Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-21, 02:55

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I bought a Gateway M685-E 17" Notebook off eBay for 42ish shipped. That's barely retro considering the poor excuses for CPUs they put in ~$300 laptops now, like tablet class celerons that are atoms in disguise, same thing with the pentium label on that aren't any better. That can probably run rings …

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Re: old servers as gamming pc's

Posted on 2017-10-21, 01:24

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Yes, MP boards might have used buffered DDR which was slower also. A sweet MP setup that would probably have done you near a decade for relatively low outlay would have been the modded 1.3 Duron Morgans soon after they were out. Or at the time the alternative dual Tualatins would have been about the …

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Re: Win9x games requiring specific DX versions?

Posted on 2017-10-21, 00:41

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Thanks, a couple of my past problems were setup barfing, so maybe the clues there will fix that at least.

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Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P

Posted on 2017-10-20, 23:18

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kixs wrote: HDD: - Conner 42MB 3.5" IDE If you're just looking for a Type 17 IDE drive, the ST-351 works and is fairly common.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-20, 23:09

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Heh, I had to zoom in on that, Siemens Nixdorf Scenics also had a socket 5 board with virtually identical layout. I wouldn't really call it a high quality board though. What are your experiences with similar board? I judge it by PCB stability, how many capacitors, simplicity of design and …

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Re: Remote DOS shell

Posted on 2017-10-20, 23:00

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Well if you're doing some kind of uC, then pipe console to serial and use one of these for serial to wifi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266 (Can't instruct further on that, it's the kind of thing I'd fumble my way through eventually.) However, these seem to go fairly cheap, but then you need to …

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Re: Remote DOS shell

Posted on 2017-10-20, 19:56

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Another maybe? http://www.drdos.com/dosdoc/Tcpip/dos_util/dosutil5.htm

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-20, 19:46

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Spiffy... squinting at the article, doesn't look like the daughterboard is much more than buffer chips and a passthrough for the cable.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-20, 19:16

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Oh, I picked up a small piece up yesterday that enables an out of date GPU, not that retro yet, a DMS 59 to dual DVI adapter for a weirdy HD3450 that fell in my lap a while back. I wasn't that anxious to get it functional, just saw the adapter for pocket change and grabbed it. Might store it another …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-20, 17:20

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derSammler wrote: Got a couple of 60ns 1 MB SIMMs with parity today. Now I can run my 16 MHz 286 with no wait states. 😀 Oh wow, when I think of 60ns I think of hotrod DX50s. Wouldn't have occurred to me to put better than 80ns on a 286, but guess they don't have L2 to smooth things out.

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Re: Duke 3D (on Win98) GM vs AWE32

Posted on 2017-10-20, 15:58

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I've managed to play Duke Nukem 3D from within a Windows 98 DOS command prompt. For teh lulz you can also play it in a Win 3.11 dos prompt, which will be darn slow with windows swap file thrash. However, should you find yourself in a situation where you have less than 6MB of RAM and swapfile on a " …

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Re: Remote DOS shell

Posted on 2017-10-20, 15:42

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You might be happy digging up an old copy of Norton/Symantec PCAnywhere then.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-20, 15:20

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Heh, I had to zoom in on that, Siemens Nixdorf Scenics also had a socket 5 board with virtually identical layout. I wouldn't really call it a high quality board though.

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2017-10-20, 14:10

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You haven't seen the $25,000 VHS copy of beauty and the beast in a beat up case? Anyone can set any BiN price. Sometimes it's to scam ppl on craigslist "look at what they're going for on eBay"

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Re: So I had a stupid idea about how to build a really fast 486...

Posted on 2017-10-20, 14:02

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Anonymous Coward wrote: If you want a stupid fast 486, just get a Winchip. Also, if you want a stupid socket 7, just get a Winchip. 😁

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Re: IBM 5151 Monitor Issue

Posted on 2017-10-20, 13:52

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Well somewhat "the point" of buying a Tandy was the better color support at the time, BUT they also did mono monitors, which would have been favoured for business work, spreadsheets etc. It's best to double check though. Another oddity that can confuse is that there are mono monitors that work on …

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Re: Trouble with mouse in serial mode.

Posted on 2017-10-20, 13:45

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I believe that the logitech and ms pinouts were different. I don't know if it would help much if you specifically seek a MS adapter, given that most vendors are probably clueless, vs just hitting up thrift stores etc and trying what you find. Another thing that can bite you in the arse with onboard …

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Win9x games requiring specific DX versions?

Posted on 2017-10-20, 13:26

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Hi there, Just wondering if there was ever a good fix for games wanting very specific direct X versions. Don't currently have a 9x system I'm messing with, but remembering this as one of the biggest pain in the arses when it came to 9x gaming, so wanna be prepared as I get back into it. What I mean …

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Re: "ESC" key not working in DOS prompt on Windows 98

Posted on 2017-10-20, 13:13

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Changed keyboard type or deleted keyboard settings out of config files? https://www.computerhope.com/keybhlp.htm

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Re: Remote DOS shell

Posted on 2017-10-20, 12:16

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Yes, think you can do it simplistically by piping the console, How remote is remote? You want to be outside your home network? The problem mostly is security, all the old stuff has been cracked to hell and back with numerous vulnerabilities and exploits.

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