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

Posted on Yesterday, 13:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ignore the walls, this room is a WIP. lol Gonna take care of that as soon as it gets a bit warmer and I don't have to risk getting the drywall wet with snow. And yeah admittedly not computer related but definitely vintage. lol Putting together this 90's setup! TV is a Symphonic from 1990, Kenwood …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-03-03, 21:28

in Milliways

in Milliways

Star Wars X-Wing Alliance w/ upgrade mod. The learning curve on this one is steep, for me anyways. The updated graphics are pretty sweet. For those that dare: https://www.xwaupgrade.com/index.php?action=news

Re: Dude, you're getting a Dell

Posted on 2021-03-02, 21:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Lol. Lots of funny posts. I drank a lot of beer last night. No Trans Am appeared. I passed out on the couch. I actually threw up when I tried to eat breakfast. Then I got a speech from my Dell about how I'm a bad father, I'm disgustingly fat, and things can't go on like this. And what can I say? …

Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2021-03-02, 20:46

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Update the fourth! This week I was seriously unwell so it was a pretty quiet one, but still managed to stumble through the brilliant MDK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tllM3ylFCA which is stupidly influential. I also switched to Linux by default, which has changed significantly since I last used …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-24, 16:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Love it or hate it. It's a matter of taste. Shipping was a killer but all in all for such a rare and unique case I was happy to get it for what i paid. Feast your eyes on the Asus Vento 3600, a rare and beautiful case from circa 2005. Definitely one of those "seize the moment" opportunities! Great …

Re: Where to find the new Nvidia,AMD cards and processors to buy

Posted on 2021-02-24, 16:18

in Milliways

in Milliways

I bought my Zotac 3070 at a local Gigaparts store. Just happened to have the Zotac and an Asrock model.

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 15:53

in Milliways

in Milliways

I just binge watched The Witcher show and was totally underwhelmed by it. It still gave me the urge to try The Withcer out for the third time, and I was absolutely totally underwhelmed by it a third time as well. Now I don't even dare touch the books. The tv series jumped around too much, didn't …

Re: Getting Unreal and Unreal Tournament to work on Win98

Posted on 2021-02-18, 16:34

in Windows

in Windows

Can't speak for Unreal but I know GOG Expendable and Descent 3 will work by installing on separate (win 10) system and copying the install directory/files to the win98 system. It worked for me, you're experience may vary.

Re: HD7990 in WinXP?

Posted on 2021-02-17, 16:21

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Chinny 22, WHQL drivers 13.4 looked promising but all links for it are "dead ends". Maybe with a more thorough search you might have better luck than me. Cool looking card 6GB and all, what size ps you got feeding it?

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

Posted on 2021-02-04, 15:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What a sweet pickup! Been looking for a NOS crt for months, but to no avail so far. Ebay prices are maxed out and you take a chance on it arriving in pieces.

Re: DAC and Win10 system

Posted on 2021-02-03, 15:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yeah, will need to do some more troubleshooting. Did try listening w/o hearing aids with volume cranked but my "natural" hearing is all but nil so that was a dead end. The headphones are a quality brand (sennheiser) so would like to think it's not the culprit.

DAC and Win10 system

Posted on 2021-02-02, 19:12

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Now for the "stupid" question of the day: Occasionally with my wireless headphones the sound will cut out in one ear or the other. May be due to wearing hearing aids or maybe it's the electrical interference with the mobo sound. So I'm thinking about trying a DAC for clean sound but does that mean I …

Re: 1997 Pentium MMX Rebuild

Posted on 2021-01-11, 20:38

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Boxed NOS crt's are my weakness, when they're not asking 1000.00 for one that is. Congrats are yer find, looks great. Maybe show some pics of dos games on it.

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-01-11, 20:08

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hexen II Hammer of Thyrion mod on my win10 rig. Works a treat, only thing is can't seem to track down the music files for the mission pack Portal of Praevus. Found a "music help file" on this but don't quite grasp it. Seems the mission pack uses the same music as the main game but renames the files. …

Samsung Syncmaster 932BW for DOS games?

Posted on 2021-01-05, 14:56

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Been looking at various LCD's to replace my 19" Acer model which is ok for windows games but terrible for dos. This Samsung Syncmaster 932bw specs at 1440 x 900 75hz. TFT, would this possibly work better for DOS games?

Re: CRT resolution stuck in text mode

Posted on 2021-01-05, 14:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok, thanks all for the feedback it's been helpful. For the record all the dos games I've tried show 720 x 400 but even so they all look better than on my Acer LCD so there's that.

Re: CRT resolution stuck in text mode

Posted on 2021-01-04, 19:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wait, CRTs are no different to LCDs regarding how you "set the resolution". You don't use some OSD on a modern screen to change the resolution, it doesn't work that way. Forget about the monitor and you don't need any utility. Run whatever you want to run, it'll set its resolution (which you can …

Re: CRT resolution stuck in text mode

Posted on 2021-01-04, 18:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is there not a way to "click" on the one you want from the OSD? No. The list you see in the OSD will be for information purposes only. The screen can only set a resolution when software asks it to. Example, Quake II's video options in the game menus, where the resolution is set for that game : …

Re: The Witcher (novel) in English

Posted on 2021-01-04, 17:41

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Anybody here been watching the Netflix series? "Toss a coin to your Witcher, O' Valley of Plenty!" Got season 1 DVD for xmas, already finished binge watching it. After reading the books it's a little disappointing in that some of the monsters (strigga) didn't look as expected. Wished somebody else …

Re: Recommened me a game for my Voodoo5

Posted on 2021-01-04, 17:33

in Milliways

in Milliways

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote on 2020-12-25, 18:50: Total Air War. Joint Strike Fighter. European Air War. Jane's Longbow 2. Jane's F-15. Diablo II. Red Baron 3D. […] Show full quote Total Air War. Joint Strike Fighter. European Air War. Jane's Longbow 2. Jane's F-15. Diablo II. Red Baron 3D. …

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