Re: Period appropriate CRT monitors?

Posted on 2019-12-11, 02:35

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Thanks all. Interesting to note. I've got to be honest before a certain time period I'm sort of lost when it comes to PC CRTs. TVs seems to have a much more defined history. I have a crt in the loft, I think called Axiom, and I couldn't find anything about it information-wise.

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Period appropriate CRT monitors?

Posted on 2019-12-09, 16:40

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Hi folks, With the advent of some new YouTube videos, some of the more well known and later era PC crts are going for extortionate prices (Trinitrons etc.) Myself, I have been looking for something fairly period appropriate for games like Doom through to StarCraft. Obviously I don't need the super …

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Re: Black crush on a CRT monitor.

Posted on 2019-02-07, 14:50

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Okay will do, my current retro PC is disassembled as I was going to get it recapped. I'm hopeful it's just the adapter doing it. I have an OSSC which if I set to output in YCbCr, it works perfectly. Must be the way the adapter handles the signal.

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Black crush on a CRT monitor.

Posted on 2019-02-07, 13:38

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Hi folks, Hope someone here can help. I picked up an Iiyama Vison Master Pro 455. It's a lovely monitor and in great condition. I have a bit of a weird issue though. I get severely crushed blacks when connecting it to my pc via a HDMI to VGA adapter. In the Nvidia Control panel if I shift it to RGB …

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Re: Rescuing a faulty Voodoo 5500.

Posted on 2019-02-01, 18:02

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Sorry for the double post. The chap I sent it to be recapped with says that the caps are perfect and not leaking in any way. So he believes it' s probably the memory chips. Is there a source for replacement chips? I've seen others suggest it's possible to take them from other cards.

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Re: Voodoo 5 repair, VSA-100 replacement

Posted on 2019-02-01, 17:44

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Would also be interested in this.

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Re: Rescuing a faulty Voodoo 5500.

Posted on 2019-01-30, 03:38

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Were you able to repair any?

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Re: Rescuing a faulty Voodoo 5500.

Posted on 2019-01-27, 00:34

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Thanks for all the advice guys. The owner decided he wanted to go ahead with a recap. Luckily I know a guy locally I trust to do stuff like that, he repairs old valve tvs, Amigas and so on. I'm not convinced there isn't a deeper issue but can't hurt.

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Re: Rescuing a faulty Voodoo 5500.

Posted on 2019-01-24, 16:27

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Will do, don't want to make it even worse.

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Re: Rescuing a faulty Voodoo 5500.

Posted on 2019-01-24, 16:14

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Chap is talking about possibly baking it to see if it helps. I want to make sure that capcitor is okay, but in theory he won't destroy it right?

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Re: Rescuing a faulty Voodoo 5500.

Posted on 2019-01-24, 01:19

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Wow yeah I see that too. I'll highlight it to the owner see if I can get another picture.

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Re: Rescuing a faulty Voodoo 5500.

Posted on 2019-01-24, 00:25

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Huh interesting. I'll ask the guy the history of his card see if he knows any thing about that. I did try and check for bent legs as I'd seen that was a thing but couldn't find anything.

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Rescuing a faulty Voodoo 5500.

Posted on 2019-01-23, 23:27

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Hi folks, Hope someone can help. I found a 5500 super close to me and the chap selling it set it up to test it first. After a while he informed me that he was getting visual artifacts. Since he was about two miles away I took my retro rig to him so we could test it in my pc. Same issues. There's …

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Re: Question regarding Scummvm Mt 32 emulation.

Posted on 2018-12-16, 17:14

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Fantastic thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I've never experienced Monkey Island with MT-32, I only ever had the Amiga version (which still sounds good) so I'm excited to give this a go. What I was quite surprised to find too, is that the MT-32 emulation even works on the android …

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Re: Question regarding Scummvm Mt 32 emulation.

Posted on 2018-12-16, 13:30

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Thanks very much. I did suspect that to be the case as I couldn't actually hear any difference, the emulation seems to my ear to be quite impressive. What about the lower option, in what situation would that be necessary? Thanks.

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Question regarding Scummvm Mt 32 emulation.

Posted on 2018-12-16, 06:07

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Hi folks, I'm going to be on the move a bit and transferred my m MT 32 roms to my laptop. I'd like to play with the emulation but I'm a little lost when it comes to what settings I enable. I've uploaded a picture taken on my phone as to what I mean (settings are the same on pc) Do I enable either? …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-08-18, 22:27

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For lower resolutions, CRTs are pretty awesome, especially a Trinitron/Diamondtron screen. I used to have the earlier model, the Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 - awesome monitor but it was heavy my desk was bowed in the middle from it. That weighs somewhere around 30kgs if I remember correctly? Yeah …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-08-18, 14:05

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Picked this up a few days ago: https://i.imgur.com/6z06tvY.jpg It's an Iiyama Visionmaster 455. Spotless condition and from what I gather low usage. Still getting used to the OSD. I had sort of written off getting a CRT monitor again because I had sort of settled on LCDs being good enough. That said …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-18, 22:48

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Bought myself a ABIT BX133 RAID, along with a tualatin adapter. When the package arrived I was a bit dismayed to see the motherboard wrapped inside standard bubblewrap, but so far the motherboard seems to be fine, just got to see if Windows 98 will install properly. How are the caps on yours? I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-17, 01:44

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Love old Windows laptops. They look so nice in their own retro way. Bought myself a ABIT BX133 RAID, along with a tualatin adapter. When the package arrived I was a bit dismayed to see the motherboard wrapped inside standard bubblewrap, but so far the motherboard seems to be fine, just got to see if …

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