project (classic GUS/AWE32/SC-55 music captured by one of our …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2021-05-28, 13:05

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vad4r wrote on 2021-05-26, 22:37: liqmat wrote on 2021-05-26, 22:12: vad4r wrote on 2021-05-26, 18:35: and the opposite 20190218_190521.jpg Is that a TT030 or Mega STE? Either way, my favorite computer chassis. Very nice! TT would be a dream. I own two Mega STE.... I dig that retro joystick, what …

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Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2021-05-25, 14:28

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Have not checked but is there a benchmark app for Crysis 2 or 3?

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2021-05-25, 13:18

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Lawnie, hope you get to feeling better. By chance do you have any updated news on the Tie Fighter total conversion project?

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Re: World wide chip shortages....

Posted on 2021-05-25, 12:46

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I remember reading somewhere that a drought in Taiwan is also causing the problems. Really it seems like a "perfect storm" of events happening.

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Re: GOG slave zero and Omikron the nomad soul on win98

Posted on 2021-05-17, 18:17

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Slave Zero: game acts like it's going to start but reverts back to desktop. I deleted nglide & 3dfx files as instructed but makes no diff. The error log says something about a missing "wad" file. Omikron: this one I didn't tinker with too much yet. Pretty sure it gave the usual error expecting a …

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GOG slave zero and Omikron the nomad soul on win98

Posted on 2021-05-17, 14:12

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Can't get neither of these to work on my win98 pc. Just the copied the install folders over which worked for some games - expendable and descent 3. Looked at Phil's video on this and he uses that unpacking tool innounp and I tried that method too to no avail. Does anyone know if there are any new …

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Re: Ryzen snoozer build.

Posted on 2021-04-29, 15:03

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I was curious of how you like the sound blaster card. Been going back and forth on adding a sound card to my Ryzen build. Keep hearing how mobo sound is good enough, but is it really?

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