Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-15, 18:33

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I only wanted to point out that we (as experts for prices of retro hardware) should show some sympathy if somebody realizes he's making a big mistake you can feel bad for somone that you think got shortchanged and at the same time take advantage of them. I know that sounds terrible but unless they …

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Re: What components can generally go "bad" on unused/stored electronics?

Posted on 2022-05-28, 05:47

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Good Haiku.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-27, 05:53

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This is a thin client with an ISA/PCI riser slot, a 3.5" floppy drive and a 44-pin IDE connector (originally it was for a Compact flash adapter that was accessible on the back. PXL_20220526_235127264~2.jpg Not going to divulge the brand/model until after I have a chance to actually do some testing …

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Re: PCI sound card with the easy installation for Windows 98 + DOS - Live/Audigy 1/Audigy 2 ZS

Posted on 2022-05-27, 05:48

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not a fan of them. They're resource hogs and consome 3 IRQs and force you to install firewire. You also have no option to individually disable things like everything except midi or disable midi and only use the soundblaster part. Where as on cards like XG, Aureal, ESS PCI cards you can.

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Re: Is it possible to add controls for DMA resource configuration to an AwardBIOS rom?

Posted on 2022-05-27, 05:38

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Windows 98 might let you manually confgure hardware resources. Maybe a option in the BIOS for OS controlled. You want to make sure you have serial and parallel ports disabled. You also might want to disable all but 2 USB ports or all USB ports to free up IRQ and DMA. Generally you can click on a …

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Re: PCI-X Compatible Sound Cards

Posted on 2022-05-23, 15:38

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xfi doesn't work in 98, creative cards with the cao106 chipsets that claim to be audigys, lives or xfis dont work either.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-23, 05:57

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I got a ess solo 1 waiting to see if It works

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Re: PCI-X Compatible Sound Cards

Posted on 2022-05-23, 04:19

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I also have been finding that I cannot have too many non-PCI-X aware cards on the PCI-X bus. Some cases, the bus drops into 33MHz compatibility mode (terrible performance). Other cases, I get hard locks and freezes. it does that anyways all the pci-x cards on that bus share the same bandwidth. …

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Re: Is there any unofficial Internet Explorer 6?

Posted on 2022-05-22, 19:06

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IE6 stopped being a relevant browser on XP over 15 years ago, you know the OS that shipped with it. Google had a project called chrome Frame that replaced the IE6 engine with the chrome engine and only worked on XP. It was never supported and was killed off so long ago that the older version of …

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Re: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ultimate retro gaming laptop

Posted on 2022-05-22, 16:00

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I was getting some crackling when I turned the audio volume wheel and a couple squirts of deoxit fixed that. Just throwing that out. Cleaning the volume pot when its disasembled on my other laptop fixed that issue too. Its probably a comon problem for any potentiameter on any audo equipment. I just …

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Re: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ultimate retro gaming laptop

Posted on 2022-05-22, 01:27

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Thanks for the rec ISO btw

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Re: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ultimate retro gaming laptop

Posted on 2022-05-22, 01:25

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I found a place in US that actually has new old stock of the hinges. I ordered a pair and installed them in my 2nd laptop I recovered. So if anyone is interested I'll post it up.

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Re: A list of all Toshiba laptops computers with a Yamaha DOS compatible soundcard ?

Posted on 2022-04-15, 23:07

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Hi everyone ! Major update of my google sheet here : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18X3uxqWBowuVXnLB6_7gjh-kpZ_HdKS5kwPDu-p01Ac/edit#gid=1535292518 I did finished yet to include every data you gave MAZter, thanks a lot too ! Best regards Philippe Dubois Your listing for the 2805-s503 is …

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Re: Adding a fan header to Geforce3 TI 200, help with components check needed!

Posted on 2022-04-11, 01:36

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wish I could help, I don't think it's worth the trouble. I would probably just run a 3 pin fan off a controller so I can control the fan speed myself. If youre looking for a quiet PC that is. You won't have any fan control speed with it wired to the card.

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Re: Twisted Metal 2 crashing

Posted on 2022-04-10, 17:55

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A glide wrapper, but I don't know if theres one that will work for you on that setup. Thing is that game isn't really directx. It's direct3d 5 aka directx5. Most of that games features are probably Direct3d 3.

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Re: Questions on DOOM performance on 486 DX2-66

Posted on 2022-04-06, 03:47

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It runs fine if you have a good build with a fast Video card. It can get a little laggy though.

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Re: DOS Build with no external drives (CD, floppy)?

Posted on 2022-04-06, 03:43

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I used DOS VM in vmware before and just mounted virtual disks to install DOS and various games that I downloaded. After I preped a CF with XP I just copied all the files from the VM to the CF and that worked fine. This probably will not work in every scenario but It can work.

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Re: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ultimate retro gaming laptop

Posted on 2022-04-06, 03:27

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don't remember, probably lowered settings, to 800x600 or 640x480. But that was on the 800mhz cpu version, so try that and your scores should be higher. Was on the 12.xx driver. I remember trying 2001se before and it didn't run and I figured its becasue the GPU doesn't do Directx 8 shaders so I …

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Re: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ultimate retro gaming laptop

Posted on 2022-04-04, 19:05

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I can try later but I don't think its going to work. copy pasta from wiki R100's pixel shaders R100-based GPUs have forward-looking programmable shading capability in their pipelines; however, the chips are not flexible enough to support the Microsoft Direct3D specification for Pixel Shader 1.1. A …

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Re: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ultimate retro gaming laptop

Posted on 2022-04-04, 18:53

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rest in piece, good thing you have 3 of them. side note 2001se It's a directx 8 benchmark and geforce2 go is only directx 7 with non programmable shader..

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