Re: Sony Playstation Classic gamepad works perfect on WIN98!!!

Posted on 2020-11-26, 04:32

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dr_st wrote on 2020-11-25, 18:03: OK, so this confirms the issue is different from mine, and must be HW-related. Thank you for testing! 😀 No problem, you’re welcome! I was curious as well! But yeah, maybe a BIOS issue or just some kind of other quirk of the hardware. Not had any other USB device …

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Re: Sony Playstation Classic gamepad works perfect on WIN98!!!

Posted on 2020-11-25, 17:05

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Interesting. I wonder - did you get to try a Linux distro as well? Or any other OS? I'm curious, because I've seen similar strange issues of a particular device not being recognized, which turned out to be a bug in the USB stack (in my case it was Windows Vista). In that case a PCIe-to-USB3.0 card …

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Re: Sony Playstation Classic gamepad works perfect on WIN98!!!

Posted on 2020-11-25, 04:42

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Good news! I remembered I had a spare USB 3 pci express card that takes 5V molex power, so I put that into the empty slot on the motherboard-and that worked with the controllers! Strange issue but at least I now know it is an issue with the USB ports on this motherboard.

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Re: Windows 95/98 games you never get tired of?

Posted on 2020-11-23, 05:57

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Drittz wrote on 2020-10-21, 14:15: xcomcmdr wrote on 2020-10-21, 06:59: UT99 with bots. Facing Worlds/low gravity is probably the one map I’ve played the most in the last 20 years Lately I’ve been hooked on playing UT with the MultiCTF mod and CTFM-Face4 map, incredibly addictive! Nothing like …

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Re: Sony Playstation Classic gamepad works perfect on WIN98!!!

Posted on 2020-11-23, 05:06

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I went to use them on my Windows XP machine and neither of them work in any of the USB ports I've tried, front ports or back ports on the motherboard. Perhaps it would be worth trying them in a USB hub? If you really want to be thorough, often it can be useful to resolve hardware problems by …

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Re: Sony Playstation Classic gamepad works perfect on WIN98!!!

Posted on 2020-11-22, 22:58

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I was looking for an alternative to the Gravis Gamepads and remembered I had two of the Playstation Classic controllers lying around, similar story to the OP! I went to use them on my Windows XP machine and neither of them work in any of the USB ports I've tried, front ports or back ports on the …

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Re: Let's run Windows 98 on a really fast computer

Posted on 2020-11-21, 07:04

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Very cool! I kind of wanted to try this out myself but as you mention in your post, pretty much everything non-DOS based can be made to work in XP anyway. Thats why my current retro gaming machine is an XP system. DOSBox fills the void for the DOS stuff and no configuration headaches! Can also …

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Re: Looking for Winstar 95

Posted on 2020-08-25, 15:53

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Huge thank you to Justin (@jpaglier) who messaged me on Twitter telling me he came across my post and knew what I was talking about and pointed me in the right direction. The demo is by Monolith Productions and called "Winstar.exe" but in the titlebar it does say "WinStar 95" so I was on the right …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2019-07-12, 22:19

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https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=63631&t=1 https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=63653&t=1 Nice to see some love for Acorn! Eventually I hope to import an Acorn Archimedes A5000 to Canada, I grew up in the UK so still have boxes of old Acorn floppy disks, but no system to run them …

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Re: Last vídeo of LGR

Posted on 2019-07-12, 22:10

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I definitely saw at least one silver flatscreen Sony trinitron monitor in that warehouse! That place literally is a gold mine of retro computer parts. It would be amazing if it could be curated, organized and sold by some people experienced with ecommerce and shipping things safely.

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Re: Coding for DOS with an eye to multiplatform options

Posted on 2018-07-13, 20:44

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You might enjoy this video from Brian Provinciano where he talked about back porting Retro City Rampage to DOS, and how he set up his development environment to build on a lot of different platforms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSKeWH4TY9Y

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Re: Windows 98SE / ME Build with DOS..Maybe

Posted on 2018-07-13, 20:21

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In addition to tegrady's recommendations which are pretty spot on, I'd also recommend checking out old computer brands. Check your local craigslist and ebay for an old Compaq presario/deskpro, HP Vectra, IBM Activa, and others. It's probably the easiest way to jump right into retro computing as the …

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Re: Behind the scenes at GOG.com...

Posted on 2018-07-12, 20:27

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NoClip's documentary on Bethesda was excellent, looking forward to watching this one!

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Re: CRT Monitor Until when? Then LCD...

Posted on 2018-07-12, 18:42

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Really depends on the use - for DOS and emulated games, CRTs look a lot better than LCD, with more depth and vibrant colour, and the best "pixel scaling" you can have. So if it's connected to a computer that will be running older games that run at lower resolutions, then definitely go with CRT if …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2018-07-11, 23:47

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Is this modern, or is it retro? Anyway, gotta buy them, while prices are low. As we saw may times in past, they can start raise any moment... E5800, E7600, E8500 http://srandista.modan.sk/PC/C2D.jpg Heh funny to see this as I just bought an E8600, $23 CAD. It's the fastest C2D so it's to be …

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Re: BBC releases old computer-based TV shows to stream

Posted on 2018-07-02, 02:18

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Isn't it kinda ironic that we live in a digital world, but get no more educational TV shows about that topic ? ;) Thats the big thing we’ve lost in modern computing- we all use computers but less people are expected to know how to program them. Programming isn’t for everyone, but it needs to be …

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Re: How much $ did you spend in Steam?

Posted on 2018-07-02, 02:08

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$154.35 Steam kinda became big after my younger gaming years, so I’ve not sunk much time or money into Steam.

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Re: Collaboration between GOG.com and Vogons Collectors?

Posted on 2018-06-05, 17:19

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The impression I get is that GOG has a harder time with licensing rather than actually obtaining the games files.

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Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today

Posted on 2018-06-05, 16:45

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My copy of TIM 3 got a friend! xjas very kindly gave me his boxed copy of The (Even More) Incredible Machine while he was visiting Vancouver from the Island for a Chipmusic gig (which also happened to be a lot of fun!). Thanks again, it will be displayed proudly ;) http://qjimbo.com/photobucket/tim_ …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-22, 23:52

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My 9 year old LG phone finally died, so I got myself one of these. It's an iPhone. Eight. This thing packs more CPU horses than my Ivy Bridge i5 laptop. I can't believe how fast it draws web pages. Despite all the fancy blur effects and transitions, the UI just refuses to fall below 60 fps. Why …

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