Re: Trying to fix a faulty DTK Pim-Turbo "8MHz Turbo Board" Rev-5 with Siemens SAB8088-2-P 8088 CPU + 640KB RAM

Posted on 2023-11-23, 13:37

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by Errius

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Unfortunately I'm in the middle of a house move at the moment so everything is boxed up and inaccessible. Hopefully in January I will be able to look at this.

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Re: I pulled out a PCI card while a system was powered on today

Posted on 2023-11-03, 16:54

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by Errius

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There were some HP servers that allowed you to hot plug PCI-X cards and RAM modules. I think this has been discontinued though.

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Re: Best place for shareware/freeware? (re: trustworthy downloads)

Posted on 2023-09-30, 02:39

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by Errius

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OT, but has anyone else been having a problem with Windows Defender blocking certain PDF files containing links to malware sites. (Presumably these were originally legit sites which are now abandoned and hosting malware.) I have a lot of old PDFs which are now unusable because of this.

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Re: Are DDR ECC Memory of any practical use for retro PC?

Posted on 2023-09-30, 02:34

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by Errius

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Some years ago I had silent data corruption, for an unknown amount of time, on my X58 system due to a faulty memory module. There would be occasional single-bit errors in copied files. I only caught it because I got into the habit a long time ago of creating SFV checksum files for all my multimedia …

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Re: Fur Elise

Posted on 2023-09-28, 23:03

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by Errius

in Milliways

in Milliways

Microsoft Word has many useful keyboard shortcuts for such characters, unfortunately they don't work in other programs. (Not even other Office apps) ETA: But the umlaut-n in "Spinal Tap" is not supported which is a tragedy.

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Re: Fur Elise

Posted on 2023-09-28, 20:28

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by Errius

in Milliways

in Milliways

charmap.exe

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Re: I need Help with Flight SIM

Posted on 2023-09-24, 07:15

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by Errius

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Huh, isn't vDOS for textmode applications? That appears to be Flight Simulator 5.1 which should work fine on DOSBox. You will need to mount the CD drive in DOSBox, then install it from the disk.

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Re: Definitive list of Amstrad branded PC software?

Posted on 2023-09-23, 17:58

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by Errius

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Migent's Ability 1.2 was included with these machines, though I don't know if it was Amsoft branded.

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Re: Boxes to store RAM modules

Posted on 2023-09-13, 10:16

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by Errius

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Yes, those DIMM trays on eBay. They can be stacked too, which is convenient. You can get large ones for DIMMs and small ones for SODIMMS (which can also hold DIMMs sideways). I have separate trays for SDRAM, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, RDRAM and miscellaneous. Problem is oversized modules, which won't fit …

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Re: Why does Warcraft 3 list the Nvidia TNT, Ati Rage 128, Voodoo3, Intel i810 as minimum spec cards but requires D3D8?

Posted on 2023-09-12, 15:02

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by Errius

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in Marvin \ Software

I remember running the game with the -opengl parameter many years ago and not liking the result. The graphics looked rougher and less polished. I never tried it again. ETA: Some games have confusing specs like "Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 and DirectX 6" What this actually means is ( ( Windows 95 && …

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Re: Dual Pentium 133: what to use it for?

Posted on 2023-09-08, 17:41

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by Errius

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Beware that newer CD releases of StarCraft won't install in Windows NT or the Classic Mac OS, despite what it says on the box. (The 2001 release works; the 2007 one doesn't.)

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Re: Dual Pentium 133: what to use it for?

Posted on 2023-09-05, 06:06

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by Errius

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OpenGL games run fine on Windows NT. DirectX is the problem. You're limited to DX4/5 games, i.e. nothing released after about 1998 will run, but then such games will be too slow on a 133 MHz system anyway.

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-05, 06:00

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CRTs don't have framerate caps like early LCDs. I remember hooking up an old CRT for testing purposes to my main rig and being surprised how smooth games ran on it. I checked the framerate, and it was over 80 fps, whereas my then-LCD was capped at 60.

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Re: Dual Pentium 133: what to use it for?

Posted on 2023-09-05, 05:41

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by Errius

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Install 32 MiB RAM and that meets the minimum requirements for Windows 2000, which greatly increases your options.

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Re: Cleaning CDs

Posted on 2023-09-03, 20:57

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by Errius

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Doesn't everyone use iso alcohol for this? Use a cloth that doesn't shed fluff.

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-03, 18:21

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

3) OK, I just ound a pristine DELL OptiPlex 170L in my office, which with the following spec: That's from the middle of the capacitor plague era. Avoid unless you're handy with a soldering iron. Iconic and less of a laugh than coupled with the PIII is an 3,06 Ghz i850 based Rdram-system. First to …

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Re: Any Dell Dimension users out there?

Posted on 2023-08-18, 16:44

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by Errius

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks, that helps.

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Re: Any Dell Dimension users out there?

Posted on 2023-08-18, 16:12

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by Errius

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is there a list of all these machines somewhere? There are so many models, it's confusing. I think this order is correct: Dimension XPS -> Dimension XPS P -> Dimension XPS M -> Dimension XPS R -> Dimension XPS T -> Dimension XPS B What came before/after I don't know.

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Re: Any Dell Dimension users out there?

Posted on 2023-08-18, 04:52

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by Errius

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have 8100/8200/9150 and E520 Dimensions, however the 9150 is currently in pieces due to bad caps. (I also used to have XPS T450 and T500 machines but they're long gone.)

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Re: You might about to lose all your games bought from Ubisoft

Posted on 2023-07-24, 16:32

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by Errius

in Milliways

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This sounds familiar. Many years ago my family opened a bank account in my name. When we went to access it recently we found the bank had closed it due to inactivity and taken the money. It wasn't a lot, but still, WTF? How is this legal?

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