Re: Happy New Year 2021!

Posted on 2020-12-31, 22:18

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Happy New Year! Thanks to COVID, homeoffice and cancelled business trips I've had much more time for tinkering with retro machines this year. So in the end, this year turned out pretty well after all...

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-12-20, 19:34

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The "more kosher" way of doing it is by using an ephemeral server, that is, one that you only spin up when you absolutely need to with SMBv1/NTMLv1 support Or you just use smb.conf options like these which allow for SMB1, 2 and 3 simultaneously: [global] min protocol = CORE max protocol = SMB3 I …

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Re: Let's talk about our hated trends

Posted on 2020-12-17, 20:28

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cyclone3d wrote on 2020-12-15, 15:45: Voxels . They sucked then and, unless something has changed, they still suck. Cloudpunk is doing them pretty well. Voxels in a beautiful Cyberpunk neon-world. So simple, yet so beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDEDICQEze0

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-12-13, 23:23

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Let us know how it goes as you progress 👍 I am now 35 hours in and I really love the game. It's got a really slow start, though. I didn't like the gunplay at first, because all of the weapons were weak as hell. But the world really opened up in Act 2 (after 7 hours for me). Once I got more features …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-12-12, 21:09

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I am currently 27 hours into Cyberpunk 2077 and so far I really love the game It's a little glitchy, but still very playable.

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Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2020-12-07, 20:55

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Got this weird Zalman fan controller a while back. It's a bit dusty and the knobs need some polishing. Filename zalman_cooler.jpg File size 156.76 KiB Views 138 views Looks like it was released in 2003. I have it hooked up to four Noctua fans, the red controls are just for show and do nothing at …

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Re: Does PCI-Express sound card with gameport exist?

Posted on 2020-12-07, 02:02

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For a Joystick to be recognized in Windows, it needs more files than just the gameport driver. It also needs the control panel extension for the controller configuration and this was never ported to x64 versions of Windows. 32bit Gameport support was dropped after XP, but it still works on Vista+ …

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Re: In-game audio using Daemon Tools with BIN/CUE images

Posted on 2020-12-07, 01:41

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EpsilonP wrote on 2020-12-05, 03:46: @bregolin - I have no such option under device properties. Imho, digital audio playback is only available with WDM drivers. If you use the VXD drivers it probably won't work with Daemon Tools. Tried that and wasn't able to get it working on my SB Live Value.

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Re: Good OS selectors ?

Posted on 2020-12-07, 01:37

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aleksej wrote on 2020-11-28, 10:48: Boot-US. Not free but superb. It's free for private use. Can also hide partitions depending on the one you want to boot from, it's also my bootmanager of choice. Needs at least Windows XP(/2000?) so you can run the installer for it, though.

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Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2020-12-07, 01:01

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Archimedian Dynasty works with a Banshee but some of the ground textures are missing (showing only black squares). Probably because the second TMU is missing.

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Re: Fact review on graphics card purchase for XP

Posted on 2020-12-06, 14:24

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My GPU of choice for Windows XP is the MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III Power Edition/OC . Comes with a switch on the card for silent mode or power mode - the latter one is extremely loud, but for XP games I don't even need the extra power - so I always run it in Silent Mode and enjoy the games. Crysis …

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Re: EU votes for Right to Repair

Posted on 2020-12-01, 20:46

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Bruninho wrote on 2020-12-01, 17:48: No, right to repair is about a bunch of (censored) trying to change the way the Macs are done to please their non-official dangerous mods & upgrades, at the expense of reducing the performance of these Macs That made me chuckle. It's such a load of bullshit.

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2020-11-30, 17:16

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Some actually work better if they use both CPUs. Cloudpunk is a good example for that. I only tweak the affinity if the game runs really bad. It's kind of funny - I can understand why Eastshade didn't like it. But EA's Harry Potter was also really struggling and that's a Quake1 engine game. 😁

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Re: EU votes for Right to Repair

Posted on 2020-11-30, 17:09

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From the first glance, this looks like an amazing idea. But being a citizen of Germany, I'm pretty sure it won't do a lot of good. The EU wanted to make sure we had the USB standard for chargers, too - but in the end, certain companies like Apple just provided a USB adapter for their own connectors …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2020-11-30, 17:00

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This is my Dual CPU beast of a machine. IMG_20201130_173618.jpg IMG_20201130_173731.jpg Specs Case: In-Win Q500 Mainboard: SuperMicro X10DRi CPUs: 2x Xeon E5-2620 v3 (six-core, 2.4GHz regular, 3.2GHz turbo) RAM: 64GB DDR4 ECC GPU: Geforce GTX 1060 6GB Power Supply: Corsair RM750 SSD: Crucial BX500 …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-11-27, 20:53

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I think I might start a serious playthrough of "Dragon Age: Origins". A lot of my friends kept recommending that to me over the years and today I finally got it in the Steam sale for a few bucks. After 82 minutes in, I could clearly see the game is old. Control scheme is a little weird (but not …

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

Posted on 2020-11-27, 17:47

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Hmmm...that’s an RU28 TSSOP with 0.65mm pitch - did you use solder paste, and if so, which brand did you use? Did you follow any Pre-heating procedures? I was aiming for 5 ADP3421s off a reel from a reputable dealer instead of junk pulls... I just use regular flux, because I bought a big bottle of …

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

Posted on 2020-11-26, 22:50

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You also replaced the ADP3421 on the A22p (the blink-of-death component), right? How difficult was that to pull off with your equipment? That was actually super-easy. The most annoying part was completely disassembling the device and removing the motherboard, which takes a while. I have an SMD …

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

Posted on 2020-11-26, 20:30

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Also do you know if A31p suffers from GPU faliure like A21p does? The latter one has rather poor cooling and GPUs often fail because of this. Yes, unfortunately the A31p GPU is also very poorly cooled down. The chip doesn't even have a heatsink and just sits below the fan that also handles the CPU …

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

Posted on 2020-11-26, 19:36

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Installed Windows 98 on my IBM Thinkpad A31p. It's a maxed out P4 machine with 1600x1200 LCD and ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 graphics onboard, and it officially supports W98. The interesting thing is that I read everywhere that W98 does not work properly with more than 512 Mb RAM. And this laptop has …

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